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Bloembergen, N. Laser pioneer interview series, 1985-1986.

Title: Laser pioneer interview series, 1985-1986.

A collection of Lasers & Applications magazines containing a series of oral history interviews with researchers involved in the discovery and development of different types of lasers done in commemoration of the 25th anniversary (1985) of the first operation of the laser. Interviewees include: Nicolaas Bloembergen, William Bridges, J. J. Ewing, Gordon Gould, Robert Hall, Ralph Jacobs, Ali Javan, John Madey, Ted Maiman, C. K. N. Patel, William Silfvast, Arthur Schawlow, Peter Sorokin, Charles H. Townes. In 1986 the magazine featured a series of interviews with laser applications pioneers. Interviewees included are: Sidney Charschan, Evan Dryer, Arthur H. Guenther, Theodor W. Hansch, Al Hildebrand, Charles K. Kao, Narinder Kapany, Larry Larson, Emmett Leith, Francis L'Esperance. Interviews were published for Sorokin, Javan, and Silfvast, but are not included in this collection.

ArchivalResource: .5 lin. ft. (1 box; 21 issues)

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Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999. Arthur Schawlow papers, 1949-1997.

Title: Arthur Schawlow papers, 1949-1997.

These papers primarily document Schawlow's career at Stanford and include correspondence, 1951-1995; lecture notes and class files, 1980-1988, containing problem sets and solutions, exams, and other information; grant files; records from participation in professional organizations including American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, and the Optical Society of America; and reprints of his and his students' articles, 1949-1994. Also included is correspondence, clippings, and brochures pertaining to autism, 1981-1989, including typescript of "Our Autistic Son" by Aurelia T. and Arthur L. Schawlow.

ArchivalResource: 98 linear feet.

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Townes, Charles H. A life in physics : Bell Telephone Laboratories and World War II, Columbia University and the laser, MIT and government service, California and research in astrophysics : oral history transcript / Charles Hard Townes ; with an introduction by Arthur L. Schawlow ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1991-1992. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1994.

Title: A life in physics : Bell Telephone Laboratories and World War II, Columbia University and the laser, MIT and government service, California and research in astrophysics : oral history transcript / Charles Hard Townes ; with an introduction by Arthur L. Schawlow ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1991-1992. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1994.

Townes discusses his family background in South Carolina, education at Furman, Duke, Caltech, Bell Telephone Laboratories; his career as a professor of physics and research Officer in the Navy including research in microwave spectroscopy, the maser and the laser, quantam physics, issues surrounding patents, his Nobel prize, Berkeley in the 60's, astrophysics and infrared work, among others. Includes interview with Townes' wife, Frances Brown Townes.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 1 v. (xxiv, 691 p.) : col. ports. ; 29 cm.Sound recordings: 38 sound cassettes.

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Leonard I. Schiff papers, 1948-1971

Title: Leonard I. Schiff papers 1948-1971

Professional correspondence, reports and committee papers relating to Professor Schiff's work at Stanford as well as with the National Academy of Science and NASA. Of note are papers relating to his term as head of the Physics Department at Stanford 1948-66 and as a faculty leader. Also includes mimeographed version of his textbook on quantum mechanics, 1947.

ArchivalResource: 26 Linear feet

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Basov, N. G. (Nikolaĭ Gennadievich), 1922-2001. Oral history interview with Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, 1984 September 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, 1984 September 14.

