Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Finding aid for the Oral History Project files and recordings
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Summary Information
- Repository
- Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
- Creator
- Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.).
- Title
- Oral History Project files and recordings
- ID
- ORALHIS
- Date [bulk]
- Bulk, 1988-2018
- Date [inclusive]
- 1950-2018
- Extent
- 12.0 linear feet 15 document boxes, 4 boxes of recordings, and digital files
- Language
- English
Preferred Citation note
The suggested citation for the material is "[item], Oral History Project files and recordings, Box [box number], from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA."
Background on the Project
The Institute for Advanced Study's Oral History Project was established in 1988 in order to, in the words of interviewer Patricia H. Labalme, "obtain as full an oral record as possible of memories of the early years of the Institute and its most significant participants." Labalme served as Associate Director of the Institute from 1982 to 1988, Secretary of the Corporation from 1982 to 1992, and Assistant to Institute Director Phillip Griffiths from 1992 to 1997. She began the project in 1988 in response to a suggestion by then-Director Marvin Goldberger that she write a history of the Institute. She thought it best to begin by interviewing various people associated with the early history of the Institute, especially since at the time many of the early Faculty had either died or were quite elderly. Labalme conducted interviews with 14 Faculty members, Faculty spouses, past Director Harry Woolf, and others associated with the history of the Institute, with a particular focus on the School of Historical Studies.
Betsy Devine, the wife of Frank Wilczek, who was a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the time, was also interested in compiling a record of the early history of the Institute in the late 1980s. She focused her attention on the early history of the School of Mathematics, and interviewed 10 Faculty members and others associated with the School's history.
Elliott Shore, then Librarian of the Historical Studies-Social Science Library, conducted interviews with Faculty, former Members, and past Director Carl Kaysen, between 1993 and 1996 for a history of the School of Social Science to be written in conjunction with the School's 25th Anniversary.
Institute Associate Director for Development and Public Affairs Rachel Gray conducted an interview with Armand Borel in 2001.
Sheldon Hochheiser, an outside oral historian, conducted interviews with Freeman Dyson and Robert Langlands in 2007 and 2008.
The Institute received an endowment for its Archives from the Leon Levy Foundation in 2009. This funding included support for expanding the Oral History Project. Linda Arntzenius, an independent scholar and former Publications Officer of the Institute, began in 2009 to conduct interviews with Faculty, Faculty spouses, Trustees, former staff, and others associated with the history of the Institute.
Scope and Contents note
The Oral History Project files and recordings include administrative files, background research, transcripts, and audio recordings related to interviews conducted for the project.
Arrangement note
The records are grouped chronologically by interviewer; interviews are arranged alphabetically by subject thereunder. The interviewers for the Oral History Project were Betsy Devine (1986-1990), Patricia Labalme (1988-1997), Elliott Shore (1991-1996), Rachel Gray (2001), Sheldon Hochheiser (2007-2008), and Linda Arntzenius (2009-ongoing). Betsy Devine's records include research files for a proposed history of the School of Mathematics. Also included with the Oral History Project files are the recordings of two 1978 interviews between Director Harry Woolf and former Member Gaines Post.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Historical Studies-Social Science LibraryEinstein Drive
Princeton
NJ, 08540
609-734-8375
archives@ias.edu
Conditions Governing Access
Some interviews have been closed to researchers for a period of time at the request of the interview subjects. Please contact archives@ias.edu for information on the conditions of access for specific interviews.
