Bruce Alberts

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Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

Barbara McClintock

A chapter in The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock’s Ideas in the Century of Genetics, “Please come to my laboratory for better coffee, fresh orange juice,…conversation.” N. Fedoroff and D. Botstein, eds. 277-280. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (1992)


John Alexander Moore (1915-2002)

John A. Moore

Biographical Memoir of John Alexander Moore (1915-2002), National Academy of Sciences (2011).

See also Dr. Moore’s Principles of Zoology, a 1957 textbook that sparked Dr. Alberts’ interest in science as an undergrad at Harvard.


Walter Kauzmann (1916-2009)

Walter Kauzmann

Walter Kauzmann’s contributions to the future of science: a personal recollection. Biophysical Chemistry 105: 175-177 (January 2003). Also in Biophysical Chemistry – Special Issue in Honour of Walter J. Kauzmann, edited by Arthur R. Henn, Elsevier Science B.V. (September 2003).


Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. (1920-2007)

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.

Interview for the Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Oral History Retrospective, 2014 (transcribed from video)
See also the full Koshland Oral History Retrospective.


Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011)

Paul M. Doty

Alberts, B. Biographical Memoir of Paul Mead Doty, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 158, no. 4 (2014)


M.S. Swaminathan (b. 1925)

Dr. and Betty Alberts with M.S. Swaminathan

Alberts, B. The M. S. Swaminathan I Know. Current Science 89: 310-311, (2005).


James Watson (b. 1928)

James Watson

What I Learned From Jim. A chapter in Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA. (John R. Inglis, Joseph Sambrook, & Jan A. Witkowski, eds.) pp. 429-434. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York (2003).


Nick Cozzarelli (1938-2006)

Nick Cozzarelli

Alberts, B. The Nick Cozzarelli I Knew. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (16), 6077 (2006).

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Why Trust Science?

Concrete steps to diversify the scientific workforce

Improving support for young biomedical scientists

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