Beginning of studies in molecular spectroscopy at Moscow Institute of Physics (MIFI) (1948). Invitation to Lebedev Institute (FIAN) by Mikhail Aleksandrovic Leontovich, head of the lab and MIFI theoretical physics department. Early radiospectroscopy work there with Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov using synchrotron. Inadequacy of low sensitivity equipment leading to development of maser-laser technology. Use of CsF molecule to solve problem of increasing the resolution of microwave frequency region. First indications of success reported at Conference on Radiospectroscopy, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1952 and first publication in field of quantum electronics with Prokhorov. Laboratory of Oscillations study of self excitation in a beam resonator system. Work atmosphere at FIAN. Basov's work during World War II, 1941-1945. Student at Moscow Institute of Physics, 1946. Joined Lebedev Physical Institute, 1948. Comments on relationship of Soviet politics and physics work. Comparison of American and Soviet science. Meeting with American scientists working in same area; comparison of their work with his. Colleagues working on semiconductor laser problems. Funding of laser programs. Scientific developments parallel with Theodore H. Maiman's ruby laser. Development of three-level maser. Diversification of laser technology in U.S. and Russia. Current laser research; history of laser development at Lebedev; prize winners in laser technology. Work atmosphere in newly developed Laboratory of Quantum Radiophysics. Applications of laser; research using modern spectroscopic methods; investigations on the properties of coherent radiation. Also prominently mentioned are: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, Nicolaas Bloembergen, V. A. Danilychev, V. Ya. Fainberg, F. S. Faizullov, Benjamin Lax, Theodore Maiman, A. N. Oraevskij, Yu. M. Popov, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Henry Evelyn Derrick Scovil, D. V. Skobeltsyn, Charles Hard Townes, S. I. Vavilov, I. G. Zubarev, V. S. Zuev; Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Akademiia nauk SSR, Conference of Faraday Society, Conference on Quantum Electronics, Conference on Radiospectroscopy, International Conference on Quantum ElectronicsR︣esonance Phenomena at A. F. Joffe Acad of Institute of Physics and Technology (Lenin), Laboratory of Oscillations (Soviet Union), and Lenin Prize.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: (ca. 7.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 28 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79125379 View

Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999. From maser to laser: talk by Arthur L. Schawlow at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: Videorecording, 1982.

Title: From maser to laser: talk by Arthur L. Schawlow at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: Videorecording, 1982.

Overview history of research in laser and maser physics.

ArchivalResource: 1 video cassette : col. ; 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122354409 View

Arthur L. Schawlow papers, 1949-1997

Title: Arthur L. Schawlow papers 1949-1997

These papers primarily document Schawlow's career at Stanford and include correspondence, 1951-1995; lecture notes and class files, 1980-1988, containing problem sets and solutions, exams, and other information; grant files; records from participation in professional organizations including American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, and the Optical Society of America; and reprints of his and his students' articles, 1949-1994. Also included is correspondence, clippings, and brochures pertaining to autism, 1981-1989, including typescript of "Our Autistic Son" by Aurelia T. and Arthur L. Schawlow.

ArchivalResource: 98 Linear feet

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United States of America v. American Telephone & Telegraph, et al: legal documents, 1974-1982.

Title: United States of America v. American Telephone & Telegraph, et al: legal documents, 1974-1982.

Key documents and selected testimony in antitrust action. This set consists of photocopied typescripts of documents and testimony presented at this milestone case, which resulted in the breakup of America's largest technology-based corporation. It also resulted in the severance of direct institutional ties between the American telecommunications network and the country's most prestigious science research institution in the private sector, namely, the Bell Laboratories' Research Division. Ths testimony identifies the justifications and consequences of these steps and provides a wealth of information on the nature, size and scope of the American telecommunications industry and the impact of Bells System integration on the progress and strength of American science, technology and industry. In the technological and scientific areas, much information is presented on research and development activities, primarily at Bell Laboratories, in the physics and applications of semiconductors, microelectronics, telecommunications and lasers; the structure and organization of Bell Labs and the nature and importance of innovation in the private sector are important themes in the context of these topics. Expert testimony is presented by important leaders in American science and industry, many with ties to Stanford University, including David Packard, Arthur Schawlow, Charles Townes, Nathan Rosenburg and David Teece.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. (3 linear ft.)

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Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Title: Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Poole , Cecil F. (b. 1914), Federal district and appellate judge. Civil Rights, Law, and the Federal Courts: The Life of Cecil Poole , 1914-1997, 1997, vii, 248 pp. Childhood and education; military service; private law practice in San Francisco; Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, California, 1951-1958; secretary, legal, to Governor Edmund G. Brown, 1958-1961; U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, 1961-1970; federal judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District, 1976-1979; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Judicial Circuit, 1979-1997; discusses sentencing guidelines, appellate procedures, challenges for an African-American lawyer and judge, Democratic politics, some significant appellate cases. Introduction by William Coblentz, longtime friend, and law firm partner, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer. Interviewed 1993 by Carole Hicke.

