Discusses his family and childhood; medical and doctoral education; University of Chicago, 1927-36, Washington University School of Medicine, 1938-39; International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation Laboratories at the California Department of Public Health, 1944-46; director, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Public Health, 1947-78; professional associations; public health research findings; laboratory relations with state and federal governments; Q fever, polio, atypical pneumonia, yellow fever, influenza, cancer virus, rubella, encephalitis research.