Robert L. Berger Collection | history

In 1962, Dr. Robert L. Berger joined the Laboratory of Technical Development as a senior scientist in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. In 1977, he was named chief of a Section on Biophysical Instrumentation, a post he held until 1994. He also served as Invention Development Coordinator for NHLBI from 1988-1994. He published more than 100 scientific papers over his thirty-two-year career and was awarded several patents for instruments he developed, many of which are part of the NIH Stetten Museum collection.