Valasek, Joseph, 1896-
Oral history interview with Joseph Valasek, 1969 May 8.
Family background, early schooling; undergraduate studies at Case Institute of Technology; B.S., 1917; assistant physicist at National Bureau of Standards, 1917-1919; research on piezoelectricity of sodium chlorate and bromate; World War I work in pyrometry and optical glass manufacture; graduate studies at University of Minnesota; M.A., 1921; teaching assistant, 1919-1920; Ph.D., 1921; instructor of physics, 1920-1921; member of physics faculty; research on ferroelectricity of rochelle salt crystals and location of Curie Points; x-ray spectroscopy research at Upsala universitet, Sweden, 1928-1929; comments on nuclear physics at University of Minnesota.
Case Institute of Technology.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
University of Minnesota.
Uppsala universitet.
Curie temperature.
Ferroelectricity.
Glass, optical.
Nuclear physics.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Piezoelectricity.
Pyrometry.
Solid state physics.
World War, 1914-1918.
X-ray spectroscopy.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings. aat
Transcripts. aat
Stuewer, Roger H., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA