Oral History Interviews

Interviews that offer unique insights into the lives, works, and personalities of modern scientists

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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.

Lazarus David A4

David Lazarus

Interviewed by: 
Krzysztof Szymborski and Lillian Hoddeson
Interview date: 
Friday, 4 December 1981
Location: 
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Family background; freshman course instructors at the University of Chicago; war-time training program; living next door to Manhattan Project people; Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University; work on jamming tools (radar counter-measures) and antennas; work and graduate study at the Institute for the Study of Metals the University of Chicago (with Clarence Zener); work with Andy Lawson; E. R.