Aaserud, Finn
Finn Aaserud collection on Richard Garwin, 1962-2001.
Biographical materials on Richard Garwin, collected by Finn Aaserud in preparation for his oral history interviews with Garwin. Contains article reprints, correspondence and various materials describing Garwin's life and work.
Finn Aaserud: Ph.D., History of Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Director, Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Richard Garwin: Physicist; received Ph.D. in 1949, University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi. On Fermi's invitation, Garwin went to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950. At this time appointed faculty position at University of Chicago. In 1952 Garwin joined IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia University in a research capacity (until 1970), while consulting at Los Alamos and for the U.S. government on issues of military technology and arms control. Also an adjunct professor in physics at Columbia University, and a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Garwin, Richard L.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA