Responses to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1981.

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Responses to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1981.

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Responses to a survey of senior nuclear physicists selected with the advice of other eminent nuclear physicists, conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics in 1981. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their work during the Second World War, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences--especially high energy physics--in their research, their work as educators, their perceptions of the public's attitude towards science, and their involvement in physics-related organizations. File includes responses from: Norman Austern, Henry Herman Barschall, Louis Andrew Beach, William Ernest Burcham, James MacDonald Cassels, Arnold Franklin Clark, Clarence Sharp Cook, Samuel Crowe Curran, P. M. Endt, John Stiles Fraser, Joan M. Freeman, Piet Cornelis Gugelot, Alfred Olaf Hanson, William Alfred Higinbotham, John Albert Jungerman, Bernard Donald Kern, Motoharu Kimura, Ernest Donald Klema, George Andrew Kolstad, Lawrence Marvin Langer, Joseph S. Levinger, Robert Navarez Little, Fred Conrad Maienschein, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, John Armin McIntyre, Walter Ernst Meyerhof, G. Miyamoto, Susuma Morita, Mokichiro Nogami, Itaru Nonaka, Marion Llewellyn Pool, Hugh Taylor Richards, George Roy Ringo, Louis Rosen, Jesse Eugene Sherwood, Kenichi Shinohara, Lewis Slack, Arthur Hawley Snell, Eizo Tajima, Richard Ferdinand Tascheck, Adolf Frank Voight, Tetsuo Wakatsuki, Robert Stephen White, Lawrence Wilets, Leon J. Winard, and Paul Flohr Yergin.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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