Durbin, Patricia Wallace.
Oral history interview with Patricia Wallace Durbin, 1979 and 1980.
In this interview, Patricia Wallace Durbin discusses: childhood in northern California; B.S. in chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1948; lab assistant at Crocker Radiation Laboratory, WWII and Cold War research on fission products; human and animal radionuclide experiments (plutonium, strontium, astatine, and others), cyclotron operations, including radioisotope production; Ph.D. in biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 1953; Bikini Island bomb tests; radiation safety standards; heavy ion research; Radioactivity Research Center, University of California, San Francisco; thoughts on the woman scientist, and comments on Joseph Hamilton, John Lawrence, Kenneth Scott, others. Appendix includes text of "Reminiscences of Crocker Lab." a speech given before the Health Physics Society in San Francisco, June 1976.
In this interview, Patricia Wallace Durbin discusses radionuclide research at Crocker Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Durbin, Patricia Wallace.
Hamilton, Joseph Gilbert, 1907-1957.
Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-
Scott, Kenneth Gordon, 1909-
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
University of California, Berkeley.
Biophysics
Cold War
Cyclotrons.
Nuclear medicine.
Radiation -- Safety measures.
Radioisotopes.
Women scientists.
World War, 1939-1945.
Women in science
Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands).
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
Medical Physics oral history series.
History of science and technology collection.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA