Oral history interview with Frederick Charles Frank, 1985 April 12.

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Oral history interview with Frederick Charles Frank, 1985 April 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78060523

Origins of British scientific intelligence during World War II (headed by R.V. Jones, with Frank as deputy). Intelligence on nuclear research in Germany; relations with U.S. intelligence (Samuel Goudsmit); comments on Fritz Houtermanns and Carl Weizsäcker. German uranium project and Werner Heisenberg's Farm Hall estimate of nuclear explosive critical mass; postwar German version of their war work; Heisenberg's role in German nuclear research.

Preliminary transcript.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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