Oral history interview with Chih Hsing Wang, 1977 February 24.

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Oral history interview with Chih Hsing Wang, 1977 February 24.

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The Radiation Center at Oregon State University, inception of the idea, funding, opening in 1962 and expansion in 1965, first critical reactor in Oregon, 1967; Ph.D. studies at Oregon State University in biochemical research; collaboration with David Willis on radiotracer methodology textbook; work on scintillation spectroscopy, light emission of phosphorus and radio spectrometry, graduate studies in his laboratory; political history of atomic energy in Oregon.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Nuclear research and education began at OSU soon after World War II. In the 1950s, the first classes in nuclear physics and radiochemistry were taught, and in 1955 a cyclotron was constructed. A graduate program in nuclear engineering was established in 1959. In the early 1960s, a committee recommended that a research lab be established to house nuclear and radiation facilities. Funding was secured in the fall of 1962, and construction began in early 1964. The labs were occupied in August 1964 a...