Intellectual autobiography, ca. 1957.

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Intellectual autobiography, ca. 1957.

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This autobiography briefly describes McGrath's undergraduate education at Fort Hays Kansas State College; his graduate education at the University of Kansas, where he studied with J. D. Stranathan, and at the University of Iowa, where he worked with G. W. Stewart; some of his research in nuclear magnetic resonance work; and his satisfaction with his career which included a brief position as associate editor of the American Journal of Physics and teaching positions at Michigan State College and Kent State University.

6 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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