| Title: |
Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A5
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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 and early research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, and the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England; teaching and research at Harvard, 1934; creation of National Defense Research Committee Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940; technical mission to England on radar development, 1941; Los Alamos, 1943: security problems, testing first atom bomb, 1945; use of the bomb; May-Johnson and MacMahon bills; Federation of Atomic Scientists, Joseph McCarthy investigations. Impression of Karl Compton, Henry D. Smyth, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 150 leaves, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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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: |
Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins, 1904-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1904
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| Speaker occupation: |
Physicist
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| Age at speaking: |
56
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| Document date: |
1960
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| Interviewer: |
Safford, Joan
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| Organizations discussed: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Atomic bomb; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; National security; Nuclear energy; Oral history; Physicists; Physics
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins, 1904-; Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Radiation Laboratory; Nuclear physics; Nuclear warfare--Social aspects
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018287-13730
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