In this interview, William R. Bennett discusses his work with lasers. Topics discussed include: helium neon laser; Ali Javan; Donald Herriott; Columbia University; Yale University; Air Reduction Company (Airco); Linde Air Products Company; Hugh Robinson; Lewis B. Headrick; Ora S. Duffendack; Bell Labs; Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey; Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop; Allan C. G. Mitchell; Mark W. Zemansky; Rudolf Walter Ladenburg; Sidney Millman; Technical Measurement Corporation; Ted Geballe; Conyers Herring; A. L. Schawlow; Henry Scovil; Harry Nyquist; Jim Gordon; Gardner Fox; Tingye Li; E. I. Gordon; G. D. Boyd; A. F. Turner; Bausch & Lomb Laboratories; Technical Research Group (TRG); Gordon Gould; Charlie Townes; Theodore Maiman; Deming Lewis; A. T. Forrester; George Dacey; C. Geoffrey B. Garrett; Ross McFarlane; Bruce Bogert; Willis Lamb; Paul Rabinowitz; V. P. Chebotaev; John. W. Knutson; Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Army Research Office, Durham (AROD); Vernon Hughes; Lloyd Wood; Marshall Harrington; Alfred P. Sloane Foundation; Institute for Defense Analyses; Bob Collins; Kurt Shuler; Walter Faust; argon laser; Spectra Physics; Bill Bridges; Grant Fowles; William Silfvast; Bill Walter; Marty Pilch.
In this interview, Richard T. Arnold discusses his life and career. Topics discussed include: Southern Illinois University; organic chemistry; Otis B. Young; Kenneth Van Lente; J. W. Neckers; T. W. Abbott; Robert A. Scott; Roger Adams; University of Illinois; R. C. "Bob" Fuson; Carl Shipp "Speed" Marvel; Ralph L. Shriner; Harold Snyder; Worth Huff Rodebush; University of Minnesota; Richard Willstätter; stereochemistry; Lee Irvin Smith; E. P. Kohler; antimalarial research in World War II; Leopold Ruzicka; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; University of California, Berkeley; Mel Calvin; carbon-14; Joseph Koepfli; Alfred P. Sloan; James B. Conant; Karl Freudenberg; Kurt Alder; Rolf Huisgen; Otto Bayer; Walter Rappe; General Clay; Springer-Verlag; Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Albert Tucker; W. Albert Noyes, Jr.; Fred Seitz; Warren Weaver; Larkin H. "Monk" Farinholt; Wallace R. Brode.
