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White, Addison Hughson, 1909-. Oral history interview Addison Hughson White, 1976 September 30.

Title: Oral history interview Addison Hughson White, 1976 September 30.

Family background and early education; studying chemistry at Occidental College. Work at Bell Laboratories in 1930s; job freeze during the Depression. Stanley Morgan's work on dielectric constants. Columbia University; Isidor Isaac Rabi's course; comparison of academic and industrial scientists; colloquia and study groups; Karl Darrow, Foster Nix, and William Shockley; transfer to Metallurgy Department, work on single crystals of zinc. The Bell Laboratories Record; work under Lester Germer and Clinton J. Davisson, their experiments; carbon deposits on filaments using x-ray diffraction; Richard Grisdale, Wilfred E. Campbell. Evolution in role of basic research at Bell Labs, Mervin Kelly's role; Oliver Buckley; Bell Labs conference, 1954; American Institute of Physics symposium. Awareness of work on copper oxide rectifiers by Joe Becker, C. Davisson, Walter Brattain; work on microphone carbon; Allan Holden's work on quartz; changes in the solid state program. The war years; material research of Jack Scaff and Grisdale; pn junction; technological application; effects of war on solid state research, interactions with other solid state centers. Postwar years, Leland A. Wooten's group, 1945; Dean Wooldridge's group; reasons for John Bardeen's leaving; James Fisk's group; development of transistor under William Shockley. Also prominently mentioned are: Ralph Bown, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Harvey Fletcher, Harold T. Friis, Conyers Herring, Stanley Owen Morgan, Gerald Leondus Pearson, Pierce, Charles Hard Townes; Bell Telephone Laboratories Colloquia, and Bell Telephone Laboratories Record.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 42 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82628668 View

Bardeen, John. Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1980 February 13.

Title: Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1980 February 13.

Discusses the collective history of the discovery and development of the transistor. Describes the different interpretations of Shockley, Brattain, and others; discusses the military's lackluster response to transistor discovery. Describes the discovery of PN junction and the importance of early silicon research; discusses his group's search for semiconductor amplifier. Lists and describes what he believes to be the most crucial experiments during this time of development; discusses the accidental nature of some of their research. Describes the various applications for junction transistors and their development in the military and consumer sectors.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 29 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79021334 View

Shockley, William, 1910-1989. Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10.

Title: Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10.

Born in London in 1910; childhood in Palo Alto, California; undergraduate at University of California, Los Angeles and California Institute of Technology; graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (JohnSlater, thesis advisor); Bell Laboratories, 1936; war-related work at Bell Laboratories, Whippany (ca. 1 year), patents on radar ideas (Columbia University Project); fission work with James Fisk (National Bureau of Standards); the transistor; Solid State Physics group organized in 1945 at Bell Labs under Shockley and Stanley Morgan. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Houser Brattain, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, J. R. Haynes, Alan Holden, William Vermillion Houston, Mervin J. Kelly, Philip McCord Morse, Foster Cary Nix, Linus Pauling, Frederick Seitz, Frederick Emmons Terman, and Dean E. Wooldridge.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes, 3 7-inch sound reels, 2 5-inch sound reels, (ca. 5.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 35 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78821004 View

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008. The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.

Title: The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.

Draft paper outlining Seitz's professional career in the context of developments in the field of solid state physics. Seitz discusses his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his graduate studies at Princeton under Edward Condon and Eugene Wigner, his post in the Physics Department of the University of Rochester, the publication of his book The Modern Theory of Solids, his move to the General Electric Research Laboratories (1937), and then to the University of Pennsylvania Physics Department (1939) where he continued to work during World War II. The paper also contains accounts of many of Seitz's colleagues and their research. Those prominently mentioned include John Bardeen, Edward Condon, Lee DuBridge, Saul Dushman, Robert Hofstadter, Albert Hull, Nevill Mott, Isidor I. Rabi, William Shockley, John Slater, John von Neumann, and Eugene Wigner.

ArchivalResource: 21 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81896040 View

Karkau, Isabel Steiner, collector. William Shockley and eugenics collection, 1966-1973.

Title: William Shockley and eugenics collection, 1966-1973.

