Oral history interview with Boris Pregel, 1975 January 6.

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Oral history interview with Boris Pregel, 1975 January 6.

Brief history of the development and use of radium in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the organization and distribution of radium by the Union Miniè€re Co., under the direction of E. Sengier and Gustave Lechien; the medical and scientific uses of radium; the relationship between the Union Miniè€re and scientific research laboratories such as the Institut Curie, Paris.

Transcript, 7 pp.

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Weart, Spencer R., 1942-....

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...

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Pregel, Boris, 1893-1976.

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