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Gutenberg, Hertha, 1897-1990
Oral history interview with Hertha Gutenberg, 1980 February 6-13.
In this interview, Hertha Gutenberg recalls her early years with her late husband, Beno Gutenberg, in Darmstadt during the Weimar Republic and their efforts to help friends and his former students to come to the United States during the rise of Nazism. She comments on life at Caltech in the 1930s under Robert A. Millikan and the changes that occurred with the arrival of Lee A. DuBridge as Caltechs president in 1946. She recalls her husbands meteorological work for the U.S. Navy during the Second World War and his visit to Japan just after the war at the Navys behest to investigate possible atomic bomb research there. She recalls the difficulties of adjusting to life in America in the 1930s, her eventual participation in various campus volunteer activities, and her travels with her husband to Turkey and to Israel in the 1950s. The interview concludes with her memories of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Einstein, who became friends of the Gutenbergs during their visits to Caltech in the early 1930s.
Hertha Gutenberg (1897-1990). Widow of the seismologist Beno Gutenberg, who directed Caltech's Seismological Laboratory from 1946 to 1957. Both were born in Darmstadt, Germany, and they married there just after World War I. Beno Gutenberg, who received his PhD from GtĖ˛tingen in 1911, made the first correct determination of the radius of the Earths core.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994-
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Einstein, Elsa, 1876-1936
Gutenberg, Beno, 1889-1960
Gutenberg, Hertha, 1897-1990
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
California Institute of Technology -- Faculty.
United States. Navy
Meteorology -- Research.
Terrall, Mary interviewer
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