Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge : oral history, 1960.
Education and early research at Massachussets Institute of Technology, Princeton, and the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England; teaching and research at Harvard, 1934; creation of National Defense Research Committee Radiation Laboratory at Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1940; technical mission to England on radar development, 1941; Los Alamos, 1943: security problems, testing first atom bomb, 1945; use of the bomb; May-Johnson and MacMahon bills; Federation of Atomic Scientists, Joseph McCarthy investigations. Impression of Karl Compton, Henry D. Smyth, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer.
Physicist.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Physics
Nuclear physics
Atomic bomb
Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects.
Nuclear energy
Internal security.
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Safford, Joan, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office. Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA