Autobiography, ca. 1965.

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Autobiography, ca. 1965.

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The file covers Low's early life and education, his interest in physics, studies at Harvard University and work during World War II with the Army Air Corps and 10th Mountain Division Ski Patrol, and his marriage. Low further discusses his research at Columbia University and his thesis on hyperfine structures; work at the Institute for Advanced Study on the two-body problem; at the University of Illinois on meson theory; professorship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships research; consulting work; participation on panels discussing the needs of high- and intermediate-energy physics research; trips and conferences, and visits and leisure activities. File also includes a one-page publications list.

17 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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