Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1966 June 30.

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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1966 June 30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305396

Discusses youth, college and graduate studies at Michigan (to 1930); work with Goudsmit, NRC Fellowships at Caltech (1930-1931) and MIT (1931-1932); Lloyd Fellowship at Michigan (1932-1933); work with Sawyer (1933-1934). Influence of Michigan summer sessions. Teaching and research at Columbia (1934-1935), move to Cornell (1935-1940); work with Bethe on REVIEW articles; involvement in nuclear physics; with Baker measures shape of neutron resonance by time-of-flight method, comparison with Fermi's results. Effects of World War II on development of nuclear physics; emergence of high energy physics from earlier trends.

Transcript: 24 pages.Audio tapes: 1 reel; 5 inch reel.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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