Reminiscences of Polykarp Kusch : oral history, 1962.

Biographical Note

Physicist, educator.

Scope and Contents

Family background and early education; Cleveland Public Library; Case Institute and University of Illinois; research assistant, University of Minnesota, 1936; Columbia University, 1937-41; Westinghouse Electric, 1941-42; Columbia Radiation Laboratory, 1942-44; Bell Telephone Laboratories; Columbia University, from 1946; research program, head of Physics Department and Radiation Laboratory; description of receiving the Nobel Prize, 1955.

Subjects

• Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• Columbia University.
• Interviews.
• Kusch, Polykarp, 1911-1993.
• Land, Barbara, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Nobel Prizes.
• Oral histories.
• Physicists--Interviews.
• Physics.
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation.