Scientific autobiography, 1968.

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Scientific autobiography, 1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84507308

The document chronicles Jesse's early childhood influences and education; his studies at the University of Missouri in engineering; his brief period of employment at Westinghouse Machine Company in East Pittsburgh after obtaining his graduate degree in engineering; his return to graduate school at the University of Missouri in physics under Harvey C. Rentschler; his World War I Army service; dissertation work begun at the University of Chicago under Robert Millikan and Albert A. Michelson and finished at Yale University; teaching at Lehigh University; two years working with William Bragg at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory and the Royal Institution in London; a review of his research papers, including his work with Arthur H. Compton's group at the University of Chicago, which included Bruno Rossi, Marcel Schein, Ernest O. Wollan, and Donald Hughes; and a brief discussion, entitled: How One Gets Ideas in Research.

12 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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