Chemistry and Physics Oral Histories

Raymond Thayer Birge
Raymond Thayer Birge, Physicist, 1960, 395 pp.

The Calvin Lab: Bio-Organic Chemistry Group at Berkeley, 1945-1963, Vol 1, 2000, 560 pp.
The Calvin Lab: Bio-Organic Chemistry Group at Berkeley, 1945-1963, Vol 2, 2000, 540 pp.

Lloyd Noel Ferguson
Increasing Opportunities in Chemistry, 1936-1986, 1992, 74 pp.

A. Carl Helmholz
Physics and Faculty Governance at the University of California Berkeley, 1937-1990, 1993, 387 pp.

Joel H. Hildebrand
Chemistry, Education, and the University of California, 1962, 196 pp.

Harold S. Johnston
Atmospheric Chemistry Research at Berkeley, 2005. 180 pp.

C. Judson King
C. Judson King: A Career in Chemical Engineering and University Administration, 1963 – 2013. 2013, 841 pp.

Victor F. Lenzen
Physics and Philosophy, 1965, 206 pp.

Otto C.C. Lin
Promoting Education, Innovation, and Chinese Culture in the Era of Globalization
Volume I: Oral History. 2010, 667 pp.
Volume II: Appendix. 2010, 680 pp.

Otto C.C. Lin Video excerpts:
Developing a technology-based economy: the role of government
Entrepreneurship, from laboratory to market
Changing Taiwan, and the importance of patents in a technology-based economy
The significance of management styles
China-Taiwan relations and the legacy of ITRI
Cultivating synergy between university, institute, business and government

Robert Danforth Ogg
Business and Pleasure: Electronics, Anchors, and the University of California, 1989, 157 pp.

Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer (1914-1997)
Chemist and Administrator at UC Berkeley, Rice University, Stanford University, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1935-1997, 1999, xiii, 544 pp.

Arthur Schawlow
Optics and Laser Spectroscopy, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1951-1961, and Stanford University Since 1961, 1998, x, 383 pp.

Charles H. Townes
A Life in Physics: Bell Telephone Laboratories and WWII, Columbia University and the Laser, MIT and Government Service; California and Research in Astrophysics, 1994, 691 pp. Includes interviews with Arthur Schawlow and Frances Townes.

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Regarding Los Alamos National Laboratory

Owen Chamberlain
Physicist at Los Alamos, Berkeley, Professor, 1950-1989, Nobel Laureate, 2000, 274 pp.

Elmo Morgan
Physical Planning and Management: Los Alamos, University of Utah, University of California, and AID, 1942-1976, 1992, 274 pp.

Robert M. Underhill
University of California: Lands, Finances, and Investments, 1968, 446 pp.

Also contact the History of Science and Technology Program, The Bancroft Library, for additional oral histories.