ORAL HISTORIES
Welcome to the Office of NIH History oral history archive. The files are listed alphabetically by the interviewee's last name.
The list is not complete, however, there are some oral histories that have a transcript available upon request. To request a transcript please contact the History Office at 301.496.6610 or history@nih.gov.
Oral history transcripts of NIH researchers and scientists can be found at the National Library of Medicine, the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the IEEE History Center. The Office of History welcomes suggestions of additional sources of NIH oral histories not listed.
Transcripts of interviews about AIDS research are located at AIDS and NIH.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S U V W
Adhya, Sankar
Interview date: October 1, 2008;
October 8, 2008
Alexander, Duane
Interview date: December 16, 2005
Alter, Harvey J.
Interview date: December 6, 2002
Ames, Bruce
Interview date: October 29, 2003
Anacker, Robert L.
Interview date: October 26, 1984
Anderson, Norman
Interview date: February 25, 1995
Andrews, Justin M.
Interview date: July 27, 1964
Anthony, Bruno
Interview date: December 6, 2002
Armstrong, Charles
Interview date: October 1966
Arnold, Francis A., Jr.
Interview dates: June 10, June 17, September 16, October 21 & December 9, 1964
Aronson, David
Interview date: November 22, 2002
Axelrod, Julius
Interview dates: January 19 &
January 26, 1996; & November 25, 2003
Bader, John
Interview date: March 8, 1996
Note: no transcript available
Baird, Barbara
Interview date: March 17, 1993
See also AIDS and NIH
Bailar, John
Interview date: February 19, 2004
Baker, Carl G.
Interview date: September 6, 1995, November 20, 1996 & July 9, 1997
Baldwin, Calvin
Interview date: December 31, 1997
Baldwin, Wendy
Interview date: December 20, 2002
Barker, Lewellys
Interview date: November 15, 2002
Barkley, Emmett
Interview date: October 5, 2000
Barrett, J. Carl
Interview date: February 26, 2004
Basser, Peter
Interview date: March 2, 2005
Becker, Edwin
Interview date: July 15, 2005
Beeman, Edward S.
Interview date: May 5, 2004
Bell, E. John
Interview date: August 5, 1985
Bell, Fritz
Interview date: August 6, 1985
Berlin, Nathaniel
Interview date: March 12, 1995, June 30, 1997, April 9, 2004
Berliner, Robert W.
Interview date: April 21, 2000
Berman, Karen
Interview date: February 23, 2005
Beutler, Ernest
Interview date: March 28, 2002
Biggar, Robert
Interview date: November 6, 1989
Birren, James E.
Interview date: March 22, 2002
Blair, James
Interview date: December 12, 2005
Blattner, William
Interview date: March 2, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Blough, Donald
Interview date: December 10 & 18, 2001
Boone, Charles
Interview date: April 19, 1995
Botwinick, Jack
Interview date: December 20, 2001
Bowman, Robert L.
Interview date: December 12, 1991; January 3 & 7, 1992, January 7 & 8, 1992
Brish, Peter
Interview date: June 25, 1970
Broder, Samuel
Interview date: February 2, 1997,
July 3, 1997
See also AIDS and NIH
Brown, Paul
Interview date:
February 20, 2004
Brunelle, Janet
Interview date: April 23, 1998
Bucher, John
Interview date: November 14, 2003
Bunn, H. Franklin
Interview date: November 13, 2002
Burchenal, Joseph
Interview date: January 26, 2001
Burgdorfer, Willy
Interview date: July 10, 2001
Cannon, Ronald
Interview date: November 14, 2003
Carlson, Virgil
Interview date: March 21, 2002
Castro, Oswaldo
Interview date: November 29, 2001
Chabner, Bruce
Interview date: November 17, 1989
See also AIDS and NIH
Chanock, Robert
Interview date: January 11, February 1 & 23, 2001
Chappelear, Edith McCoy
Interview date: July 29, 2003
Charache, Samuel
Interview date: August 21, 2002
Chen, Philip
Interview date: February 15 & 22, March 1, 14, 22 & 28, 2001
Chernoff, Amoz
Interview date: January 28, 1993
See also AIDS and NIH
Chesebro, Bruce
Interview date: August 25, 2004
Chin, William
Interview date: October 13,
2005
Chumakov, Konstantin
Interview date: November 28, 2005
Cohen, Robert A.
