Oral history interview with Kenneth Ruddock, 1984 January 18.

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Oral history interview with Kenneth Ruddock, 1984 January 18.

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Designing magnetometers at Varian. Early non-laser "bread-and-butter" development projects for Spectra-Physics. Laser rangefinders for airborne commercial application. The Spectra-Physics geodolite; applications to geologic surveys, mapping of Arctic ice; aircraft and missile tracking; ocean wave heights.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Ruddock, Kenneth.

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Varian Associates.

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In 1989 Varian Associates established an oral history project. The primary objective of the project was to document the management philosophies that shaped the Varian organization and to provide insights into how those philosophies contributed to the company's evolution. The secondary objective was to record how the company's principal product lines evolved and their significance. The first phase of the project focused on the period prior to the formation of Varian Associates throught 1969. The ...

Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...