Collection Inventory
Betsy Devine files 1986-1990 |
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Biographical information |
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George David Birkhoff |
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Armand Borel |
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Kurt Gödel |
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Phillip A. Griffiths |
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Harish-Chandra |
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Solomon Lefschetz |
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Marston Morse |
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Oswald Veblen |
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Hermann Weyl |
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IAS Oral History Project Card file 1989 |
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Correspondence, including original signed release and transcript for Donald Spencer 1988-1990 |
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IAS grant proposal for Math history 1988 |
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Interviews |
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Michael Atiyah October 1, 1989 General noteMaterials closed pending receipt of a signed release form. |
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Raoul Bott May 4, 1989 |
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Shiing-Shen Chern April 28, 1989 |
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Michael J. Larsen May 28, 1990 |
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Saunders Mac Lane November 13 and 14, 1990 |
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Deane Montgomery January 2-3, 1989 |
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Atle Selberg June 11, 1989 and June 15, 1989 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1037/Selberg_OH_1989_final.pdf] |
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John Maynard Smith November 17, 1988 |
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Donald Clayton Spencer October 20 and 21, 1989 |
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Albert Tucker October 1988-June 1989 |
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Hassler Whitney September 20, 1988 and September 23, 1988 |
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IAS Math History |
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Bibliography and catalogs of papers |
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Princeton Math |
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Refugees |
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Refugees |
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Box contents/note |
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IAS 1930s - General |
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History and Philosophy of Math |
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Oppenheimer - IAS, 1947-1966 |
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IAS Recent History - post-1976 |
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Charles John Wetzel - Thesis |
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Norbert Wiener |
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Der Frosch-Maeusekrieg (Kaysen IAS, 1966-1976) |
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Elizabeth Wilczek's Research (requests for Veblen Papers) |
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Elizabeth Wilczek's Research (requests for Veblen Papers) |
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Betsy Devine papers on Birkhoff, von Neumann, etc. |
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von Neumann, Birkhoff biographies |
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Ergodic Theorem |
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Oswald Veblen, 1920-1929 |
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Oswald Veblen, 1930s |
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Oswald Veblen, pre-1920s (Birkhoff letters) |
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Oswald Veblen, 1923-1925 (Birkhoff and Gromwall) |
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1931 |
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1932 |
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1932 |
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1933 |
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1933 |
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1934-1935 |
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IAS Bulletins, 1930-1946 - Member Lists |
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1936-1937 |
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1938-1939 |
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1940-1949 |
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1950- |
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IAS History pre-1950 - Beatrice Stern's notes |
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Patricia Labalme files 1988-1997 |
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Summary of Oral History interviews, September 1, 1988 to September 1, 1989 1989 |
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Oral History status report May 1997 1997 |
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Oral history best practices and guidelines 1989-1991 |
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Marantz audio recorder 1991 |
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"Gleanings from the Archives" - Olden Manor 1990-1991 |
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Oral History report and release forms 1991 |
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Interviews |
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Marshall Clagett March 4 and 14, 1996 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/208/Clagett_Marshall_OH_1996.pdf] |
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J. Richardson Dilworth March 9, 1990 |
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John Huxtable Elliott May 15, 1990 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1021/Elliott_John_OH_19900515.pdf] |
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Ralph E. Giesey June 12, 1990 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1029/Giesey_Ralph_OH_19900612_final.pdf] |
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George Frost Kennan August 30, 1989 and February 27, 1990 Conditions Governing Use noteGeorge F. Kennan placed the following conditions on the transcript: "Embargoed until the after (sic) deaths of the persons mentioned -- or their names could be omitted if the material would be used before that time." |
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Margaret L. Meiss March 21, 1991 |
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Benjamin Dean Meritt November 10-12, 1988 |
