Tollestrup, Alvin.
Oral history interview with Alvin Virgil Tollestrup, 1994.
Interview covers Tollestrup's early life, education, and career as an experimental physicist. Includes reminiscences of Caltech's physics division and professors, including R. A. Millikan, W. Smythe, W.A. Fowler, C. C. Lauritsen, M. Gell-Mann, and R. Feynman; also the synchrotron team of R. Langmuir, M. Sands, R. Walker, and B. Rule.
Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1953-1977.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Fowler, William A.
Gell-Mann, Murray.
Langmuir, Robert V.
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968.
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Rule, Bruce H., 1908-1990.
Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)
Smythe, William Ralph, 1893-
Walker, R. L. (Robert Lee), 1919-2005
California Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics -- Faculty.
Particles (Nuclear physics).
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Physicists -- Interviews.
Valone, David A. interviewer.
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