American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2008: Saint Louis, Mo)
Manhattan Project and beyond [video recording]: remembering Los Alamos, April 2008.
Audio recording of session E15 of the April 2008 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in St. Louis, Missouri. This session was sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics, chaired by Jeffrey Dunham of Middlebury College. This is a recording of the first speaker, E. Leonard Jossem, and his talk "Remembering Los Alamos." Also included with the recording are copies of the slide show used in the presentation, as well as copies of books offered as souvenirs to attendees ("Our Atomic World," by Los Alamos Scientists (1946); "The Atomic Bomb," by the Atomic Scientists of Chicago (1946); and the "60th Anniversary of Trinity: First Manmade Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 - Public Symposium)," National Academy of Sciences, 2005).
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Jossem, E. Leonard,
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Physics -- Congresses.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Video recordings. aat
Jossem, E. Leonard,
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA