Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, 1986 August 18.

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Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, 1986 August 18.

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Whinnery trained many prominent maser and laser scientists in his University of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering laboratories. This interview touches briefly on the functioning of the Electrical Engineering department from about 1950 to the early 1970s, Whinnery's own research into laser subjects like thermal lensing, his relation to National Science Foundation funders, and his students and their projects.

Transcript, 29 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Whinnery, John R.

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Born 1916. From the description of Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, 1986 August 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80044190 John R. Whinnery, 1916-. Engineering (electromagnetics, microwaves, optoelectronics). From lecturer to professor of electrical engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1987, head of dept., 1956-1959, dean of the College of Engineering, 1959-1963. From the description of Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, ...

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University of California, Berkeley. Electrical Engineering Laboratory.

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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 ...