| Title |
Curtis Colvin, Provo, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Curtis Colvin, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Colvin, Curtis |
| Contributor |
Shumway, Gary L. |
| Date |
1970-08-11 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Uranium industry--United States; Colvin, Curtis--Interviews; Chemists--United States; General Electric Company; Hanford Atomic Products Operation; Uranium enrichment; Uranium--Isotopes; Plutonium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
U-235; U-238 |
| Description |
Transcript (35 pages) of an interview by Gary Shumway with Curtis Colvin, on August 11, 1970. From tape number 79 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Colvin, a chemist, was interviewed by Gary Shumway in Provo, Utah. Subjects: personal background, experiences at Hanford atomic plant. solvent extraction process, people at Hanford, changes in companies, experiences with the federal government, breeder reactors (35 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
35 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6bk3kb4 |
| Topic |
Chemists; Uranium industry; Uranium--Isotopes; Uranium enrichment; Plutonium industry; General Electric Company; Hanford Atomic Products Operation |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1052978 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3kb4 |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1052961 |
| OCR Text |
Show page 19 C: in a little tank or anything like that. You have to have a good plant to blend the uranium isotopes. Then you've got to go back to the metal, see. S: Well, it has been a apparently a highly complicated chemical process that has required a great number of great minds working on it. As you worked here at Hanford, what was your impression of the people? We tend to think of these people as layman. We tend to think of them as people who, well you talk about a Fermi or a Lawrence, or a Boor or someone like this or someone not even in the same world almost as the layman. Did you find these people, this to be true of these people? C: Well, I had one contact with Glen Sebourg in the way of listening to him discuss a highly technical subject at a technical meeting. I found that he, let's see, as I recall his subject was'the transuranium elements'which can get pretty complicated. He presented the lecture in a manner of which I'm sure any of the fellows that had wanted to take their wives, their wives would have been interested in listening to it. If you looked at what he was really presenting; he was presenting highly technical material in a manner which it made it really easy to understand, very down to earth type man, who was able to get across to people, regardless of their background, that which he wanted to get across even though it was technical. I found this with many of the Ph.D. people that were working early in the game. They were people who were able to impart their information quite reasonably and they were willing to |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3kb4/1052961 |
