Edwin M. McMillan

Biography

Abstract

Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1973; and staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971), 1934-1971, and its director from 1958-1973. Pioneer in development and application of the cyclotron. Died in 1991.

Important Dates

September 18, 1907Birth, Redondo Beach (Calif.).

1928Obtained BS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).

1929Obtained MS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).

1932Obtained PhD, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).

1932 – 1991National Research Council (NRC) Fellow (1932-1934); Research Associate (1934-1935); Instructor in Physics (1935-1936); Assistant Professor of Physics (1936-1941); Associate Professor of Physics (1941-1946); Professor of Physics (1946-1973); and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1973-1991), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).

1934Discovered Oxygen 15 with M. Stanley Livingston.

1934 – 1973Researcher (1934-1954); Associate Director (1954-1958); and Director (1958-1973), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (formerly Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory), Berkeley (Calif.).

1940 – 1941Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory.

1941 – 1942Researcher, Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, U.S. Navy.

1942 – 1944Planning Staff Member, Project Y, Berkeley (1942-1943); Leader, Proving Ground Group, Los Alamos Laboratory (1943-1944); Deputy Leader, Gun Program of the Ordnance and Engineering Division, Los Alamos Laboratory (1944); and Leader of Magnetic Method Group, Los Alamos Laboratory (1944), Manhattan Project.

1947Member, National Academy of Sciences.

1951Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements".

1954 – 1958Member, General Advisory Committee, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

1959 – 1969Member, Board of Trustees, RAND Corporation.

1960 – 1966Member, Commission on High Energy Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

1962 – 1966Member, Science Policy Committee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

1963Awarded Atoms for Peace Award with Vladimir Veksler.

1967 – 1969Member, Physics Advisory Committee, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

1968 – 1971Chair, Class I, National Academy of Sciences.

1969 – 1974Member, Board of Trustees, Universities Research Association, Inc.

1990Awarded National Medal of Science.

September 7, 1991Death, El Cerrito (Calif.).

Occupation

Nuclear and particle physicist.

Places

Birth

Redondo Beach (Calif.)

Undergraduate Education

Pasadena (Calif.)

Graduate Education

Pasadena (Calif.)

Princeton (N.J.)

Employment

Berkeley (Calif.)

Death

El Cerrito (Calif.)

Subjects

Cyclotrons.

Molecular beams.

Neptunium

Nuclear physics.

Nuclear weapons.

Particle accelerators.

Physics -- Administration.

Plutonium

Synchrotrons.

World War, 1939-1945.

Relationships

People

Family

McMillan, Anna Marie Mattison

Mother.

McMillan, Anne

Daughter.

McMillan, David

Son.

McMillan, Edwin Harbaugh

Father.

McMillan, Elsie Blumer

Wife, married in 1941.

McMillan, Stephen

Son.

Advisors & Collaborators

Abelson, Philip Hauge

Co-discoverer of Neptunium.

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Ph.D. advisor at Princeton University on deflection of a beam of hydrogen-chloride molecules in a non-homogenous electric field.

Helmholz, August Carl, 1915-2003

Advised by McMillan at University of California, Berkeley. Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

Post doctoral advisor at University of California, Berkeley, both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)

Collaborated in discovery of Oxygen 15. Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999

Co-won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements." Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Zahn, C. T.

Ph.D. advisor at Princeton University.

Colleagues

Abrahams, Elihu

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Arnowitt, Richard

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Both employed at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

Both employed at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Bialek, William S.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), 1887-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Bowman, J. D. (J. David)

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Bradbury, Norris, 1909-1997

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project and University of California, Berkeley.

Brown, Harold, 1927-2019

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Case, Kenneth M.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Chamberlain, O. (Owen)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Clarke, John, 1942-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Clauser, John F. (John Francis), 1942-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Cohen, Marvin L.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Commins, Eugene D.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Corson, Dale R.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Critchfield, Charles Louis, 1910-

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Davidson, Ronald C.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Davis, J. C. Séamus

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Deser, S. (Stanley)

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Diamond, R. M.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

Emery, V. J. (Victor J.)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Falcone, Roger W.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Falicov, L. M. (Leopoldo Maximo), 1933-1995

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Both employed at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Fetter, Alexander L., 1937-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Freedman, Daniel Z.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Freedman, Stuart J.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Froman, Darol K. (Darol Kenneth), 1906-1997

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Furth, H. P.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Gaillard, Mary K.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Glaser, D. A.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Glashow, Sheldon L.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Goldberger, Marvin L.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Goldhaber, Gerson

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Grunder, Hermann

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Hardy, John Christopher

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Heeger, Alan J.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Higinbotham, William A.

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Hirschfelder, Joseph Oakland, 1911-

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Holdren, John P.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Jackson, John David, 1925-2016

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Jeffries, C. D., 1922-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Kittel, Charles

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Lange, Andrew

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Langenberg, D. N., 1932-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Louie, Steven G., 1949-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Mack, Julian Ellis, 1903-1966

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Mandelstam, Stanley

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Moyer, Burton J., 1912-1973

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Neddermeyer, Seth H. (Seth Henry), 1907-1988

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Oddone, Piermaria J.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Parratt, Lyman G. (Lyman George)

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Poskanzer, A. M. (Arthur M.), 1931-

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Price, Paul Buford

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Both employed at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Randall, Lisa

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1923-2000

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Richards, Paul L. (Paul Linford)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Rossi, Bruno, 1905-1993

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Ruderman, Malvin A.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Sandweiss, Jack H.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Segrè, Emilio

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Serber, R. (Robert)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Shen, Y. R.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Smoot, George

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Steinberger, J.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Steiner, Herbert M.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Stephens, F. S. (Frank Samuel)

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Stevens, W. A.

Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.

Taylor, Richard Edward, 1929-2018

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas, Gareth, 1932-2014

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Thouless, D. J.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Tinkham, Michael

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Townes, Charles H.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Trilling, George H.

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Watson, Kenneth M.

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley.

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Wojcicki, Stanley G., 1937-

Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Zumino, B. (Bruno), 1923-

Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.

Additional

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

Blewett, John P. (John Paul), 1910-

Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973

Brobeck, William Morrison, 1908-

Brueckner, Keith A.

Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

Cooksey, Donald

Crane, H. R. (Horace Richard), 1907-2007

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-

DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-

Gell-Mann, Murray

Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976

Manley, John Henry, 1907-

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

Reynolds, Wallace B.

Roe, Anne, 1904-1991

Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Institutions

Major Positions

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Director.

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

Associate Director and Director (Berkeley campus).

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Leader, Proving Ground Group; Deputy Leader, Gun Program of the Ordnance and Engineering Division; and Leader, Magnetic Method Group, Manhattan Project.

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Planning Staff Member, Project Y, Berkeley; Leader, Proving Ground Group; Deputy Leader, Gun Program of the Ordnance and Engineering Division; and Leader, Magnetic Method Group, Los Alamos Laboratory.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

Researcher.

National Research Council (U.S.)

Fellow.

United States. Navy

Researcher at Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics

National Research Council (NRC) Fellow; Research Associate; Instructor in Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fellow.

American Philosophical Society

American Physical Society

Fellow.

California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

Received B.S. and M.S.

Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Member, Physics Advisory Committee.

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Member, Commission on High Energy Physics.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Chair, Class I.

Princeton University. Department of Physics

Received Ph.D. in 1932.

Rand Corporation

Member, Board of Trustees.

Society of the Sigma Xi

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Member, Science Policy Committee.

Tau Beta Pi

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Member, General Advisory Committee.

Universities Research Association (U.S.)

Member, Board of Trustees.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

Edwin M. McMillan papers, undated.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Edwin McMillan diary, 1927.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Emilio Segre lectures and other collected recordings, 1968-1997.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan [microfilm], 1907-1991.

Archives and Records Office

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1907-1991.

Pacific Sierra Region

National Archives and Records Administration

1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA

LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1940-1973.

Pacific Sierra Region

National Archives and Records Administration

1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA

National management of high-energy physics facilities papers, 1964-1965.

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glenn Seaborg.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edwin M. McMillan, 1972 June 1, 2, and October 30, 31.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edwin McMillan, 1972 June 1 and October 30.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Remarks and interview on 25th anniversary of plutonium's discovery [sound recording] / 1966 March.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Reminiscences of Los Alamos [sound recording] : a lecture series at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Reminiscences of wartime Los Alamos [sound recording], 1975.

Library. Dept. of Special Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Sessions from 5th annual meeting of Corporate Associates [sound recording], 1962 September.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission lecture series on nuclear physics, 1943.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Subject

Anne Roe papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

Century of the atom [sound recording] : ...told through the voices of the scientists who created the nuclear age / a presentation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; narrated by Chet Huntley and Glenn T. Seaborg.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Clarence E. Larson science and technology oral history collection, 1983-1993.

Special Collections & Archives

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, USA

F. W. Loomis papers, 1920-1976.

University Archives

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Glenn T. Seaborg papers 1866-1999 (bulk 1940-1998).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

Hans Bethe papers, circa 1931-1992.

Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Cornell University

2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

International Congress for Physics [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Keith Brueckner manuscript biography, 1986.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

LBL Office of the Director administrative files of Donald Cooksey, 1958-1963.

Archives and Records Office

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

LBL Office of the Director logbooks of Donald Cooksey, 1945-1980.

Archives and Records Office

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Los Alamos report 24: lecture series on nuclear physics, 1943-1944.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Murray Gell-Mann papers, 1931-2001 (bulk 1955-1993).

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Nobel laureates on scientific research project : oral history, 1964.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with H. R. Crane, 1973 March 28 and 1974 June 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Herbert F. York, 1975 September 9 and 1976 May 13.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Herbert F. York, 1975 September 9 and 1976 May 13.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with Ira Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 1969 August 26.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Henry Manley, 1976 July 9 and 11.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Henry Manley, 1976 July 9 and 11.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with John P. Blewett, 1979 March 22 and May 11.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1978 December 19, 1979 January 5 and 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson [videorecording] : 1999-2002.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral History interview with Philip Hauge Abelson, 2002 June 19, 26 and July 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Wallace B. Reynolds, 1975 December 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Wallace B. Reynolds, 1975 December 12.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with William M. Brobeck, 1975 June 19, 29, October 26 and 1976 February 1.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Puzzles, History, and Reality TV; Physics Beyond the Classroom [sound recording], 2017 March 13.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Reminiscences of Edwin Mattison McMillan : oral history, 1964.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

The atom and Eve, [photocopy,] [1973?].

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

The Atom and Eve, circa 1995.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission records (Record Group 326), 1923-1975.

Office of the National Archives

National Archives and Records Administration

8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408, USA

Published Resources

Author

Lecture series in nuclear physics / by E.M. McMillan [and others].

Lecture series in nuclear physics [microform] / by E.M. McMillan [and others].

Subject

Edwin M. McMillan Physics Today obituary.