Letters to Spencer Weart, director of the Center for History of Physics, 1975-1978.

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Letters to Spencer Weart, director of the Center for History of Physics, 1975-1978.

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The letter from Stephen Brush (1978) describes work of Shou Chin Wang, concentrating upon his interaction with Peter Debye and the paper published in Physikalische Zeitschrift in 1927. The letter from Otto Frisch (1975) is autobiographical in nature. Stanislaw Mrozowski (1976) explains his work with W. Opechowski on neutron separation during fission, also the 1939 rejection of their article on the subject by NATURE. The letter from Richard B. Roberts (1976). describes early work on neutron emission.

4 letters.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics.

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The Center for History and Philosophy of Physics was established as a division of the American Institute of Physics in 1965 by the joining of the AIP's Project on the History of Recent Physics in the United States, which was started in 1961, and the Niels Bohr Library for History of Physics, which had opened in 1962. Its purpose is to aid in the efforts of scientists, historians, and archivists to document, investigate, and understand the nature and origin of developments in 20th century physics...

Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-

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Died 1979. From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83622710 From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1963 May 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79789841 ...

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics)

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...

Roberts, Richard B. (Richard Brooke), 1910-

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Biophysicist. Physicist and staff member of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1943-1963; staff member, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 1963-1979. From the description of Autobiography of Richard Brooks Roberts, 1910-1979, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81936566 Biophysicist. Died 1980. From the description of Papers, 1939-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84008679 Physicist and bio...