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Peterson, R.F. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

438711

Series title:

[National Research Council Oral History Project]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-02-26

Item number (ISN):

438711

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA / CONSEIL NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES DU CANADA

Accession:

1975-0011

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-02-26

Release date:

1975-02-26

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

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Interview of Dr. R. F. Peterson by Don Phillipson. Subjects discussed include: important events in Johnson's bookand sense of teamwork in Prairies research; NRC handing over committees to CDA; NRC's continued participation; Peterson's career: he was a student assistant in 1926, when NRC committees welcomed students, he received his Ph.D. at University of Minnesota in 1933, he worked at the Rust Lab, in 1934 he became an Assistant cerealist at the Brandon Experimental Farm, and in 1935 he replaced Neatby at the Rust Lab; Dr. C.H. Goulden and his inventions and thousand-kernel proposal; in 1926, all the handwork in the fields was shared by all scientists, including most senior scientists and pathologists; Goulden later on invented the machinery; no money benefits for inventors, for example Dr. W.J. Cherewick invented the seeder and the insufflator; Tim Aiken, secretary of Grains Committee in the 1940s and staff of Grain Research Laboratories; cereal chemists had ultimate authority in quality standards over all grains research; hostility when new breeds were rejected; status of Dr. W.H. Cook, Dr. J. Ansel Anderson and Dr. A.G. McCalla and their irreversible consensus via licensing procedures; Cook's 1930s paper on China market; wheat quality dependant on many genes; cereal chemists raised quality norms surreptitiously; quality of genotype as a topic of research; screening tests developed in the 1950s; technology of preserving wheat strains; world collection of grains created by U.S.D.A. spread through several countries; in 1928, field work was shared by all; Glenlea wheat and by 1972 utility grades devised for animal feed and industrial uses; wheat quality factors were unrelated to nutrition although they were formulated as proteing and gluten content; Shebeski's fava bean flour; comparative yields in prairie provinces determined by soils and rainfall; nitrogen digression; how modern genetics started in Canada following Bateson in the U.K. and Morgan in the U.S.; much more cytological work; in 1925, Goulden and Neatby started search for rust resistant gene in Hope and H-44 wheat strains; in 1926, established a single genefor mature plant resistance to all then known varieties of rust; plants more significant in genetics than fruit flies; Miss Hollingshead; role of genetics in Canadian medicine; Genetics Society of Canada; Dr. John Unrau; relations with Russia in the 1930s; Varilov at Winnipeg Lab in 1933; Dr. Herman J. Muller; Varilov provided frants for Michurin but no similar non-genetic work in Canada; Dr. H.M. Tory; Dr. Robert Newton; Dr. W.H. Cook active in association committees and to review results and recommend lincensing; CDA 1937 reorganization nominally divided Rust Lab between Cereal Breeding at Experimental Farms and Plant Pathology with Science Service; NRC Association committees played key roles in wheat breeding and genetics; Association committee meetings united all workers in same field annually; all Experimental Farms staff attended; NRC influence lasted from 1920s to 1960s, providing facilities for informal as well as formal discussion; in the early days, all scientists shared labour. <1h40mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description taken from partial transcript in binder, National Research Council Oral History Project Index M-Q.~2. Part of Track 2 of PAC tape 519.

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Vault ISN:

674812

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00519

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Copyright status:

under copyright.

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