Oral history interview with Maria Stein, 1974 May 28.

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Oral history interview with Maria Stein, 1974 May 28.

Göttingen community and University in 1930s; relations with Max Born and Maria Goeppert Mayer; career in pediatrics and refugee from Germany, leaving in 1939 for Edinburgh; community of physicists in New Jersey in 1941.

Sound recording: 1 5-inch sound reel, (ca. 1.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 22 p.

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