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Langer, Lawrence Marvin, 1913-2000
Oral history interview with Lawrence M. Langer, 1982.
The Manhattan Project and World War II Oral History Project provides a close look at the research conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. The interviewees, Emil Konopinski and Lawrence Langer, are both former physics professors at Indiana University who were heavily involved with the Manhattan Project.
Lawrence Langer discusses his involvement building the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He talks about completing his schooling during the Great Depression and the circumstances surrounding his arrival at Indiana University. Dr. Langer reflects on his contribution to the Manhattan Project as an experimental physicist. Other subjects include: Luis Alvarez, Enrico Fermi, Emil Jan Konopinski, Allan Mitchell, J. Robert Oppenheimer, work at Tinian, the Enola Gay, bombing at Nagasaki, cyclotron research.
Professor, Indiana University Department of Physics; radar project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1941); Los Alamos National Laboratory, group leader on the atomic bomb project.
Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988-
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Konopinski, Emil Jan, 1911-
Langer, Lawrence Marvin, 1913-2000
Mitchell, Allan C. G. (Allan Charles Gray), 1902-
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Enola Gay (Bomber)
Indiana University -- Faculty.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Atomic bomb
Atomic theory.
Depressions -- 1929.
Cyclotrons -- Research.
Hydrogen bomb.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment -- August 6, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment -- August 9, 1945.
Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands)
Sellers, Vincent, 1956- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
Indiana University. Office of University Archives and Records Management. Bryan Hall 201, 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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