http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1907605020

Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve

Early youth in Canton, South Dakota; teenage interest in radios and electricity (Ernest O. Lawrence). Origins of physics interest at Augustana Academy, Canton; college years at the University of Minnesota, until 1923; graduate work at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. at Hopkins, collaboration with Gregory Breit studying ionosphere with radio waves, 1926; position at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); nuclear physics work with Odd Dahl, Lawrence Hafstad, and others using Tesla coils in 1920s, and Van de Graaff generators in 1930s; head of proximity fuse work and first director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II; return to DTM; Director, 1946-1966; DTM research during directorship in seismology, biophysics, and radio astronomy.

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