Oral history interview with Albert Gordon Hill, 1982 June 25.

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Oral history interview with Albert Gordon Hill, 1982 June 25.

Hill's connections with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory during World War II. Specific topics are Hill's early education; the military's relationship with the Rad Lab; postwar importance of the Office of Naval Research; the Rad Lab as instrument-maker rather than physics laboratory; postwar connections of Rad Lab with Charles S. Draper; Rad Lab-Los Alamos comparison; relations with Raytheon Corporation; effect of Rad Lab on Hill's career; Lee DuBridge and the Steering Committee. In the postwar era, Hill briefly discusses his work at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories and his connections with the transistor.

No transcript; notes, 3 pp.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8264193

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