Oral history interview with Richard L. Garwin, 2001 June 7.

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Oral history interview with Richard L. Garwin, 2001 June 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78729212

Focused interview deals with Garwin's childhood and schooling at Case and University of Chicago; his time at Chicago and interaction with Fermi. Majority of interview is on Garwin's work in designing the H-bomb and consulting work at Los Alamos in 1950-51. Recollections interspersed with technical details of design and apparatus. Discussion of recent 'discovery' of interview with Edward Teller in 1979 by George Keyworth that gives credit for H-bomb design to Garwin; Teller and Ulam's relation. Last part of the interview deals with Garwin's work in conjunction with Leon Lederman to confirm the non-conservation of parity in late 1956-early 1957.

Transcript: 50 pp.Sound recording: 3 cassettes.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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