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New York Times Company records. A.M. Rosenthal papers, 1955-1994, 1967-1986

Title: New York Times Company records. A.M. Rosenthal papers 1955-1994 1967-1986

The New York Times Company records: A.M. Rosenthal papers document the editorial career of Managing and Executive Editor Abraham Michael Rosenthal (1922-2006), noted for his stewardship of that newspaper during one of its most tumultuous periods, from the 1960s through the 1980s. The collection contains Rosenthal's office files from , spanning the era of his editorial tenure. Containing extensive professional correspondence, the papers illustrate the deliberations and thought processes behind the decisions made at the very top of arguably the most important newspaper in the world. New York Times The New York Times

ArchivalResource: 54.18 linear feet; 129 boxes

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Robert Eugene Marshak papers, 1970-1985

Title: Robert Eugene Marshak papers 1970-1985

Correspondence, memoirs and other writings, memoranda, reports, studies, minutes, trial testimony, clippings, and serial issues, relating to administration of the City College of the City University of New York.

ArchivalResource: 19 manuscript boxes; (7.6 linear feet)

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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005. Reminiscences at Robert Marshak's sixtieth birthday banquet [sound recording] / 1977 January 21.

Title: Reminiscences at Robert Marshak's sixtieth birthday banquet [sound recording] / 1977 January 21.

Bethe's historical reminiscences of Marshak's career in honor of his 60th birthday.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (30 min.) : 3.75 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83225183 View

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Addition to papers, 1952-1992.

Title: Addition to papers, 1952-1992.

Papers consist of correspondence, including the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and City College of New York. It also includes photocopies of articles, magazines, and newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, invitations, awards and prizes, books, pamphlets, bound reports, speeches, proposals, and posters. Topics include high-energy physics, theoretical physics, mathematics, and nuclear diffusion. Also includes copy of oral history interview with Marshak.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863632 View

Prize essay collection, 1872-2001

Title: Prize essay collection, 1872-2001

Prize-winning student essays from Cornell Universitycontests in creative writing, poetry, social sciences, and humanities. Includes anessay on China by Pearl S. Buck.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA01317.xml View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79239321 View

American Physical Society. Meeting (1967 : New York, N.Y.). Selected papers [sound recording].

Title: Selected papers [sound recording].

Speakers include: John A. Wheeler, "The End of Time," his retiring address as President of the APS; John H. Van Vleck, "Karl Darrow: Writer, Councilor, and Secretary;" Robert H. Dicke, "Gravitation and Cosmic Physics," the 26th Richtmyer lecture of the American Assn. of Physics Teachers; George Thomson, "Septuagenarian Electron;" and Robert Marshak, "Theory of Weak Interactions."

ArchivalResource: 3 sound tape reels (6 hr.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83426570 View

Working Inventory of the Robert E. Marshak Papers, 1947-1990

Title: Working Inventory of the Robert E. Marshak Papers, 1947-1990

The collection consist of Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conferences (1947-49) and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conferences on High-Energy Physics (1950-57), which he founded. The papers also includes correspondence, notes, reports, files, speech texts, newsclippings, autographs, photographs, transcripts, and other personalia donated in 1994--these materials are unprocessed.

ArchivalResource: 65.1 cu. ft.; 65 boxes; 1 oversize folder

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00636.xml View

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.

Title: Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.

