Some personal actions and reactions, 1971.

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Some personal actions and reactions, 1971.

A fairly detailed biographical sketch of Kirkpatrick's early years; his study at Occidental College; teaching physics at Hanchow Christian College in China; his return to California with World War I; his drafting by the army to technical training school in Berkeley; thesis at Berkeley; job in Hawaii and marriage; further research; fellowship to Cornell; return to Hawaii; appointment to faculty at Stanford University; research with P. A. Ross; development of the cyclotron, klystron, continuous x-ray microscopy, and holography; political, religious and social philosophies; and outstanding influences of several physicists, including David L. Webster, William Hansen, Felix Bloch, and Russell Varian.

94 pp.

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