Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) audiotape collection, 1946-1991 [sound recordings].

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Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) audiotape collection, 1946-1991 [sound recordings].

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Recordings of university-sponsored events featuring speakers and performers. Includes recordings from various sources: the Assembly Series which brought over 850 prominent figures from academia, the arts, the sciences, politics, government, and religion to the campus between 1946 and 1981; recordings from other Washington University archival collections; also from various conferences, lecture series, and symposia: Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecture, Charles Eames Symposium, Symposium on Chemical and Biological Warfare--Science and Government, Physics Department Lecture; Physics Department Faculty Fellows Program Lecture, among others. Scientists in physics and allied fields include: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Arthur Holly Compton, Lee Alvin DuBridge, Eugene Feenberg, Bernard Taub Feld, William Alfred Fowler, Willard F. Libby, Bernard Lovell, Henry Margenau, George Pake, William Grosvenor Pollard, Cyril S. Smith, P. Roy Vagelos, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler, and James Van Allen, among others.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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