Oral History Interviews

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Goldhaber Gerson B1

Gerson Goldhaber – Session I

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

Goldhaber Gerson B1

Gerson Goldhaber – Session II

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Thursday, 23 June 2005
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

Goldhaber Gerson B1

Gerson Goldhaber – Session III

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Friday, 24 June 2005
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

Goldhaber Gerson B1

Gerson Goldhaber – Session IV

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Monday, 27 February 2006
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

Goldhaber Gerson B1

Gerson Goldhaber – Session V

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

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Gerson Goldhaber – Session VI

Interviewed by: 
Ursula Pavlish
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Location: 
Gerson Goldhaber’s office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Gerson Goldhaber (1924- ). Early training at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1942-1947). Graduate work at The University of Wisconsin. Research at Columbia University (1950-1953); memories of Rabi. Research at The University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Took part in first experiment at Bevatron.

Wigner Eugene A1

Eugene Wigner

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 30 November 1966
Location: 
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Arrival in the U.S. in 1930; comparison of social, scientific, general intellectual climates in U.S and Europe; early interest in nuclear physics, relationship with graduate students; beta decay, compound nucleus model, Breit-Wigner formula, early shell model; review articles by Bethe; relation of early meson theory to nuclear physics; nuclear forces; charge independence; journal literature of physics ca.