The Oral History Interviews & Transcripts Project
David DeVorkin interviewing Geoffry Burbidge, 1974
The Niels Bohr Library & Archives began a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project to digitize its oral history collection and make it available on the Web in June 2007.
The project began its goal of digitizing 500 oral history interviews from our collection and plan to complete it in May 2009. After the completion of the project, the collection will be digitized and added to the web on an ongoing basis.
Access the Transcripts
You can access the online transcripts by doing a search in the International Catalog of Sources. You can also browse an alphabetical list of all transcripts available online.
Voice Clips From Online Transcripts
- Luis Alvarez
- Philip Abelson
- Ralph Alpher
- Edoardo Amaldi
- Carl Anderson
- Philip W. Anderson
- John Bardeen
- Henry A. Barton
- Hans Bethe
- Manfred Biondi
- Felix Bloch
- David Bohm
- Ira Sprague Bowen
- Lewis Branscomb
- Geoffrey Burbidge
- James Chadwick 1 2
- S. Chandrasekhar 1 2
- John Cockcroft
- Betty Compton
- Edward Uhler Condon
- H. R. Crane
- Karl K. Darrow
- Bryce S. DeWitt
- Robert H. Dicke
- Lee DuBridge
- Freeman Dyson
- Robley Evans
- James Fisk
- Sir Charles Frank
- Otto Frisch
- George Gamow 1 2
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
- Richard Garwin 1 2
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Alexander J. Glass
- Maurice Goldhaber
- Alan Guth
- Werner Heisenberg
- Sir Fred Hoyle
- Frederick Hunt
- R. E. Kidder
- Lew Kowarski
- Hélène Langevin-Joliot
- Charles Lauritsen
- Robert Bruce Lindsay
- Syukuro Manabe
- Carson Mark
- Robert Marshak
- Richard E. McCrosky
- Philip Morrison
- Nevill F. Mott
- Yoichiro Nanbu
- Wolfgang Panofsky
- Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
- Melba Phillips
- Emanuel Piore
- Edward Purcell
- Norman Ramsey
- Robert Richtmyer
- Nancy G. Roman
- Arthur Schawlow 1 2
- Martin Schwarzschild
- S. S. Schweber
- Robert Serber
- Mel Shochet
- Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
- Charles Townes
- Merle Tuve
- Albrecht Unsöld
- Steven Weinberg
- Carl Weizsäcker
- John Archibald Wheeler 1 2 3
- Eugene Paul Wigner
- Robert R. Wilson
More voice clips from famous physicists such as Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr can be found in the Center for History of Physics' online exhibits.