Interview date: January 23, 2002 & January 29, 2002; February 24, 2005
Collins, William
Interview date: January 11, 2005
Colten, Harvey R.
Interview date: October 4, 1999
Contrera, Joseph
Interview date: December 18, 2003
Coppola, Richard
Interview date: December 11, 2002
Curran, James W.
Intervew date: May 19, 1998
See also AIDS and NIH
Daft, Floyd S.
Interview date: October 14, 1964
Dalton, Albert J.
Interview date: November 6, 1964
Davies, David R.
Interview date: November 12 & 22; December 10, 1999
de Crombrugghe, Benoit
Interview date: November 6, 2008
Depue, Robert
Interview date: June 27, 1995
Deslys, Jean-Philippe
Interview date: January 26, 2005
DeWys, William
Interview date: November 21, 1989
See also AIDS and NIH
DeVita, Jr., Vincent
Interview date: June 5, 1997
Dionne, Raymond
Interview date: December 21, 2002
Dowling-Smith, Jessie P. with Ruth Knee
Interview date:
No date provided
Duff, James
Interview date: March 23, 1995
Dunn, Phebe
Interview date: March 16, 1998
Dunnick, June
Interview date: January 22, 2004
Eastin, William “Skip”
Interview date: January 21, 2004
Edgerton, Jessie Wilbert
Interview date: September 14, 1999
Elkind, Mortimer
Interview date: July 30, 1998
Fauci, Anthony S.
Interview date: June 29, 1993, July 16, 1998, July 17, 2001, August 9, 2002
Fisher, Bernard
Interview date: March 24, 2000
Available at the National Cancer Institute
Felsenfeld, Gary
Interview date: December 20, 1999
Ford, Leslie
Interview date: December 17, 2008
Fox, Philip C.
Interview date: April 6, 1998
Fredrickson, Donald S.
Interview date: 1998
Frei, Emil
Interview date: June 3, 1997
Freireich, Emil J.
Interview date: June 19, 1997
French, John "Jef"
Interview date: November 13, 2003
Gallin, John
Interview date: June 23, 1993
See also AIDS and NIH
Gallo, Maria G.
Interview date: November 6, 2008
Gallo, Robert
Interview date: August 7, 2001, August 25, 1994, November 4, 1994, June 8, 1995
See also AIDS and NIH
Gay, William
Interview date: July 15, 1992
See also AIDS and NIH
Gelman, Edward P.
Interview date: May 1, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Gellert, Martin
Interview date: January 24, 2000
Gibbs, Joseph
Interview date: March 22, 2000
Goedert, James J.
Interview date: March 10, 1993
See also AIDS and NIH
Goldberg, Elkhonon
April 19. 2002
Goldston, Stephen
Interview date: October 5, 1999
Gori, Giovanni B.
Interview date: April 25, 1996
Gottesman, Max
Interview date: September 26, 2008
Gottesman, Michael M.
Interview date: January 29, 2009; February 2, 2009
Gottesman, Susan
Interview date: October 1, 2008; October 2, 2008
Grady, Christine
Interview date: January 30, 1997
See also AIDS and NIH
Greenwald, Peter
Interview date: October 17, 2008, December 4, 2008, December 12, 2008
Guay-Broder, Colleen
Interview date: December 13, 2005
Gulezian, Donna
Interview date: December 22, 2003
Hadlow, William
Interview date: August 31, 2004
Hallet, Mark
Interview date: June 21, 2005
Handlon, Joseph H.
Interview date: May 14, 2002
Hanover, John A.
Interview date: January 14, 2009
Hardy, Janet B.
Interview date: July 11, 2002
Hartley, Janet
Interview date: June 20, 1995
Hayflick, Leonard
Interview date: December 5, 1994
Henderson, David
Interview date: February 10, 2003 & June 13, 1996
See also AIDS and NIH
Holdenried, Robert
Interview date: April 12, 1995
Heller, John R.
Interview date: October 26, 1964
Herman, Samuel “Bud”
Interview date: May 1, 1995
Hertz, Roy
Interview date: February 2, 1998
Hill, James C.
