Oral history interview with James Hobart, 1984 January 20.

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Oral history interview with James Hobart, 1984 January 20.

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Background at the University of Michigan and with Trion Instruments Company. Manager of accessory-product development at Spectra-Physics. Coherent Radiation Inc.; the coherent CO2 laser. Spectra-Physics-Coherent rivalry. Coherent's service and customer-training policies. Sources of capital. Developing a commercial argon-ion laser. The start of profitability for Coherent in 1969.

1 session; preliminary transcript.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

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Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...