Oral History Interview: Robert Auerbach (1076)

Oral History Interview: Robert Auerbach (1076)

dc.contributor.interviewee	Auerbach, Robert
dc.contributor.interviewer	Lange, Robert
dc.date.accessioned	2014-04-21T15:01:20Z
dc.date.available	2014-04-21T15:01:20Z
dc.date.issued	2009-02
dc.description	In his three February 2010 interviews with Bob Lange, Robert Auerbach details his personal history, training in zoology, and involvement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the 1950s to the 2000s. He recounts how his family escaped Nazi Germany in the 1940s and immigrated eventually to the US. From here, he describes key influences in developing his interest and expertise in music and mouse genetics, eventually training with the high-profile genetics department at Columbia. He then discusses the main lines of his research in trypsinization of the kidney, embryonic thymus genetics, and immunology, which eventually led him to UW, where he taught among other things developmental biology. Throughout, Auerbach offers his reflections on such key figures and issues as music and science, T. Dobzhansky, research and publication, the tenure process, university service, teaching philosophy, the functioning of a lab, and the division between researchers and teachers in the zoology department. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/68773
dc.subject	Zoology	en
dc.subject	Charles River Company	en
dc.subject	University Committee	en
dc.subject	Rockefeller Foundation	en
dc.subject	Judah Folkman	en
dc.subject	American Cancer Society	en
dc.subject	Jim Crow	en
dc.subject	Developmental Biology	en
dc.subject	Lee Russell	en
dc.subject	NIH	en
dc.subject	Clifford Grobstein	en
dc.subject	Oak Ridge National Laboratories	en
dc.subject	NSF	en
dc.subject	National Science Foundation	en
dc.subject	Salome Gluecksohn-Welsh	en
dc.subject	Leslie Dunn	en
dc.subject	Columbia University	en
dc.subject	Berea College	en
dc.subject	High School of Music and Art	en
dc.subject	World War I	en
dc.subject	World War II	en
dc.title	Oral History Interview: Robert Auerbach (1076)	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en