Manhattan Project 1982

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Manhattan Project 1982

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc076

These two interviews provide a close look at the research conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. The interviewees are both former physics professors at Indiana University who were heavily involved with the Manhattan Project. They reveal the circumstances surrounding their involvement and discuss the Los Alamos Laboratory in detail including many of the personalities present, such as Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller.

2 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

eng,

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6625180

Related Entities

There are 14 Entities related to this resource.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xb349g (person)

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v2hcz (person)

15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6736s35 (person)

Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Konopiński, Emil Jan (1911- ).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg790q (person)

Mitchell, Alan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c69gn1 (person)

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh2pnm (person)

Luis W. Alvarez (b. June 13, 1911, San Francisco, CA–d. September 1, 1988, Berkely, CA) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay ...

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pn965q (person)

Physicist. From the description of Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories, 1966-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935483 Alsatian-born American physicist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for physics. From the description of Typed letter signed : Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to Samuel Goudsmit, 1936 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270953107 Unpublished document written as chapter 13 of the Smyth Report. Letters about it ...

Atomic Energy Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs90pj (corporateBody)

Serber, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q11578 (person)

Fuchs, Klaus.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gs121r (person)

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ww7gdp (person)

Physicist Arthur Holly Compton worked as a research engineer at Westinghouse Lamp Co. (1917-1919) and studied with Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England (1919). He taught physics at Washington University (1920-1923) and at University of Chicago (1923-1945) and served as Chancellor of Washington University from 1945-1953. From the guide to the Arthur Holly Compton notebooks, 1919-1941, 1919-1941, (American Philosophical Society) In 1920, Arthur Holly Co...

Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kf7fpk (corporateBody)

Los Alamos national laboratory

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf4q4n (corporateBody)

Sellers, Vincent

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qq22wt (person)