Valasek, Joseph, 1897-1993
Oral history interview with Joseph Valasek, 1969 May 8.
Family background, early schooling; undergraduate studies at Case Institute of Technology; B.S., 1917; assistant physicist at National Bureau of Standards, 1917-1919; research on piezoelectricity of sodium chlorate and bromate; World War I work in pyrometry and optical glass manufacture; graduate studies at University of Minnesota; M.A., 1921; teaching assistant, 1919-1920; Ph.D., 1921; instructor of physics, 1920-1921; member of physics faculty; research on ferroelectricity of rochelle salt crystals and location of Curie Points; x-ray spectroscopy research at Upsala universitet, Sweden, 1928-1929; comments on nuclear physics at University of Minnesota.
Valasek, Joseph, 1897-1993
Case Institute of Technology.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
University of Minnesota.
Uppsala universitet.
Curie temperature.
Ferroelectricity.
Glass, optical.
Nuclear physics.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Piezoelectricity.
Pyrometry.
Solid state physics.
World War, 1914-1918.
X-ray spectroscopy.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Transcripts. aat
Stuewer, Roger H., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA