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Seagondollar, L. Worth
Worth Seagondollar talk on the Manhattan Project [sound recording], 2007 July 24.
Dr. Worth Seagondollar shares fascinating (and sometime humorous) accounts of his experiences living and working in the secret Manhattan District laboratory. This talk includes a discussion of nuclear physics, recollections of work on the Manhattan Project, and an eye-witness description of the 1945 plutonium fission devise explosion at the Trinity site (New Mexico). Other topics include: hearing talks by Nobel Laureates; participating in nuclear experiments leading up to the test explosion; anecdontes of near-catastrophic accidents and working under the watch of an armed guard; witnessing the work of physicists such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi. Also includes a description of three days in the New Mexico desert, a description of the early morning nuclear explosion at the Trinity Site, and a description of that site thirty days later.
Lewis Worth Seagondollar: PhM (1943) and PhD (1948) in physics, University of Wisconsin. Manhattan Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1944-1946); University of Kansas (1947-1965); North Carolina State University (1965-1991), chair of physics (1965-1975), professor emeritus; co-founder of the Society of Physics Students; Radiation Safety Officer, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, North Carolina.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Seagondollar, L. Worth
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.
Nobel Prize winners
Nuclear physics -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Physics -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Trinity Test.
Trinity Site (N.M.)
Sound recordings lcgft
American Institute of Physics.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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