Responses to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

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Responses to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

Responses to a survey of Fellows of the Nuclear Physics Division of the American Physical Society (APS), conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics in 1988. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences in their research, their work as educators, and their involvement in physics-related organizations. File includes responses from: Thomas Kennedy Alexander, Norman Austern, Robert Harold Bassel, Walter Benenson, Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Donald Delbert Clayton, Sperry Eugene Darden, David John Ernst, Richard Walter Fink, Sherwood Kimball Haynes, Ernest Mark Henley, Robert Hofstadter, John Robert Huizenga, George J. Igo, Lloyd Godfrey Mann, James Horton McGuire, Jacobo Rapaport, John Michael Robson, Carl M. Shakin, Rodolfo Jose Slobodrian, James Kent Sprinkle Jr., Dorothy Wolcott Weeks, and Joseph Weneser.

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Henley, Ernest M.

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Henley was born in 1924. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523845 ...

Huizenga, John R. (John Robert), 1921-2014

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Benenson, Walter.

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Benenson was born in 1927. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81568958 ...

Fink, R. W. 1928-

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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...

Cameron, A.G.W. (Alastair Graham Walter), 1925-

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Cameron taught astronomy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alistair Graham Walter Cameron, 1959-1976 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973316 ...

Clayton, Donald D.

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Donald Delbert Clayton was born in 1935. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83383293 ...

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

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Physicist, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert L. Hofstadter : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684312 Hofstadter died in 1990. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81639533 Robert (Rubvin) Hofstadter was born in New York City, on February 5, 1915. He attended the City College of New York (CCNY) a...

Weneser, Joseph, 1922-...

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McGuire, J. H. (James Horton), 1942-

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Austern, Norman

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Norman was born in 1926. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78824396 Austern was born in 1926. From the description of Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81274254 ...