Reminiscences of William A. Higinbotham : oral history, 1980-1983.

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Reminiscences of William A. Higinbotham : oral history, 1980-1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269253065

William Alfred Higinbotham, 1910-1994. Childhood: family; Williams College 1928-1932, Cornell University 1932-1940, graduate research on surface ionization, technician, Cornell University Physics Dept., 1935-1940; radar research, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of technology [MIT] 1941-1943: invention of Higinbotham scaler circuit; head of electronics division, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos 1944-1945: development of Naval Tactical Data System [NTDS]; chairman National Committee on Atomic Information [NCAI] 1945; Federation of Atomic Scientists [FAS], Washington 1946-1947: mechanisms of lobbying, funding, public relations; Brookhaven National Laboratory 1947- , associated head of the instrumentation division 1947-1951, head 1953-1968; loyalty and security investigations of scientific community; nuclear research: atomic bomb, radiation damage, fallout shelters, nuclear energy, legilation; arms control: safeguards; Rowan Gaither panel, nuclear test ban, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT], disarmament; President's Science Advisory Committee, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy [SANE]; International Atomic Energy Association [IAEA], Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] and others; national and international cooperation: Pugwash-meetings, contacts with Soviet scientists; colleague reminiscences.

transcript: 2 v. (260 leaves).sound recording: 4 sound cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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