Oral history interview with Edward M. Lamont, 1996 May 29.

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Oral history interview with Edward M. Lamont, 1996 May 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77878944

Discusses his memories of growing up in the Lamont family in New York City and spending time at the Lamont estate, called Palisades, in the 1930s. This property was later donated to Columbia University to become the Lamont-Doherty Observatory.

Transcript, 41 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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