Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

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Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

File includes: a discussion of Kolstad's early interest in science and his early schooling; Bates College attendance (1939-1943); World War II work with Fred Terman; graduate years at Yale University (1945-1948); Ph.D. nuclear physics; his work from 1950 exclusively with administration of physics for the Atomic Energy Commission, and its successors, the Energy Research and Development Administration and, from 1977, the Department of Energy. Kolstad also describes in detail some of the important contributions to physics and comments on the public's changing attitude toward science.

35 pp.

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