American Physical Society. (2012: Atlanta, Ga)
Pais Prize session: the national laboratories after 1980 [sound recording], 2012 April 2.
Audio recording of session T5 of the April 2012 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Atlanta, GA in March-April 2012. This session was sponsored by the Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) and chaired by Catherine Westfall of Michigan State University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Lecture: Big, Bigger, Too Big? From Los Alamos to Fermilab and the SSC" (Lillian Hoddeson); "DOE and its Labs -- Evolution of hte Relationship from the 1970s to Now" (Burton Richter); "A Good Name and Great Riches: Rebranding Solid State Physics for the National Laboratories" (Joseph Martin). Topics discussed include J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos Laboratory, national laboratories, Brookhaven, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Fermilab, Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), Wolfgang Panofsky, Leon Lederman, Burton Richter, Department of Energy (DOE), Atomic Energy Commission, solid state physics, DARPA network of interdisciplinary laboratories.
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Lederman, Leon M.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Richter, Burton, 1931-
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
United States. Department of Energy fast
Solid state physics
Superconducting Super Collider.
Hoddeson, Lillian.
Martin, Joseph
Richter, Burton, 1931-
Westfall, Catherine
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
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