Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.

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Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81609548

Bardeen recounts his early career; undergraduate education in electrical engineering; work in geophysics while employed by the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh; math Ph.D. program at Princeton University; junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Discusses Eugene Wigner, John Van Vleck, and John Slater as pioneers of solid state physics. Describes his years at Princeton; close relationship between the mathematics and physics departments.

1 session; transcript, 13 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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