Oral history interview with Eric Ungar, 2001 December 6.

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Oral history interview with Eric Ungar, 2001 December 6.

Biographical oral history interview. Topics include: Ungar's family leaving Vienna for St. Louis, fleeing the Nazis; college years at Washington University interrupted by Army service in postwar Europe; takes up mechanical engineering on return to Washington University; Master's degree at University of New Mexico night school while employed at Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque; PhD at New York University in late 1950s; recruitment to Bolt, Beranak and Newmann; joins the Acoustical Society of America, rising to the presidency; family and leisure activities.

Sound recording: 1 cassette tape.Transcript: 24 pages

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