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| Genre/Form: | Oral history Interview Transcript Audiotapes |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Hans A Bethe; Niels Bohr; William A Fowler; Otto Robert Frisch; Donald William Kerst; M Stanley Livingston; Maria Goeppert Mayer; Robert Andrews Millikan; J Robert Oppenheimer; Victor Frederick Weisskopf |
| Document Type: | Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Lauritsen; Charles Weiner; Barry Richman |
| OCLC Number: | 78375228 |
| Notes: | Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes. Interview conducted by Charles Weiner and Barry Richman on 16 February 1967. |
| Description: | Sound recording: 1 5-inch reel (ca. 3.0 hrs.), 1 session. Transcript: 33 p. |
Abstract:
Early training as a physicist; quartz-fibre electrometer; high-voltage installations, above 200 kilovolts; high-voltage accelerator, especially Van de Graaff machines; cloud chamber; fission 1939; reminiscences of Niels Bohr; leaving Europe 1939; warwork at National Bureau of Standards 1940; rocket work 1940s; postwar rehabilitation of laboratory facilities; technological improvements after the war; learning nuclear physics after the war; nuclear spin; development of shell model; rotational model 1952; gamma-ray detection; changes in research styles; research plans for the present (1967). Also prominently mentioned are: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Jür̈gen K. Bg︣gild, Robert F. Christy, Eugene Feenberg, William Alfred Fowler, Otto Robert Frisch, Trevor Gardner, Raymond George Herb, Torben Huus, David Rittenhouse Inglis, J. H. D. Jensen, Donald W. Kerst, Dieter Kurath, Milton Stanley Livingston, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Herb Parkinson, Matthew Sands, Trump, Victor Frederick Weisskopf; Finsen Radiation Institute, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Inyokern Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Niels Bohr Institutet, Philips Elektronik Industrie GmbH, United States Navy, and University of Wisconsin.
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- Bethe, Hans A. -- (Hans Albrecht), -- 1906-2005.
- Bohr, Niels, -- 1885-1962.
- Fowler, William A.
- Frisch, Otto Robert, -- 1904-
- Kerst, Donald William, -- 1911-1993.
- Livingston, M. Stanley -- (Milton Stanley)
- Mayer, Maria Goeppert, -- 1906-1972.
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, -- 1868-1953.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967.
- Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, -- 1908-2002.
- California Institute of Technology.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Niels Bohr institutet.
- United States. -- National Bureau of Standards.
- United States. -- Navy.
- University of Wisconsin.
- Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik (Copenhagen)
- Cloud chamber.
- Electrometer.
- Federal aid to research.
- Gamma rays -- Measurement.
- Instrumentation.
- Nuclear fission.
- Nuclear physics.
- Nuclear shell theory.
- Nuclear spin.
- Particle accelerators.
- Rockets -- Research.
