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Physics -- History -- 20th century.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Friedman, Jerome I. interviewed by John Hockenberry, 2011 March 10

 File — Digitalstorage 2014_049acc-c9afa5d9-db48-4a5e-89a1-cc597bca79c2
Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Series: This series contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 2007 and 2012 for the MIT 150th anniversary Infinite History project. Transcripts are digital-only. Interviewed individuals include: Harold (Hal) Abelson, Deborah G. Ancona, Karen W. Arenson, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lotte Bailyn, David L. Baltimore, Cynthia Barnhart, Angela M. Belcher, Leo L. Beranek, Suzanne Berger, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Donald L.M. Blackmer, Gene M. Brown, Vladimir...
Dates: 2011 March 10

Ketterle, Wolfgang interviewed by John Hockenberry, 2011 February 14

 File — Digitalstorage 2014_049acc-c9afa5d9-db48-4a5e-89a1-cc597bca79c2
Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Series: This series contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 2007 and 2012 for the MIT 150th anniversary Infinite History project. Transcripts are digital-only. Interviewed individuals include: Harold (Hal) Abelson, Deborah G. Ancona, Karen W. Arenson, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lotte Bailyn, David L. Baltimore, Cynthia Barnhart, Angela M. Belcher, Leo L. Beranek, Suzanne Berger, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Donald L.M. Blackmer, Gene M. Brown, Vladimir...
Dates: 2011 February 14

Ting, Samuel C.C. interviewed by Chris Boebel, 2012 January 24

 File — Digitalstorage 2014_049acc-c9afa5d9-db48-4a5e-89a1-cc597bca79c2
Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Series: This series contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 2007 and 2012 for the MIT 150th anniversary Infinite History project. Transcripts are digital-only. Interviewed individuals include: Harold (Hal) Abelson, Deborah G. Ancona, Karen W. Arenson, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lotte Bailyn, David L. Baltimore, Cynthia Barnhart, Angela M. Belcher, Leo L. Beranek, Suzanne Berger, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Donald L.M. Blackmer, Gene M. Brown, Vladimir...
Dates: 2012 January 24

Typescript of "A Physicist of the Lucky Generation," by John C. Slater

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0189
Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection consists of a typescript copy of John Clarke Slater's autobiographical manuscript, "A Physicist of the Lucky Generation," a detailed account of his family history and early professional life up to 1920, and his association with Harvard and decision to take a faculty and administrative position at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology in 1930.

Dates: circa 1975

Victor Frederick Weisskopf papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0572
Abstract The collection documents the professional life and career of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908-2002) from the 1920s through 2002. Educated in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, Weisskopf made contributions to the quantum theory of radiative transitions, the self-energy of electrons, the electrodynamic properties of the vacuum, and the theory of nuclear reactions. In 1943, several years after his move to the United States, Weisskopf was invited to join the Manhattan Project, where he served as...
Dates: 1922 - 2002

Wilczek, Frank interviewed by Barbara Moran, 2011 October 27

 File — Digitalstorage 2014_049acc-c9afa5d9-db48-4a5e-89a1-cc597bca79c2
Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Series: This series contains transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 2007 and 2012 for the MIT 150th anniversary Infinite History project. Transcripts are digital-only. Interviewed individuals include: Harold (Hal) Abelson, Deborah G. Ancona, Karen W. Arenson, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lotte Bailyn, David L. Baltimore, Cynthia Barnhart, Angela M. Belcher, Leo L. Beranek, Suzanne Berger, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Donald L.M. Blackmer, Gene M. Brown, Vladimir...
Dates: 2011 October 27