Oral history interview with Hubert J. Yearian, 1981 September 23.

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Oral history interview with Hubert J. Yearian, 1981 September 23.

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Years at Purdue University from 1928 to the present, with special emphasis on his work during World War II on germanium. Major topics include his childhood, how he came to Purdue, the cyclotron built at Purdue in the 1930s, his work on the DC properties of germanium rectifiers under Karl Lark-Horovitz, the transition to peacetime work, and his relationship with Karl Lark-Horovitz.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Yearian, Hubert J., 1905-

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Purdue University

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Lark-Horovitz, K. (Karl), 1892-1958

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Physicist (solid-state physics, nuclear physics, semiconductors) and educator. International Research Council fellow (1925-1928); on the faculty of Universität Wien (1919-1925); Stanford University (1927-1928); Purdue University: physics department (1928-1958), director of its physical laboratory (1929-1958), and department chair (1931-1958). From the description of Correspondence with William Francis Gray Swann, 1932-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80451920 From the d...

Henriksen, Paul B.

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