- Subtitle:
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences: Thomas S. Hays
- Series:
- Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Topic:
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Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Interviewer:
- Novak, Steven J.
- Interviewee:
- Hays, Thomas S.
- 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:
- Childhood in Florida; participates in the counterculture while at college in the seventies; the mentorship of Albert K. Harris; inspired by Robert Bruce Nicklas to read the classical literature on mitosis; generational differences in the way Edward D. Salmon and Nicklas approached science; Hays correlates the kinetechore's distance from the pole with the amount of force it produces; the uses of microscopy in Hays's work; Hays's demonstration that a genetic noncomplementation strategy can identify interacting gene proteins; the question of how to facilitate collaborative research between departments.