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Oldenberg, Otto, 1888-1983. James Franck at Göttingen, ca. 1971.

Title: James Franck at Göttingen, ca. 1971.

Comments by Otto Oldenberg, who worked with Frank in Gottingen from 1922-1930, on Franck's style of thought and its impact on his work. Oldenberg characterizes Frank as a theorist who was adept at designing simple experiments to address theoretical questions, but who himself was not particularly interested in the experimental details.

ArchivalResource: 7 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84446016 View

Purcell, Edward M. Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Early life in Illinois; B.S. from Purdue University under Karl Lark-Horovitz, 1929-1933. Visit to Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. Theoretical and experimental work and teaching at Harvard University, 1934-1941, under Emory L. Chaffee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John Van Vleck. World War II research on radar at MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1941-1946. Return to Harvard; teaching, nuclear magnetic resonance and 21-cm line research. Discusses government consulting work, 1950-1970, especially President's Science Advisory Committee, American Physical Society presidency; teaching at Harvard. Interests in astrophysics, developing physics curricula. Also prominently mentioned are: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, Felix Bloch, Bobby Cutler, Robert Henry Dicke, Edwards, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Ewen, Ferry, William Francis Giauque, William Webster Hansen, Malcolm Hebb, Ted Hunt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fritz Leonhart, Dunlap McNair, Otto Oldenburg, Jan Hendrik Oort, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert V. Pound, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Norman Foster Ramsey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Schnabel, Julian R. Schwinger, Francis Eugene Simon, Charles Steinmetz, Henry Torrey, Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst, John Von Neumann, Isidor Walerstein, Walter Witzel, Hubert J. Yearian, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; Bell System Technical Journal, Great Britain Royal Air Force Coastal Command, Radio Research Laboratory, Illinois Southeastern Telephone Co., Killian Committee, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Unitarian Church, United States Office of Naval Research, University of California at Berkeley, and Voice of America.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 59 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82576526 View

Newell, Homer Edward, 1915-. Oral history interview with Homer Edward Newell, 1980 July 17 and October 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Homer Edward Newell, 1980 July 17 and October 20.

Early life; education at Harvard University and at University of Wisconsin in the 1930s. Teaching cadets at University of Maryland; war work at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL); reaction to news of the atomic bomb; development of early rocket-sonde program at the NRL, 1945-1946; upper atmospheric research; establishment of V-2 Panel (later Rocket and Satellite Research Panel); impressions of early rocket researchers such as Edward O. Hulbert, Herbert Friedman; development of new rockets for scientific research; Vanguard satellite program at NRL; the International Geophysical Year program; reaction to Russian launch of Sputnik satellite in 1957; post-Sputnik debate over a new space agency; creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958; move from NRL to NASA, 1958; development of space science programs in the new agency; astronomical experiments and the use of big satellites; thoughts on manned space program and effect on space science around 1961; debate by scientists about a manned space program; funding for NASA space science; international cooperation; administration of NASA space science in the 1960s; problems with the first Orbiting Astronomy Observatory and the Small Astronomy Satellite program; long-term NASA planning; effects of Vietnam and economy on space missions; the Space Telescope and Space Shuttle; and planetary missions, past and future. Also prominently mentioned are. Philip Abelson, Lloyd Viel Berkner, George David Birkhoff, Werner von Braun, Hugh Dryden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harvey Fletcher, Herbert Friedman, Harry Goett, Leo Goldberg, Ross Gunn, John Hagen, Edward Olson Hulburt, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ernie Krause, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Otto Oldenburg, Tom Paine, Milton Rosen, Robert J. Seamans, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Abe Silverstein, Richard Tousey, John Townsend, James Van Allen, Alan Tower Waterman, James Webb; Aerobee (Rocket), American Science and Engineering, Inc., Explorer (Satellite), Goddard Space Flight Center, International Geophysical Year, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mariner (Spacecraft), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Space Science Board, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, Orbiting Solar Observatory, Skylab, Small Astronomy Satellite Program, Space Science Summer Study, Space Shuttle, Sputnik (Spacecraft), United States Congress, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Spacecraft Center, United States Navy, University of Maryland, V-1 (Rocket), V-2 (Rocket), Vanguard Group, Viking (Rocket), Voyager (Spacecraft), and WAC Corporal (Rocket).

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 71 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84445975 View

History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are: Duncan A. MacInnes, Ernst Mach, Fred Conrad Maienschein, Thomas F. Malone, H. F. Mark, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, Howard Nicholas Maxwell, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lawrence Earl McAllister, Alexander McBirney, James W. McGrath, J. H. McGuire, John A. McIntyre, Louis Williams McKeehan, D. P. McKenzie, Dan McLachlan, Edwin M. McMillan, Elsie Blumer McMillan, George C. McVittie, Rolf Meissner, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Donald Menzel, James W. Meyer, Walter E. Meyerhof, Albert A. Michelson, W. E. Knowles Middleton, Edward Arthur Milne, Freeman D. Miller, H. Minkowski, G. Miyamoto, F. L. Mohler, Karl Z. Morgan, Susuma Morita, Philip McCord Morse, Evan Mueller, Erwin W. Muller, Robert S. Mulliken, Gerard Francis William Mulders, Edward J. Jurphy, Mokichiro Nogami, Itaru Nonaka, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Ralph Emerson Nasbaum, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Louis Neel, Otto Oldenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Elburt Franklin Osborn, Thomas H. Osgood, William J. Otting, Clarence J. Overbeck, Thornton Page, Frederic Palmer, Eugene N. Parker, John Hilliard Parker, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernest Peierls, Raymond Pepinsky, Melba Phillips, Heinz Pick, George Pickard, J. C. Polanyi, William Pollard, Marion Llewellyn Pool, Daniel M. Popper, Thomas Charles Poulter, Robert V. Pound, H. Primakoff, Emerson M. Pugh, Earle Keith Plyler, I. I. Rabi, Harrison M. Randall, Jacobo Rapaport, Aravi Prakash Rau, Peter M. Rentzepis, George Thomas Reynolds, John Hamilton Reynolds, Hugh T. Richards, Norman Hurd Ricker, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Tsuneji Rikitake, George Roy Ringo, Alice M. Risley, Richard B. Roberts, Walter Orr Roberts, J. M. Robson, John Ransom Roebuck, Edwin Roedder, John Rogers, Elizabeth Rona, Joseph Lloyd Rood, Louis Rosen, Frank L. Roth, Arthur Edward Ruark.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 500 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83426762 View

Oldenberg, Otto, 1888-1983. Autobiography, ca. 1962.

Title: Autobiography, ca. 1962.

ArchivalResource: 2 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80954925 View