This collection pertains to Shockley's work on heredity, I.Q., and race and includes papers and articles by Shockley, including several presented to the National Academy of Sciences; two issues of the PHI DELTA KAPPAN containing a debate between Shockley and N. L. Gage (Stanford professor of education) on heredity, environment, race, and I.Q., 1972; and clippings on Shockley's views as well as reactions to them, particularly in the academic world. Some of the clippings concern the controversy at Stanford when Shockley's proposed graduate class on dysgenics (1972) was not approved.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510950 View

Shockley, William, 1910-1989. William Shockley miscellaneous papers, 1980.

Title: William Shockley miscellaneous papers, 1980.

Correspondence, press releases, and circulars, relating to international protest of Soviet reprisals against the dissident physicist Andreĭ Sakharov.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754871662 View

Kelly, Katharine Milsted. Oral history interview with Katharine Milsted Kelly, 1976 July 2.

Title: Oral history interview with Katharine Milsted Kelly, 1976 July 2.

Early background and education; supported herself through school (Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy); reasons for choice of school; University of Kentucky. Husband's work (Mervin Kelly), his position at Bell Laboratories, his interactions with other scientists, William Shockley, James Fisk, Oliver E. Buckley; the war years, and recollections of Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, Conyers Herring. Also prominently mentioned are: Harold DeForest Arnold, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Robert Andrews Millikan; Kelly College, New York University.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 20 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78036788 View

Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987. Autobiography, 1959.

Title: Autobiography, 1959.

The autobiography covers Brattain's ancestry, family life, education--secondary and college and his professional career. Brattain discusses his chief field (surface properties of solids) and chief contributions (photo effect on free surface of semiconductor); the invention of point contact transistor (with John Bardeen); work on surface properties of germanium; honors and awards, including Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1956 (with Bardeen and Shockley); memberships; extra-academic activities; and his marriage.

ArchivalResource: 4 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81675161 View

Harvard Law School Forums Records

Title: Harvard Law School Forums Records

This collection contains correspondencerelating to Harvard Law School Forum speakers and reel-to-reel,cassette, PCM and VHS tapes and phonograph recordings of the Forumspeakers.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes

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Kelly, Harry C. Oral history interview with Harry C. Kelly, 1975 October 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Harry C. Kelly, 1975 October 27.

Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Lehigh University; Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, experimental thesis on electron distribution on Townsend discharge with Philip Morse and John Slater; reflections on studying physics, funding during the Depression. Postgraduate employment as engineer at American Thermos Co., established Baird Associates, a medical engineering firm in Cambridge, MA. Influence on him of the death of his brother. Montana State University as physicist, 1937; discovered procedure for identifying diseased potatoes; appointment as Professor of Horticulture; study of Great Books at St. Johns College with Scott Buchanan. Recruitment by William Shockley and Slater for MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1942; routine measurements on cathode tubes with Wayne B. Nottingham; reactions to dropping of the bomb. Invited by Gerry Fox to work in Japan; early period as science advisor; difficulty carrying out his job as intermediary between U.S. military and Japanese scientific community due to unavailability of information; contacts with Von Kolnitz and O'Brien (Joint Chiefs of Staff); development and implementation of policy in Japan, decision against censorship of publications; Karl Compton's recommendations, Walter Michel's diary, MacArthur, the Brink group. Development of relationships with Japanese scientists; Yoshio Nishina; self policing; the undestroyed cyclotron at Riken; the language problem and Kelly's interpreter Masao Yoshida. Overview of the Japanese scientific establishment (Ryokichi Sagane, Hiroshi Tamiya). Publications originating from Kelly's office pertaining to the period of the Occupation. Postwar resumptions of relations between Japanese scientists and the international scientific community; the re-organization of Japanese science and its application to current problems in the United States. Japanese views about the war. History of the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC), Jerrold R. Zacharias' and James R. Killian's roles; National Science Foundation (NSF) input and political aspects.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 96 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82331321 View

Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987. Oral history interview with Walter H. Brattain, 1964 January and 28 May 1974.

Title: Oral history interview with Walter H. Brattain, 1964 January and 28 May 1974.

