| Title: |
Reminiscences of Norman Ramsey
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A106
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Education, Columbia; Depression; Cambridge University, England; research with I.I. Rabi, Enrico Fermi; National Defense Research Committee radiation laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; England, 1941; security problems; radar; Manhattan Project, 1943; Los Alamos; discussions on use of bomb and possible targets; Trinity test; Tinian; estimates of damage, Hiroshima; Brookhaven; Harvard; Congressional investigations; Harold Velde and Joseph McCarthy hearings; area rule; appearance on "Meet the Press," subsequent meeting with Senator McCarthy; contempt citations; Kamen trial; Robert Oppenheimer case; Gray Board; science adviser, North Atlantic Treaty Organization; impressions of General Leslie Groves, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Edward Teller.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 358 leaves, Tape: 3 reels
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part IV, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1960 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Ramsey, Norman, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1915
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| Speaker occupation: |
Physicist
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| Age at speaking: |
45
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| Document date: |
1960
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| Interviewer: |
Safford, Joan Bainbridge
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| Organizations discussed: |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
National security--United States; North America; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Nuclear weapons; Oral history; Physicists; Physics; United States; United States--Politics and government--1945-; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Manhattan Project; Ramsey, Norman, 1915-; World War, 1939-1946--Science
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0016898-12341
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