Mel, Howard Charles, 1926-
Oral history interview with Howard Charles Mel, 1979.
In this interview, Howard C. Mel discusses the development of the STAFLO apparatus. Topics discussed include: childhood in northern California; graduation from Berkeley High School; naval training in radar and gunnery, and service with naval intelligence during WWII; undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley; studies at University of Geneva and the Conservatory of Music, and the University of Brussels; affiliation with Donner Radiation Laboratory, and the graduate and undergraduate programs in Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of California, Berkeley; graduate student in College of Chemistry, Berkeley; research in cell/membrane biophysics, hematology and thermodynamics; comments on the creation of the Biophysical Society and the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB), and on Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong, Aharon Katchalsky, Wendell Latimer, Linus Pauling, Hardin Jones, Cornelius Tobias, among others.
Supplementary material: selected offprints and publications of Mel's.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1953). Involved in the development of the STAFLO apparatus.
Armstrong, Barbara Nachtrieb, 1890
Jones, Hardin B.
Katzir-Katchalsky, Aharon
Latimer, Wendell M. (Wendell Mitchell), 1893-1955
Mel, Howard Charles, 1926-
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Tobias, Cornelius A.
Biophysical Society
Donner Laboratory.
International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics.
Universit ̌de Genv̈e
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
Thermodynamics -- Research.
Radar.
Biophysics
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