Oral history interview with Wendell Furry, 1971 August 9.

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Oral history interview with Wendell Furry, 1971 August 9.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445516

Some of the topics discussed include: his youth and education; working on his Ph.D. at University of Illinois; summer symposia at University of Michigan; his work in the early stages of his career; collaborating on a paper with Oppenheimer.

Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 73 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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