Taylor, Lauriston S. (Lauriston Sale), 1902-2004
Oral history interview with Lauriston Taylor, 1990 April 10 by Elio Passaglia.
Lauriston Taylor discusses the effects that the loyalty oaths and security clearances had on the Bureau prior to and during the McCarthy era. Elio Passaglia talks about the information he is gathering to write a chapter in his book (A Unique Institution) on McCarthyism. Taylor begins and ends this history with reflections on Edward Condon and some of the problems he faced at the Bureau and why he left the organization.
Physicist (radiation measurement and protection, ionization of liquids, variable time oscillators). On staff of National Bureau of Standards from 1927; chief, x-ray section (1940-1949), chief, proving grounds sections (1941-1942), assistant chief, ordnance development division (1942-1943), assistant chief, optics division, later atomic physics division (1948-1951), chief, Radiation Physics Lab (1949-1951), chief, atomic and radiation physics division (1951-1960), chief, radiation physics division (1960-1962), associate director (1962-1965). Special assistant to the president, National Academy of Sciences from 1965.
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974.
McCarthyism.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
Taylor, Lauriston S. (Lauriston Sale), 1902-2004
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