Nuclear reminiscences [motion picture]. 1968.

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Nuclear reminiscences [motion picture]. 1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82949100

A lecture by Léon Rosenfeld of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics, Copenhagen, recorded at the American Physical Society Section Symposium, State University of New York at Albany. Rosenfeld, a colleague of many of the major figures in nuclear physics, shares his recollections of their contributions to the development of the field. Those mentioned are: Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, George Gamow, Otto Hahn, Fritz Houtermans, Lise Meitner, and Ernest Rutherford.

1 film reel (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968

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Chadwick, James, 1891-1974

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Gamow, George, 1904-1968

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Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

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Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

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Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974

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