Reminiscences of Richard W. Cook 1975
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- Name
- Cook, Richard W. (Richard Wallace), 1907-1992 (Interviewee)
- Burg, Maclyn (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Richard W. Cook 1975
- Abstract
- Early civilian engineering career, 1933-40; Army engineering assignments, 1940-44; assignment to Manhattan District in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944-48: security, construction of gaseous diffusion plant for separation of uranium, coordination of schedules with Los Alamos, resignation from Army; position with Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-58; American Machine and Foundry, 1958-64
- Collection Name
- Eisenhower administration project
- Subjects
- Engineers; Nuclear energy; Nuclear engineering; Cook, Richard W. (Richard Wallace), 1907-1992; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Manhattan Project (U.S.); United States. Army
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 73 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Engineer
- Note
- Interviewed by Maclyn Burg on October 27, 1975
- Note (Provenance)
- Eisenhower Library, Gift 1977
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13752484
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2tvp-ja46
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.