Creator: Barnett Rosenberg

Subjects: Anniversaries, Sesquicentennial

Description:

Barnett "Barney" Rosenberg received his BS degree in physics from Brooklyn College in 1948 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from New York University. He came to MSU in 1961 as an associate professor of biophysics.

During his tenure at the university, Rosenberg and colleagues Loretta Van Camp and Thomas Krigas developed the anti-cancer drug cisplatin. Rosenberg retired from MSU in 1997 and passed away on August 8, 2009.

Topics/People Covered in the Interview include: Walter Adams; aging research; Lance Armstrong; Sirinder Aggarwal; Leroy Augenstein; John Cantlon; carboplatin; Chester Beatty Institute; cisplatin; Alexander Haddow; John Hannah; David Juckett; Tom Krigas; Ron Mason; Don Montgomery; Milton Muelder; Jake Nevel; James Troski; Loretta Van Camp

Date: February 2, 2001

Collection Number: UA 3

Language: English

Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by Michigan State University and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Contributing Institution: University Archives & Historical Collections, Office of the Provost

Relation: Sesquicentennial Oral History Project

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections