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Show THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH K. GORDON LARK ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2015. THE INTERVIEWER IS BECKY LLOYD. THIS IS THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. TAPE No. u-3336. BBL: We We're are continuing going to start our interview with Gordon Lark. became my mentor, thesis summer publication and under his Cold supervisor, and of 1949 and in that that guidance was on talking about your summer so on, at Cold I did the first mutation in bacteria piece phage T5. an of that work I ever way summer with Adams. It epiphany and understood positive ions did. It phage with published was helped that I and at It what the came Chicago So I went from NYU in didn't matter how So the first at a was published in 1950. Then I worked finally was published University of Chicago in the to me from heat inactivation. I still think phages, the when it occurred I was badly an experiment turned out, 1 as one that it was all mine; it was was one married to Cynthia, was he could was in of the very best Probably in else. It just there with him I didn't attend it. It 1953 Out of nowhere. so anybody 1953, by then publication I had that was one more basis, the theoretical basis of the interaction of like, boom! or and did during that year I had this kind of what's now I worked with Ole Maalee. Now Ole meeting that he attended; and NYU. I met Mark in of original research which resulted in Spring Harbor Symposium something Mark Adams had suggested Copenhagen where was protecting the virus, in the Cold original. was It eventually who in 1953. I think I also mentioned that I went back to the called Spring Harbor my thesis for the next three years and that Spring Harbor Symposium year after that first early research. extensively my relationship with Mark Adams, KGL: I think I mentioned pretty the and by going back a bit Today's date is September 5,2015. of those and we remarkable in the some not things funny part of insights. went to sense that it salvage data from it that was useful. 1954, year after I a began with looking at got there. It was synchrony, synchronized |