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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