Early experiences in science at Whitman College, Washington, from 1920; friendships with fellow students and teachers. Graduate study at University of Oregon and Harvard University; difficulties funding education; study with Edward A. Milne at Oregon and John Van Vleck at Harvard. Work at National Bureau of Standards on piezoelectricity and oscillators; work at Bell Labs on thermionic emission and experimental basis of statistical mechanics; influence of Arnold Sommerfeld on his work on the copper oxide rectifier. World War II work with National Defense Research Council on the magnetic head of submarine detectors. Return to Bell Labs following World War II; research in solid state with group headed by William Shockley and Stanley O. Morgan; preliminary researches in semiconductor effects.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 7-inch reels, 3 5-inch reels (ca. 6.5 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 82 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83565150 View

Jones, R. Victor. Oral history interview with R. Victor Jones 2006 April 18

Title: Oral history interview with R. Victor Jones 2006 April 18

R. Victor Jones matriculated into the University of California, Berkeley and entered the lab of Walter Knight, where he worked in the new field of nuclear magnetic resonance. He continued into graduate school at Berkeley and worked in Carson Jeffries's lab, where his thesis work dealt with electron transport in a molecular afterglow. As he was finishing his thesis work, William Shockley began an aggressive recruitment of Jones until he finally accepted Shockley's offer of a job at the new Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Shockley believed semiconductors were the wave of the future, and he espoused diffused-base technology. Jones was put to work on the four-layer diode. From the outset, lab work was compartmentalized and Shockley frequently changed the goals of the lab. Uncomfortable in the high-stress atmosphere of the lab and wanting to work with his primary interest, electromagnetic theory, Jones decided after only two years to look for work in the academy, ultimately acceptaing a position at Harvard University. He spent almost fifty years there, teaching electronics.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (38 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743095413 View

Murphy, Edward Joseph, 1898-. Recollections and anecdotes, 1983.

Title: Recollections and anecdotes, 1983.

Some reminiscences by Murphy about his experience working in Bell Laboratories beginning in 1923. Topics discussed include his work in ionic conduction in solids, William Shockley's role in the emergence of solid state physics, and impediments Murphy encountered at Bell Labs after he disagreed with some conclusions presented by Abram F. Ioffe. Individuals mentioned include Walter Brattain, Oliver Ellsworth Buckley, and Foster Nix.

ArchivalResource: 9 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83770877 View

Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981. Oral history interview with James Brown Fisk, 1976 June 24,

Title: Oral history interview with James Brown Fisk, 1976 June 24,

Born 1910 Rhode Island. Engineering interest at an early age; Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate, aeronautical engineering; graduate studies in physics (John Slater, Philip Morse); assistant to Stark Draper, 1932-1934; fellowship at University of Cambridge (Professor Ralph H. Fowler); internal conversion of x-rays (with Geoffrey I. Taylor, 1934); MIT Ph.D. (P. Morse) scattering of slower electrons; William Shockley; junior fellow at Harvard University, 1936-1938; work with Ivan Getting on an electrostatic generator; Harvard Society of Fellows; Bell Laboratories, 1939 (Shockley-Fisk fission work); war work mostly electronics; interaction with industrial research and with universities, 1946 reorganization of physics department forming a solid state physics group; team representing various disciplines to study fundamentals of solid state (Fisk associate director); Director of Research, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1947; professor at Harvard, 1948; Director of Physics Research at Bell Labs, 1949; President of Bell Labs. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Oliver E. Buckley, Karl Taylor Compton, Frank Jewett, J. B. Johnson, Ralph Johnson, Mervin J. Kelly, and Gerald Leondus Pearson.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 21 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82694761 View

Wooldridge, Dean E. Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.

Family background and early education; University of Oklahoma; graduate work and electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology. Bell Laboratories, 1936-1946; colloquium and other social structures; early solid state physics work; Fletcher's group with Foster Nix and William Shockley; war years, work on radar bomb sights; postwar years. Move to Hughes Aircraft Company, 1946-1953; formation and accomplishments of Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge after 1953; current interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph A. Becker, R. S. Bowen, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, Joseph Ashby Burton, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Paul Sophus Epstein, Conyers Herring, C. N. Hickman, Howard Hughes, J. B. Johnson, Edward Karrouse, Mervin J. Kelly, G. A. Kelsall, J. W. McRae, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gerald Leondus Pearson, Don Quarles, Simon Ramo, Rhine, Duane Roller, Hellvar Skaade, William Ralph Smythe, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Chase Tolman, Charles Hard Townes, Howell J. Williams, Jewel Wurtzbaugh, Fritz Zwicky; American Physical Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Air Force, and Western Electric Company.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 57 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82944288 View

Duncan, Andrew W. A limited survey of freedom of speech at higher education institutions [manuscript].