The collection includes two series of lectures given at the informally organized Los Alamos University and attended by employees of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The first series, entitled 'LA Report 24: Lecture Series on Nuclear Physics', is comprised of typewritten, mimeographed notes on lectures given in 1943-1944 by: Felix Bloch, Robert F. Christy, C.L. Critchfield, Edwin M. McMillan, Emilio Segrè, Edward Teller, Victor F. Weisskopf, and John H. Williams. Topics include: diffusion theory, neutron physics, the statistical theory of nuclear reactions, terminology, the two body problem, and radioactivity. The second series of handwritten, mimeographed notes on advanced topics in physics is in two volumes. Volume One (1945-1946) contains notes from lectures given by: Hans A. Bethe (assisted by Robert E. Marshak), Lyman G. Parratt (assisted by Bruno Rossi and John W. Trischa), Rudolf Peierls (assisted by Robert F. Christy and Klaus Fuchs), John Manley and Victor F. Weisskopf (assisted by Bernard T. Feld and Julian Schwinger). Volume Two (1945-1946) comprises notes from lectures by: Joseph Keller (assisted by Julius Askin and Chaim Richman), George B. Kistiakowsky, Leonard Schiff (assisted by Eugene M. Baroody), and Edward Teller (assisted by Robert F. Christy and Emil J. Konopinski). Topics include: electromagnetic theory, hydrodynamics, modern physics and nuclear physics (vol. 1); quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, theoretical mechanics, and thermodynamics (vol. 2). The collection comprises notes taken by attendees of the lectures, and also some compiled by the lecturers. The notes were collected by Jack H. Smith during his employment at Los Alamos.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863423 View

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Robert Eugene Marshak papers, 1970-1985.

Title: Robert Eugene Marshak papers, 1970-1985.

Correspondence, memoirs and other writings, memoranda, reports, studies, minutes, trial testimony, clippings, and serial issues, relating to administration of the City College of the City University of New York.

ArchivalResource: 19 ms. boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754872077 View

American Physical Society. New York State Section. Fall Meeting (1984 : Rochester, N.Y.). Symposium honoring Lee Alvin DuBridge [sound recording] / 1984 September 21-22.

Title: Symposium honoring Lee Alvin DuBridge [sound recording] / 1984 September 21-22.

The symposium honoring DuBridge was held in collaboration with the University of Rochester. Speakers included: R. Kingslake, "The Rochester Years;" D. R. Corson, "The War Years;" J. R. Goodstein, "The DuBridge Era at Caltech;" L. Mandel, "The Photoelectric Effect and the Quantum Nature of Light;" S. W. Barnes, "Reminiscence of Collaboration with Lee DuBridge;" and R. E. Marshak, "Lee DuBridge and the Birth of Particle Physics at Rochester."

ArchivalResource: 4 sound cassettes (3 hrs.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303631 View

