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[Gendron, Pierre - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

444862

Series title:

National Research Council Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-11-07

Item number (ISN):

444862

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

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

Accession:

1975-0176

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1975-11-07

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

Interview of Dr. Pierre Gendron by Don Phillipson. Subjects discussed include: meeting NRC staff while in RCN guns; during post-war, Gendron attended NRC polymer chemistry associate committee; Dr. Steacie; HAC grants policy astute and basic grants budget was divided by two or three senior NR lab staff; engineering neglected since NRC dominated by chemists; Dr. Roger Gaudry and George Davidson; flaws in NRC due to its nature as a quasi-university and its failure to support industry; Dr. K. Tupper; grants policy; Dr. Bruce Doern; in 1953, difficulties in creating a science school at University of Ottawa; developing chemistry first at U of O; top science posts and French Canadian scientists; no top French Canadians in Ottawa since few in total numbers and need to build up Quebec universities; sources of Canadian scientists such as McGill and University of Toronto; Dr. W. Schneider; and Dr. Cherwinski. <1h 28mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject decription taken from partial transcript in binder, National Research Council Oral History Project, Index A-G.~2. PAC tape 583 b and 584 a.~3. Dr. Pierre Gendron was a professor of chemistry and founding Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa from 1953 to 1962. He was also an avid amateur astronomer. He was the President of the board of directors of Dow Breweries, where he convinced Dow to create a world-class planetarium in Montreal, as part of the Canadian Centennial celebrations. (http://en-wikipedia.org)

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Vault ISN:

674899

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00583

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

674900

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00584

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

718716

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

444862-C00583.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

C00583

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

718717

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

444862-C00583.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

C00583

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of National Research Council

Copyright status:

under copyright

Reproduction access:

With written permission of copyright owner : No donor restrictions. Copyright belongs to the Crown. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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