The education of physicists between the wars [sound recording] : by those who were educated then / 1985 October 30.

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The education of physicists between the wars [sound recording] : by those who were educated then / 1985 October 30.

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The program was held at the Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, and included talks by Professors Allibone, Burcham, Curran, Kurti, Lipson and Mott. Each gives an account of his own undergraduate and postgraduate training in the inter-war period.

3 sound tape cassettes (4 hrs.) : analog, mono.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Curran, Samuel C. (Samuel Crowe), 1912-

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