Oral history interview with Robert S. Cameron, 1984 July 31.

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Oral history interview with Robert S. Cameron, 1984 July 31.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63277395

Cameron tells of his coming to Princeton, as a National Research Council Fellow, after completing his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1932 and working briefly at Brown University. He arrived at Princeton in January 1934 and stayed through the following academic year. Cameron talks about the social life in Princeton and tells a story about Einstein.

Transcript : 6 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884800

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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