Oral history interview with Malcolm Woodrow Pershing Strandberg, 1983 June 15.

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Oral history interview with Malcolm Woodrow Pershing Strandberg, 1983 June 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80172603

Particular scientific style; start as an electrical engineer; work on beam frequency standards with H. Richard Johnson; narrowing of the beam, frequency stabilization; work on phase-locking microwave amplifiers; discusses his consulting work at Hughes; search for alternate solution; ideas for increasing gain bandwidth; paper published in Physical Review "Quantum Mechanical Amplifiers"; difference from other papers (Robert V. Pound and Ronald R. Mohler) on same subject; colloquim at MIT on paramagnetic resonance; solution to noise problem; start of group; working from scratch to build own magnet; work with Pound. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles Hard Townes, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; and Hughes Aircraft Company.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 0.5 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 9 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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 ...

Hughes Aircraft Company

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Strandberg, M. W. P. (Malcolm Woodrow Pershing), 1919-

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Townes, Charles Hard

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Physicist. Member of technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1939-1947; professor of physics, Columbia University, 1948-1961; physics dept. chairman, director of radiation laboratory, and provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1967; University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1967. From the description of Memoranda from Bell Telephone Laboratories concerning applications of microwave spectroscopy (1946); letters from Townes to Joan Br...