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LAWRENCE CRANBERG PAPERS, 1962-2000.

Title: LAWRENCE CRANBERG PAPERS, 1962-2000.

Collection includes several folders of correspondence (bulk dates 1964-1967) between Cranberg and staff members of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Institute of Physics concerning his objections over revisions made in the APS constitution in 1966 and his own proposals which would have amended the Society's objectives to allow it to become a regulatory organization concerned with the ethical practices of the physics community. Other correspondence topics include Cranberg's publication arrangements, especially for his many letters to the editor of Physics Today; the nomination of Edward G. Pickels for the National Medal of Science based on his contributions to the field of ultracentrifugation and supporting background material (1933-1992); correspondence from Cranberg and A. J. Zink to National Science Foundation concerning Zink's complaints regarding the manufacture of ultracentrifuges by Jesse W. Beams at the University of Virginia in the 1960s; the dismissal of James S. McCarthy from the University of Virginia in 2000; Oppenheimer's management of Los Alamos written in 2000. Also contains materials on Cranberg's "Reaction Study by Time-of-Flight," 1954, which discusses a method of observing and measuring the spectra of neutrons. Correspondents include: Luis W. Alvarez, Robert F. Bacher, Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Karl K. Darrow, R. Hobart Ellis, Maurice Goldhaber, Elmer Hutchisson, H. William Koch, Arthur L. Schawlow, Frederick Seitz, and Charles Townes.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet 1 manuscript box

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Zink, Alexander J.,. Papers of Alexander J. Zink [manuscript], 1960-1998.

Title: Papers of Alexander J. Zink [manuscript], 1960-1998.

Papers of Zink concern his grievance and legal efforts to seek redress for termination of employment for exposing alleged corruption and misuse of state funds and employees, and the illegal manufacturing of equipment in the department for private sale. Papers include correspondence with Dr. Lawrence Cranberg; memoranda, legal documents, miscellaneous related papers and Zink's 1995 memoir "Working for scientists and higher education: my experiences working for the University of Virginia" and his 1997 "A rebuttal to the memorandum of John W. Garber, Dirctor, Division of Personnel (State of Virginia).

ArchivalResource: 760 (ca.) items.

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University of Virginia. Dept. of Physics. Photographs of the Physics Accelerator Building, 1966.

Title: Photographs of the Physics Accelerator Building, 1966.

Photographs of the Physics Accelerator building and the public opening of the building on 1966 April 17. An introduction and table of contents are included. Photographs are by Whit Hancock and Dave Skinner.

ArchivalResource: 35 photos.

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Cranberg, Lawrence, 1917-. Detour to Dystopia : a century of pseudo-scientific socialism : typescript, 1980.

Title: Detour to Dystopia : a century of pseudo-scientific socialism : typescript, 1980.

Relates to the claims to scientific status for the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (260 p.) (1 ms. box)

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Lawrence Cranberg typescript : Detour to Dystopia : a century of pseudo-scientific socialism, 1980

Title: Lawrence Cranberg typescript : Detour to Dystopia : a century of pseudo-scientific socialism 1980

Relates to the claims to scientific status for the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Photocopy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (260 p.) (1 manuscript box); (0.4 linear feet)

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