Oral history interview with Henry Evelyn Derik Scovil, 1983 July 5.

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Oral history interview with Henry Evelyn Derik Scovil, 1983 July 5.

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Bell Laboratories research during 1956 leading to the operation of the first 3-level solid-state maser in Dec. 1956. Some steps toward the development of effective maser amplifiers. Some applications undertaken. Also prominently mentioned are: Bob DeGrasse, George Feher, Rudolf Kompfner, Connie LeCraw, Ed Ohm, Robert A. Penzias, and Ed Spencer.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 0.5 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 9 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Scovil, Henry Evelyn Derrick, 1923-

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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 ...