What next? The story of one American physicist, 1948.

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What next? The story of one American physicist, 1948.

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The manuscript, which Condon never finished, documents his boyhood, early education and career; his Ph.D. in physics (1926) from the University of California at Berkeley, and his travels to Göttingen (1926-1927) to study quantum mechanics. Also discussed is atomic energy legislation and the Religious Society of Friends.

224 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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