Autobiography, 1986.

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Autobiography, 1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81220054

The manuscript discusses Mark's childhood in Vienna; service during World War I; study at Universität Wien under Wilhelm Schlenk, whom he followed to the Technische Universität Berlin in 1921; work at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik) with Michael Polanyi, Erich Schmid, Rudolf Brill and Karl Wiessenberg; association with Max von Laue, Peter Paul Ewald, Leo Szilard, Georg von Hevesy, and Albert Einstein; Mark's move to I. G. Farben in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and work on the structure of natural polymers; return to Universität Wien with the rise of the Nazis and subsequent migration to Canada where he worked for the Canadian International Paper Company in Hawkesbury, Ontario; move to Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and work there after Pearl Harbor for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Naval Research with many scientists including Isidor Fankuchen; committee work; and a supplement which discusses Mark's retirement activities. File also contains correspondence pertaining to the authorship of the manuscript, which is questionnable, since it switches from third to first person.

22 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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