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000. Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Manuscripts, correspondence (including many requests to give talks or seminars or advice on building accelerators), papers, talks, articles, clippings, notes and notebooks, course materials, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. He was also highly regarded as a lecturer and teacher of physics and historian of world affairs relating to the developing uses of atomic energy. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs, as well as designs and plans for his homes in New Mexico and Florida. Correspondents include: Len Ackland, J.B. Adams, Paul Aebersold, Samuel K. Allison, Luis Alvarez, Edoardo Amaldi, Robert Bacher, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Charles Parker Baker, Gilberto Bernardini, Hans A. Bethe, Norris Bradbury, Gregory Breit, Morton Camac, James Cassels, Wen-yu Chang, Stirling Colgate, Alice Cook, Donald Cooksey, Dan Cooper, Robert Cornog, Dale R. Corson, L.S. Cottrell, Ed Creutz, Karl K. Darrow, John DeWire, Pierre Donzelot, Philippe Eberhard, Bernard Feld, Dennis Flanagan, William A. Fowler, Jerome H. Fregau, R.C. Gibbs, William T. Golden, Maurice Goldhaber, Edwin L. Goldwasser, L. Goldzahl, S. Goutsmit, Kenneth Greisen, T.C. Griffith, Gaylord P. Harnwell, W.W. Havens, Jr., David Hawkins, Leland J. Haworth, S.S. Hecker, William Higenbotham, Frederic de Hoffmann, Robert Hofstadter, Gerald Holton, David R. Inglis, W.K. Jentschke, Donald W. Kerst, Seishi Kikuchi, Raymond N. Knellberg, George A. Kolstad, James A. Krumhansl, Hirao Kumagai, L. Jackson Laslett, Ernest O. Lawrence, Leon M. Lederman, T.D. Lee, A.J. Leigh, J.S. Levinger, Maurice M. Levy, Urner Liddel, Raphael Littauer, M. Stanley Livingston, Edward J. Lofgren, Franklin A. Long, Harry Lustig, T.W. Mackesey, John H. Manley, Robert E. Marshak, Boyce D. McDaniel, Paul W. McDaniel, Edwin M. McMillan, J. Howard McMillen, Richard L. Meier, E.E. Minett, Philip Moon, Philip Morrison, Paul M. O'Leary, Frank Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Orear, Philip S. Owen, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, and Richard Parmenter. Correspondents also include: Lyman G. Parratt, R.E. Peierls, James A. Perkins, F. Perrin, Melba Phillips, Bruno Pontecorvo, William Preston, Federico Quercia, Norman Ramsey, Leonard M. Rieser, Arthur Roberts, Thomas R. Rogers, Edward T. Rosenbaum, Arthur E. Ruark, Robert G. Sachs, Carl Sagan, Giorgio Salvini, Joseph Halle Schaffner, Herwig Schopper, Emilio Segrè, Frederick Seitz, R.S. Shankland, A.H. Shapley, Kai Siegbahn, Albert Silverman, Daniel M. Singer, Ralph Carlisle Smith, H.D. Smyth, Jack Steinberger, Jeremy J. Stone, Sandro Stringari, S. Cushing Strout, John M. Swomley, Leo Szilard, John T. Tate, Edward Teller, Emily Thompson, John S. Toll, Timothy E. Toohig, Robert L. Walker, Alvin M. Weinberg, Victor F. Weisskopf, John A. Wheeler, Harry J. White, Milton G. White, E.P. Wigner, Herman S. Wigodsky, Frederic H. Williams, John H. Williams, Robert Williams, Richard Wilson, Michael Witherell, William M. Woodward, T.P. Wright, William E. Wright, Chien Shiung Wu, Yuan Chia-liu, and A. Zichichi. Tape recording and transcript of the Memorial Service for Robert R. Wilson, March 11, 2000.

ArchivalResource: 12.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64756412 View

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Virginia Tech Video History on Nuclear Developments, 1945-1963, [videorecording] / recorded by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; moderated by Albert E. Moyer and Paul E. Torgersen ; 1991 August 29, 30.

Title: Virginia Tech Video History on Nuclear Developments, 1945-1963, [videorecording] / recorded by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; moderated by Albert E. Moyer and Paul E. Torgersen ; 1991 August 29, 30.

Four archival sessions and a round table discussion video taped by Virginia Tech University in 1991. The participants were six nuclear pioneers including: Sigvard Eklund, Bertrand Goldschmidt, Robert E. Marshak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gerald F. Tape and Herbert F. York. They discuss their role in and recollections and opinions of the history of nuclear development during the period 1945-1963. In addition to biographical statements from each of the participants, some of the major topics discussed include (1) Weapons and the Arms Race, bilateral and multilateral policies and agreements, arms control and non-proliferation, the Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963); (2) Civilian vs. military control in post-war United States, the May-Johnson Bill, the McMahon Act, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Atomic Energy Act; (3) Peaceful Uses of the Atom, nuclear power and regulatory policies; (4) International cooperation, research and development, the implications of the Smyth Report, the "Atoms for Peace" movement, Pugwash conferences, creation of the IAEA, philosophical reflections, and outlook for the future.

