Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011-
Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1978 December 19, 1979 January 5 and 18.
In this interview Norman Ramsey discusses topics such as: his childhood and family background; I. I. Rabi; Bergen Davis; Columbia University; P. A. M. Dirac; Cambridge University; molecular beams; Harold Urey; Enrico Fermi; Herb Anderson; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Radiation Laboratory; Jerrold Zacharias; Ernest Lawrence; Carnegie Institution; Jim Van Allen; Ed Salant; Merle Tuve; cyclotrons; high energy accelerators; University of Illinois; Maurice Goldhaber; radar research; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI); Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); high energy physics; Stan Livingston; alternate radiant principle; Argonne National Laboratory; President's Science Advisory Committee; Jerry Weisner; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); John F. Kennedy; Ed McMillan; Frederick Seitz; Phil Abelson; T. D. Lee; Owen Chamberlain; Murray Gell-Mann; Ed Purcell; Edwin Goldwasser; Cambridge Electron Accelerator.
Physicist. Served as a member of the Radiation Laboratory from 1940-1943. Relocated to Los Alamos in 1943. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1989, for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.
Abelson, Philip Hauge
Anderson, Herbert Lawrence
Chamberlain, O. (Owen)
Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Gell-Mann, Murray
Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011
Goldwasser, Edwin L.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Lee, T. D., 1926-
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Purcell, Edward M.
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011-
Salant, Edward Oliver 1900-
Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008
Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982.
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006
Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986
Argonne National Laboratory
Associated Universities, Inc.
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Cambridge Electron Accelerator.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Columbia University
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
University of Cambridge
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Accelerators.
Cyclotrons.
Molecular beams.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Radar.
Radar -- Research.
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Hoddeson, Lillian., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA