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• Berkeley nuclear physicist dies at 88

  - 2003-11-21

  LAFAYETTE -- August Carl Helmholz, a nuclear physicist and professor emeritus of physics at UC Berkeley, died Oct. 29 at his home in Lafayette. He was 88. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall of the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. ...

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• Asking personal questions.(oral history interviewing techniques)

  - 2002-06-22

  You might say I was grandmothered into the Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley as an interviewer-editor in 1970. In those days, there were few courses in oral history methods. The idea of a graduate oral history program was just a glimmer on the horizon. It...

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• Berkeley, Calif., Professor to Design Wall of Steel for Skyscrapers.

  - 2001-10-19

  By Curtis L. Esquibel, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 19--BERKELEY, Calif.--UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has built his career on finding ways to protect American skyscrapers during colossal tragedies. Before Sept. 11, car...

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