Oral history interview Harold Worthington Webb, 1970 April 24.

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Oral history interview Harold Worthington Webb, 1970 April 24.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81949194

World War I developments in electronics in relation to French and British Armies; postwar revitalization of physics department at Columbia University: Pupin Laboratory; effect of quantum mechanics and growth of nuclear physics; graduate physics during the 1920s and Depression years; George Pegram's relation to Columbia University and the American Physical Society (APS); Webb as Secretary to APS; personal satisfactions in professional career.

Transcript, 30 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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