Oral History Interview: Hugh Richards (0087)

dc.contributor.interviewee	Richards, Hugh
dc.contributor.interviewer	Smail, Laura
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-04T15:51:19Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-04T15:51:19Z
dc.date.issued	1977
dc.description	Background; Work on atom bomb during WWII; Los Alamos; Reasons for coming to UW; Raymond Herb; Physics Department; Problems in hiring; Federal grants and handling of overhead; Crowded conditions in Department; NSF's offer to finance building addition; Competition with Mathematics Research Center for space; Effort to set up separate college for sciences; Other problems as chairman; Department mode of operation; Consideration of division into applied and theoretical physics; Physical Science Divisional Committee's project for increased interchange between UW and state industry; Bombing of Sterling Hall and year of work repairing damage; West Campus Committee; Physics Department and TA Strike; Faculty governance.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/62830
dc.subject	TA Strike	en
dc.subject	Bombing of Sterling Hall	en
dc.subject	Atom bomb	en
dc.subject	UW-Madison Department of Physics	en
dc.title	Oral History Interview: Hugh Richards (0087)	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en