Interview date: October 4, 1988
See also AIDS and NIH
Holdenried, Robert
Interview date: April 12, 1995
Huebner, Harriet
Interview dates: July 18, 1995,
June 12, 1998
Huff, James
Interview date: March 12, 2004
Hyman, Steve
Interview date: December 4, 2001
Ingraham, Loring
December 9, 2002
Innis, Robert
Interview date: March 3, 2005
Jeffery, Geoffrey
Interview date: February 13, 2005
Johnson, Frank
Interview date: January 20, 2004
Johnson, Richard
Interview date: No date
Jonas, Wayne B.
Interview date: October 8, 1996
Jordan, Elke
Interview date: October 23 & 30, 2002
Kaluzny, Arnold G.
Interview date: December 2, 2008
Kascak, Richard
Interview date: September 24, 2004
Katz, Marty
Interview date: March 29, 2001
Kelloff, Gary
Interview date: April 19, 1995
Kenshalo, Daniel
Interview date: March 17, 2000
Kirschstein, Ruth
Interview dates: September 21, October 29, November 10, 1998; February 2, March 17, April 15, June 10, & August 16, 1999
Klein, Harvey
Interview dates: January 29, 1993 & February 8, 1993
Knutti, Ralph E.
Interview dates: July 13 and July 27, 1972
Kohls, Glenn
Interview date: August 2, 1985
Koop, C. Everett
Interview date: 1993
Korach, Kenneth
Interview date: April 21, 2004
Kotin, Paul
Interview date: August 12, 2000
Kousvelari, Eleni
Interview date: March 16, 1998
Kramer, Barnett S.
Interview date: December 2, 2008
Krause, Richard
Interview date: November 17, 1988
See also AIDS and NIH
Lane, H. Clifford
Interview date:
March 12, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Law, Lloyd
Interview date: January 30, 2001
Leake, James P.
Interview date: May 6, 1966
Note: This interview is located at the
National Library of Medicine
Lenfant, Claude
Interview date: November 7 & 9, 1999; & December 8, 1999
Levine, Arthur S.
Interview date: November 2, 1989
See also AIDS and NIH
Liebelt, Annabel G.
Interview date: June 17, 1998
Lindenbaum, Shirley
Interview date: August 8, 2004
Loo, Ti Li
Interview date: June 9, 1998
Lorentzen, Ron
Interview date: December 19, 2003
Lucier, George W.
Interview date: April 14, 2004
Macher, Abraham M.
Interview date: April 29,1993
Malone, Thomas
Interview date: August 24, 1998
Manaker, Robert
Interview date: March 9, 1995
Mann, Lee S.
Interview date: October 18, 2002
Marks, Paul S.
Interview date: July 14, 1999
Martin, Robert
Interview date: January 19, 2000
Maronpot, Robert R.
Interview date: January 21, 2004
Masur, Henry
Interview date: November 22, 1989
See also AIDS and NIH
Max, Mitchell
Interview date: March 3, 1999
McIntosh, Charles
Interview date: March 5, 2009
Melnick, Ronald
Interview date: January 20, 2004
Merz, Pat
Interview date: October 25, 2004
Metzger, Henry
Interview dates: June 10, 1998, July 30, 2001
Miller, Robert
Interview dates: April 19, 1995,
March 25, 2000 (Available at the National Cancer Institute)
Milner, John A.
Interview date: December 11, 2008
Minasian, Lori
Interview date: December 9, 2008
Mirsky, Allan F.
Interview date: November 20, 2001
Mishkin, Mortimer
Interview date: November 6 & 28, 2001
Moloney, John
Interview date: February 21, 1995
Morrison, Bayard "Bud"
Interview date: March 13, 1995
Murayama, Makio
Interview date: November 15, 2001
Murray, Elisabeth
Interview date: April 9, 2002
Nagy, Edward
Interview date: December 16, 2005
Nelson-Rees, Walter
Interview date: December 4, 1994
Nirenberg, Marshall
Interview date: July 18, 1984. September 1995 - January 1996 oral histories are separated into chapters and open in separate PDF files: chapter 1,chapter 2, chapter 3, - chapter 3a, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8.
O'Connor, Timothy E.
Interview date: August 30, 2005
Olden, Kenneth
Interview date: April 29, May 26, July 22, 2004; February 10, 2005; January 13, 2009
Oliverio, Vincent T.
Interview date: July 14, 1998
Parkman, Paul D.
Interview date: June 7, 2005
Parloff, Morris
Interview date: January 3, 9, 17, 2002
Pastan, Ira
Interview date: September 24, 2008; September 25, 2008
Percy, Constance
Interview date: July 16, 1998
Perlman, Robert L.
