Aspen Center for Physics
Aspen Center for Physics oral history interviews, 2004-2008.
The Aspen Center for Physics conducted a series of interviews with founders of the Center, as well as with notable physicists, starting in 1999 and continuing through 2008. Three of these DVDs contain video interviews documenting the history of the Aspen Center for Physics: "The Founding" (compiled for the 40th anniversary of the Center in 2002, then edited again in 2004), and "Pillars of the Aspen Center for Physics" and "Building Bethe Hall," both of which were made for the Center's Bethe Symposium in 2006. The fourth DVD, "Interview Archive Demo," is a sample for a future plan to edit and prepare all the interviews in this collection for archiving. This sample demo disc contains the interviews with Murray Gell-Mann, Stirling Colgate and Lincoln Wolfenstein. [NOTE: Neither "Pillars" or "Bethe Hall" is complete; these projects may be continued in 2009.]
The Aspen Center for Physics (then called the Aspen Institute for Theoretical Physics) was proposed 1961 as a part of the the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, to be a research center where theoretical physicists could gather in the summer for research and education. By the summer of 1962, the first building was complete and forty-five American and foreign physicists from twenty-two major institutions arrived to begin work. By 1968 the Center had gained a worldwide reputation as a unique environment for the pursuit of basic scientific knowledge and, with the support of the Aspen Institute, the Center became an independent non-profit corporation. Today the Center is part of the Aspen Meadows Campus, a unique and special community of artists, scholars and scientists.
Colgate, Stirling
Gell-Mann, Murray.
Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)
Aspen Center for Physics
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Interviews. aat
Video recordings. aat
Colgate, Stirling
Gell-Mann, Murray.
Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA