Oral history interview with Chruchill Eisenhart, 1984 July 10.

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Oral history interview with Chruchill Eisenhart, 1984 July 10.

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Eisenhart talks at some length about his father, Luther P. Eisenhart. He discusses other members of the faculty at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the 1930s including: H. P. Robertson, Edward Condon, John von Neumann, Salomon Bochner, and H. F. Bohnenblust. Eisenhart tells something about the Eisenhart family and the fact that his father left virtually no archival papers.

Transcript : 12 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 8282680

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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