Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Reinhold Baer, Karl Beck, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Peter Josef William Debye, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Adriaan Daniel Fokker, Marcel Grossmann, Arthur de Haas, Werner Heisenberg, Walter Heitler, Friedrich Hund, Hendrick Anthony Kramers, Fritz London, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Leon Rosenfeld, Erwin Schrodinger, Karl Seiler, Arnold Sommerfeld, John Von Neumann, Pierre Weiss; Universy of Copenhagen, Universitat Gottingen, University of Leipzig, Stanford University, Teyler Foundation, and Zurich Eidgenossishe Technische Hochschule.
