Oral History Interview: Paul Williams (1069)

Oral History Interview: Paul Williams (1069)

dc.contributor.interviewee	Williams, Paul
dc.contributor.interviewer	Lange, Robert
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-13T18:02:59Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-13T18:02:59Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	In his 2010 interviews with Bob Lange, Paul Williams details his early life, education, and five decades of involvement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the first two interviews, he traces his growing passion for the natural world as experienced around Vancouver, BC, and recounts how this passion was encouraged by his relationships with his family and close friends. In the next three interviews, he chronicles his undergraduate and graduate education, noting the prominent influence of Glenn Pound and J. C. Walker as his mentors, and discussing being offered a position at UW following a year at the Boyce Thompson Institute. The final five interviews consist of William?s reflections on his major contributions to plant pathology, the training of plant breeders, teaching (especially in Biocore), rapid-cycling Brassicas (Fast Plants �), educational models such as Bottle Biology and the Center for Biology Education, his graduate students, and his public service. Throughout, he shares anecdotes about major figures and events he?d interacted with, such as World War II, Glenn Pound, J. C. Walker, Russell Labs, Science magazine, the Guggenheim Foundation, WARF, the NSF, Sputnik, the Madison Plan, and early 1970s diplomacy with China. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/68454
dc.subject	Biotron	en
dc.subject	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation	en
dc.subject	School of Allied Health Sciences	en
dc.subject	Center for Biological Education	en
dc.subject	Electron Microscopy	en
dc.subject	Boyce-Thompson Institute	en
dc.subject	J. C. Walker	en
dc.subject	Audrey Dunlap	en
dc.subject	Glenn Pound	en
dc.subject	Vernon Brink	en
dc.subject	Virology	en
dc.subject	University of British Columbia	en
dc.subject	Ernest Thompson Seton	en
dc.subject	Horticulture	en
dc.subject	Great Depression	en
dc.subject	World War II	en
dc.subject	Winnipeg MB	en
dc.subject	Vancouver BC	en
dc.subject	Plant Pathology	en
dc.title	Oral History Interview: Paul Williams (1069)	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en