Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1984 November 16.
Meeting Charles C. Lauritsen. Entered California Institute of Technology in 1935. Construction of beta-ray spectrograph. Memories of William Fowler, Lewis A. Delsasso and Tom Bonner. Differences between the Cavendish laboratories and the Kellogg laboratories. Production of radioactive sources. Building apparatus for Henry Borsook; cancer research. Italian left wing politics and fascism; German political sentiment. Memories of Ochialini. His involvement, along with Jackie Oppenheimer, in the Young Communist League of Pasadena. Work to integrate Pasadena; his reason for leaving the Communist Party. Thursday afternoon colloquia at Caltech. Opinions of the teaching of Fritz Zwicky, Paul Epstein, William Smythe, and William Houston. Views of Harry Bateman, Eric T. Bell, Richard Tolman, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Activities of his wife. Value of late light laboratory operation.
Physicist and science educator.
Bateman, Harry, 1882-1946.
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Fowler, William A.
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Tolman, Richard C. (Richard Chace), 1881-1948
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
California Institute of Technology
Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England)
Beta rays.
Spectrograph -- Design and construction.
Radioactive substances -- Production control.
Cancer -- Research.
Communism -- California -- Pasadena.
Right and left (Political science).
Fascism -- Italy.
Political science -- Italy.
Oral histories. aat
Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-1974
Bell, Eric Temple, 1883-1960
Bonner, Tom Wilkerson. 1910-1961.
Borsook, Henry.
Delsasso, Lewis A.
Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-
Oppenhiemer, Jackie.
Smythe, William Ralph, 1893-
California Institute of Technology. W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory.
Young Communist League of Pasadena.
Goodstein, Judith R. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
California Institute of Technology. Institute Archives. 1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.