Oral history interview with Charles DuBois Coryell, 1960
- Name
- Coryell, Charles D. (Charles Du Bois), 1912-1971 (Interviewee)
- Safford, Joan Bainbridge (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Charles DuBois Coryell, 1960
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Charles DuBois Coryell, 1960
- Abstract
- Education in California and Germany; political philosophy; Manhattan Project, Chicago and Oak Ridge; security restrictions and problems; relationships with Army and DuPont Company; tension among scientists; emotional and scientific impact of bomb and its use; attempts to inform and influence public opinion and Congress; Smyth report; Europe and Israel sojourn; Robert Oppenheimer case; impressions o f many prominent atomic scientists
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Chemists; Nuclear weapons; Science--Moral and ethical aspects; Coryell, Charles D. (Charles Du Bois), 1912-1971; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967; Manhattan Project (U.S.); E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; United States. Army
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 441 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Chemist
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Biographical interview
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- 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
- Interviewed by Joan Bainbridge Safford
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7032361
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-5yg7-8x15
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.