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Smith, George Foster, 1922-. Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

Title: Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

Maser research at Hughes Research Laboratories. The laser; Theodore H. Maiman's work; building a laser rangefinder; Q-switching; stimulated Raman scattering; other laser research. The impact of Sputnik and the Vietnam war on Hughes Aircraft Co. Procedures for selecting research projects. Also prominently mentioned are: Doug Beddenhagen, William B. Bridges, Malcolm Currie, Francis E. Goodwin, Robert Willis Hellwarth, Pat Hyland, Harold Lyons, Fred McClung, R. C. Pastor, Eugene P. Peressini, Arthur Leonard Schawlow; Aerojet-General Corporation, Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes, 1 session.Transcript: 40 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622730 View

Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999. Oral history interview with Arthur L. Schawlow, 1984 January 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur L. Schawlow, 1984 January 19.

Early family life and early education in Toronto during the Depression. Interest in radio engineering; math-physics scholarship to University of Toronto, 1937. During World War II (from 1941) teaching Army, Air Force, Navy students in basic physics. Masters degree with Arnold Pitt during that period. Work with Gordon Byers on microwave guide antennas. Poor graduate education at Toronto. Interest in nuclear physics; constructs atomic beam light source; his definition of a diatomic molecule. Receives Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation postdoc fellowship (I. I. Rabi); work with Charles Townes at Columbia University on application of microwave spectroscopy to organic chemistry; comments on faculty and co-workers at Columbia. To Bell Labs to work on superconductivity in Stan Morgan's group in early 1950s. Work with Harold Lewis and Bernd Matthias on the intermediate state nuclear quadrupole resonance. The Clad Rob Laser; work atmosphere at Bell Labs; decision to leave Bell for Stanford. Works with graduate students; John Emmett, John Holzrichter on flashlamps; solid state spectroscopy. Role in Optical Society of America and American Physical Society. Also prominently mentioned are: James Crawford, John Emmett, John Holzrichter, Harold Warren Lewis, Theodore Maiman, Bernd T. Matthias, Linn Mollenauer, Henry Warren Moos, Howard Schultz, William B. Tiffany; Canadian Association of Physicists, Linde Corporation, Stanford University, and University of Toronto.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 33 p.

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DeMaria, Anthony John, 1931-. Oral history interview with Anthony John DeMaria, 1984 April 13.

Title: Oral history interview with Anthony John DeMaria, 1984 April 13.

Research and education, 1956 to ca. 1970. Establishment of the electromagnetics group at United Aircraft Research Center, 1958. Inauguration of laser research after the Schawlow-Townes paper appeared. Modulating laser output. Modelocking investigations. Laser work on fusion and gas-dynamic CO2 lasers by other United Technologies groups. Also prominently mentioned are: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Chap Cutler, Edward Danielson, Carl Feyrar, Fork, Bill Glenn, Steve Hanis, Logan E. Hargrove, Hans Heynau, Henry Hoadley, George Housemann, Ippen, Arthur Robert Kantrowitz, Wes Kuhrt, Willis E. Lamb, John Lee, Reiss Meyerand, Al Penny, Peter Persham, Pollack, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Marlan Scully, Chuck Shank, Ben Snavely, Charles Hard Townes, Brian Tracy, Caspar Ultec, Hans Weber; Andersen Laboratories, Inc., Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co., Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, Office of Naval Research of United States Navy, and University of Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 93 pp.

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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Letters to NBS staff on "Atomic Energy Levels," 1949-1971.

Title: Letters to NBS staff on "Atomic Energy Levels," 1949-1971.

Copies of letters written to Charlotte Moore Sitterly, David R. Lide, and E. U. Condon from Niels Bohr, Samuel Goudsmit, Arthur Schawlow, Gerhard Herzberg, I. I. Rabi, and Linus Pauling about Moore's published three-volume work on Atomic Energy Levels. Schawlow's letter also discusses the development of the laser and how it would have been impossible without the information the National Bureau of Standards published about energy levels of atoms. Pauling's asks for additional information to make further calculations with.

ArchivalResource: 6 pages.

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"Nobel Perspectives on Ethics in Science" videorecordings, 1996

Title: "Nobel Perspectives on Ethics in Science" videorecordings 1996

This program featured Stanford Nobel laureates sharing their personal reflections on current ethical issues in scientific research, using case histories and personal observations: Robert McGinn, Henry Taube, Arthur Kornberg, Paul Berg, Arthur Schawlow, and Herbert Abrams.

