Century of the Atom. (1971) Produced by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and presented by the United States delegation to the Fourth International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, this set is narrated by Chet Huntley and Glenn T. Seaborg. The production includes audio footage of J.J. Thompson, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Otto Frisch, Otto Hahn, Herbert Anderson, Enrico Fermi, and other notables.
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Pioneering Work on Nuclear Fission [sound file]
Rethinking the Nucleus [sound file]
Producing a Chain Reaction [sound file]
To Fermi - with Love. (1971) Written by James Chimbidis, this two-record set drew upon audio recordings archived at the Argonne National Laboratory, the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the American Institute of Physics. The recordings are narrated by Jay Andre and incorporate the voices of Herbert Anderson, Laura Fermi (Mrs. Enrico Fermi), Emilio Serge, Arthur Holly Compton, Crawford Greenewalt, John Wheeler, George Weil, Walter Zinn, Norman Hilberry, Leslie R. Groves, Dale Babcock, Henry DeWolfe Smyth, Leona Woods Libby, Frank Matthias, Gus Knuth, and Otto Hillig.
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The First Nuclear Chain Reaction (part 1) [sound file]
The First Nuclear Chain Reaction (part 2) [sound file]