Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Oldenberg, Otto, 1888-1983

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Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe

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Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923

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Electrical engineer and inventor. From the description of Papers, 1922. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50753002 Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that ena...

Purdue University

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Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

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Pysicists (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet (1922-1923); Universität Hamburg (1923-1928); and Eidgenössische Ttechnische Hochschule Zürich (1928-1958); and visiting professor, Institute for Advanced Study (1935-1936, and from 1940). From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83030815 Physicist (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet, 1922-19...

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

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United States. Office of Naval Research

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The original "Survey of large-scale computers and computer projects" was published by the Office of Naval Research in 1947 and 1948. It was revised and updated in 1950 under the title, HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DEVICES (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950). This work was contracted out to the Minneapolis, Minn., firm of Engineering Research Associates and was an attempt to survey the state of computer technology at a time when the Navy was weighing the possibility of supporting the development of the electro...

Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Coastal Command

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United States. President's Science Advisory Committee

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This committee operated between 1951 and 1973 in order to provide advice and analysis to the president and the federal government on a wide range of scientific and technological matters. From the description of Records [microform], 1957-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80053197 In 1951 President Harry S. Truman established a Science Advisory Committee as part of the Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM). On November 29, 1957 Preisent Dwight D. Eisenhower tran...

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

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Van Vleck died in 1980. From the description of Nobel Prize and Lorentz Medal information, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78291608 From the description of The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83857765 Physicist. Died in 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1966 February 28 and 1973 January 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77805000 J. H. Van ...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

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The National Academy of Sciences, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1863, grew out of a desire for a body of scientists to give advice on scientific matters to the federal government. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was a force behind its creation. From the description of National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1887 Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78403445 ...

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725915 From the description of Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725931 From the description of Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record...

Lark-Horovitz, K. (Karl), 1892-1958

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Physicist (solid-state physics, nuclear physics, semiconductors) and educator. International Research Council fellow (1925-1928); on the faculty of Universität Wien (1919-1925); Stanford University (1927-1928); Purdue University: physics department (1928-1958), director of its physical laboratory (1929-1958), and department chair (1931-1958). From the description of Correspondence with William Francis Gray Swann, 1932-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80451920 From the d...

Sopka, Katherine Russell

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Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

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John (Johann) Louis von Neumann (1903-1957) was born in Budapest and showed early signs of being a child prodigy. He entered the University of Budapest in 1921, but also attended the University of Berlin and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology before obtaining a degree in chemical engineering in 1925. He earned his Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Budapest in 1927. After graduation, he worked at the University of Berlin before becoming a visiting professor to Princeton from ...

Bloch, Felix, 1905-....

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Felix Bloch : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512732 Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1981 December 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80093456 From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1968 August 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81162102 From the description of Oral hi...

Chaffee, Emory Leon

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Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

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Kenneth T. Bainbridge (1904-1996), the first George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University (1934-1975), was one of the leading scientists of his generation. He was a noted authority in the field of mass spectroscopy and the application of mass spectrographs as research tools. He designed and built the first cyclotron at Harvard University, participated in the development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II, and oversaw the test explosion of the first ...

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Ramsey : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723266 Physicist. Higgins professor of physics, Harvard University, from 1966. From the description of Materials on the history of magnetic resonance. 1983-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79200209 ...

Hansen, W. W. (William Webster), 1909-1949

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Physicist (microwave electronics). Professor of Physics and Director of the Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University, 1929-1949. From the description of Notes on lectures given at M.I.T., 1941-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617786 William Webster Hansen was Professor of Physics and Director of the Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University, 1929-1949. From the description of William Webster Hansen papers, 1928-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7548...

Purcell, Edward M.

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Physicist; interviewee b.1912. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Mills Purcell : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376599 Vital dates, 1912-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82576526 From the description of Oral history interview with Edward M. Purcell, 1982 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Giauque, William F. (William Francis), 1895-1982

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Oort, Jan Hendrik

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Astronomer (galactic structure, interstellar gas, comets). (1900-1992). Astronomer at and, from 1945, Director of the Leiden Observatory; on the faculty of University of Leiden from 192; established observational verification of galactic rotation; one of the authors of the Oort-Lindbald theory of differential galactic rotation; initiator, with Baade, of the European Southern Observatory; general secretary of the International Astronomical Union from 1935-1948, and president from 1958-1961. ...

University of California (1868-1952)

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...

Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden

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Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

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Dicke was born in 1916; died in 1997. From the description of Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83716264 ...

American physical society

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This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Study was commissioned by the American Physical Society on November 20, 1983 to evaluate the status of the science and technology of DEW. A study group was formed by Novembe...