- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- Chicago Cold War: Walter Massey
- Creator:
- Massey, Walter E.
Alter, Peter - Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 2012-05-31
- Subject:
- Argonne National Laboratory
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
Oral history
Interviews
Cold War
Nuclear energy
Nuclear physicists
Political science - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Londonderry, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, 40.15417, -76.725 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
Text
StillImage - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- Walter E. Massey was raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi by his mother, Essie, and stepfather, Elmore Massey, who adopted him. Dr. Massey earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1966 from Washington University, St. Louis. As a professor at Brown University, Massey was hired as director of the Argonne National Laboratory and took over Argonne a month prior to the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979. While working at Argonne, Dr. Massey was theoretical physicist. Throughout the Reagan years, he oversaw many facets of nuclear energy and dealt with Cold War policy shifts from one administration to the next.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/307
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:307/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- © 2017 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please visit https://images.chicagohistory.org or contact rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org. - Extent:
- Audio file: 54:34 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Chicago Cold War Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
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