Oral history interview with Henry Way Kendall, 1986 November 25 and 26.

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Oral history interview with Henry Way Kendall, 1986 November 25 and 26.

Youth and early education; undergraduate at Amherst; graduate work at MIT. Work with various laboratories: MIT, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Fermilab. Involvement in JASON, ca. 1960-1973: projects, question of impact. Involvement with Union of Concerned Scientists, from 1969: creation and main projects; nuclear energy; nuclear arms control; achievements.

Transcript, 54 pp.

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