Oral history interview with Wojciech Rubinowicz, 1963 May 18.

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Oral history interview with Wojciech Rubinowicz, 1963 May 18.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Johannes Martinus Burgers, Paul Sophus Epstein, Geitscher, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Johannes Stark.

Transcript, 22 pp.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8257889

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Burgers, J. M. (Johannes Martinus), 1895-

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Burgers (1895-1981). Physicist (fluid dynamics, theory of turbulence, viscosity of suspensions). Major affiliations Include: Technische Hogeschool te Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 1918-1955; and University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 1955-1965. From the description of Papers, ca. 1912-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122336093 Physicist (fluid dynamics, theory of turbulence, viscosity of suspensions). Major affiliations include: technische Hodeschool te Delft, Delft...

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Rubinowicz, Wojciech

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Rubinowicz (1889-1974). Physicist (theory of radiation, quantum mechanics, mathematical physics). A. Sommerfeld's assistant in Munich, 1916-1918; professor in Lubljana, 1920-1922; Lwow, 1922-1941; higher schools and institutes in Warsaw, 1946-1974. From the description of Letters to Natanson, 1884-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77931101 Rubinowicz (1889-1974). From the description of Oral history interview with Wojciech Rubinowicz, 1963 May 18. (Unknown). W...

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

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Physicist (mathematical physics, atomic physics, theoretical physics, wave mechanics, quantum mechanics). On the mineralogy faculty at Georg-August Universität zu Göttingen (1893-1897); on the mathematics faculty at Technische Universität Clausthal (1897-1900); on the mechanics faculty at the Technische Hochschule zu Aachen (1900-1906); and on the physics faculty at Universität München from 1906. From the description of Papers, ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), ca. 1890-ca. 1950. (Un...

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

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Physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1921-1953; taught the advanced courses in mathematical and theoretical physics. First European-trained physicist to come to Caltech on a permanent basis; recruited by Robert A. Millikan in 1921, a mathematical physicist among the generation who laid foundation for modern atomic physics. Studied in Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld; early research in theory of electromagnetic waves, particularly theory of their diffraction. Studied quantum theory of ato...

Heilbron, John.

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Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957

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