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Reference code
DE 2324 C-OH-11
Title
Andre Gabriel
Date(s)
- 2017-06-07 (Creation)
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One audio file (.WAV) and one digital file (.PDF)
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Scope and content
This is an interview with the electrical engineer André Gabriel who started working at EMBL Grenoble in 1973. In this interview, André Gabriel explains how, through his contacts to Marc Chabre and Vittorio Luzzatti, molecular biology came to his professional interest. He describes how he witnessed the installation of the EMBL site in Grenoble and of its instruments as well as his impression of the first two DGs, Sir John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson. Besides that, André Gabriel also mentions his move to EMBL Heidelberg where he stayed until 1984.