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[Newton, Robert - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

440994

Series title:

National Research Council Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-03-05

Item number (ISN):

440994

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:

1975-0011

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-03-05

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

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Continuation of the interview of Dr. Robert Newton by Don Phillipson. Subjects discussed include: NRC committee on oceanography; National conference on oceanography in 1939; Dr. C.J. Stevenson; NRC function of financing pre-1940 meetings was valuable catalyst for much progress; NRC Committee on biology in 1923 and Committee on biophysics in 1929; BGC (British Grain Centre?) and Burchard; Dr. W.F. Geddes; R.A. Gortner; Dr. R. McGibbon; cereals chemistry vis-à-vis nutrition research; NRC vis-à-vis University of Alberta and Alberta Research Council; Hector Stansfield; Dr. Karl A. Clarke; tar sands; wet grain harvest in 1926 and the building of dryers and small laboratory models to research safe temperatures, leading to the creation of NRC's Grain Research Committee; landmark success for prairie agriculture was Dr. W.H. Cook's first project of grain drying; wheat frost-hardiness led to lower prices to farmers and a research freezer was built at University of Alberta; NRC did analysis of weather from 1932 to 1940; A.C. Halferdahl and Miss Whalley; Magnesite was a furnace fire hazard and its use was stopped by Gen A.G.L. McNaughton; Kathleen Ellis; Vilda Weatherup; unpaid NRC staff; Dr. Carl Winkler; Dr. J.B. Conant; initial wartime research effort - army rations list; freeze-drying blood serum; NRC jurisdiction led to creation by Army of regional labs including at University of Alberta; Association Committee medical research; W.P. Fraser (role of annual surveys), Dr. J.B. Collip; W.P. Thompson (role of wheat breeding); A.R.H. Buller (role of planning rust research), Bisby and Ibra Conners; Buller chose Winnipeg for mushroom population; prairie universities shared exchange lecturer; Dr. W.P. Thompson spotted natural wheat rust resistance and planned crosses therefore became leading prairie cytologist; Huskins; Margaret Newton researched rust strains; Boomer was a chemist who planned Chalk River Labs for NRC via associate committees such as nuclear, and chaired the Alberta Gas Commission; NRC sent Boomer to survey German war research; Dr. J.B. Collip on Brownian motion of blood corpuscles, and Collip's role in Insulin; Dr. F. Banting and Charles H. Best won and shared Nobel Prize; Trade Minister H.H. Stevens. <2h 8mn>

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. Track 2 of PAC tape 521.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

674818

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00521

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1137595

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

440994-C00521.wav

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

C00521

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

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