Ackermann, Barbara

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This series contains transcripts of the interviews. The list gives the interviewee's position at the time of the interview. Each transcript is prefaced by a statement of the rights held in the transcript and an index constructed in one of two ways. The first is a subject table of contents made for interviews processed before 1978. The second format is a name list made for all other transcripts. Both give the researcher access to specific information in the interview, but only a full reading...

Abstract The recombinant DNA oral history project was begun at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, shortly after the Asilomar Conference, an international conference of molecular biologists held in Pacific Grove, California, to assess the risks involved in recombinant DNA research and establish research guidelines. The project, directed by Charles Weiner, professor of history of science and technology at MIT, aimed to document the social impact of the research and the controversy that...