Oral history interview with James Gordon, 1983 November 4.

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Oral history interview with James Gordon, 1983 November 4.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82862788

Recollections of Gordon's thesis work under Charles H. Townes on operating the ammonia beam maser and its use as a spectrometer; the construction of a second maser, 1951-1954.

Preliminary transcript.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Physicist. Member of technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1939-1947; professor of physics, Columbia University, 1948-1961; physics dept. chairman, director of radiation laboratory, and provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1967; University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1967. From the description of Memoranda from Bell Telephone Laboratories concerning applications of microwave spectroscopy (1946); letters from Townes to Joan Br...