Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 to 1974 June 3.

California Institute of Technology

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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 ...

Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985

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Physicist. Research associate, University of California at Berkeley, 1941-1947; research associate, 1959-1961 and professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder from 1961. From the description of Speech to Berkeley Democratic Club (1945) and six other talks, 1945-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82803789 Frank Oppenheimer, B.S. (1932) Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. (1938) California Institute of Technology. Associate professor of physics at the University of Minn...

Serber, R. (Robert)

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Robert Serber (1909-1997). From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1974 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185691 From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84273860 From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1983 December 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81675116 Robert Serber (1909-1997). Physicist (Nuclear physics), Universi...

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

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Luis W. Alvarez (b. June 13, 1911, San Francisco, CA–d. September 1, 1988, Berkely, CA) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay ...

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...

Ginzton, Edward L. (Edward Leonard), 1915-1998

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Co-founder of Varian Associates and a pioneer in microwave tube technology and linear accelerator development. As a graduate student at Stanford during the 1930's, Ginzton joined Russell and Sigurd Varian and physics professors William W. Hansen and David L. Webster to develop the klystron tube, an integral part of radar and the linear accelerator concept. After working on radar systems during World War II, Ginzton returned to Stanford in 1946 as a professor of applied physics. He joined Hansen ...

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

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Physicist. Director of High Energy Physics Laboratory at Stanford University, 1953-1961; Director of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1961-1984. From the description of Oral history interview with Wolfgang Panofsky, 1996 July 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84043373 Professor of physics and director of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. From the description of Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1997 April 11 and May 2. (Unknown). W...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Varian Associates.

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In 1989 Varian Associates established an oral history project. The primary objective of the project was to document the management philosophies that shaped the Varian organization and to provide insights into how those philosophies contributed to the company's evolution. The secondary objective was to record how the company's principal product lines evolved and their significance. The first phase of the project focused on the period prior to the formation of Varian Associates throught 1969. The ...

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Material Testing Accelerator.

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Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968

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Lauritsen, C. C. (1892- 1968). Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1930-1962. From the description of Papers, 1927-1977 (Bulk 1946-1973) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80301645 Biography Charles Christian Lauritsen, known to his colleagues as Charlie or C. C., was born in Holstebro, Denmark in 1892 and educated at the Odense Technical School. During World War I, although Denmark officially remained n...

Harnwell, Gaylord.

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Wooldridge, Dean E., 1913-

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Physics, engineering;. Member of technical staff, Bell Laboratories, 1936-1946; Dir. electronic research and development, Hughes Aircraft Co, 1946-1953; Research Assoc. Engineering, California Institute of Technology, from 1962. Born, 1913; Died, 1985. From the description of Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82944288 ...

Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Weiner, Charles.

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Charles Irwin Weiner is an historian. From the guide to the Joseph Henry's lectures on natural philosophy: teaching and research in physics, 1832-1847, 1965, 1965, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Carl D. Anderson : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122564784 Epithet: of George G. Harrap, publishers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x00032b Anderson (1905-1991). Physicist, California Institute of Technology. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

University of Birmingham.

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Individual letters are regularly acquired, usually by purchase, to complement holdings of personal papers and institutional archives within the Special Collections Department.The letters are added to either a general sequence of autograph letters (described here) or one of a small number of separate sequences of autograph letters devoted to a particular individual. Reference: University of Birmingham, Guide to Special Collections Archives and Manuscripts (http://www.is.b...

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

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Physicist. Professor of physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1973; and staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971), 1934-1971, and its director from 1958-1973. Pioneer in development and application of the cyclotron. Died in 1991. From the description of Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660405 ...

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Nobel prizewinning physicist, inventor of the cyclotron and the founder and first director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was born on August 8, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota. His parents Carl Gustavus and Gunda Jacobson Lawrence were the children of Norwegian immigrants. Ernest Lawrence attended St. Olaf College and later the University of South Dakota, where he received his A.B. degree in 1922. He had originally thought to become a medical doctor, ...

