Title: Becoming director of the Los Alamos Theoretical Division
Listeners:
Sam Schweber
Silvan Sam Schweber is the Koret Professor of the History of Ideas and Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, and a Faculty Associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of a history of the development of quantum electro mechanics, "QED and the men who made it", and has recently completed a biography of Hans Bethe and the history of nuclear weapons development, "In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Tags:
MIT Radiation Lab, Los Alamos, J Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Bacher, Edward Teller, II Rabi, Victor Weiskopff, Robert Serber
Duration:
2 minutes, 17 seconds
Date story recorded:
December 1996
Date story went live:
24 January 2008