Oral history interview with Yanhua Shih and Morton Rubin, 2001 May 14.

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Oral history interview with Yanhua Shih and Morton Rubin, 2001 May 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84273799

Topics include: Yanhua Shih's early interest in physics and in Joseph Weber's experiments on gravitational waves; the Cultural Revolution in China delays Shih's studies; Shih's college studies in China and graduate work at the University of Maryland. His use of spontaneous parametric down conversion; the influence of contacts with Soviet physicsits. Shih takes a job at Baltimore County branch of the University of Maryland. Sheh and Morton Rubin elaborate their biphoton concept; their experiments to elucidate the concept; funding sources.

Sound recording: 2 cassette tapes.Transcript: 59 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Shih, Yanhua.

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Physicist, University of Maryland Baltimore County. From the description of Oral history interview with Yanhua Shih and Morton Rubin, 2001 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84273799 ...

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 ...