Oral history interview with Joseph Valasek, 1969 May 8.

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Oral history interview with Joseph Valasek, 1969 May 8.

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Family background, early schooling; undergraduate studies at Case Institute of Technology; B.S., 1917; assistant physicist at National Bureau of Standards, 1917-1919; research on piezoelectricity of sodium chlorate and bromate; World War I work in pyrometry and optical glass manufacture; graduate studies at University of Minnesota; M.A., 1921; teaching assistant, 1919-1920; Ph.D., 1921; instructor of physics, 1920-1921; member of physics faculty; research on ferroelectricity of rochelle salt crystals and location of Curie Points; x-ray spectroscopy research at Upsala universitet, Sweden, 1928-1929; comments on nuclear physics at University of Minnesota.

Transcript, 26 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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