Oral history interview with Emanuel Maxwell, 1983 March 4.

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Oral history interview with Emanuel Maxwell, 1983 March 4.

Mainly concerns Maxwell's work on superconductivity and specifically the isotope effect experiments. Discussion of Maxwell's experiments on superconductivity in tin, his work for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory during World War II, the effect of the war on superconductivity research, and then details of Maxwell's experiments on mercury and tin.

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