Serber, R. (Robert)
Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1996 November 26.
Discusses his early career and his relationship with Oppenheimer, his work at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and later, the development of the hydrogen bomb. Prominently mentioned are: Norris Edwin Bradbury, Emil Konopinski, Ernest O. Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Robert R. Wilson.
Robert Serber (1909-1997). Physicist (Nuclear physics). Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1934. University of California, Berkeley, 1934-38 and 1945-51; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1938-45; Manhattan Project, 1942-45; Columbia University, 1957-77; Emeritus Professor of physics, Columbia University 1977-1997.
Bradbury, Norris, 1909-1997.
Konopinski, Emil Jan, 1911-
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Serber, R. (Robert)
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000-
Atomic bomb -- History.
Hydrogen bomb -- History.
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Physicists -- Interviews.
Fitzpatrick, Anne Claire, 1968- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA