Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge : oral history, 1960.

Biographical Note

Physicist.

Scope and Contents

Education and early research at Massachussets Institute of Technology, Princeton, and the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England; teaching and research at Harvard, 1934; creation of National Defense Research Committee Radiation Laboratory at Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1940; technical mission to England on radar development, 1941; Los Alamos, 1943: security problems, testing first atom bomb, 1945; use of the bomb; May-Johnson and MacMahon bills; Federation of Atomic Scientists, Joseph McCarthy investigations. Impression of Karl Compton, Henry D. Smyth, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer.

Subjects

• Atomic bomb.
• Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996.
• Internal security.
• Interviews.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory.
• Nuclear energy.
• Nuclear physics.
• Nuclear warfare--Social aspects.
• Oral histories.
• Physicists--Interviews.
• Physics.
• Safford, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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