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This interview covers Robert Rathbun Wilson's life from his early years in Frontier, Wyoming, through his graduate studies in physics in Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Wilson, R. From Frontiersman to Physicist. Phys. perspect. 2, 141–203 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050041
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050041
- Key words. Frontier, Wyoming; University of California at Berkeley; Radiation Laboratory; Ernest O. Lawrence; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Martin Kamen; cy-clotron; nuclear physics; nuclear fission; Fermilab.