Oral history interview with George Sargent Janes, 1984 September 19.

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Oral history interview with George Sargent Janes, 1984 September 19.

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One of the founders and leader of AVCO-Everett Laboratory's project on laser separation of uranium isotopes. Origins of the project; initial fears that it might facilitate proliferation of nuclear weapons; division of labor he effected with co-leader Richard Levy; technical problems to be overcome; formation of Jersey Nuclear-Avco Isotopes; turning to Department of Energy for money and demise of the project in 1986.

Notes, 8 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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