Clips of my life, n.d.

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Clips of my life, n.d.

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Autobiography written for family. Includes memories of growing up in Texas; student days at the University of California, Berkeley and work at the Radiation Laboratory with Ernest O. Lawrence, Luis Alvarez, and J. Robert Oppenheimer during and after World War II; the Manhattan Project; Los Alamos National Laboratory; cyclotron work. Contains family photographs; technical discussions and diagrams of research and work on neutrinos; letter from the author.

139 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

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Wright, Byron T. (Byron Terry), 1917-

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Nuclear physicist; professor of physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1956-. From the description of Clips of my life, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82576194 ...