Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1975 January 31.
Attempts by Weisskopf, Szilard, and others to impose secrecy on fission research in early 1939; telegram to Hans von Halban, Jr.; description of Halban's father, chemist Hans von Halban, whom Weisskopf knew well at Zurich in the 1930s; comments on life in Zurich during the 1930s. Problems of a refugee in the Manhattan Project.
Szilard, Leo
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Nuclear fission -- Security measures.
Refugees, Political -- Europe.
Zurich (Switzerland) -- Social conditions.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Halban, Hans.
Weart, Spencer R., 1942- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA