Interview with Lee A. DuBridge, Part II

DuBridge, Lee A. (2003) Interview with Lee A. DuBridge, Part II. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.

This is the latest version of this eprint.

Full text available as:

PDF - Use Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 for embedded audio.

Abstract

Physicist Lee A. DuBridge became president of the California Institute of Technology in 1946. In this interview he recalls his dealings at Caltech with Linus Pauling; his memories of George W. Beadle, Theodore von Kármán, and J. Robert Oppenheimer; the military Vista Project at Caltech; and the difficulties surrounding the deportation of Hsue-shen Tsien, Caltech’s Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion.

EPrint Type:	Oral History
Interviewer:	Judith Goodstein
Interview Date:	February 20, 1981
Additional Information:	Parts I and II of the Lee A. DuBridge interview are published as "A Conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge" in Physics in Perspective, 5 (2003), 174-205, 281-309. The original version of the interview is available in book form in the Caltech Archives.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Physics, administration
Subjects:	Subjects > Administration Subjects > Physics All Records
ID Code:	68
Deposited By:	Oral Histories Administrator
Deposited On:	24 November 2003
Record Number:	CaltechOH:OH_DuBridge_2
Official Persistent URL:	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_DuBridge_2
Usage Policy:	You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format.

Available Versions of this Item

Interview with Lee A. DuBridge, Part I (deposited 12 November 2003)
- Interview with Lee A. DuBridge, Part II (deposited 24 November 2003) [Currently Displayed]

Archive Staff Only: edit this record