Oral History Interviews

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Barton Henry A1

Henry A. Barton - Session I

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 3 March 1970
Location: 
American Institute of Physics, New York City, New York

Family background; undergraduate and graduate studies at Princeton University: electrical engineering 1921, graduate research on ionization of argon and HC1, spectroscopic interests, (MA 1924, PhD 1925); developmental research as engineer for American Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories (1921–23); National Research Council Fellow at Harvard University (1925–27); Bartol Research Foundation Fellow (1927–29), research on “impact of protons on atoms and molecules.” Assistant professor at Cornell University (1929–31), high voltage x-ray research, visit to Cavendish Laboratory, associations (193

Fisk James A4

James Fisk

Interviewed by: 
Lillian Hoddeson
Interview date: 
Thursday, 24 June 1976
Location: 
Dr. Fisk's office, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Born 1910 Rhode Island. Engineering interest at an early age; Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate, aeronautical engineering; graduate studies in physics (John Slater, Philip Morse); assistant to Stark Draper, 1932-1934; fellowship at University of Cambridge (Professor Ralph H. Fowler); internal conversion of x-rays (with Geoffrey I. Taylor, 1934); MIT Ph.D. (P.