Lofgren, Edward J., 1908-
Oral history interview with Edward Joseph Lofgren, 2006 May 6, 13, and 20.
Lofgren discusses his early life; graduate work with Ernest Lawrence; work on Manhattan Project in 1944 with J. Robert Oppenheimer and others; reorganization at the Los Alamos Laboratory in fall 1944-spring 1945; the Trinity test in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico, July 16, 1945; post-war work at University of California Berkeley; work with Frank Oppenheimer on high-altitude cosmic ray research; work at Lawrence Livermore Lab; discussion of his testimony before the Atomic Energy Commission relative to his association with Communists, etc.; retirement in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
American physicist. He was an important figure in the breakthroughs that followed the creation of the Bevatron particle accelerator, of which he was the director for a time.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Lofgren, Edward J., 1908-
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Trinity Site (N.M.)
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Cosmic rays -- Research.
Nuclear physics -- Research.
Nuclear weapons -- Research -- United States.
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Troy, Timothy interviewer.
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University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA