Madison, Wisconsin: University Archives and Records Management Services
Summary
Former UW professor John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1977. In his 1978 interview with Donna Hartshorne, Van Vleck discusses his family ties to academia and his childhood in Madison, where his father was a professor. He describes his experiences as a student at UW-Madison and Harvard, and he reflects on his work and colleagues in the physics departments of Minnesota, Harvard, and UW. Having spent so much of his life in Madison, Van Vleck describes changes at the University from the 1910s to the 1970s.