Man made elements [sound recording] / an address to Sigmi Xi meeting at Purdue University, 1953 October 16.

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Man made elements [sound recording] / an address to Sigmi Xi meeting at Purdue University, 1953 October 16.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81716269

Among other points, Seaborg describes when they first isolated and weighed a plutonium sample and invited General Groves to see it.

2 sound tape reels (1 hr.) : 7 1/2 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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