Sagane, Ryäokichi, 1905-1969.

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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...

Phillips, Melba, 1907-2004

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Physicist (educator). Professor of physics, Brooklyn College, 1938-1952; professor of physics, University of Chicago, 1962-1972; president of American Association of Physics Teachers, 1966. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Kelchner Darrow primarily about program arrangements for joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers 1965-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84273844 ...

International conference on high energy physics

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Bechtel Corporation

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Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

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...

Townes, Charles Hard

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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...

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...

Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982

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Physical chemist. Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, 1959-1961. From the description of Diary, 1959-1960 (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84398466 George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-born American chemist. He was not only a renowned in academic circles, but was also a consultant, defense researcher, and public policy advisor. Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, Kistiakowsky was also a participan...

United States. Air Force Science Advisory Board.

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Hildebrand, Joel Henry, 1881-

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Professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley; president of the American Chemical Society; b. in Camden, N.J.; d. 1983. From the description of Papers, [19--]-[19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976019 Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand, 1974 March 11 to 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82391791 From the description of Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand,, 1962 August 6...

Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), b. 1887.

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Physicist (spectroscopy, statistics). On the physics faculty at Syracuse University, 1913-1918; University of California at Berkeley from 1918, department chair, 1933-1955; chairman of committee on physical constants, National Research Council, 1930-1937. From the description of Lectures by Niels Bohr and by R. T. Birge, 1922-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79125366 From the description of Comments on A. A. Michelson, 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82481619 ...

Fowler, William A.

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Fowler died in 1995. From the description of Phyphty years of phun and physics in the W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech, by Willy Phowler, 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82576561 (William A. Fowler 1911-1995). Physicist (nuclear physics, astrophysics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology (1939-1982); received the Nobel Prize in Physics with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekher in 1983 for his "theoretical and experimental studies of the nucle...

Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-1974

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Internationally reknowned astronomer and physicist at CalTech; then director of research, Aerojet Engineering Corporation. From the description of Report on certain phases of war research in Germany, 1947 Jan. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448303 Astrophysicist (supernovas, galaxies, and intergalactic matter, patents for jet propulsion). Ph.D. 1922 from Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Assistant and Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1927-19...

Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs.

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Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Stanford linear accelerator center

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SVs, VM - UNIX production at SLAC. System reportable Probtrack problems. From the description of Problem reporting and tracking system developed at SLAC, 1981-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863237 ...

Federation of American Scientists

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The Federation of American Scientists, a federation of seven associations of scientists and engineers, was organized in 1946 for the purpose of promoting world peace, international control of atomic energy, and the proper use of science for general welfare. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., FAS sought to influence government policy and educate the public concerning the social implications of new knowledge in science. From the description of Records, 1945-1970 (inclusive). (Universit...

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...

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912-

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Seaborg was born on Apr. 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, MI; AB, UCLA, 1934; Ph. D, UC Berkeley, 1937; research assoc. (1937-39), instructor (1939-41), asst. professor (1941-45), prof. of chemistry (1945-71), univ. professor beginning in 1971, UC Berkeley; director of plutonium work for Manhattan Project at Univ. of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (1942-46); head of Nuclear Chemistry Division (1946-58 and 1971-75), and assoc. director of laboratory, 1954-61 and again beginning in 1971, Lawrence Berkeley...

Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975

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Sproul was at this time the president of the University of California; according to Alma's letter, he was a personal acquaintance of General Mark Clark, the U.S. high commissioner in Austria in the immediate postwar period. Ida was Robert's wife. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864521 Personal correspondence and papers as President and President Emeritus of the U...

Green, Alex Edward Samuel, 1919-

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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

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Physicist. From the description of Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories, 1966-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935483 Alsatian-born American physicist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for physics. From the description of Typed letter signed : Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to Samuel Goudsmit, 1936 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270953107 Unpublished document written as chapter 13 of the Smyth Report. Letters about it ...