Name
Lederberg, Joshua (Interviewee)
Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Joshua Lederberg 1998
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Joshua Lederberg : oral history, 1998
Abstract
Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees: elected December 1984, co-director of Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, Commission members, David A. Hamburg's presidency; report's impact; adviser of Arms Control and Disarmament Agency on Negotiations for Biological Weapons Convention; President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) and recommendations; scientists' political role; reminiscenc es of colleagues.
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Subjects
Molecular biologists; Endowments--Officials and employees; Science and state; Lederberg, Joshua; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1998
Physical Description
28 pages
Note (Biographical)
Geneticist
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Interviewed by Sharon Zane on March 26, 1998.
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7584594
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2684-0r05
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.