Bardeen, John.
Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.
Bardeen recounts his early career; undergraduate education in electrical engineering; work in geophysics while employed by the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh; math Ph.D. program at Princeton University; junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Discusses Eugene Wigner, John Van Vleck, and John Slater as pioneers of solid state physics. Describes his years at Princeton; close relationship between the mathematics and physics departments.
Physicist, 1908-1991.
Slater, John C (John Clarke), 1900-1976.
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995-
Princeton University. Dept. of Mathematics.
Princeton University. Department of Physics.
Electric engineering -- Study and teaching.
Geophysics.
Solid state physics.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Gulf Oil Company.
Aspray, William, interviewer.
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA