Autobiography, undated.

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Autobiography, undated.

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Early years and family in Tacoma, Washington; undergraduate education in chemistry and graduate education in physics at Washington State University; graduate studies and work on cyclotron at University of California, Berkeley from 1935-1939; neutron irradiation of uranium; identification of transuranic element 93; scientific career at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and National Bureau of Standards; uranium separation during World War II; work for Naval Research Laboratory project to develop a nuclear submarine; editor of Science. This autobiography complements an oral history interview also available at the Niels Bohr Library.

81 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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