Mila Pollock interviews Carl Kaufmann [Scratchy noise in audio; 2nd audio channel comes in and out.]

Preserved in 2020-2022 through a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant. This interview video is available for use under a CC0 1.0 Universal license.

Carl Kaufmann is a son of Berwind Petersen Kaufmann, an important American biologist and botanist. Berwind Petersen Kaufmann was the chairman of the Department of Botany at the University of Alabama and National Research Council fellow at the California Institute of Technology. In 1936 he moved with his family to Cold Spring Harbor where he took position at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor. He became director of the Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor.

Berwind Kaufmann made pioneering contributions to three principal fields of basic cytogenetics, the formation of chromosomal rearrangements by exposure to ionizing radiation, he identification of specialized regions of the somatic chromosomes of the fruit fly Drosophila and the determination of the biochemical composition of both plant and animal chromosomes using purified enzymes. He died in September 1975.

Carl Kaufmann together with his brothers Andres and Bobbie Stephens and Berwind's wife helped prepar his memoir. An interview with Carl was significant source of that memoir.