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.
For transcripts of interviews about AIDS research click here: 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
Anthony, Bruno
Interview date: December 6, 2002
Armstrong, Charles
Interview date: October 1966
Aronson, David
Interview date: November 22, 2002
Axelrod, Julius
Interview date: 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
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
Brish, Peter
Interview date: June 25, 1970
Broder, Samuel
Interview date: February 2, 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
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
Chumakov, Konstantin
Interview date: 2005
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
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
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 date: June 12, 1998
Huff, James
Interview date: March 12, 2004
Huff, James
Interview date: March 12, 2004
Innis, Robert
Interview date: March 3, 2005
Johnson, Frank
Interview date: January 20, 2004
Jonas, Wayne B.
Interview date: October 8, 1996
Jordan, Elke
Interview date: October 23 & 30, 2002
Kaluzny, Arnold G.
Interview date: December 2, 2008
Kelloff, Gary
Interview date: April 19, 1995
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 date: January 29, 1993 & February 8, 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
Lenfant, Claude
Interview date: November 7 & 9, 1999; & December 8, 1999
Lorentzen, Ron
Interview date: December 19, 2003
Lucier, George W.
Interview date: April 14, 2004
Macher, Abraham M.
Interview date: April 29,1993
Manaker, Robert
Interview date: March 9, 1995
Maronpot, Robert R.
Interview date: January 21, 2004
Melnick, Ronald
Interview date: January 20, 2004
Metzger, Henry
Interview date: June 10, 1998
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
Morrison, Bayard "Bud"
Interview date: March 13, 1995
Murayama, Makio
Interview date: November 15, 2001
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. Remaining chapters of this oral history will be posted once editing is completed.
Olden, Kenneth
Interview date: April 29, May 26, July 22, 2004; February 10, 2005; January 13, 2009
Parkman, Paul D.
Interview date: June 7, 2007
Parloff, Morris
Interview date: January 3, 9, 17, 2002
Pastan, Ira
Interview date: September 24, 2008; September 25, 2008
Perlman, Robert L.
Interview date: November 7, 2008
Pittman, Margaret
Interview date: December 8, 1988
Priola, Suzette
Interview date: July 20, 2004
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
Rodrigues, Dennis
Interview date: January 3, 2006
Rosenthal, Sanford M.
Interview date: April 13, 1981
Rosen, Saul
Interview date: July 23, 1997
Schmidt, Paul
Interview date: October 29, 2002
Schneiderman, Marvin
Interview date: March 29, 1995
Shannon, James A.
Interview date: July, 1963
Shelby, Michael
Interview date: April 24, 2004
Sondik, Edward
Interview date: January 1, 2009
Steele, Vernon E.
Interview date: December 5, 2008
Streicher, Eugene
Interview date: January 31, 2002
Volkow, Nora
Interview date: April 6, 2005
Warren, McWilson
Interview date: May 26, 2005
Weinberg, Daniel
Interview date: July 21, 2005
Whaley, Storm
Interview date: September 25, 1995
Willingham, Mark C.
Interview date: October 7, 2008
Wyngaarden, James
Interview date: July 25, 1989
