Oral history interview with Robert Herman Silsbee, 1982 March 29.

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Oral history interview with Robert Herman Silsbee, 1982 March 29.

Way to physics; Ph.D. at Harvard University with Harvey Brooks; work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cornell University. Color centers in alkalai halides. Solid state group at Cornell established by Robert Sproull and James Krumhansl.

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