TY  - GEN
N2  - Dr. Ernest Alan Meyers begins with his interview with his upbringing during the Depression in Northern California. He served in the Army Air Corps in the Azores as a cryptographer. His postwar started at UC Berkeley in forestry, but switched to bacteriology as more challenging. This led him into the microbiology field too. He followed his B.A with a Masters at Purdue and a PhD. At Johns Hopkins. He tells how his research career changed with a personal infection by the water-borne parasite Giardia. He emphasized the dangers of non-immunized staff working with toxins could be. A chance meeting in 1957 with his uncle Dr. Harry Sears led to a faculty appointment at UOMS due his connections there. He taught the nurses for years. He speaks of his family and colleagues; and of his Giardia research in Costa Rica, Romania, and England. He describes a long but ultimately successful fight against it, which was defeated by sunlight.
DO  - 10.6083/M44X56RM
DO  - DOI
AB  - Dr. Ernest Alan Meyers begins with his interview with his upbringing during the Depression in Northern California. He served in the Army Air Corps in the Azores as a cryptographer. His postwar started at UC Berkeley in forestry, but switched to bacteriology as more challenging. This led him into the microbiology field too. He followed his B.A with a Masters at Purdue and a PhD. At Johns Hopkins. He tells how his research career changed with a personal infection by the water-borne parasite Giardia. He emphasized the dangers of non-immunized staff working with toxins could be. A chance meeting in 1957 with his uncle Dr. Harry Sears led to a faculty appointment at UOMS due his connections there. He taught the nurses for years. He speaks of his family and colleagues; and of his Giardia research in Costa Rica, Romania, and England. He describes a long but ultimately successful fight against it, which was defeated by sunlight.
T1  - Interview with Ernest Alan Meyer, D.Sc.
ED  - Hallick, Lesley M.
ED  - Meyer, Ernest A. (Ernest Alan)
ED  - Interviewer
ED  - Interviewee
DA  - 2010-02-10
DA  - 2010 February 10
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3266/files/oralhist_97.pdf
PB  - Oregon Health & Science University
LA  - eng
PY  - 2010-02-10
PY  - 2010 February 10
ID  - 3266
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3266/files/oralhist_97.pdf
KW  - Bacteriology
KW  - Microbiology
KW  - Schools, Medical
KW  - World War Ii
TI  - Interview with Ernest Alan Meyer, D.Sc.
Y1  - 2010-02-10
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3266/files/oralhist_97.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3266/files/oralhist_97.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3266/files/oralhist_97.pdf
ER  -