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Lucy Shoe Meritt November 12, 1988 |
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Grant Sanger April 6, 1989 |
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Dorothy Morgenstern Thomas June 1, 1990 |
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Dorothy Burr Thompson October 19, 1988 and December 5, 1988 |
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Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler March 21, 1989 and May 3, 1989 |
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Harry Woolf December 8, 1993 and December 20, 1993 |
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Elliott Shore files 1991-1996 |
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Oral history report and release forms 1991 |
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Letters to various professors re: oral interviews 1996 |
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Emails re: oral history interviews 1996 |
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Elliott Shore's notes 1994-1996 |
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Interviews |
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Marshall Clagett March 4 and 14, 1996 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/208/Clagett_Marshall_OH_1996.pdf] |
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Clifford Geertz December 6, 1995 General noteClosed to researchers pending receipt of a signed release form. |
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Albert O. Hirschman April 19, 1994 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/210/Hirschman_Albert_OH_19940419_final.pdf] |
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Carl Kaysen July 6, 1994 |
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Orlando Patterson November 6, 1996 General noteClosed for research pending receipt of a signed release. |
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István Rév August 30, 1996 General noteClosed for research pending receipt of a signed release. |
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William Sewell May 23, 1995 |
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Quentin Skinner February 17, 1995 |
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Rachel Gray files 2001 |
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Armand Borel November 2, 2001 |
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Sheldon Hochheiser files 2007-2008 |
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Interviews |
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Freeman Dyson June 19, 2007 and June 20, 2007 |
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Robert Langlands April 21, 2008 |
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Linda Arntzenius files 2009-2018 |
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Project updates 2009-2017 |
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Signed release forms 2009-2017 Arrangement noteArranged in folders chronologically by year, and alpabetically thereunder. Signed release forms for the current year are stored with the archivist's current files. |
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Interviews |
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Stephen L. Adler February 7, 2017 Conditions Governing Access noteAt the request of Stephen L. Adler, this interview is closed to researchers "for 30 years from date when I put my memoir in archives." Professor Adler donated the manuscript of his memoir to the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center on March 12, 2014; his oral history interview will be opened after March 12, 2044. |
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Lily (Nan) Agar July 9, 2009 |
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Christine Ayoub May 10, 2014 |
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Neta Bahcall November 16, 2011 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/187/Bahcall_Neta_OH_20111116_final.pdf] |
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Alice Bigelow; Marc Bigelow; Nick Bigelow; George Dyson March 23, 2013 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/186/Bigelow_Family_OH_20130323_final.pdf] |
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Enrico Bombieri April 5, 2017 Conditions Governing Access noteThis interview is closed to researchers during the lifetime of Professor Bombieri. |
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Gaby Borel March 17, 2010 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/188/Borel_Gaby_OH_20100317_final.pdf] |
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Glen Bowersock April 22, 2009 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/625/Bowersock_Glen_OH_20090422_final.pdf] |
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Olga (Dottie) Bowman November 8, 2016 Conditions Governing Access noteClosed until November 8, 2021. |
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Caroline Walker Bynum February 26, 2014 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until February 26, 2029. |
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Eugenio Calabi January 21, 2016 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/209/Calabi_Eugenio_OH_20160121_final.pdf] |
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Giles Constable March 22, 2010 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/624/Constable_Giles_OH_20100322_final.pdf] |
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John Dawson May 30, 2013 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1020/Dawson_John_OH_20130530_final.pdf] |
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Pierre Deligne February 24, 2012 Conditions Governing AccessTwo pages of this interview are closed until April 17, 2022. The remainder is open without restriction. |
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Freeman Dyson November 9, 2009; June 2, 2016 |
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George Dyson November 11, 2010 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1032/Dyson_George_OH_20101111_final.pdf] |
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Imme Dyson February 12, 2014 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until February 12, 2064. |
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Akrevoe Emmanouilides November 12, 2010 |
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Momota Ganguli 2018 Conditions Governing Access noteClosed for 10 years from the date of the interview. |
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Robert Geddes December 17, 2009 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1022/Geddes_Robert_OH_20091217_final.pdf] |
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Roberta Gernhardt September 18, 2017 |
