Oral history interview with Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, 1985 January 31.

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Oral history interview with Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, 1985 January 31.

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Part of the team at Aerospace Corporation that created the hydrogen fluoride cw (continuous wave) chemical laser (T. Jacobs). Detailed account of that research; internal politics. Comments on three independent Atomic Energy Commission proposals for laser isotope separation; brief description of Aerospace's flirtation with laser isotope separation. Contacts with foreign scientists (N.O. Basov, A.N. Oraevskij). Also prominently mentioned is: Donald J. Spencer.

Notes, 5 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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