Garmire, Elsa M. 1939-
Oral history interview with Elsa Meints Garmire, 1985 February 4.
Years from undergraduate days at Radcliffe College, 1961, through research at California Institute of Technology, to 1973: scientific work, evolution of career objectives, and history of marriage. Charles H. Townes' MIT research group on nonlinear optics, Caltech as an environment for women scientists; fall and subsequent rise of self-confidence as a scientist. Also prominently mentioned are: Ray Chiao, Edward Mills Purcell, Ron Shen, Amnon Yariv; and Harvard University.
Born 1939.
Chiao, Ray
Duguay, Michel Albert
Garmire, Elsa M. 1939-
Purcell, Edward M.
Shen, Y. R.
Townes, Charles H.
Yariv, Amnon.
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Radcliffe College.
Lasers.
Lasers -- History.
Women in science.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Transcripts. aat
Bromberg, Joan Lisa. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA