Oral history interview with Ted Taylor, 1995.

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

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John (Johann) Louis von Neumann (1903-1957) was born in Budapest and showed early signs of being a child prodigy. He entered the University of Budapest in 1921, but also attended the University of Berlin and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology before obtaining a degree in chemical engineering in 1925. He earned his Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Budapest in 1927. After graduation, he worked at the University of Berlin before becoming a visiting professor to Princeton from ...

Ulam, Stanislaw M.

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Stanislaw M. Ulam was a Polish mathematician who contributed to the development of thermonuclear weapons. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1967. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1935-1984]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466333 Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Stanislaw M. Ulam, ca. 1976. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63295635 ...

Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-

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Technical advisor for military films. From the description of Oral history, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122622566 Physicist (Applied Physics). California Institute of Technology, B.S. (1945); Cornell University Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics, 1954). Consultant, government and industry, 1956-; President, Appropriated Solar Technology Institute, 1980-1989; Lecturer San Diego State College, 1957, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988-. From the description...

Bell, George I., 1926-....

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Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-....

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Physicist (theoretical) and writer. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354822 ...

Hammer, Preston C.

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ROSENBLUTH, M N.

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University of California, San Diego professor Marshall Rosenbluth, was noted for his work as a plasma physicist, his work in thermonuclear fusion, the Rosenbluth formula and theoretical scattering, and his role in the discovery of Rosenbluth-Hinton flows. In 1956 Rosenbluth took the position of senior research advisor with the nuclear energy research company General Atomics (GA) in San Diego and continued working with GA after being appointed professor of physics at UC San Diego in 1960. After 1...

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

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John Archibald Wheeler is a physicist and a pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. He studied under Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University (Ph. D., 1933) and later studied nuclear fission with Niels Bohr. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1950s-1970s]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298147 Physicist (atomic and nuclear theory, relativity theory, and cosmology). On the physics faculty at Princeton University from 1938; physicist, ...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Mark, Carson

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Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

Longmire, Conrad L.

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Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1949. From the description of Oral history interview with Conrad L. Longmire, 1987 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83823663 ...