Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich on 1984 February 15: in German.
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| Title: | Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich on 1984 February 15: in German. |
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| Name(s): |
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich Freiherr von, 1912-2007 Harwit, Martin, 1931-, interviewer. |
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| Type of Resource: | mixed material | |
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Oral histories. Interviews. Sound recordings. Transcripts. |
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| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Created: | 1984 | |
| Extent: |
Transcript: 31 pages. Audio recording: 3 cassettes. |
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| Abstract/Description: | Wartime uranium project, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut, Kurt Diebner, von Weizsäcker's and his father's attitude; Werner Heisenberg's political motives in the Hitler era. Niels Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, 1941. Origin of planetary system, the age of the sun. Physics and astronomy studies in Universität Göttingen and elsewhere (Heisenberg, Max Born, Hans Kienle, Ludwig Biermann). American contacts at and visits to Lick, Mt. Wilson, Yerkes Observatories (Gerard Kuiper) after the war. Charles P. Snow's Two Cultures. The 1957 Göttingen Manifesto. The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Living Conditions of the Scientific-Technological World. Comments on 1955-1958 work Grundlagen der Quantentheorie und die Sogenannte Hypothese der Uralternativen. Hans Bethe's Nobel Prize; some thoughts on the future of astrophysics. | |
| Note(s): |
Interview conducted by Martin Harwit, 15 February 1984. Digital master copy saved to external hard drive, 2013. Loan copies may be made from digital copy. In German. Includes name index and table of contents. |
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| Subject(s): |
Biermann, Ludwig, 1907-1986 Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 Born, Max, 1882-1970 Diebner, Kurt Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 Kienle, Hans, 1895- Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973 Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980 Freiherr von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1912-2007 Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Lick Observatory. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Universität Göttingen. Yerkes Observatory. Astronomical observatories Astrophysics Cosmology Nobel Prizes Uranium World War, 1939-1945 -- Science |
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| Library Classification: | OH 4949 | |
| Held by: | American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA | |
| Restrictions on Access: |
In footnotes or endnotes please cite AIP interviews like this: Interview of Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker by Martin Harwit on 1984 February 15, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, http://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:271350 Oral history interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made, except with the written permission of the Institute. |
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