Primary education and interest in biochemistry at Rollins College; medical school at Duke University; World War II experiences as physician in Europe and North Africa; interaction of government and private research efforts; work for Dr. Edwin Cohn leading to long-term storage of red blood cells; research on platelets and clotting; rewards of inter-disciplinary communication; the development of hema tology as a discipline since 1945, including the origins of journal BLOOD and the International Society of Hematology; the international hematology movement; the rise of oncology; numerous recollections of members of hematology community, including Baird Hastings, Shields Warren, William Damesheck, and especially Edwin Cohn
Medical research personnel; Physicians; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care; Hematology; Blood--Analysis; Oncology; Hemagglutinin; Blood platelets; Tullis, James L. (James Lyman), 1914-1996; Duke University. School of Medicine
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1985
Note (Biographical)
Hematologist
Note
Interviewed by Eric A. Hoffman on August 7 and 8, 1985