Oral history interview with Adnan Waly 1990 November 12.

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Oral history interview with Adnan Waly 1990 November 12.

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Early education with Gustav Hertz. Work as a nuclear physicists for the German General Electric Company under Fritz Lange. Doctoral studies with Max von Laue. Use of natural electronic discharges to produce nuclear disintegration. Discovery of Rupp's fradulent evidence for positive electrons. Coverup of the incident by Ramsauer. Waly's anti-Nazi activities before the outbreak of war. Work with Cockcroft and Walton on sealing discharge tubes. Priority dispute about the discovery of fission by Lise Meitner, together with her nephew Otto Frisch, and Otto Hahn. Collaboration with Leo Szilard. Early work on biophysics and cancer treatment.

Transcript: 39 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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