Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

8/1/1977 - 7/31/1978

Funding Totals

$44,950.00 (approved)
$44,950.00 (awarded)


Documentation of Recombinant DNA

FAIN: RH-10062-77

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Charles Weiner (Project Director: August 1977 to present)

To continue collecting and organizing materials from the world of science leading to the 1975 moratorium on certain kinds of possibly hazardous DNA research and the subsequent controversies. The materials include taped interviews and meetings as well as letters, manuscripts and documents, etc.