Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1975 January 31.

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Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1975 January 31.

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Attempts by Weisskopf, Szilard, and others to impose secrecy on fission research in early 1939; telegram to Hans von Halban, Jr.; description of Halban's father, chemist Hans von Halban, whom Weisskopf knew well at Zurich in the 1930s; comments on life in Zurich during the 1930s. Problems of a refugee in the Manhattan Project.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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