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Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.

Author: Thomas Lauritsen; Charles Weiner; Barry Richman
Edition/Format:   Archival material : English
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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  Read more...
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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.

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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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