Finding Aid to the Warren O. Hagstrom interviews conducted for his book The Scientific Community, 1960-1961Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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2009 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in November 2007. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English Description of the CollectionHagstrom, Warren O. Warren O. Hagstrom interviews conducted for his book The Scientific Community, 1960-1961. American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 0.5 linear feet1 manuscript box AR124 English This collection includes transcripts of the interviews conducted by Warren O. Hagstrom, for his 1965 book, The Scientific Community. Selected Search Terms

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Atkinson, Daniel E. Carnap, Rudolf, 1891-1970. Chew, Geoffrey F. Dunn, Max S. Gell-Mann, Murray. Griffith, Wendell H. Hagstrom, Warren O. Holmes, John R. Leith, Cecil E. Nayman, Jerzy. Roberts, John E. Sinsheimer, Robert. Suhl, Harry. Watson, William K. Zwansiger, Daniel. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Physics. Research. Biographical Note

Warren O. Hagstrom is a sociologist, educator and author. He was a research associate at the University of California at Berkeley from 1961 to 1962. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he served on the sociology faculty from 1962 until 1976, and then as department chair from 1973 to 1976.

Scope and Contents of Collection

This collection consists of thirty-seven transcripts of interviews conducted by Hagstrom between 1960 and 1961. The interviews are with California scientists connected with universities and engaged in research in experimental physics, molecular biology and biochemistry, or theoretical physics. This material formed much of the empirical basis of his 1965 book, The Scientific Community.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

Organized into the following series:

Series I: Miscellaneous Series II: Experimental physics Series III: Molecular biology-biochemistry Series IV: Theoretical physics

This collection is arranged alphabetically within each series.

 Access to Collection

Researchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html.

 Restrictions on Use of Collection

Provenance and Acquisition Information

The bulk of this collection was donated to the Niels Bohr Library and Archives by Warren O. Hagstrom in 1976.

 Processing Information

Lara D’Agaro November 2007.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Warren O. Hagstrom interviews conducted for his book The Scientific Community, 1960-1961. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: Miscellaneous 11 Introduction and index, undated 2 Carnap, Rudolph, March 15, 1961 3 Neyman, Jerzy, May 1, 1961 Series II: Experimental physics 4 Anderson, Carl D., March 20, 1961 5 Delsasso, Leo P., March 10, 1961 6 Fowler, William A., March 20, 1961 7 Hahn, Erwin L. , November 28, 1960 8 Holmes, John R. , March 13, 1961 9 Meyerhof, Walter E., February 3, 1961 10 Portis, Alan M., November 28, 1960 11 Rudnick, Isadore, March 9, 1961 12 Vollrath, Richard E., March 14, 1961 13 Weissler, Gerhard L., March 16, 1961 Series III: Molecular biology-biochemistry 14 Atkinson, Daniel E., March 9, 1961 15 Campbell, Dan H., March 22, 1961 16 Dulbecco, Renato, March 21, 1961 17 Dunn, Max S., March 8, 1961 18 Griffith, Wendell H., March 14, 1961 19 Knight, C. Arthur, February 16, 1961 20 Loring, Hubert S., February 1, 1961 21 Mazia, Daniel, February 16, 1961 22 Pardee, Arthur B., January 11, 1961 23 Ross, Joseph F., March 15, 1961 24 Sinsheimer, Robert L., March 22, 1961 25 Snoke, John E., March 14, 1961 Series IV: Theoretical physics 26 Chew, Geoffrey F., February 24, 1961 27 Feynman, Richard P., March 22, 1961 28 Gell-Mann, Murray , March 22, 1961 29 Kaus, Peter E., March 16, 1961 30 Leith, Cecil E., October 24, 1960 31 Roberts, John E., October 26, 1960 32 Schiff, L.I., February 24, 1961 33 Schwartz, Charles L., November 22, 1960 34 Suhl, Harry, January 9, 1961 35 Watson, W.K., March 15, 1961 36 Wichmann, Eyvind, January 11, 1960 37 Zemach, Charles, December 2, 1960 38 Zwansiger, Daniel, February 8, 1961