Oral history interview with Robert Charles Rempel, 1984 January 18.

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Oral history interview with Robert Charles Rempel, 1984 January 18.

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The founding of Spectra-Physics. Rempel's reasons for choosing to be an entrepreneur. Attitudes toward patenting; collaboration with Perkin-Elmer; role of John Atwood. Spectra-Physics' advertising approach; acquisitions; pricing policies; steps toward achieving high-quality products. The step camera; the geodolite.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Rempel, Robert Charles, 1925-

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Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...

Perkin-Elmer Corporation

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