Sessions from the SPS regional meeting [sound recording] / 1973 April 13, 14.

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Sessions from the SPS regional meeting [sound recording] / 1973 April 13, 14.

Speakers include: Loyd S. Swenson, on the history of space travel (comedy); Charles Weiner, on the history of physics, and Eugene Feenberg on the history of nuclear physics.

1 sound tape reels (2 hrs.) : 1 7/8 ips, analog, mono. ; 5 in.

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American Institute of Physics

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Feenberg, Eugene.

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Swenson, Loyd S.

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