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Oral history interview with Rudolph Minkowski, 1962 April 1.

by Minkowski, Rudolph Leo Bernhard, 1895-1976.

Call Number:

OH329

Description:

Transcript: 19 pages.

Audio recording: 1 7 inch reel, 2 hours.

Use and Reproduction :

Oral History Interview may be read and quoted by any researcher with an access application on file, and excerpts may be copied.

Owning Repository:

American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Web Site:

http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/guides/ahqp/index.htm (Click here to view the published catalog, entitled Sources for the History of Quantum Physics, and an updated addendum of all the microfilm.)

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4780.html (Transcript)

Country of Repository:

USA

Scope of Material:

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Max Born, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Rudolf Walther Ladenburg, Otto Lummer, Wolfgang Pauli, Erwin Schrödinger; and Universität Breslau.

Notes:

Interview conducted by Thomas S. Kuhn and John L. Heilbron, April 1, 1962.

Interview conducted as part of the Archives for History of Quantum Physics (AHQP) project.

Remastered recordings and loan copies available at the American Philosophical Society.

10" reel. Bethesda, Md. : Cutting Corp., 2001. 6 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.

Finding Aid:

Includes name index.

Added Author:

Kuhn, Thomas S. interviewer.

Heilbron, J. L. interviewer.

AIP-ICOS

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics.

Physicists -- Interviews.

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