Biedenharn (Lawrence) Papers 1931-1997

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Biedenharn (Lawrence) Papers 1931-1997

Correspondence, publications, notes and printed materials document the career of Lawrence Biedenharn (1922-1996) at Duke University and University of Texas, including his monographs, articles, and conference talks.

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Lawrence Christian Biedenharn was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on November 18, 1922. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in absentia in 1944 while serving in the United States Army. He returned to MIT in 1946 and completed his Ph. D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1950. After graduation, he worked as a research physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. ...

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