Harold Urey memorial symposium [sound recording] : Harold Urey, the scientist and Harold Urey, the man / 1981 February 7.

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Harold Urey memorial symposium [sound recording] : Harold Urey, the scientist and Harold Urey, the man / 1981 February 7.

The symposium was held at the Sumner Auditorium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Feb. 7, 1981. (Urey died on January 6, 1981.) Speakers discussing "Harold Urey, the Scientist" included: Stanley Miller, Murray Goodman, Clyde Hutchison, Karl Cohen, G.J. Wasserburg, Hans Suess and Samuel Epstein. Speakers discussing "Harold Urey, the Man" include: James Arnold, Richard Atkinson, F.G. Brickweddle, Herbert York, Charles Perrin, Cyril S. Smith, Frances Torbert, Roger Revelle, and Elizabeth Urey Barringer.

6 sound cassettes (5 hr.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

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American Institute of Physics

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Brickwedde, F. G. 1903-

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Epstein, Samuel, 1919-....

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

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Suess, Hans Eduard, 1909-

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Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-

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