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Interview with Alvin V. Tollestrup
No full textAn interview in two sessions, September and December 1994, with Alvin V. Tollestrup, who joined the Caltech faculty as a research fellow in the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy in 1950. Dr. Tollestrup received a BS in engineering from the University of Utah (1944) and after a stint in the U.S. Navy became a physics graduate student at Caltech (PhD 1950), working with William A. Fowler and Charles C. Lauritsen in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory. He became assistant professor of physics in 1953, associate professor in 1958, and full professor in 1962. In 1977, he joined the staff of Fermilab, where he had spent the preceding two years on sabbatical developing the superconducting magnets for the Energy Doubler/Saver machine that became the Tevatron. There he also played a key role in creating the CDF [Collider Detector at Fermilab], work leading to the 1995 discovery of the top quark.
In this interview, he discusses his early interest in science, his wartime radar work, and his career at Caltech, where he helped develop the Caltech synchrotron and later conducted important and innovative experiments, including the photoproduction of pions. He recalls his 1957-58 sabbatical at CERN, helping to plan and execute the first experiment at its 600-MeV cyclotron, on pion decay. He discusses the history of particle accelerators, and particularly of Fermilab’s Tevatron, noting the contributions of laboratory director Robert R. Wilson and his successor, Leon Lederman; the competition with Brookhaven National Laboratory’s ISABELLE project, and the search for the top quark. He concludes by commenting on the future prospects for high-energy physics
Orchestra, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textThe orchestra on stage. Albert N. Tollestrup is sitting in front on the edge of the stage. Note on the back says, "Front row, left to right: Katie Dalley, Don Urie, Tom Perry, Vivian Decker, Mark and Denny Robison, E. B. Dalley, Myrtle Decker. _Dalley.. Back row: left to right, Ada Dalley, George Perry, Jennie Coslett, Ina Leigh, Tom Lunt, Ann Jones, Virgil Tollestrup.
Orchestra, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female students with musical instruments. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing on the left side
BNS band, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female students with instruments. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing on the left. They are in a classroom
BNS band, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female students with instruments. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing on the left. They are in a classroom
Orchestra, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female students with musical instruments. Albert N. Tollestrup is conducting
BNS band, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female students with instruments. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing on the left. They are in a classroom
BNS band, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female band members with band instruments. They are standing outside on the steps of Old Main. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing in front
BNS band organized by Allbert N. Tollestrup
No full textMale and female students in uniforms with band instruments. Note on the back says, " This band was organized by A. N. Tollestrup, who procured the first band instruments and uniforms for the school. Members are: Top row (l. to r.) Mark Robison, Clarence Jones, Hunter Lunt, Willard Nisson, John Webster. Middle row (l. to r.) Myrtle Decker, Denny Robison, A. N. Tollestrup, George W. Decker, Rupert Wixon. Bottom row (l. to r.) Warren Taylor, Katie Dalley, Jennie Coslett, Vivian Decker.
BNS band, A. N. Tollestrup, leader
No full textMale and female band members with band instruments. They are standing outside on the steps of Old Main. Note on the back of the picture: "Back row (l. to r.) Lunt, Taylor, Israel Porter, Vivian Decker, Dwight Fullmer, Short row, (l. to r.) Clara McAllister, Ada Dalley, Middle row, (l. to r.) Whitwer, Myrtle Decker, May Wood, Ann Jones, Denny Robison, Ina Leigh, Martina Jaison, Frank Williamson, Willard Nisson. Front row (l. to r.) Albert N. Tollestrup, Dick Bryatn, Martin Robinson, John Dalley, Kate or Hazel Dalley, Olive Porter, George Parry.
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