Oral history interview with Herbert Anderson, 1981 January 13 and 16.

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Oral history interview with Herbert Anderson, 1981 January 13 and 16.

Discusses his early life and education; choosing physics as a career, studying at Columbia, his expertise in radio engineering; building the cyclotron at Columbia and cyclotrons in general; the discovery of fission, his thesis being withheld from publication for secrecy reasons; experiments with the cyclotron; working on the uranium experiments with Fermi. Prominently mentioned are: I. I. Rabi, Lucy Harner, Dunning, Boothe, Glassow, Szilard, Zinn.

Sound recording: 3 cassettes (4 hrs.)Unedited transcript: 90 pp. (2 sessions)

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