Songs about physicists [sound recording] / written by Arthur Roberts ; soloist, Everett W. Hall ; accompanied by Arthur Roberts and the chorus of the State University of Iowa Physics dept. ; 1947.

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Songs about physicists [sound recording] / written by Arthur Roberts ; soloist, Everett W. Hall ; accompanied by Arthur Roberts and the chorus of the State University of Iowa Physics dept. ; 1947.

Songs include: "It Ain't About the Money," (Parts 1 and 2) written in 1944 on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to I. I. Rabi. "Conant, Compton and Baruch" is from a show at M. I. T. in 1942. "How Nice to be a Physicist" was commissioned for the Radiation Laboratory reunion party by the American Physical Society in May 1947. "Placement" was written in 1945 just after the end of the war, when the Radiation Laboratory at M. I. T. was in process of placing its personnel in new jobs. "The Cyclotronist's Nightmare" (Parts 1 and 2) was written in 1939. "Take Away Your Billion Dollars" (1946) was written while the Brookhaven National Laboratory was being planned.

4 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm., mono. ; Two 10-in. discs and two 12-in. discs ; Notes on songs and lyrics (11 pp.).

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Roberts, A. (Arthur), 1912-

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