Joint symposium of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers on history and philosophy of physics [sound recording] / 1969 February 5.

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Joint symposium of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers on history and philosophy of physics [sound recording] / 1969 February 5.

Speakers include: Gerald Holton, "Einstein and the Crucial Experiment;" Martin J. Klein, "Bohr, Einstein, and the Wave-Particle Duality;" and Charles Weiner, "The Emigres and American Physics in the 1930s."

2 sound tape reels : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

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