Oral history interview with Harry Jones, 1981 January 20.

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Oral history interview with Harry Jones, 1981 January 20.

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Early stages of career with Whittington at Leeds in 1920s. Postgraduate work in theoretical physics with Ralph H. Fowler at Cambridge, 1928-1930. Assistant to John Edward Lennard-Jones at Bristol, early 1930s. Development of electron theory of alloys, 1933-1937. Interactions with William Lawrence Bragg and Albert James Bradley. Development of Fermi surface concept Interactions with W. F. Mott and W. H. B. Skinner. Theoretical consultant to Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, 1937-1938. War work on blast waves in TNT. Comments on key pioneers of the electron theory of metals.

1 session, audiotape, 2 cassettes, 2.0 hrs.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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