Interview date: November 7, 2008
Pine, Daniel S.
Intervew date: 2005
Piot, Peter
Interview dates: January 4, 2008, April 8, 2009, June 16, 2010
These will be added to the Aids and NIH document archive.
Pittman, Margaret
Interview date: December 8, 1988
Portier, Chris
Interview date: April 13, 2004
Priola, Sue
Interview date: July 20, 2004
Purcell, Robert
Interview date: December 7, 2005
Quinn, Thomas C.
Interview date: December 5, 1996
See also AIDS and NIH
Rabson, Alan
Interview date: July 11, 1997
Race, Richard
Interview date: July 20, 2004
Rall, David P.
Interview date: December 30, 1997
Rall, Joseph Edward
Interview date: June 30, 1998;
February 2, 2000
Reid, Clarice
Interview date: February 28, 2002
Ribi, Edgar
Interview date: August 1, 1985
Rodrigues, Dennis
Interview date: January 3, 2006
Rosen, Saul
Interview date: July 23, 1997
Rosenthal, Sanford M.
Interview date: April 13, 1981
Rosner, Judah L.
Interview
date: December 17, 1999
Roumel, Theodore J.
Interview date:
June 17, 2004
Salzman, Lois
Interview date: June 29, 1998
Sassaman, Anne
Interview date: April 12,
2004
Saunders, J. Paul
Interview date: July 22, 1998
Schechter, Alan
Interview date: July 23, 2001
Schechter, Alan & Geraldine
Interview date: 1998
Schmidt, Paul
Interview date: October 29, 2002
Schneiderman, Marvin
Interview date: March 29, 1995
Schwetz, Ben
Interview date:
May 17, 2004
Scolnick, Edward
Interview date: June 24, 1998
Sell, Kenneth W.
Interview date:
November 3, 1998
See also AIDS and NIH
Shakow, David
Interview date: September 7, 1976
Shannon, James A.
Interview date: July, 1963
Shelby, Michael
Interview date: April 24, 2004
Shelokov, Alexis
Interview dates: December 12-14, 2005
Sherman, John
Interview date: June 21, 2005
Shimkin, Michael
Interview date: March 17, 1982
Sibal, Lou
Interview date: March 24, 1995
Silberman, Edward
Interview date: November 22, 2002
Singer, Maxine
Interview date: July 24, 1998
Sokoloff, Louis
Interview date: March 3, 2005
Sondik, Edward
Interview date: January 9, 2009
Stadtman, Earl
Interview dates: January 23, 30, February 6 & February 13, 2001
Stadtman, Thressa C.
Interview date: January 23, 2001
Steele, Vernon E.
Interview date: December 5, 2008
Streicher, Eugene
Interview date: January 31, 2002
Tabor, Herbert
Interview date: August 16, 2001
Tennant, Ray
Interview date: November 13, 2003
Ungerleider, Leslie
Interview date: February 12, 2002
Upton, Arthur C.
Interview date: June 4, 1997
Van Nevel, Paul
Interview date: July 13, 1999
Varmus, Harold
Interview date: August 31, 1995
Volkow, Nora
Interview date: April 6, 2005
Waldmann, Thomas
Interview date: March 14, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Walter, William
Interview date: April 21, 1995
Warren, McWilson (Mac)
Interview date: May 26, 2005
Weinberg, Daniel
Interview date: July 21, 2005
Whaley, Storm
Interview date: September 25, 1995
Whitescarver, Jack
Interview date: April 18, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Willingham, Mark C.
Interview date: October 7, 2008
Wilson, Samuel
Interview date: January 20, 2004
Winterrowd, Ronald
Interview date: March 23, 2005
Witt, Kristine
Interview date: April 13, 2004
Wivel, Nelson
Interview date: May 1996
Wong-Staal, Flossie
Interview date:
December 10, 1997
Wyatt, Richard
Interview date: March 28, 1990
See also AIDS and NIH
Wyngaarden, James
Interview date: July 25, 1989
Yarchoan, Robert
Interview date: April 30, 1998
See also AIDS and NIH
Zahn, Theodore Paul
Interview date: December 19, 2001
Ziegler, John
Interview date: January 5, 1990,
August 4, 1998
Zubrod, Gordon
Interview date: March 7, 1995,
May 27 & June 27, 1997
