Oral history interview with Walter H. Munk, 1986 June 30.

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Oral history interview with Walter H. Munk, 1986 June 30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80093554

Born in Vienna in 1917; move to America at age 14; undergraduate and masters degrees at Caltech; relations with Harald U. Sverdrup at Scripps and Ph.D. there. Enlisted in Army during World War II; war work on submarine problems with Navy. Joined JASON at Keith Brueckner's invitation, 1961. Greater part of interview devoted to JASON: work, organization and external relations. Also prominently mentioned are: John Von Neumann; and United States Navy.

Transcript, 38 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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