Oral history interview with Andrew Donald Booth, 1976.

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Oral history interview with Andrew Donald Booth, 1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63288497

Booth discusses his use of calculators in crystallography research at the University of Birmingham during World War II. He recounts how after the war Douglas Hartree introduced him to digital computation and suggested that he read Alan Turing's work. Booth tells of his 1947 tour of the United States, on which he visited the major computing centers, and his subsequent six-month visit at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where he worked closely with John von Neumann.

Sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 28 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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