Oral history interview with Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, 1977 November 11 to 15.

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Oral history interview with Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, 1977 November 11 to 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84075328

Francis Perrin's and Frédéric Joliot-Curie's careers from 1910s through 1960s, with particular attention to the state of French science during World War I and after, and to French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), 1946-1952. This interview was held to discuss a draft of the first four chapters of Weart's book Scientists in Power. Part of the interview consists of Perrin's corrections and comments on various points in the draft, and part covers additional questions raised by Weart.

No transcript; notes, 7 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...