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Kozhevnikov, A. B. Oral History interview with Moisey Isaakovich Kaganov, 1999 May 11.

Title: Oral History interview with Moisey Isaakovich Kaganov, 1999 May 11.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 38 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305754 View

Kozhevnikov, A. B. Oral History interview with Moisey Isaakovich Kaganov, 1998 November 20.

Title: Oral History interview with Moisey Isaakovich Kaganov, 1998 November 20.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 56 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305750 View

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

Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-. Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997.

Title: Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997.

Early education in Kentucky and at Phillips Exeter Academy. World War II service in Navy. College. Graduate work in theoretical nuclear physics at Princeton. David Bohm and J. A. Wheeler. Participation in the crash hydrogen bomb program. Post-doctorate at the University of Indiana. Fulbright year at Heisenberg's Institute. Research year at Los Alamos, 1957-1958. Teaching at Brandeis. Administrative positions at University of California, Irvine and New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology. Subsequent positions at the University of Maryland and biomedical start-up company. APS Education Officer, Director of American Institute of Physics, 1987-1993.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 6 cassettes.Transcript: 2 sessions (105 pp.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78354822 View

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-. Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 2000 August 5.

Title: Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 2000 August 5.

Discusses his work in solid state physics, band theory, research relating anit-submarine warfare during World War II, physics in the Soviet Union, working at Bell Laboratories in the late 1940s; antisemitism in the field of physics; working with William Shockley. Persons prominently mentioned include: John C. Slater, Albert Gordon Hill, John Bardeen.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 37 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77959374 View