Childhood in northern California; graduation from Berkeley High School; naval training in radar and gunnery, and service with naval intelligence during WWII; undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S., physical chemistry, 1948); studies at University of Geneva and the Conservatory of Music, and the University of Brussels; affiliation with Donner Radiation Laboratory, and the graduate and undergraduate programs in Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of California, Berkeley; graduate student in College of Chemistry, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1953; research in cell/membrane biophysics, hematology and thermodynamics; comments on the creation of the Biophysical Society and the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB), and on Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong, Aharon Katchalsky, Wendell Latimer, Linus Pauling, Charles Tobias, Hardin Jones, Cornelius Tobias, among others.
Supplementary material: selected offprints and publications of Mel's.
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Title
Howard C. Mel: Biophysics at Berkeley and Development of the Staflo Apparatus
Note
Mel, Howard C. "Howard C. Mel: Biophysics at Berkeley and Development of the Staflo Apparatus." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 1980. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Interview date(s) 1980
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