Oral history interview with G. Ross Lomanitz, 2001.

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Oral history interview with G. Ross Lomanitz, 2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84584788

Topics include: growing up in Oklahoma and receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma in the spring of 1940; enrollment in the University of California, Berkeley in 1940 to pursue a PhD in theoretical physics under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer; working at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley on topics related to the production of atomic weapons; activity in trying to organize a union in the workplace; drafted into the Army in 1943 despite the concern of men such as Ernest Lawrence and Oppenheimer who tried to get him a deferrment to work on war projects; his appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities regarding his activities at the Radiation Laboratory; his indictement for contempt of Congress in 1950 (later found not guilty), his blacklisting from academic work. The interview focuses primarily on the period of 1940 through the mid-1950s when he faced many problems that resulted from his political views and his appearance before the HUAC.

Sound recording: 6 cassettes.Transcript: 109 pp,

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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