Niels Bohr lectures and interviews [sound recording], 1949-1962.

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Niels Bohr lectures and interviews [sound recording], 1949-1962.

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Many of Bohr's lectures, as well as informal interviews (including the one conducted as part of Archives for History of Quantum Physics (AHQP)) on tape and, in one case, on a record (78 rpm). Transcriptions of some of the lectures exist; those not already included in other collections form part of this collection (T) indicates that a transcription exists. -- Recordings of Bohr's lectures include: Gifford lectures, Edinburgh (1949)(T); Biology seminar, USA (1957); Oklahoma lecture (1957)(T); Macalaster College (1957); Compton Lectures, MIT (1957)(T); Carlson lecture, Iowa (1957)(T); Rutherford Memorial Lecture, London (1958)(T); Culture Congress, Copenhagen (1960); Genetics Institute, Cologne (1962)(T). -- Recordings of conversations/interviews with Bohr include: Bohr and Oppenheimer, Copenhagen (1958)(T); Bohr interviewed by Aage Bohr and Léon Rosenfeld, Risvild (1959)(T); Conversation with Dr. Sasher, Tisvilde (1959); Conversation with Virginia and Robert Bell, La Jolla (1959)(T); Conversation with stud. jur. Skovgard, Mrs. Else Bohr, Mrs. Magrethe Bohr, Tisvilde (1959)(T); conversation with Margaret Gowing and Aage Bohr, Copenhagen (1962)(T); AHQP interviews (1962)(T).

Sound recordings: ca. 40 10-inch, 5 7-inch sound tapes.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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