Library home
Using the library
Access to the Library
Book collection
Reference Works,
Books and Journals
Archival Collections,
ICOS, and
Documentaiton
Strategies
Electronic Files
Oral histories
Subject files
Moving Image Collection
Contact us
|
Oral History Interviews
in Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics
| The Niels Bohr Library & Archives of the American Institute of Physics holds more than a thousand interviews. Many of the transcripts are now online. The interviews, conducted by the staff of the AIP Center for History of Physics and many other historians, offer unique insights into the lives, works, and personalities of modern scientists. |
Spencer Weart interviewing Martin Schwarzschild, 1977
|
Transcripts Online
The Niels Bohr Library & Archives is placing many of its oral history interview transcripts online. This page will be updated monthly. Interview transcripts that are not online can usually be borrowed.
 Shows where a short sample of the scientist’s voice accompanies the transcript. Tape recordings of most of the rest are available on loan. List of Voice Clips.
Inquiries? Contact the Library
|
David DeVorkin interviewing Geoffry Burbidge, 1974
|
|
|
|
|
Transcripts Online
| A |
| Helmut Abt |
| Thomas Aitken |
| Philip Anderson |
| B |
| John Bardeen (1, 2) |
| Hans Bethe (1, 2, 3) |
| Adriaan Blauw |
| Felix Bloch (1, 2) |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
| Niels Bohr |
| Hermann Bondi |
| Max Born |
| Lewis McAdory Branscomb |
| William F. Brinkman |
| Wallace S. Broecker |
| Keith Allan Brueckner |
| Margaret Burbidge |
| C |
| David Caldwell |
| Nedrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir |
| S. Chandrasekhar |
| George Clark |
| John F. Clauser |
| Edward Uhler Condon |
| Esther Conwell |
| Richard Courant |
| H. R. Crane (1, 2) |
| D |
| Charles Duke |
| Theodore Dunham, Jr. |
| Freeman J. Dyson |
| E |
| Amaldi Edoardo |
| Paul Peter Ewald (1, 2) |
| F |
| Sandra M. Faber |
| Eugene Feenberg |
| Kenneth Ford |
| Otto Robert Frisch (1, 2) |
| Robert Q. Fugate |
| G |
| George Gamow |
| George Garland |
| Richard Garwin (1, 2, 3) |
| Thomas Gold |
| Leo Goldberg (1, 2, 3) |
| Marvin Goldberger |
| Tom Griffy |
| H |
| Martin Harwit |
| Werner Heisenbert (1, 2) |
| William Conyers Herring (1, 2) |
| Joel Hildebrand |
| Helen Sawyer Hogg |
| Nick Holonyak |
| I |
| J |
| Burton Jones |
| K |
| Edwin C. Kemble |
| Henry Way Kendall |
| Nicholas Kurti |
| L |
| William W. Lang |
| Otto Laporte |
| Harold Warren Lewis |
|
|
List of Voice Clips Online
| Niels Bohr |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
|
| Martin Schwarzschild |
| etc. |
|
|
