Physicist at Los Alamos, Berkeley professor, 1950-1989, and Nobel Laureate
By: Owen Chamberlain ; an interview conducted by Graham Hale in 1976. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hale, Graham.; Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.; Segrè, Emilio.; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.; Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.; Teller, Edward, 1908-2003.; Wiegand, Clyde Edward, 1915-; Los Alamos National Laboratory.; Physicists -- United States -- Interviews.; Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos.; Antiprotons -- Research.; Physics -- Research -- United States.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Physics oral history series.
Description: Childhood in San Francisco and Philadelphia; undergraduate education at Dartmouth, graduate work in physics at UC Berkeley; professors at Berkeley: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emilio Segrè, Ernest Lawrence; work on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II; physicists at Los Alamos: Enrico Fermi, Clyde Wiegand, Edward Teller; postwar graduate work at the University of Chicago; UC Berkeley Radiation Lab, and colleagues Bob Thornton, Ed Lofgren, Carl Helmholz, Raymond Birge, Luis Alvarez; Nobel Prize in physics, 1959, with Segrè for work on antiproton; involvement with anti-nuclear activism, late research in physics.