Title: A limited survey of freedom of speech at higher education institutions [manuscript].

Duncan surveyed a sample of colleges on student and faculty interference with the appearance of speakers whose philosophies they opposed. The report was compiled in anticipation of trouble over a proffered invitation to William Shockley from the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938225 View

Pearson, Gerald Leondus, 1905-. Oral history interview with Gerald Leondus Pearson, 1976 August 23 and 8 April 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Gerald Leondus Pearson, 1976 August 23 and 8 April 1980.

Early influences and education; A.B. from Willamette University in physics and math, 1926; fellowship and M.A. from Stanford University; graduate study at Columbia University on x-rays. Work at Bell Laboratories, starting 1929, on vacuum tube amplifiers with John B. Johnson; carbon microphones, semiconductors and the solar battery; work atmosphere and supervisors, Peter J. W. Debye; technical colloquia. History of "thermistors" and transistors. First color TV demonstration. Work during World War II on bombing using radar techniques and infrared. Organization of the Morgan-Shockley solid state group, 1946; appointment as department head at Bell Labs; academic appointment at Stanford University. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph A. Becker, Hendrik Wade Bode, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, Chapin, Carl Christensen, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Henry Eyring, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, Gaylon T. Ford, Lester Halbert Germer, Gibney, Frederick Goucher, H. E. Ives, Frank Jewett, Mervin J. Kelly, Jack Morton, Foster Cary Nix, Ogg, Russell S. Ohl, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Morris Tanenbaum, Gordon K. Teale, Russell Harrison Varian, Oliver Weisner, Dean E. Wooldridge; Pacific Academy in Newberg, and Stanford Solid State Industrial Affiliates.

ArchivalResource: Session one transcript, 53 pp., session two untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79917394 View

Lee A. DuBridge papers, 1932-1986

Title: Lee A. DuBridge papers, 1932-1986

The Papers of Lee A. DuBridge span the years 1932 to 1986 and containcorrespondence, documents, reports, speeches, and memorabilia which reflect his tenure as chairman ofthe department of physics, University of Rochester; head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology'sRadiation Laboratory; president of the California Institute of Technology; and his active participation inscores of professional, governmental and civic organizations.

ArchivalResource: 102 linear feet

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Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-. Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999.

Title: Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999.

Discusses his childhood and education in Illinois, undergrad and graduate work at Harvard; writing his thesis with Van Vleck; working at Bell Laboratoreis and the scientists there including William Shockley; the rise of interest in solid state physics in the early 1950s; research in superconductivity; the creation of theory groups at Bell Labs in 1956 and the relationship between theorists and experimenters in the lab; decisions on research topics at Bell; his year in Japan with Kubo; security restrictions at Bell and military research; collaborations with John Galt; experiments leading to localization of electrons in 1956-57; development of superconductivity theory; his visit to the Soviet Union in 1958; collaboration with Morel in 1961 on superconductivity; and research philosophy and approach to problems. Others prominently mentioned are: N. Bogolyubov; George Feher, V. Ginzburg, Gorkov, Charles Kittel, Lev Landau, David Pines, Harry Suhl, Gregory Wannier.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 7 cassette tapes.Transcript: (3 sessions) ,125 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82694625 View

Kip, Arthur F. Oral history interview with Arthur Frederic Kip, 1982 June 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur Frederic Kip, 1982 June 16.

Beginning of scientific career (Leonard Loeb and Robley Evans at University of California, Berkeley); work on radioactivity research with Philip M. Morse and William Shockley on submarine warfare; trips to Miami, Trinidad, England, and the Pacific; postwar work at MIT with Sandborn Brown; early interaction with Charles Kittel; constructing microwave accelerator with John Slater; transition to Berkeley with Kittel; cyclotron resonance in semiconductors; Moscow conference in the middle fifties and subsequent work on cyclotron resonance in metals upon Azbel's instigation.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80232570 View

Shockley, William, 1910-1989. William Shockley papers, 1860-1988 (inclusive), 1940-1988 (bulk).

