Leonard S. Rodberg Oral History

Collection

Identifier: QMP-0007

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

In these two interviews, Dr. Leonard Rodberg discusses his journey as a scientist and as a member of the faculty at Queens College. He reminisces about getting interested in science as a boy growing up at the beginning of what he calls the Atomic Age, about working in Washington, D.C. on nuclear arms control and energy policy, and about the highlights of his career at Queens College, including being chair at the Department of Urban Studies. This interview was conducted as part of English 395W, "Theory and Practice of Oral History," taught by professors Bette Weidman and Ben Alexander.

Dates

2012-02-27 2012-03-21

Creator

Rodberg, Leonard S. (Interviewee, Person)

Access

This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/10737. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license. See license details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Leonard Rodberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1932. He got his Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D., also in Physics, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was Professor Emeritus and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College when he retired in 2016.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; Duration: 01:30:29

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Leonard S. Rodberg and Sheila Dallas Williams in February and March, 2012.

Processing Information

Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens.