Oral history interview with Clyde Edward Wiegand, 1977 September 26.

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Oral history interview with Clyde Edward Wiegand, 1977 September 26.

Family background, early education, and science-technology interests in Oregon; Willamette College and radio electronics; contacts with Ernest O. Lawrence; career as graduate student at University of California at Berkeley, 1941-1949; war work at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; security; attitudes toward Trinity test and Hiroshima; postwar political involvement; accelerators and general comments on postwar physics. Also prominently mentioned are: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emilio Gino Segrè, Joseph Weinberg, William Williams; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, United States Army, United States Atomic Energy Commission, and University of California at Berkeley. Interview conducted by Bruce R. Wheaton, 26 September, 1977.

Transcript, 33 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8307366

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