Title: William Shockley papers, 1860-1988 (inclusive), 1940-1988 (bulk).

Professional and personal papers relating to Professor Shockley's controversial interests in environment and genetic influences on intelligence; research on transistors and electronics; and science education. Also includes extensive family materials including diaries and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: ca. 260 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707971344 View

American Physical Society. Division of Solid State Physics. Correspondence of Roman Smoluchowski, 1943-1947.

Title: Correspondence of Roman Smoluchowski, 1943-1947.

Documents the efforts leading to the formation in 1947 of the Division of Solid State Physics of the American Physical Society (APS). Principally concerns the controversy over the form the proposed organization should take: an advisory committee, a committee on symposia, or a separate division within the Society. The constitutionality and mechanism of divisionalization is discussed. Collection also contains proposed bylaws, schematic diagrams of alternative organizational structures, manuscripts pertaining to the suggested division, lists of metal physicists, and printed APS material. Correspondents include: Karl K. Darrow, Saul Dushman, Thomas A. Reed, Frederick Seitz, William Shockley, Sidney L. Siegel, John H. Van Vleck, and Clarence Zener.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78844758 View

Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Title: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Linus Pauling (1901-1994), a 1923 OSU graduate and the only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes, (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962) undertook a wide range of studies during his seventy-year career as a scientist, humanitarian and peace activist. The collection, comprised of over five hundred thousand items, contains all of Pauling's personal and scientific papers, research materials, correspondence, photographs, awards, and memorabilia. Not only does the Pauling archive reflect Linus Pauling's long and varied scientific career, the presence of Ava Helen Pauling's (1903-1981) papers also indicates their mutual devotion to world peace and to each other.

ArchivalResource: 4437 linear feet; 1800 boxes

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Morgan, Stanley Owen, 1900-. Oral history interview with Stanley Owen Morgan, 1975 July 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Stanley Owen Morgan, 1975 July 3.

Union College majoring in chemistry, 1918; attended special lectures at General Electric by Irving Langmuir, Saul Dushman and Albert W. Hull; joined Western Electric Company in engineering department after graduation. First work on microphone carbon. To Princeton University on Homer Lowry's advice, studying dielectrics with Harry Smythe. During Bell Laboratories expansion in 1930, rejoined old group, now working on dielectrics; became department head, 1931; Addison White. By 1932 group concentrated on dielectrics; work included varistors and ceramics (Joe Becker, Gerald Pearson, Walter Brattain), after 1938. Start of piezoelectric crystals interest; new ideas in quantum physics pursued by Allan Holden and others; Foster Nix and William Shockley's unifying influence in physics department. Mervin Kelly and James Fisk's work on vacuum tubes. Michigan summer schools; stimulating journal and discussion groups started by Andy Liehr for chemists. Solid state group started by Kelly and Fisk; Morgan co-headed with Shockley, from 1945; sub-groups within the group: Richard Bozorth on magnetism, Frederick S. Goucher on carbon and varistors, Warren P. Mason on filters and acoustic properties of crystals. Zone refining idea by William G. Pfann. By 1954 solid state group had been scattered. Organizing recruiting teams for Ph.D. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Richard Orvis Grisdale, E. J. Murphy; and General Electric Company.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 29 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78770468 View

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008. Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26 to 1982 March 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26 to 1982 March 16.

Family background and early education, motivation and funding for college; math program at Stanford University, from 1928; physics studies at California Institute of Technology; graduate study at Princeton University, beginning 1932, atmosphere of the department, faculty (Lou Turner, Eugene Wigner, John Von Neumann); colloquia, Edward Condon. Development of applications of group theory, work in solid state with Linus Pauling, Hillard B. Huntington, Albert Sherman, William Hansen, William Shockley, Robert R. Brattain, R. Bowling Barnes. Betty Seitz; work with her on the text Modern Theory of Solids. Sodium band theory work with Wigner. To University of Rochester with Lee DuBridge. Centers for solid state work including University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Harvard University (John Van Vleck). Work at General Electric, 1935-1936, studies of luminescence; atmosphere in industrial labs following Depression, contacts with other industrial labs; association with DuPont. State of physics in 1930s, trends at solid state centers. Work on crystal defects, pigments, leading to work on germanium and, particularly, silicon; history of study of semiconductors and influences on its development such as World War II; work on dislocations and creep; work at Westinghouse Company. World War II work with Frankford Arsenal, Dahlgren Proving Ground, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory; University of Pennsylvania, 1938; Carnegie-Mellon University, 1942, on dark trace tubes, leading to color center papers; University of Chicago work on reactors and neutron diffraction, 1943; Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Wigner; Argonne National Laboratory, solid state group. With Field Intelligence Agency Technical (FIAT), visit to Gottingen, 1945; state of solid state physics in international centers and U.S. Return to Carnegie-Mellon; diffusion theory. Pugwash Conferences; trips to Japan, 1953 and 1962, conditions and theoretical solid state work in postwar Japan. To University of Illinois, 1949 (Wheeler Loomis); John Bardeen's work, visits by Nevill Mott and Heinz Pick; McCarthyism. Development of Seitz's bibliography, changes in the study of solid state during the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6.0 hrs.), 4 sessions.Transcript: 116 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82694689 View

