Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (157 page)

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Interviews
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Luis Alvarez, interviewed by Charles Weiner and Barry Richman, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (15 Feb. 1967):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4483_2.html

Robert Bacher, interviewed by Finn Aaserud at the California Institute of Technology (13 Feb. 1986):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/27979.html

Felix Bloch, interviewed by Charles Weiner, Stanford University, California (15 Aug. 1968):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4510.html

Edward U. Condon, interviewed by Charles Weiner in Boulder, Colorado 17 Oct. 1967, 27 April 1968 and 11 Sep. 1973):
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William A. Fowler, interviewed by Charles Weiner, Caltech (8 June 1972), Sessions I–V:
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4608_1.html

Otto Frisch, interviewed by:

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2. Charles Weiner, American Institute of Physics, New York City (3 May 1967):
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Wendell H. Furry, interviewed by Charles Weiner in Copenhagen (9 Aug. 1971):
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Oskar Klein, interviewed by Thomas S. Kuhn and John L. Heilbron in Copenhagen (25 Sep. 1962–16 July 1963):
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Willis Lamb, interviewed by Dr Joan Bromberg in Tucson, Arizona (7 March 1985):
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Rossi Lomanitz, interviewed by Shawn Mullet in Hawaii (26 July–18 Aug. 2001):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/24703_1.html

J. Robert Oppenheimer, interviewed by Thomas S. Kuhn in Princeton (18 Nov. 1963): not on line

Rudolf Peierls, interviewed by Charles Weiner in Seattle, Washington (11, 12 and 13 Aug 1969):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4816_1.html

Melba Phillips, interviewed by Katherine Russell Sopka (5 Dec. 1977):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4821.html

Robert Serber, interviewed by:

1. Charles Weiner and Gloria Lubkin at Columbia University (10 Feb. 1967):
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4878.html

2. Frederick Fellows at Columbia University (19 Dec. 1983):
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3. Anne Fitzpatrick in New York City (26 Nov. 1996):
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Carl Anderson, interviewed by Harriett Lyle (9 Jan.–8 Feb. 1979):
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William A. Fowler, interviewed by John Greenberg and Carol Bugé (3 May 1983–31 May 1984, 3 Oct. 1986)

Frank Oppenheimer, interviewed by Judith R. Goodstein (16 Nov. 1984)

Milton S. Plesset, interviewed by Carol Bugé (8 Dec. 1981)

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