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Title:
[Interview with NIH Director Donald Fredrickson on the nature of discovery]
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Description:
NOTE: The digital version of this interview is imperfect as the original recording is slightly noisy and jumpy.
Running Time:
26 seconds
Date:
1978-03-22 (March 22, 1978)
Creator:
Fredrickson, Donald S.
Contributor:
Interviewer: Johnson, Timothy
Source:
Interview with NIH Director Donald Fredrickson. WCVB-TV taping of the television program "House Call." 01:21:02:00-01:21:28:00 on DigiBeta tape.
Metadata Record House Call (March 22, 1978)
Publisher:
WCVB-TV
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of WCVB-TV.
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Budgets
Exhibit Category:
NIH Director, 1975-1981: Biomedical Research in a Time of Trial
Relation:
Metadata Record [Interview with NIH Director Donald Fredrickson on NIH as research] (March 22, 1978)
Metadata Record [Interview with NIH Director Donald Fredrickson on costs and technology] (March 22, 1978)
Metadata Record [Interview with NIH Director Donald Fredrickson on the future of research] (March 22, 1978)
Box Number:
46
Unique Identifier:
FFBBMM
Document Type:
Interviews
Video recordings
Excerpts
Language:
English
Format:
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Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Audio-Visual Materials, 1978-1997
SubSeries: Visual Materials, 1978-1997
Folder: House Call with Dr. Timothy Johnson, 1978 Mar
Transcript:
TIMOTHY JOHNSON: Pressure question for the director of the National Institutes of Health: if your budget were slashed to one tenth of its present size, what would you spend that money on? What's most important?
DONALD S. FREDRICKSON: I think if that disaster were to happen, I would make sure that we picked out the 50, or maybe the 100, best minds in the country and I'd support them to follow their own idea.
TJ: You cannot bypass the human brain when it comes to research?
DSF: You can't legislate discovery.
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2007-03-14
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