Sello, Harry. Oral history interview with Harry Sello 2004 November 4, 2005 January 7 and March 16

Title: Oral history interview with Harry Sello 2004 November 4, 2005 January 7 and March 16

Harry Sello begins his oral history interview with a review of his childhood which included emigration from Russia. Sello became interested in chemistry and completed undergraduate work in organic chemistry before applying this knowledge to his Ph.D. research at the University of Missouri. William Shockley recruited him to Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. At Shockley and then at Fairchild Semiconductor, Sello worked on a variety of chemical aspects of semiconductor manufacturing. Sello concentrated on the transfer of silicon transistor technology to Societa Generale Semiconduttore in Italy, negotiating cultural and industrial boundaries. In 1980, he began Harry Sello Associates after Fairchild Semiconductor was sold to Schlumberger Exploration. Sello concludes the interview with reflections on his current role as an expert witness.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (209 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746329553 View

Holden, Alan. Oral history interview with Alan Holden, 1974 July 30 and 21 June 1976.

Title: Oral history interview with Alan Holden, 1974 July 30 and 21 June 1976.

Harvard University to Bell Laboratories in 1925 seeking job as chemist, ending up in the General Methods and Audits Department for five years; Publications Department, 1930; editor of Bell Laboratories Record. Depression lay-offs at Bell Labs. Holden to Chemistry Department (under Girard T. Kohman), 1936; W. Edgerton. Informal groups studying Mott and Jones Theory of Metals, Tolman's Statistical Mechanics. Comments on numerous other scientists including William Shockley, Foster Nix, James Fisk, Bancroft Gherardi. Solid state group formed in 1945. Why scientists may prefer Bell Labs to a university setting. Comments on continuities in the fields of solid state; dielectrics in the chemistry department rather than in physics department. Holden's work on piezoelectricity and with Charles Kittel on paramagnetic resonance absorption in crystals. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Joseph A. Becker, Walter Houser Brattain, Joseph Ashby Burton, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Lester Halbert Germer, Ronald Gurney, Phillip James, Edwin Crawford Kemble, Warren Perry Mason, Merritt, Stanley Owen Morgan, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Clarke Slater, Charles Hard Townes, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Addison Hughson White, Dean E. Wooldridge, Bill Yager; Bell System Technical Journal, Columbia University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 53 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84075014 View

Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-. Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Mainly concerns Nix's work at Bell Laboratories. Educational background; recollections of John B. Johnson, Nix's work on barriers for gaseous diffusion plants during World War II; physics seminars at Bell Labs in the 1930s, and the relation of Bell Labs to the international physics community. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Joseph A. Becker, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Eugene Booth, Walter Bothe, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, James Chadwick, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Pierre Curie, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, John R. Dunning, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, Lester Halbert Germer, Stephane Groueff, Leslie Richard Groves, Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alan Holden, H.E. Ives, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Mervin J. Kelly, Charles Kittel, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, Linus Pauling, Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Robert Wichard Pohl, Isidor Isaac Rabi, William Shockley, John Clarke Slater, Gordon K. Teale, Charles Hard Townes, E.C. Wente, Addison Hughson White, Eugene Paul Wigner, Dean E. Wooldridge; Columbia University, Cornell University, Keley Corporation, Manhattan Project, Reviews of Modern Physics, and University of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78076042 View