Leo Brewer : oral history transcript / transcript of an interview conducted by James J. Bohning at University of California, Berkeley on 3 April 1992.

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Leo Brewer : oral history transcript / transcript of an interview conducted by James J. Bohning at University of California, Berkeley on 3 April 1992.

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Description of family life and early years in Youngstown, Ohio; undergraduate work at Caltech, graduate work at University of California Berkeley under Axel R. Olsen; work on Manhattan Project: using models in the periodic table to determine the worst properties of plutonium, predicting the electronic configuration of all the actinides; joining faculty of UC Berkeley in 1946, working in organic chemistry, ceramics, astrochemistry, and geology; teaching; research in metallurgy.

1 v. (55 leaves) : col. port. ; 29 cm.

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Olsen, Axel R.

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Brewer, Leo, 1919-2005

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Born in St. Louis, Missouri on 13 June 1919. Died on 22 February 2005. Education: B.S., California Institute of Technology (1940) ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1942). Employment: 1943- University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Oral history interview with Leo Brewer, 1992 April 3 (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 76937841 Biographical Information Leo Brewer, American chemi...

Bohning, James J.

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University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Chemistry.

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Chemical Heritage Foundation. Oral History Program.

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Manhattan Project (U.S.)

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