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  • Victor E. Shelford

    Victor E. Shelford was a professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois from 1914 to 1946. In this interview, conducted by Maynard Brichford on March 24, 1965, Shelford discusses his work at West Virginia, Chicago, and Illinois, the Ecological Society of America, fellow scientists who have influenced/assisted with research/published with him, field trips, Brownfield Woods, Laboratory and Filed Ecology (1929), and The Ecology of North America.
  • Roger Adams (Part 1)

    Roger Adams was a professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1916 to 1957. In these three interviews, conducted by John B. Mellecker over the course of several months from 1964 to 1965, Adams discusses his childhood, studies at Harvard, his time working in Berlin, his work during WWI and WWII including his collaboration with Sir Robert Robinson, his observations of Japan following WWII, awards and medals won over the course of his career, his time as a professor at Harvard, Radcliffe, and the University of Illinois, his work with students and his outlook on the role of a mentor and educator, the costs of research, and the impact of new technologies on the research process.
  • Roger Adams (Part 2)

    Roger Adams was a professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1916 to 1957. In these three interviews, conducted by John B. Mellecker over the course of several months from 1964 to 1965, Adams discusses his childhood, studies at Harvard, his time working in Berlin, his work during WWI and WWII including his collaboration with Sir Robert Robinson, his observations of Japan following WWII, awards and medals won over the course of his career, his time as a professor at Harvard, Radcliffe, and the University of Illinois, his work with students and his outlook on the role of a mentor and educator, the costs of research, and the impact of new technologies on the research process.
  • Roger Adams (Part 3)

    Roger Adams was a professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1916 to 1957. In these three interviews, conducted by John B. Mellecker over the course of several months from 1964 to 1965, Adams discusses his childhood, studies at Harvard, his time working in Berlin, his work during WWI and WWII including his collaboration with Sir Robert Robinson, his observations of Japan following WWII, awards and medals won over the course of his career, his time as a professor at Harvard, Radcliffe, and the University of Illinois, his work with students and his outlook on the role of a mentor and educator, the costs of research, and the impact of new technologies on the research process.
  • Joseph T. Tykociner

    Joseph T. Tykociner was a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois from 1921 to 1949 and a professor emeritus from 1949 to 1969. In this interview, conducted on March 9, 1967, Tykociner discusses his early interest in sound recording and sound in moving pictures, experience as a student/research engineer/faculty at the University, research and experiments with sound recording, career as a research engineer for Marconi/German companies on radio telegraphy/radio communications at Russian companies/Army, his return to the US in 1920, his later demonstration of sound in film, and commercials and films using his sound system.
  • Mary Rolfe

    Recollections by Mary Rolfe include Illinois Field, faculty life, student housing, trees on campus, Charles W. Rolfe, alumni reunions, 1902 commencement, Thomas J. Burrill, Thomas A. Clark and student life.
  • Fred Turner

    Fred Turner had a fifty year career at the University of Illinois. He began in 1918 as a student and retired in 1968 as the Dean of Students. He talks about his career and the people he worked with. For example, he discusses Thomas Arkle Clark and University Presidents Draper and James. Additionally, Turner mentions the Chief, Founders' Day, and other celebrations.
  • Leslie A. Bryan

    Leslie Aulls Bryan was the Director of the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois from 1946 to 1968. In this interview, he discusses the Institute of Aviation, the development of the University's aeronautics program, related research, and both University Presidents Arthur C. Willard and his own careers in aviation.
  • William F. Schaller

    William Schaller completed his undergraduate (1910) and masters degrees (1912) in the electrical engineering department of the University of Illinois. He discusses electrical engineering at Illinois, various faculty, his engineering career as an army officer in World War I, and his graduate work.</span>
  • William Cumming Rose

    William Rose was a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1922 to 1955. He speaks about his youth, amino acid research, work on pepsin and creatine, krebiozen, World Wars I and II, research support, students, presidents, and textbooks.