Interview with Craig Nunan, [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1992 August 28.

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Interview with Craig Nunan, [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1992 August 28.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81276755

Topics discussed include his youth and young adulthood; his work on the linear proton accelerator with Luis Alvarez and Robert Oppenheimer at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley; his work with Ernest Lawrence on the color television display tube; his work on the development of the linear accelerator for medical use, and the developing and patenting of the CT scanner.

1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col ; 1/2 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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