Chapter 03: A Geneticist Pediatrician Joins the Army; Return to Cal Tech
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Military Experience: Dr. Knudson talks about his enlistment in the army during the Korean War. He was supposed to spend a year in Korea and a year in the U.S. Instead, he spent two years in Fort Riley, Kansas because the army was not sure what to do with a geneticist pediatrician in Korea.
Education: Dr. Knudson then discusses his return to the California Institute of Technology in 1953 to study. He briefly talks about the influence of Watson and Crick's work on the field of genetics earlier that year. After he finished at Cal Tech, Dr. Knudson was put in charge of a small pediatrics unit at City of Hope Medical Center, which fit his previous experiences well.
Identifier
KnudsonA_01_20130305_C03
Publication Date
3-5-2013
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 05, 2013
Topics Covered
Professional Path; Influences from People and Life Experiences; Military Experience; Understanding Cancer, the History of Science, Cancer Research
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Knudson, Jr., Albert G. MD, PhD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 03: A Geneticist Pediatrician Joins the Army; Return to Cal Tech" (2013). Interview Chapters. 301.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/301
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Open
