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Faculty governance and physics at the University of California, Berkeley, 1937-1990 : oral history transcript / 1993.
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Faculty governance and physics at the University of California, Berkeley, 1937-1990 : oral history transcript / 1993
University history series

Creator/Contributor:

Helmholz, A. Carl (August Carl), 1915-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Knight, Walter D.

Creator/Contributor:

Vaux, Henry J. (Henry James), 1912-2000

Creator/Contributor:

Hale, Graham, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Lage, Ann, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Physicist and professor, Helmholz discusses his family background, education at Harvard and Cambridge, career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, especially the loyalty oath controversy, the free speech movement, UC oversight of Livermore and Los Alamos Laboratories, Academic Senate activities; also his retirement activities.

Date:

1993 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
University of California, Berkeley.
Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Educators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews

Note:

A. Carl Helmholz ; with introductions by Walter D. Knight and Henry J. Vaux ; interviews conducted by Graham Hale and Ann Lage in 1975 and 1989-1990 ; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Interviewed for the University history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Interviews conducted by Lage shelved as: Phonotape 2727 C:1-26. Interviews by Hale shelved as Phonotape 3274 A:1-7.
Also available online.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.

Type:

Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (x, 387 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
26 sound cassettes, 7 sound tape reels ; 5 in.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.