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Helmholz, August Carl, 1915-2003.
Oral history interview with August Carl Helmholz, 1975, 1989-1990.
In this interview, August Carl Helmholz discusses faculty governance and physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Topics discussed include: family and youth in Rochester, Minnesota; education, Harvard and Cambridge Universities, 1930s; graduate studies and research work in high energy physics at the Radiation Laboratory, UC Berkeley, 1937-1950s: recalls Ernest Lawrence, Burton Moyer, Harvey White, Emilio Segr,̈ Edward Teller, Manhattan Project; Department of Physics: chairmanship, 1955-1962, undergraduate and graduate curriculum, loyalty oath controversy, faculty hiring and retention; service on first governing board of facaulty retirement system, 1950s; faculty social relationships: Faculty Club, Section Club, Kosmos Club; issues surrounding UC oversight of Livermore and Los Alamos Laboratories; Academic Senate service: committees on Unviersity Welfare, Academic Freedom, Educational Policy; faculty response to Free Speech Movement and ethnic studies controversies; emeriti affairs. Appended brief biography, Elizabeth L. Helmholz. Includes introductions by Walter D. Knight and Henry J. Vaux.
High energy physicist. Emeratius professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980- Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1958-. Educated at Harvard University, AB (1936), University of California, PhD, Physics (1940).
Helmholz, August Carl, 1915-2003.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Segr,̈ Emilio.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
White, Harvey Elliott, 1902-1988
University of Cambridge
Harvard University.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty.
Academic freedom.
Freedom of speech.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.
Educators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.
Helmholz, Elizabeth L.
Moyer, Burton Jones, 1912-1973.
Knight, Walter D.
Vaux, Henry J. (Henry James, 1912-
Hale, Graham, interviewer.
Lage, Ann, interviewer.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
History of science and technology collection.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
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