ArchivalResource: 6 videotapes (VHS)

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Gould, Gordon, 1920-2005. Oral history interview with Gordon Gould, 1983 April 8 and October 23.

Title: Oral history interview with Gordon Gould, 1983 April 8 and October 23.

Studied at Union College, worked at Westinghouse. Initial graduate work at Yale University, 194l-1943, with concentration on optical spectroscopy. Trained personnel in vacuum technology for Manhattan Project. Additional graduate study under Polykarp Kusch at Columbia University; at I. I. Rabi's suggestion, applied optical pumping in his thesis work. Suggested optical pumping of maser. Remarks on maser's commercial potential and potential of the laser. Discussion of his attitude vis-a-vis Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow, ca. 1957. Recruitment to Technical Research Group, Inc. and work on laser, ca. 1958. Almost entirely concerned with Gould's activities from 1958-1967, while he was at TRG Inc. Reception of his laser idea by TRG staff, job activities during the years when his lack of clearance prevented him from concentrating on lasers; some of the laser projects he undertook once TRG's laser contract was declassified.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

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Optical Society of America. Meeting (1982). Panel discussion on the development of the laser and nonlinear optics [sound recording] / 1982 October 20.

Title: Panel discussion on the development of the laser and nonlinear optics [sound recording] / 1982 October 20.

Speakers include: Nicholas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow, and Boris Stoicheff.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape cassette (1 hr.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305686 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

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Landauer, Rolf William, 1927-1999. Oral history interview with Rolf William Landauer, 1984 October 17.

Title: Oral history interview with Rolf William Landauer, 1984 October 17.

The microwave spectroscopy group under William V. Smith in the late 1950s. Research directions and management attitudes in the early years of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The Sorokin-Stevenson 4-level masers. The invention of the semiconductor laser in 1962. Research on optical parametric oscillators. Also prominently mentioned are: Bill Dumke, William S. Franklin, Seymour Keller, James Arthur Krumhansl, Gordon Lasher, Marshall I. Nathan, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, W. V. Smith, Peter P. Sorokin, Mirek Stevenson, Charles Hard Townes, John Von Neumann, Weinrich; Bell Telephone Laboratories, and International Business Machines Corporation.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette, 1 session.Transcript: 20 p.

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Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971. Leonard I. Schiff papers, 1948-1971.

Title: Leonard I. Schiff papers, 1948-1971.

Professional correspondence, reports and committee papers relating to Professor Schiff's work at Stanford as well as with the National Academy of Science and NASA. Of note are papers relating to his term as head of the Physics Department at Stanford 1948-66 and as a faculty leader. Also includes mimeographed version of his textbook on quantum mechanics, 1947.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear feet.

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Hänsch, T. W. (Theo W.), 1941-. Oral history interview with Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch, 1984 January 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch, 1984 January 19.

Laser research at the Universität Heidelberg, 1965-1970. Thesis research. Collaboration on a commercial laser. Hänsch's laboratory style. Frustrations of doing spectroscopy with the early, non-tunable lasers. Laser research at Stanford University. Comparison of resources at Heidelberg and Stanford. The high-resolution, tunable laser of 1971 and the research program it engendered. Also prominently mentioned are: Mark Levenson, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Isa Shahin, Peter Smith, Peter Toschek; and American Physical Society.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 18 pp.

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Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990. Robert Hofstadter papers, 1931-1992.

Title: Robert Hofstadter papers, 1931-1992.

This collection contains the papers of Robert Hofstadter, including lab notebooks and research data; lecture notes and teaching materials; writings, drafts, and reprints; grant proposals; incoming and outgoing correspondence; travel and conference papers; legal papers; biographical and personal materials; clippings; photographs; and a small amount of audiovisual material. The papers provide a broad view of Hofstadter's career, including his student and postgraduate work at Princeton University; wartime positions at The United States National Bureau of Standards and Norden Laboratory; Stanford research including electron scattering and coronary angiography; and his collaboration with NASA personnel on the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope. Of particular note are materials on the development of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), later renamed the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, as well as correspondence on the relationship between SLAC and the Stanford University Department of Phyiscs.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear feet (56 boxes)

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Optical Society of America. Meeting (1974 : Washington, D.C.). What is light? [sound recording] / 1974 April 21.

Title: What is light? [sound recording] / 1974 April 21.

