Research material and interviews from Dr. Gelber's book: Politics and Public Higher Education in New York State: Stony Brook, A Case History. Physicists included among the interviews are: Oakes Ames, Chairman, Dept. of Physics and Assistant to President Toll during the 1970s (Interview date: 7-28-87, tapes and transcript); Max Dresden, Professor of Physics and Executive Officer, Institute of Theoretical Physics (Interview date: 8-24-87, tapes and transcript); Leonard Eisenbud, first Chairman of Physics Dept. (Interview date: 3-21-87, tapes and transcript); Arnold Feingold, Professor, Dept. of Physics and first Dean of the Graduate School (Interview date: 11-28-88, tapes and transcript); David Fox, Professor of Physics and former Dean of the Graduate School (Interview date: 12-1-88, tapes and transcript); C. N. Yang, Einstein Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nobel Laureate (Interview date: 12-15-87, tapes and transcript).