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A Conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge - Part II

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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.

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Goodstein, J.R. A Conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge - Part II. Phys. perspect. 5, 281–309 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-003-0145-3

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  • George W. Beadle
  • Caltech
  • Lee A. DuBridge
  • Theodore von Kármán
  • James R. Killian
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Linus Pauling
  • physics history
  • Hsue-Shen Tsien
  • Vista Project