Both of my parents are still alive today. So he’s a delightful, self-made American success story. My parents…well my father got into business from some invention he had made in photography, he never finished high school.
My grandparents came to this country from Russia and other parts of eastern Europe about the turn of the century. Does your family have a history of political or social activism, I mean your parents, brothers or sisters, anyone in your immediate or extended family whom you would consider being “radical? Schwartz: The first question we’ll start of f with is your family’s history of activism and related biographical information.
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Further, if you’d like, I’ll also send you a full copy of the transcription. And when it comes time for me to write my dissertation, or actually when it comes time for me to defend the dissertation, any quotes that I will use from this interview I will check with you f or any inaccuracy or if you do not want them to appear in print. I want to start of f by asking if it is okay to tape record our talk? Schwartz: Today is July 19, 1995, we are in the office of Professor Charles Schwartz, Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and I guess I should mention for the record we’re in 421 Birge Hall. The format of the interview incorporates background questions on childhood interests in science (physics) and politics family political and scientific histories interviewee's formal education (to include political activism and the nature of scientific specialization) perceptions on local, national, and global events up to 1974 those factors attributing to one's radicalization the interviewee's experiences and impressions of radicalism within physics, most especially within the American Physical Society involvement in the creation of and subsequent participation in radical science organizations (such as Scientist and Engineers for Social and Political Action) specific questions on interviewee's social, political and philosophical development as impacting the conduct of physics research and teaching and in-depth discussion of physics-society relations as influenced by internal and external socio-political struggles (such as the Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam War, and Women's Liberation Movements). This interview was conducted as part of a doctoral dissertation, the focus of which is the study of "radical" scientists in America, 1968-1974.
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