Waly, Adnan.
Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March.
Early education with Gustav Hertz, and the search for heavy hydrogen. Work for the German General Electric Company under Fritz Lange. Doctoral studies with Max von Laue. Attempt to use thunderstorms to produce nuclear disintegration. Discovery of Rupp's fraudulent evidence for positive electrons coverup. Waly's anti-Nazi activities. Work with Cockcroft and Walton on sealing discharge tubes. Discovery of fission by Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, and Otto Hahn. Collaboration with Leo Szilard. Early work on biophysics and cancer treatment. German decision to invade Norway. Study with Walther Nernst, Wehnelt, Pringsheim, and Czerny. Memories of Wolfgang Pauli and Schroedinger. Wartime work in Egypt on a microwave mine detector. Patents on fusion and fission. Irradiation of scandium. Frederic Joliot-Curie's letter to Stalin on behalf of Peter Kapitza. Exposing Hans v. Bohndorf's alchemy. Attending 1955 Atoms for Peace conference. Mention of the Rupp fraud, Recollections of Lawrence Ball, Van de Graaf, Halban, Carl von Weizsc̃ker, Hans Delbr ck, Bodenstein, Bruno Pontecorvo, Fritz Houtermans, Bosch, Wehnelt, Erbacher, Racah, Amarldi, Ollendorf, Lenard, Kramer, Zeeman, and Salvador Dali. Nazif Bey's studies on Egyptian optics.
Adnan Waly, born 1910, was a nuclear physicist working for Fritz Lange in the German General Electric Company (AEG) while pursuing his Ph.D. with von Laue. The laboratory was directed by Ramsauer. Recollections cover the period 1930-1945. During this period, Waly had personal contact with almost all the eminent scientists in Germany, and in other countries involved in nuclear physics.
Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-
Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968.
Houtermans, F. G. (Friedrich Georg), 1903-
Joliot-Curie, Frďřic
Kapit s a, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984
Laue, Max von, 1879-1960
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941.
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958
Pontekorvo, B. (Bruno), 1913-1993
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
Szilard, Leo
Waly, Adnan.
Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943.
Hydrogen.
Nuclear explosions.
National Socialism.
Anti-Nazi movement.
Positrons.
Irradiation.
Scandium.
Fusion.
Fission (Biology).
Cancer -- Research.
Thunderstorms.
Biophysics
Norway -- History -- Invasions.
Egypt -- World War, 1939-1945.
Sound recordings lcgft
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Physicists -- Interviews.
Amarldi.
Ball, Lawrence.
Bey, Nazif.
Bodenstein.
Bosch.
Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967.
Czerny.
Dali, Salvador.
Delbr ck, Hans.
Erbacher.
Halban, Hans.
Hertz, Gustav, 1887-
Kramer.
Lange, Fritz.
Lenard, Philipp, 1862-1947.
Ollendorf.
Pringsheim.
Racah, G. (Giulio), 1909-1965
Rupp.
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967
Walton.
Waly, Adnan.
Weizsc̃ker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007-
Wehnelt.
German General Electic Company.
Atoms for Peace Conference.
Pope, Martin, 1918- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA