Oral history interview with Stanley Martin Flatté, 1986 July 2.

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Oral history interview with Stanley Martin Flatté, 1986 July 2.

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Childhood in Los Angeles; study of physics at California Institute of Technology; graduate school at University of California at Berkeley, Ph. D. with Lynn Stevenson in particle physics, 1966, simultaneous geophysics project on shifting area level; early publications (1965, 1967); postdoctoral research at Berkeley, 1966-1970; building Beam Line at Stanford Linear Acceleration Center with Joe Murray, Sidney Drell; modified bubble chamber, cusp phenomenon; cosmic rays, 1967-1970; with Bill Toner and Ted Zipf at SLAC. Consulting for Defense Department; official membership in JASON, 1970, as part of recruitment effort for young experimentalists; appointment at University of California at Santa Cruz, 1971; structure and hierarchy of JASON. Involvement with JASON projects: impact on ABM treaty of Soviet air defense becoming missile defense, 1970, (Drell); anti-submarine warfare project with Walter Munk and Kenneth Watson, fluctuation of oceanic acoustics, 1974; devised computer program based on parabolic equation. Preference for technical problems over considerations of U.S. policy; appraisal of JASON's impact on U.S. policy; problems of secrecy, integration of interests with academic community; work at La Jolla Center for Non-linear Dynamics. Also prominently mentioned is: Luis Alvarez.

Transcript, 31 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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