Stephane Groueff

Stephane Groueff: And what was your background, Mr. Gary? You said that you are a Southerner? Tom Gary: Well, I do not know whether I am a Phoenix or a paradox. Groueff: Why? Gary: People used to say, “How can you do these things?” I said, “I was a military engineer. A military engineer does […]

Marge Shipley: As for housing, men would come too, because they would feel that they would get sent for their wives. Shirely Tawse: What would you do then, take it up with the Tennessee Eastman? Shipley: I would take it up with Eastman and do what I could. I’d quiet them down if I could. […]

Stephane Groueff: Mr. Gary, what was your job at that time here? Tom Gary: Head of the design division. The engineering department had five divisions: design, construction, engineering services—that’s a division of consultants and they have young engineer’s resident on many of the DuPont plants. The fourth one was control, which is to take care […]

Shirley Tawse: Pat, do you live here now too? Patricia Hansard: Uh-huh. Tawse: I’d like to ask you how you first became interested. How you happened to go to Oak Ridge? You said before it was for the money. Hansard: Uh-huh. Tawse: Tell me. I would just like to visualize it as it happened to […]

Stephane Groueff: Recording from Wilmington, Delaware. DuPont Company. Samuel McNeight: I’ll say the major part of the reason why I ask Dale to come over with me was that Dale’s acquaintanceship and part in the Manhattan Project considerably pre-dates mine. Also, he was a part of the reactor group, which I was not. I had […]

Stephane Groueff: Yes, now we’re recording, Dr. Hilberry. Norman Hilberry: I think Dale Babcock’s paper is a real addition to the overall literature on the subject, because that period which led up to the discovery of the Xenon had never really been gotten down on paper before. The things that happened in Wilmington, John A. […]

Stephane Groueff: Yes, Dr. Manley, from the beginning. Then I’ll start asking questions. John Manley: Alright, fine. I guess the first relevant business is the fact that I went to Columbia in ‘34. I was sort of on the fringe. I worked mostly with [Isidor] Rabi for the first couple of years. Groueff: You are […]

Arthur Squires: Keith is a personality. Stephane Groueff: He is kind of a personality. Squires: Keith is a personality and I worked with this man seventeen years, shy two weeks. Groueff: So you know him very well.                    Squires: I know him very well. Groueff: Would you […]

Arthur Squires: And I probably did not appreciate, during the war itself, the extent to which this was such a remarkable effort. Kellex – I am sure some of this you have already heard. Kellex was put together by M.W. Kellogg Company pretty much on a command basis. They just went to the top people […]

Groueff: Hello? Hello? Recording, San Francisco, Berkeley, February 9, 1965. Robert Thornton: Well my first connection with the radiation laboratory was in about 1933 when I came here on a post-doctoral fellowship because it was not long before then. And I then was working with Professor [Ernest] Lawrence and others on the development on the […]