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Oral history interview with Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, 1962 May 10.

by Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992.

Subject -- Corporate:

Trinity Mathematical Society

University of Cambridge.

Subject -- Personal Name:

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Dennison, David M, (David Mathias- 1900-1976-

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944.

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952.

Larmor, Joseph

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.

Pollard, William G. (William Grosvenor), 1911-1989

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.

Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Subject -- Genre Term:

Subject -- Occupations:

Physicists -- Interviews.

Description:

Transcript: 16 pages.

Audio recording: 2 7 inch reels, 1.5 hours.

Use and Reproduction :

Oral History Interview may be read by any researcher with an approved 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/guides/ahqp/ (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-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4729 (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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, David Mathias Dennison, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Enrico Fermi, Ralph Fowler, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Werner Heisenberg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Joseph Larmor, Wolfgang Pauli, William Grosvenor Pollard, Arnold Sommerfeld, George Eugène Uhlenbeck; University of Cambridge, and Trinity Mathematical Society.

Notes:

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

Interview conducted by Thomas S. Kuhn and George Uhlenbeck, 10 May 1962.

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

10" reel. Bethesda, Md. : Cutting Corp., 2001. 2 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.

Notes -- Local:

Included in the American Institute of Physics' International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences.

Finding Aid:

Includes name index.

Added Author:

Kuhn, Thomas S. interviewer.

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988. interviewer.

AIP-ICOS

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

NBL System Identifier:

4729

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

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