Oral history interview with William C. Schwartz, 1987 December 16.

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Oral history interview with William C. Schwartz, 1987 December 16.

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Schwartz worked on lasers at Martin Marietta's Orlando Division from 1961 to about 1968 and then founded, first, International Laser Systems (later Litton Laser Systems), and then Schwartz Electro-Optics. Here he discusses his responsibilities at Martin Marietta, and covers in detail Martin Marietta's development of laser target designators. Then he discusses the founding and the product lines of International Laser Systems.

1 session, no tape or transcript.Notes: 8 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Founded 1963, Martin Marietta Inc.; predecessor companies to 1913. Corporate interests include: defense/military systems; reconnaissance systems; telecommunications. From the description of Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80630241 ...

Schwartz, William C.

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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 ...