When Holmdel lab opened for business
DOI: 10.1063/1.3490485
I find it curious that in his article on laboratory architecture (Physics Today, April 2010, page 40 ), Stuart Leslie gives 1966 as the opening date of the Bell Labs facility in Holmdel, New Jersey.
As a young engineer in the electronic switching development department, I and many others worked in one of the mirrored cell blocks in 1963. I began work at the original Whippany facility in June 1960 and moved to the Holmdel location in, I believe, late 1962.
Buildings were still being constructed after I left for graduate school in 1963, but the facility was already operating with both lab and office space at that time.
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Gene H. McCall. (ghm@lanl.gov), Valparaiso, Florida, US .
