Edwin M. McMillan interview, 1972, June 1 and October 30.

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Edwin M. McMillan interview, 1972, June 1 and October 30.

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Transcript of tape recorded interviews conducted by Charles Weiner, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. Covers his youth and early education; undergraduate study at California Institute of Technology and influence of Arthur A. Noyes and Linus Pauling; graduate work in physics at Princeton University, especially molecular beam research with Karl T. Compton, Edward U. Condon and Robert J. Van de Graaff; career with the Physics Department and the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and relationship with Ernest O. Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer; World War II research on radar, sonar and the automic bomb; postwar development of accelerators; and receipt of the Nobel prize in 1951.

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McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Nobel prizewinning physicist, inventor of the cyclotron and the founder and first director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was born on August 8, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota. His parents Carl Gustavus and Gunda Jacobson Lawrence were the children of Norwegian immigrants. Ernest Lawrence attended St. Olaf College and later the University of South Dakota, where he received his A.B. degree in 1922. He had originally thought to become a medical doctor, ...

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Born in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 1901. Died on 19 August 1994. Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State College (1922), Ph.D., Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1926 National Research Council; 1926-1927 Universities of Münich, Zürich, and Copenhagen; 1922-1969 California Institute of Technology; 1969- Stanford University; 1973-1979 Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. From the descr...

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...