- Subtitle:
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences: James A. Borowiec
- Series:
- Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Topic:
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Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Interviewer:
- Hathaway, Neil D.
- Interviewee:
- Borowiec, James A.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Series Statement:
- Interviews in this series, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, document the research of "outstanding scientists from quality institutions" chosen by the Pew Scholars Program to receive four-year stipends.
- Abstract:
- Growing up in Buffalo and Atlanta; attends Georgia Institute of Technology; works in a Georgia Tech chemistry laboratory applying atomic spectroscopy to water droplets; summer jobs with the United States Forest Service; graduate work in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute; Paul D. Boyer and Jay D. Gralla; studies DNA supercoiling; in the Jerard Hurwitz lab studies simian virus 40 replication as a model of human DNA replication; Robert T. Tjian and Bruce Stillman; single-stranded DNA binding protein; the initiation phase of replication; accepts a professorship at New York University Medical Center; T antigen; bovine papillomavirus; replication forks; the funding and training of scientists; academic publishing; interest in Zen Buddhism.