Oral History Interviews

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Evans Robley A2

Robley D. Evans – Session III

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 14 June 1978
Location: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Family background; grows up in California; early interest in electronics. Undergraduate and graduate studies at Caltech. Strong interest in history of science as undergraduate. Ph.D. in physics, 1932. University of California at Berkeley, 1932-1934. MIT from 1934; founder of the Radioactivity Center. Starts first course designated "nuclear physics," January 1935. Strong interest in study of radium poisoning; radium tolerance in humans, cancer research. World War II work, postwar work; establishment of Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering.

Evans Robley A2

Robley D. Evans – Session II

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 7 May 1974
Location: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Family background; grows up in California; early interest in electronics. Undergraduate and graduate studies at Caltech. Strong interest in history of science as undergraduate. Ph.D. in physics, 1932. University of California at Berkeley, 1932-1934. MIT from 1934; founder of the Radioactivity Center. Starts first course designated "nuclear physics," January 1935. Strong interest in study of radium poisoning; radium tolerance in humans, cancer research. World War II work, postwar work; establishment of Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering.