Gross, Rolf W. F, 1931-
Oral history interview with Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, 1985 January 31.
Rolf Gross was part of the team at Aerospace Corporation that created the hydrogen fluoride cw (continuous wave) chemical laser (T. Jacobs). Detailed account of that research; internal politics. Comments on three independent Atomic Energy Commission proposals for laser isotope separation; brief description of Aerospace's flirtation with laser isotope separation. Contacts with foreign scientists (N. O. Basov, A. N. Oraevskij). Also prominently mentioned is: Donald J. Spencer.
Basov, N. G. (Nikola Gennadievich), 1922-2001
Gross, Rolf W. F., 1931-
Jacobs, Ted
Oraevskij, A. N.
Spencer, Donald J.
Aerospace Corporation.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Chemical lasers
Lasers
Lasers -- History.
Lasers in isotope separation.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Bromberg, Joan Lisa. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA