Oral history interview with David Abraham Katcher, 1986 April 16.

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Oral history interview with David Abraham Katcher, 1986 April 16.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78630807

Early youth and education; B.A. in physics from University of Wisconsin; work in Naval Ordnance Laboratory in World War II; book with Ellis Johnson. First editor of Physics Today; work at Operations Research Office; move to Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in 1956. Latter half of interview devoted to JASON: involvement from inception; executive secretary for seven years; impact on policy, types of projects, etc.

Transcript, 45 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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