Oral history interview with Joseph A. Burton, 1974 July 22.

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Oral history interview with Joseph A. Burton, 1974 July 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82626039

Interview covers changes in the organization of physics research departments at Bell Laboratories during the period of Burton's career, from 1938-1958. Childhood and educational background. Early years at Bell Labs; study of photo-electron emission; history of relationship between telephone company and television; work on radar bomb sights during World War II; origins of solid state physics research at Bell Labs; postwar organization and conditions there, design of physical layout of building 1; how Burton became director of semiconductor research; delay of 1929 expansion by Stock Market crash.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 2.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 13 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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