Oral history interview with Cornell Henry Mayer, 1986 November 8.

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Oral history interview with Cornell Henry Mayer, 1986 November 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78951143

Collaboration with Charles Townes and Townes' graduate students in affixing a maser receiver to the Naval Research Laboratory telescope in the 1950s. Discussion about the telescope; Townes contacts about a maser receiver; details of some of the disadvantages maser and parametric amplifiers at that early time; briefly relates some subsequent maser work on the NRL telescope.

Notes, 4 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Physicist. Member of technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1939-1947; professor of physics, Columbia University, 1948-1961; physics dept. chairman, director of radiation laboratory, and provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1967; University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1967. From the description of Memoranda from Bell Telephone Laboratories concerning applications of microwave spectroscopy (1946); letters from Townes to Joan Br...

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Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...