Oral history interview with Earle Keth Plyler, 1964 April 7.

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Oral history interview with Earle Keth Plyler, 1964 April 7.

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Early life, childhood interests; undergraduate at Furman University, South Carolina; B.A., 1917, M.A., 1918; Johns Hopkins University, 1923; optics work at Cornell University, 1919, 1924, Ph.D., 1924; recollections and anecdotes on teaching, research and administrative duties at: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1924-1941; University of Michigan, 1941-1945; National Bureau of Standards, 1945-1962; Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1962; comments on the construction and personalities of Harrison Randall and William Coblentz; assessment of former and present students and evaluation of the nature of the educational process. Personal beliefs and satisfactions. Also prominently mentioned are: Nick Acquista, Allison, Jack Craven, Walter Gordy, John Howard, Imes, Earle Hesse Kennard, Samuel Pierpont Langley, A. Herman Pfund; and National Science Foundation.

Transcript, 99 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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