| Title |
Serge Golian, Santa Ana, California, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Serge Golian, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Golian, Serge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-06-28 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Golian, Serge--Interviews; Radar--Military applications--United States; Radar--Research--United States; Nuclear weapons--Research--United States; Nuclear energy--United States |
| Keywords |
OSRD |
| Description |
Transcript (84 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with Serge Golian, on June 28, 1970. From tape number UR-195 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed Golian in Santa Ana, California. Subjects: childhood and MIT, radar in Britain, jerry-rigged devices, Battle of Britain, the war in Germany and the Far East, paratroopers, German research on the A-bomb and rockets, cosmic ray research, atomic energy, submarines, nuclear testing in the Pacific, radiation shielding, Hiroshima bomb, dangers of reactors, public perception, the environment and the cold war, earthquake theory, waste disposal, isotopes for pasteurization, medical applications, agricultural applications, radioactive dating, neutron analysis and the U. S. Navy, future applications (84 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
19 pages, 57 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/s6nw1r70 |
| Topic |
Radar--Military applications; Radar--Research; Nuclear weapons--Research; Nuclear energy |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055994 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1r70 |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055926 |
| OCR Text |
Show SERGE GOLIAN #1 CE: The Rad Lab Series on Radar. SG: It's about twenty-five volumes, and we were all assigned pieces of this. The requirement was, you can go, but before you go you've got to hand in your piece. CE: Your term paper. SG: Your term paper, well, yes. CE: So you did, and the title of yours is what? SG: Oh, no, I supplied pieces of one, which is one of the volumes which was on beacons, and I supplied certain parts of that, because very early in the development or radar at M.I.T., I decided to go into--one requirement that was very badly needed was a portable beacon, for specific purposes some of which--for example, beacons which were carried by the very first paratroopers that jumped into Europe. These had not been developed at this time, so once I started this development and completed it, I suppose I spent really most of the war really trying to really having these used in various ways. CE: Explain the function, I'm interested in knowing how someone who's parachuting into an area could use this device. SG: Oh, well, that was very easy, the pathfinders of-let's say that we had aircraft that would go in with 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1r70/1055926 |
