Interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics, 1969-1971
Series
Identifier: EUA CA16/1
Scope and Contents
Contains interviews with: Charlotte Auerbach, Alick Buchanan Smith, Lord Balerno, F.A.E. Crew, Frank Fraser Darling, Hugh Paterson Donald, Honor Fell and Alan William Greenwood. The interviewer in all cases is Margaret Deacon.
Dates
- 1969-1971
Creator
- University of Edinburgh, Science Studies Unit (1966-:) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics took place from 1969-1971 as part of an oral history project established by David Edge, then head of the Science Studies Unit. The interviews themselves were conducted by his research assistant,
Margaret Deacon. Deacon went on to use these recordings, as well as archive material at Edinburgh University Library, to produce a history of the early period of the Institute's history, titled 'The Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh - the first twenty years.'
Extent
23 items
Custodial History
The recordings were originally made on 37 reel to reel tapes, which are held at the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh. These tapes were copied to cassette in by. In 1999, copies on CDs were made, a set retained and a set deposited with the British Library. In 2015, electronic files were extracted from the CDs.
- Animal Genetics
- Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh)
- Buchanan-Smith, Alick Drummond, Baron Balerno, 1898-1984 (soldier, politician and applied geneticist)
- Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh)
- Donald, Hugh Paterson, 1908-1989 (geneticist and director of Animal Breeding Research Organisation)
- Edinburgh -- Scotland
- Fell, Honor Bridget, Dame, 1900-1986 (biologist and director of Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge (England))
- Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre)
- Interviews
- Koller, Pio Karoly, 1904-1979 (cytologist)
- Pontecorvo, Guido, 1907-1999 (Italian geneticist)
- Roberts, John Alexander Fraser, 1900-1987 (geneticist)
- Robson, John Michael, 1900-1982 (geneticist and physicist)
- Scotland
- Teaching
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University)
- University of Edinburgh, Science Studies Unit (1966-:)
- University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1964-:)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk