Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989-
Oral history interview with Valentine Bargmann, 1984 April 12.
Immigrates to United States in 1937; joins the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; assistant to Albert Einstein. Discusses relationship between mathematicians and physicists at Princeton, and elsewhere; his wartime work. Accepts tenured position in physics department at Princeton in 1948. Describes conditions at Princeton in the 1930s; talks about Albert Einstein, John Von Neumann, Milton White, and others.
Died 1989.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.
White, Milton Grandison.
Carnegie-Mellon University.
Harvard University.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.).
Princeton University.
Stanford University.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Ferromagnetism.
Fracture mechanics.
Research, Industrial -- Laboratories.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
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Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978-
Institute for the Study of Metals (University of Chicago).
Aspray, William, interviewer.
Tucker, Albert W. (Albert William), 1905- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA