Abbadessa, John.
Oral history interview with John Abbadessa, 1996 August 23.
Abbadessa discusses politics, budget and funding structure at the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as well as the specifics of funding the Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR). This interview was conducted by Elizabeth Paris as part of her dissertation project on the early history of electron colliding beams in the United States. She is working on her doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Comptroller, Atomic Energy Commission, 1962-1974.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Electron accelerators -- United States -- History.
Particle accelerators -- United States -- History.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Science and state -- United States.
Storage rings.
Sound recordings lcgft
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh
SPEAR.
Paris, Elizabeth, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA