Smithsonian Videohistory Program. The Manhattan Project oral history interviews [videorecording] / 1987-1990. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Smithsonian Videohistory Program

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Professor of astrophysics, Harvard University, and astrophysicist, Smithsonian-Harvard Center for Astrophysics, was universally regarded for her revolutionary work on the large-scale structure of the universe. The discovery by Geller, John Huchra and Valerie de Lapparent of the bubble structure of galaxies was argubly among the most important work in the late twentieth century. From the description of Margaret J. Geller oral history interviews [videorecording] / 1989-1990. (Unknown)....

Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Bernard Taub Feld : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737447 Biography through 1983 Bernard Taub Feld, high-energy nuclear physicist and notable member of the international arms control and disarmament community, was born to Louis and Helen (Taub) Feld on December 21, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York. He received his elementary and secondary educati...

Wattenberg, Albert, 1917-

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Professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From the description of Papers, 1964-1965. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28413130 From the description of Technical biography of Albert Wattenberg, 2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78457465 Wattenberg is a professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From the description of Centennial of the birth of Enrico Fermi [colloquium], 29...

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Serber, R. (Robert)

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Robert Serber (1909-1997). From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1974 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185691 From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84273860 From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1983 December 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81675116 Robert Serber (1909-1997). Physicist (Nuclear physics), Universi...

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

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Robert R. Bacher (1905-). Physicist (high-energy physics, nuclear energy), California Institute of Technology. From the description of Papers, 1940-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716582 Physicist. Cornell University, 1935. During World War II, worked in the radar program at the MIT Radiation Laboratory;Manhattan Project, Head of the Experimental Physics Division, 1943-1944, and head of the bomb physics division, 1944-1945;Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission f...

Agnew, Harold M.

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American physicist; member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory staff, 1943-1946. From the description of Harold Melvin Agnew motion picture film, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871134 ...

Larson, Clarence E. (Clarence Edward), 1909-

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Chemist Clarence E. Larson (1909-1999) was born in Cloquet, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Chemistry and completed his Ph.D. work at the University of California at Berkeley. Larson was one of the talented American scientists working on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Later he served as a director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and an executive at Union Carbide. Dr Larson was a recipient of the Dis...

Hornig, Donald F., 1920-2013

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Fourteenth president of Brown University, 1970-1976. From the description of Donald F. Hornig papers, 1970-1976. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122615900 Hornig was Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. From the description of 1960 Report of the President's Science Advisory Committee Ad Hoc Panel on Man-in-Space : letter to Eugene M. Emme, NASA Historian, 1968 Jul 12. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat rec...

Reines, Frederick, 1918-1998

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Frederick Reines was a particle physicist and educator internationally recognized for his verification of the existence of the neutrino and investigation of its properties. From the description of Frederick Reines papers, ca. 1931-1999. (University of California, Irvine). WorldCat record id: 43601433 Physicist (nuclear fission, free neutrinos, cosmic rays). From the description of Papers, 1956-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82630827 Physicist (nucl...

Morrison, Philip

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Physicist. Participant in the Manhattan Project. Affiliations: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1944-46; Cornell 1946-65; MIT 1965-2005. From the description of Oral History interview with Philip Morrison, 2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305417 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Philip Morrison and his wife, Phylis Morrison. From the description of Letters, 1974-1980, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873098 ...

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

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Robert Rathbun Wilson was born in 1914 in Frontier Wyoming, received an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, 1936, and after studying with Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence, a Ph. D. in 1940. He participated in an early effort led by Enrico Fermi at Columbia University to build a nuclear reactor as part of a joint effort with Princeton University, where he was a lecturer and assistant professor, 1940-1942. He worked for Princeton University's reactor project, 1941-19...

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

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Kenneth T. Bainbridge (1904-1996), the first George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University (1934-1975), was one of the leading scientists of his generation. He was a noted authority in the field of mass spectroscopy and the application of mass spectrographs as research tools. He designed and built the first cyclotron at Harvard University, participated in the development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II, and oversaw the test explosion of the first ...

Smith, Alice Kimball

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Historian, educator, and college administrator, Alice Kimball Smith (1907-2001) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, 1928 and Ph.D. from Yale University, 1936. She was married to Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian of technology in 1931. While her husband worked on the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, 1943-1946, Smith taught in the Los Alamos High School. Subsequently in Chicago Smith was assistant editor of The Bulletin of At...

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

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Physicist. From the description of Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories, 1966-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935483 Alsatian-born American physicist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for physics. From the description of Typed letter signed : Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to Samuel Goudsmit, 1936 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270953107 Unpublished document written as chapter 13 of the Smyth Report. Letters about it ...

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Ramsey : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723266 Physicist. Higgins professor of physics, Harvard University, from 1966. From the description of Materials on the history of magnetic resonance. 1983-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79200209 ...

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992, Metallurgist of Cambridge, Mass. Smith received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and taught there from 1961 until his retirement in 1969. His title of Institute Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and the History of Metallurgy, one rarely conferred and only on those whose work goes beyond traditional disciplines, reflects the high esteem in which he was held. Smith has had great influence on contemporary metalsm...

Hawkins, David, 1913-2002

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David Hawkins (1913-2002) grew up in New Mexico and went to Stanford University where he migrated from chemistry to physics to philosophy as an undergraduate before receiving a B.A. and M.A. in 1934 and 1936. While at Stanford, he met Frances Pockman. They married in 1937. At the University of California, Berkeley, as a Ph. D. graduate student in philosophy in 1940 and then an instructor in philosophy, Hawkins had friends among the students of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Through those students, he me...