Speakers include: M. Francon, "Wave Aspects of Light and Fourier Optics;" Steven Weinberg, "Light as a Fundamental Particle;" Erwin L. Hahn, "Light and Matter;" and Arthur L. Schawlow, presiding. George Wald was also scheduled to speak, but was unable to attend the meeting.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels (2 hrs.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391354 View

Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999. Letter regarding edits to chapter 2 of -Physics in the 20th Century-, 1997 December 24.

Title: Letter regarding edits to chapter 2 of -Physics in the 20th Century-, 1997 December 24.

Letter to Judy Franz, Executive Director of the American Physical Society and editor of -Physics in the 20th Century,- regarding edits to a draft of chapter 2 entitled "Spectrum." Most of the discussion centers on the history of the development of lasers and masers.

ArchivalResource: 3 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78903394 View

Robert Hofstadter papers, 1931-1992

Title: Robert Hofstadter papers 1931-1992

This collection contains the papers of former Stanford professor and Nobel Prize winning physicist Robert Hofstadter. Included are lab notebooks and research data; lecture notes and teaching materials; writings, drafts, and reprints; grant proposals; incoming and outgoing correspondence; travel and conference papers; legal papers; biographical and personal materials; clippings; photographs; and a small amount of audiovisual material. The papers cover a wide swath of Hofstadter's career, including his student and postgraduate work at Princeton University; wartime positions at The United States National Bureau of Standards and Norden Laboratory; Stanford research including electron scattering and coronary angiography; and his collaboration with NASA personnel on the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET).

ArchivalResource: 72 linear feet (54 boxes)

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Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-. Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.

This short interview touches briefly on Hahn's education at Juniata College, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois; initial interest in nuclear magnetic resonance; his postdoctoral years with Felix Bloch's group at Stanford University; and his three years as a research scientist with IBM. Hahn also comments briefly on his consultantship with Hughes' maser group; his work on self-induced transparency; and his collaboration with Richard Brewer at IBM. Also prominently mentioned are: Sam Bass, Jesse Wakefield Beams, Felix Bloch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Richard Brewer, John Clarke, Gene Commins, Harry Daghalian, Robert Henry Dicke, Gordon Gould, Donald W. Kerst, Theodore Maiman, Sam McCall, Mitsunaga, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Norman Shiren, Charles Slichter, Dick Slusher, Russell Harrison Varian; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Columbia University, IBM Watson Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States Navy, and University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 42 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81178530 View

Townes, Charles H. Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1979 June 18 and 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1979 June 18 and 20.

Childhood and youth; his family life and siblings; education at Furman during the Depression, 1931-1935; merit scholarship. Graduate study at Duke University in 1936; shifts to Caltech during second year; early interest in astronomy; works with Fred Zwicky. His first job, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, from 1939-1947; scientific associates (Dean Wooldridge, William Shockley). Discussion of work on microwave spectroscopy, and NH3 spectrum; competition with Bleaney and Good. Accepts I.I. Rabi's offer to join Columbia University faculty in 1948. Interest in molecules, atoms (not solid state physics), and in short microwaves; comments on teaching, students, and faculty; department head from 1952-1955. Inventions of the maser and laser in the 1950s, background ideas; Treshkas' and Lamb's writings on stimulated emission. Purcell, Pound, Dicke did not think of maser; discussion of the effects contributing to the appearance of simultaneity of inventions. Masers in radioastronomy; consultantship at BTL; joint laser invention with Arthur Schawlow. Interactions with Gordon Gould; BTL's interest in the laser.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

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American Physical Society. Meeting (1982 : Washington, D.C.). Distinguished speakers session [sound recording] 1982 April 27.

Title: Distinguished speakers session [sound recording] 1982 April 27.

Speakers include: M. Goldhaber, presiding; James Edwards, "Federal Policy on Long Range Research;" L. H. Thomas, "Einstein's Law of Gravitation as a Consequence of Quantum Mechanics in the Large;" N. Bloembergen, "Non Linear Optics and Spectroscopy;" A. L. Schawlow, "Spectroscopy in a New Light;" G.E. Brown, recipient of the Tom W. Bonner Prize, "Effects of Particle Coupling to Vibrations in Nuclei and in Liquid 3He."

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape cassettes (2 hrs.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305331 View