Oral history interview with Frederick Calvin Brown, 1982 January 25.

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Oral history interview with Frederick Calvin Brown, 1982 January 25.

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Work on silver halides. Brief discussion of educational background; work on radar during World War II; dark trace tubes; his subsequent interests in solid state physics; the influence of Frederick Seitz's paper on silver halides; Brown's move to Illinois in 1955; the research of Jack Mitchell and the work done at Robert Pohl's school in Göttingen.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Universität Göttingen.

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Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

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Physicist. On the physics faculty at University of Rochester, 1935-1937; research physicist, General Electric Company, 1937-1939; on the physics faculty at University of Pennsylvania, 1939-1942; Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1942-1949; and University of Illinois, 1949-1965; president, National Academy of Sciences, 1962-1969; president, Rockefeller University, 1968-1978. From the description of Summary of 1987 conference: The Origins of Solid State Physics in Italy: 1945-1960, 198...

Szymborksi, Kris,

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Brown, Frederick C., 1924-

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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...