Oral history interview with David Z. Robinson 1998

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Name: Robinson, David Z., 1927- (Interviewee); Hearing, Brenda (Interviewer); Grele, Ronald J (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with David Z. Robinson 1998
Other Titles: Reminiscences of David Z. Robinson : oral history, 1998
Abstract: Childhood: Montreal; Harvard University: A.B., 1946, A.M., 1947, Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1949; Americans for Democratic Action, Vice President of Cambridge chapter; Assistant Director for Research Study, Baird Associates, 1949-1959; Office for Naval Research, London, 1959-1960; member of the Optical Society to the International Commission for Optics; Office of the Scientific Advisor to the Presiden t, Science Advisory Committee, Communications Satellite Act, Air Traffic Control, White House-Kremlin hotline, liaison to the Ramsey Panel, liaison to National Science Foundation, 1961-1967; Vice President for Academic Affairs, New York University, student activities during Vietnam War era, 1967-1970; Vice President, Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1970-1980; Board of Trustees of City University of New York, 1976-1981; Executive Vice President of Carnegie Corporation, 1981-1985; Executive V.P. Treasurer, Carnegie Corporation, 1988-1997; Director, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, Government, 1988-1997; panel member, President's Science Advisory Committee on Hijacking; member, Naval Research Advisory Committee; member, Governor Hugh Carey's Task Force of Higher Education; reminiscences of colleagues.
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Subjects: Physicists; Science and state--United States; Robinson, David Z., 1927-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Format: oral histories
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1998
Physical Description: 227 pages; sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Note (Biographical): Scientist
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.; Interviewed by Brenda Hearing on January 8, February 27, April 30, September 18, and October 22, 1997 and by Ronald J. Grele on December 11, 1998.; Sound quality is poor at times.; Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Note (Provenance): David Z. Robinson, Gift 1998
Note (Copyright): Copyright held by The Carnegie Corporation of New York for sessions recorded in audio (Sessions 1-6), 2005. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for sessions recorded in video (Session 7), 1998.
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record: 7584952
Also In: Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
Copyright Status: In Copyright
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-k9dn-6e30
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.