Oral history interview with Bernard Gittelman, 1996 August 21.

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Oral history interview with Bernard Gittelman, 1996 August 21.

Gittelman discusses his work at Princeton and Stanford on storage rings, relations with Gerry O'Neill, Dave Ritson, and Hofstadter, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) during the building of the Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR). This interview was conducted by Elizabeth Paris as part of her dissertation project on the early history of electron colliding beams in the United States. She is working on her doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

1 audio cassette (1.5 hrs.).

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