Fifty years of physics: Some personal memories, ca. 1976.

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Fifty years of physics: Some personal memories, ca. 1976.

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A copy of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society at Virginia Beach in 1976, in which Williams describes his early childhood in Georgia, and the state of education at its larger universities during the 1920s and 1930s; his own undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, under Otto Stuhlman, Karl H. Fussler, and Earle K. Plyler; his graduate work during the Depression at the University of Texas (a brief stay) and back at Chapel Hill for his Master's; at the University of Virginia under Jesse Beams and at the University of North Carolina under Arthur Ruark, Earle Plyler, and John Wheeler for his Ph.D; his appointment at a small college in Florida; and his reflections on physics work during World War II, the 1950s and the "Space Age." He compares physics studies in the 1920s and 1930s with those of the 1970s. Also included is an eight-page photocopy from Millikan-Gale's high school text.

21 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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