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International Conference on the Quantum Interactions of the Free Electron: Electron physics in America

AUG 01, 1956
The address by Dr. Darrow, a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Secretary of the American Physical Society, was also an after‐dinner talk at the Electron Physics Conference Banquet.
Karl K. Darrow

Dr. Marton said I was going to speak about the history of electron physics in America. I think you are very fortunate that he did not make this request of someone competent to fulfill it, for if he had this person might have done it; and I can imagine nothing less appropriate for this hour of the evening of a busy day and particularly after so brilliant a speech as you have just heard.

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Karl K. Darrow, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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