Dedication of Raymond Thayer Birge Hall, 1964.

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Dedication of Raymond Thayer Birge Hall, 1964.

Dedication of Raymond Thayer Birge Hall, auditorium of Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, as one session of a meeting of the American Physical Society.

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