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Harlow Shapley - Session II

Interviewed by: 
Helen Wright and Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Thursday, 25 August 1966
Location: 
Shapley's home, Sharon, New Hampshire

Childhood on Missouri farm, early education and interest in science. Enters University of Missouri, 1907; B.A., 1910, M.A.

Harlow Shapley - Session I

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner and Helen Wright
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 8 June 1966
Location: 
Shapley's home, Sharon, New Hampshire

Childhood on Missouri farm, early education and interest in science.

John Cockcroft

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 28 March 1967
Location: 
Washington, D.C.

Three years of preparation which led up to achievement, with Ernest T. S.

Felix Bloch

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Thursday, 15 August 1968
Location: 
Varian Physics Building, Stanford University, California

Recollections of physics community in 1920s and early 1930s; opportunities for physics work in Europe; awareness of political climate in Germany (1

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