Oral history interview with R. M. Whaley, 1982 October 29.

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Oral history interview with R. M. Whaley, 1982 October 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81865411

Whaley's career in physics up to the end of World War II, particularly years at Purdue University during the war. Major topics include childhood and educational background, decision to attend Purdue University, work there on purification and doping of germanium ingots, and impressions of Karl Lark-Horovitz.

1 session, audiotape, 2 cassettes, 2.0 hrs.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Whaley, R. M. (Randall McVay), 1915-

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Lark-Horovitz, K. (Karl), 1892-1958

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Physicist (solid-state physics, nuclear physics, semiconductors) and educator. International Research Council fellow (1925-1928); on the faculty of Universität Wien (1919-1925); Stanford University (1927-1928); Purdue University: physics department (1928-1958), director of its physical laboratory (1929-1958), and department chair (1931-1958). From the description of Correspondence with William Francis Gray Swann, 1932-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80451920 From the d...

Henriksen, Paul B.

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Purdue University

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