Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Thomas S. Kuhn (Entrevistador)
This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: George D. Birkhoff, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Percy Williams Bridgman, James Chadwick, Edward Condon, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Fowler, James Franck, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Edwin Crawford Kemble, Arthur Klock, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Von Neumann, Lothar Nordheim, Wolfgang Pauli, T.W. Richards, Ernest Rutherford, Richard Chance Tolman, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Whitehead, Eugene Paul Wigner; California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Universität Göttingen, Universität Zurich, and University of California, Berkeley
Material de archivo, English, 1963