Symposium of the history of physics [videorecording] : the coming of age of nuclear physics - the 1930s. 1991.

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Symposium of the history of physics [videorecording] : the coming of age of nuclear physics - the 1930s. 1991.

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An American Physical Society symposium on the advent of nuclear physics in the 1930s. Speakers include: Hans Bethe, H. Richard Crane, Maurice Goldhaber, and John Archibald Wheeler.

1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

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