Oral history interview with Alan M. Portis, 1982 June 15.

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Oral history interview with Alan M. Portis, 1982 June 15.

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The establishment of the solid state group at the University of California, Berkeley, at the beginning of the 1950s (Charles Kittel). Kittel's style of work; electron spin resonance of color centers Kip-Kittel-Levy-Portis paper; Portis' work at the University of Pittsburgh; Dresselhaus-Kip-Kittel paper on the cyclotron resonance in semiconductors; Portis back at Berkeley working on antiferromagnetic resonance.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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