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Kristen Ghodsee May 9, 2014 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1023/Ghodsee_Kristen_OH_20140509_final.pdf] |
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Helen Goddard February 2, 2016 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1038/Goddard_Helen_OH_20160202_final.pdf] |
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Peter Goddard November 12 and 19, 2014; December 3 and 11, 2014 Conditions Governing AccessAn edited transcript of the interviews is open without restriction; this transcript includes the entirety of the November 12, 2014 interview and portions of the later interviews. Audio of the November 12, 2014 interview is available without restriction. Portions of the November 19, December 3, and December 11, 2014 interviews are sealed for periods of 15, 30, and 40 years after the date of recording. The remaining portions of the transcripts, therefore, will be available to researchers after December 11 of the years 2029, 2044, and 2054. |
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Peter Goldreich March 3, 2011 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until March 3, 2021. |
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Oleg Grabar December 1, 2009 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1034/Grabar_Oleg_OH_20091201_final.pdf] |
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Rachel Gray November 15, 2011 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until November 15, 2021. |
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Vartan Gregorian February 10, 2016 Conditions Governing Access noteClosed until February 10, 2021. |
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Marian (Taffy) Griffiths September 19, 2016 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until September 19, 2026. |
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Phillip A. Griffiths June 16, 2009 and July 7, 2009 Conditions Governing AccessThe audio recording, and pages 24-29 of the June 16, 2009 interview, are closed until July 7, 2029. The remaining pages of the two interviews are closed until July 7, 2019. |
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Christian Habicht April 29, 2009 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until April 29, 2019. |
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Ralph Hansmann May 6, 2010 |
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Lily Harish-Chandra April 9, 2009 |
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Nancy Hingston July 7, 2017 |
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Sarah Hirschman November 5, 2009 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/211/Hirschman_Sarah_OH_20091105_final.pdf] |
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Piet Hut March 31, 2011 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until 3/31/2041, with access permitted before then by written authorization from Professor Hut only. |
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Rosanna Jaffin February 25 and March 21, 2011 |
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Helene Kaplan February 27, 2012 |
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David Leslie Kennedy May 3, 2017 |
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Immanuel (Ike) Kohn May 2, 2011 Transcript (PDF) [https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/1063/Kohn_Immanuel_OH_20110502_final.pdf] |
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Charlotte Langlands April 12, 2016 Conditions Governing AccessClosed to researchers until April 12, 2026. |
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Robert Langlands October 21, 2009 |
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Irving Lavin May 11, 2010 |
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Marilyn LavinConditions Governing Access noteClosed to researchers pending receipt of signed release form. |
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Transcript |
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Audio recording |
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Arnold J. Levine December 3, 2014 |
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R. Duncan Luce December 2, 2011 |
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Jack Matlock April 7, 2011 |
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Dusa McDuff May 18, 2017 |
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Louise J. Morse and Louise A. Morse January 9, 2009, February 2, 2009 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until February 2, 2019. |
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Louise A. Morse and Maria Fortiz-Morse March 25, 2017 |
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John Forbes Nash May 2, 2012 |
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Melvyn Nathanson February 1, 2016 |
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Gerda Panofsky April 9, 2010 Conditions Governing AccessTranscript closed until April 9, 2020. |
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Peter Paret June 23, 2010 Conditions Governing AccessClosed during the life of the interviewee. |
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Allen Rowe January 13, 2010, January 19, 2010 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until January 19, 2020. |
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Joan Wallach Scott May 14, 2015 |
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Karen Uhlenbeck April 15, 2015 Conditions Governing Access noteClosed until April 15, 2030. |
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Caroline Underwood May 27, 2010 |
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Michael Walzer April 12, 2010 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until April 12, 2020. |
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Morton Gabriel White June 29, 2009 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until May 27, 2031. |
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Marina von Neumann Whitman May 7, 2011 |
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Mary Wisnovsky April 30, 2009 Conditions Governing AccessClosed until April 30, 2019. |
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James D. Wolfensohn June 2, 2015 |
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Pat Woolf |
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Gaines Post files 1978 |
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Harry Woolf |
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Audio Recording August 29, 1978 3.0 audiocassette 2 full cassettes plus one shared with Harry Woolf 1978 interview 3 audiocassettes downstairs; 3 audiocassettes upstairs (1 shared with Harry Woolf 1978 interview) |
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Audio Recording October 20, 1978 1.0 audiocassette 1 cassette shared with Gaines Post interview |
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