| Title: |
Reminiscences of Warren Weaver
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A130
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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: |
Childhood and family background, Wisconsin; education, University of Wisconsin; World War I Signal Corps; graduate work and teaching; views on home, family, work, religion, collecting ALICE IN WONDERLAND; Division of Natural Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, 1932; experimental biology programs; Paris office, Rockefeller Foundation; European travel; detailed discussion of foundation programs and procedures; World War II: National Defense Research Committee, 1940-46: range finders, fuses, bomb sights, gun directors, electrical predictors, computers; Applied Mathematics Panel; England, 1941; sequential testing; machine translations; Rockefeller agricultural work in Latin America and India; European refugee scientists; Vice President for Natural and Medical Sciences; Sloan-Kettering Institute; Sloan Foundation; security problems and procedures; science writing and reporting; impressions of Robert Millikan, Max Mason, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Raymond Fosdick, Linus Pauling, George W. Beadle, Harold Urey, Ernest Lawrence, Henry Tizard, John Cockcroft, Norbert Wiener, Niels Bohr, Alfred P. Sloan.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 783 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 1961 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1894
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| Speaker occupation: |
Foundation executive; Mathematician
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| Age at speaking: |
67
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| Document date: |
1961
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| Interviewer: |
Land, Barbara
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| Organizations discussed: |
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY
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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: |
Agriculture--International cooperation; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Endowment of research; Executives; North America; Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY; Science; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Book collecting; Mathematicians; Sloan Foundation; United States--National Defense Research Committee; Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019132-14575
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