@article{1fb5904f6dc2432596e8664b01190eb8,
title = "Reminiscences of a long-time colleague and friend, Philip C. Hanawalt",
abstract = "Philip Hanawalt is a long time contributor to many areas of the DNA repair field. This article summarizes aspect of his relationship with the author over the past 36 years.",
keywords = "DNA repair, History of science, Philip Hanawalt",
author = "Friedberg, {Errol C.}",
note = "Funding Information: My first encounter with Philip C. Hanawalt was some time in 1969 when, during the height of the Vietnam War, I was a reluctant officer in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, stationed at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research in Washington, DC. This is not the place to recount the circumstances that brought me this improbable assignment. The pertinent fact is that Walter Reed (WRAIR) as it was “affectionately” referred to, had a thriving research community with a regular seminar series and my first encounter with Phil was when he visited Walter Reed as a seminar speaker some time in 1969. He was then an established name in the DNA repair community and I naturally took much pleasure in the invitation to lunch with him. With the help of a drafted (and hence most fortunate) graduate student Jack King, who was assigned to me as a research technician, I had recently discovered endonuclease V (denV protein) of bacteriophage T4 and had shown its specificity for cutting DNA at sites of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD). [In retrospect, the two years spent at WRAIR with essentially unlimited research support from the US Army, were probably more productive than what I might have had to endure as an unfunded young PI at Stanford at a time when extramural funding from the NIH was difficult to come by.] ",
year = "2005",
month = sep,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2005.01.032",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "577",
pages = "9--13",
journal = "Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis",
issn = "0027-5107",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1-2 SPEC. ISS.",
}