In this interview with Robert Crompton, he discusses the Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), which he first attended in 1963. He reviews the meetings and how he happened to be at them and what has brought other Australians nowadays. Crompton mentioned Art Phelps, Leonard Loeb, Sir Leonard Huxley, Bob St. John, Phyllis St. John, Helen Crompton, Michael Morrison, David Golden, Dick Fowler, Syd Haydon, Mary Morrison, Steve Buckman, Mike Brunger, Frank Read, J. S. Townsend, Frank Llewellyn-Jones, Charlotte Loeb, Valery Loeb, Rob Varney, Leon Fisher, Felix Smith, Ed Gerjuoy, Ben Bederson, and Chun Lin.
In this interview Stephen Buckman discusses topics such as: Gaseous Electronics Conference; Arthur Phelps; Robert Crompton; atomic collision physics; American Physical Society: Division of Atomic Molecular Optical Physics; his education at Flinders University; working at Australia National University; John Lowke; William Allis.