Oral history interview with Edward Teller, 1983 September 9.

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Los Alamos scientific laboratory

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Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

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Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906 in Kattowitz, Germany, to Friedrich and Maria (nee Wolff) Goeppert. In 1910 she moved with her parents to Gottingen where her father taught pediatrics at the University. She enrolled at the University at Gottingen in the spring of 1924 with the expectation of pursuing a career in mathematics, but soon became attracted to physics and the developing field of quantum mechanics. In 1930 Mayer took her doctorate in theoretical physics under t...

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

University of California, San Diego

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Administrative History The Chancellor acts as head of administration and has general authority over the campus. He is responsible for setting up the administrative structure and insuring that the various units function properly. He has specific delegated authority to sign employment contracts of faculty and staff and to represent the University in public forums. Herbert F. York was appointed first Chancellor of the University of C...

University of Chicago. Institute for Nuclear Studies

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The Institute for Nuclear Studies Cyclotron Records were collected by Professor Samuel K. Allison. Allison received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1923, did research at Harvard and the Carnegie Institute before going to the Department of Physics at the University of California. The collection focuses on the 170-inch synchrocyclotron, put into operation at the University of Chicago in March, 1947. The project was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research and the Atomic Energy...