Oral history interview with William Leonard Laurence, 1964
Other Titles
Reminiscences of William Leonard Laurence, 1964
Abstract
Experiences in New York, N.Y. journalism: New York WORLD, 1926-1930; science reporter, New York TIMES, 1930-1964; notable stories covered, including discovery of neutron, new elements, Harvard 300th Anniversary Conference; coverage of development of atomic energy: Manhattan Project, tests, dropping of bomb; Pulitzer Prizes, medical reporting.
Digitized microfiche also contains Reminiscences of Wil liam Leonard Laurence, 1957: Early years in Czarist Russia and Germany; dreams of flying; arrival in United States, 1905, and first jobs; experience at Harvard as student and tutor, 1908-1917; World War I experiences
Editors; Journalists; Nuclear energy; Reporters and reporting; Medicine--Research; Laurence, William Leonard, 1888-; New York times
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1964
Physical Description
395 pages
Note (Biographical)
Science editor; interviewee d.1977
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