Widere̲, Rolf, 1902-
Rolf Widere̲ papers, 1942-1945.
Scientific reports, notes, and letters document the work of Rolf Widere̲ and others in Germany during World War II on betatron (a type of particle accelerator) development and related topics. In 1945, he took these papers to Norway where he was interned in a concentration camp near Oslo. While there, Widere̲ wrote a detailed account of his research during the war, covering both the theoretical and practical questions of construction of the betatron, and was interviewed by Captain Gunnar Randers for the ALSOS Mission investigation of German atomic bomb research. Randers assembled this collection for a report to Samuel A. Goudsmit, head of the ALSOS Mission.
Physicist (accelerator and nuclear physics; medical application of physics). Engineer, Allemeine Elektrizitt̃sgesellschaft, Berlin, 1928-1932; Norsk Elektrisk og Brown Boveri, Oslo, 1940-1945; and Brown Boveri, Baden from 1946. Died 1996.
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Widere̲, Rolf, 1902-
United States. War Dept. Alsos Mission.
World War, 1939-1945
Atomic bomb
Nuclear Physics -- Research -- Germany.
Betatrons
Nuclear physics -- Germany.
Particle accelerators
Interviews. aat
Laboratory notes. aat
Randers, Gunnar, 1914-
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA