Title:

Interview with Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli

Creator:

Johnsson Hegyeli, Ruth

Contributor:

History Associates Incorporated
Kinnane, Adrian (Interviewer)

Date:

15 November 2004

Description:

Shortly after receiving her MD from the University of Toronto, Dr. Hegyeli was invited to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi's laboratory in Woods Hole. As Szent-Gyorgyi's research associate from 1963 to 1965, she established and operated a tissue culture lab for his Institute for Muscle Research. Following this, Dr. Hegyeli became principal investigator for several cancer research projects at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. In 1969 she joined the National Institutes of Health as a research scientist. She is currently Associate Director for International Programs at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at NIH.. In this interview, Dr. Hegyeli describes the circumstances under which she came to Szent-Gyorgyi's lab at Woods Hole, and the challenge of designing and building a tissue culture lab there. She reviews Szent-Gyorgyi's style as a researcher and as head of his own lab, and illustrates her description with numerous anecdotes. Finally, Dr. Hegyeli offers an assessment of Szent-Gyorgyi's contributions to her own career as well as to the larger fields of science and medicine.. NOTE: An index to the transcript is located on pages 32-33.. NOTE: This interview is part of a series of NLM oral histories conducted with colleagues and friends of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in 2004.

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli.

Genre:

Interviews
Reminiscences

Format:

Text

Extent:

34 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

WGBBLY

NLM ID:

101584924X179

Profiles Collection:

The Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584924X179

Story Section:

The National Foundation for Cancer Research, 1973-1986