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Optics and laser spectroscopy, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1951-1961, and Stanford University since 1961 : oral history transcript
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Optics and laser spectroscopy, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1951-1961, and Stanford University since 1961 : oral history transcript / 1998Creator/Contributor:
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Stoicheff, B. P. (Boris P.)Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Schawlow family background, Depression years in Toronto; early aptitudes in radio engineering; college and university studies
in math and physics, and World War II interruption; Malcolm Crawford and thesis research on atomic beam light source; post-doc
at Columbia University, 1949-1951; co-author, with Charles H. Townes, of Microwave Spectroscopy (1955), dealing with theory
and experimental techniques of microwave spectroscopy; marriage in 1951 to Aurelia Townes, and move to Bell Telephone Laboratories:
working on superconductivity, in 1957-1958 collaborating with Townes on the optical maser (laser), and publication of "Infrared
and Optical Masers"; discussion of the atmosphere at Columbia and at Bell Labs, pressures, publications, patents; joins physics
faculty at Stanford University: research group in laser spectroscopy, Ted Hänsch, students, administrative matters, other
faculty; interest in teaching, motivation, ethical issues, funding and the military, telling stories, timing, hindsight; expert
jazz collector; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1981, and other honors; son Arthur, Jr., and discussion of the treatment of autism.
Date:
1998 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPhysicists -- California -- Stanford -- Interviews
Spectrum analysis
Autism -- California
Physics
Telecommunication
Physics
Spectrum Analysis
Telecommunications
Autistic Disorder
Physiciens -- Californie -- Stanford -- Entretiens
Autisme -- Californie
Physique
Télécommunications
physics
telecommunications
Telecommunication
Physics
Spectrum analysis
Physicists
Autism
California -- Stanford
California
Columbia University.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.
Stanford University. -- Physics Department.
Columbia University.
Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Hänsch, T. W. (Theo W.) -- 1941-
Hänsch, T. W. (Theo W.) -- 1941-
Note:
Arthur L. Schawlow ; with an introduction by Boris P. Stoicheff. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1996. Regional
Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as Phonotape 2968 C:1-16.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
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.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (x, 383 pages) : color portrait ; 28 cm
16 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
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.