Oral history interview with Raymond Thayer Birge, 1960 May 9.

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Oral history interview with Raymond Thayer Birge, 1960 May 9.

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Family background; childhood and early education; University of Wisconsin Ph.D., 1914; to University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics, 1918. Chemical physics; the Bohr atom versus the Lewis-Langmuir atom; early research activity; chairman of the department, 1933; medical physics; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; evaluation of his research and publications; the Committee on Research; teaching, students; family; professional honors.

Transcript: 395 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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