The pioneer years of atomic science [sound recording] : a lecture given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1972 October 17.

ArchivalResource

The pioneer years of atomic science [sound recording] : a lecture given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1972 October 17.

Personal impressions and reminiscences on Marie Curie, O. Hahn and others, primarily in the fields of radioactivity and atomic physics, as well as a description of A. V. Grosse of his wide ranging recent interests and activities.

1 sound tape reel (1 hr.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8264857

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh3fxq (person)

Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...

American Institute of Physics

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c3qjv (corporateBody)

Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt2x6g (person)

Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dj5gs2 (person)

German physical chemist. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84584649 From the description of Unidentified materials. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80453274 German radiochemist. From the description of Autograph statement unsigned (working draft) : [n.p.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508943 ...