ArchivalResource: 7 videocassettes (9:55 min.) : sd., col ; 1/2 in.Partial transcript: 125 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81793062 View

General Records of the Department of Energy. 1915 - 2007. Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Title: General Records of the Department of Energy. 1915 - 2007. Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

This series encompasses the principal compilation of historical images that document the personalities, structures, technologies, and events shaping the first three and one-half decades at the nuclear research site commonly known as the Berkeley Lab, later officially the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of Berkeley, California. In particular focus is Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the Nobel laureate nuclear physicist, and the founder in 1931 of the University of California Radiation Laboratory that would be renamed in Lawrence's honor following his death in 1958. It was Lawrence whose invention of the circular-shaped particle accelerator, dubbed the cyclotron, opened new frontiers in sub-atomic research, with ramifications--well-documented in this series--ranging from the discovery of the transuranic elements that stretched the boundaries of the Periodic Table, to the development of uranium enrichment methods that speeded the production of the first atomic bomb, to experimental advances that established the field of nuclear medicine. Lawrence is shown in a variety of portrait, speaking, writing, research, meeting, touring, equipment and facility inspection, and ceremonial contexts in and around the Lab and, occasionally, other scientific research locations. Featured, as well, are many of the physicists, chemists, physicians, and engineers who rose to prominence pursuing what Lawrence often called the Lab's "big science" commitment. Included are eventual Nobel laureates Edwin McMillan (successor to Lawrence as Lab Director), Glenn Seaborg (later Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission), Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Donald Glaser, Melvin Calvin, and Luis Alvarez, as well as such key contributors as John Lawrence (Ernest's brother, and coordinator of the Lab's early medical research ventures), Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Robert Marshak, Isadore Perlman, Albert Ghiorso, David Sloan, Arthur Snell, Donald Cooksey, William Brobeck, Robert Thornton, Robert Cornog, Paul Aebersold, Edward Lofgren, David Kalbfell, Martin Kamen, Wilfred Mann, Franz Kurie, and Will Siri. Along with the coverage of scientific luminaries, the series provides a visual record of the Lab's evolving infrastructure on the University of California campus, beginning with the "precursor" 1928-1931 quarters in Le Conte Hall, where a newly-arrived Ernest Lawrence conceived and developed the earliest versions of the cyclotron, and continuing with the Civil Engineering Testing Laboratory, an empty building adjacent to Le Conte Hall where Lawrence formally established the Radiation Laboratory. Documented, in turn, are the newly-constructed facilities into which research operations expanded, including the Crocker Laboratory of late 1930s origin, the Donner Laboratory built in the early 1940s for the growing medical research program, and, most prominently, the massive structure on Charter Hill, constructed during the World War II years to house the 184-inch cyclotron, and serving as the Lab's long-term headquarters. The latter facility receives particularly close photographic attention, from ground breaking ceremonies through phases of construction, completion, and operation. As for subsequent additions, views of the 1964 dedication ceremony for the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics underline the increasing diversification of Lab research activities in the latter half of the 20th Century. Within these facilities, the multiple versions of the cyclotron, increasingly large and powerful, are prime series focal points. Views of Lawrence's first two cyclotrons, with acceleration chambers measuring five inches in diameter and 11 inches in diameter, respectively, set the stage for more detailed coverage of the 27-inch cyclotron of the early 1930s, and heavier coverage still of the 37-inch, 60-inch, and 184-inch cyclotrons that anchored many of the breakthrough projects of the late 1930s and 1940s. Also photographed is the later-edition 88-inch cyclotron, and the cyclotron's technological successor, the synchrotron, or so-called Bevatron, that keyed Lab research from the mid-1950s through the 1960s and beyond. Overviews and installation views of these mechanisms are accompanied, especially in the case of the 37-inch, 60-inch, and 184-inch versions, by numerous closeups of individual components, large and small, from magnets, dees, coils, tanks, pumps, switches, oscillators, deflectors, probes, and targets to water cooling lines and radiation shielding, and from control panels to pulse transformers to ionization chambers. In the case of the 184-inch cyclotron, photographs also suggest the multiple applications of the technology during these decades: originally designed to produce particle acceleration at unprecedented speeds, the mechanism's 4500-ton magnet was put to work for uranium separation purposes in 1942 in support of the Manhattan Project (cyclotron turned "calutron"); at war's end, the calutron was reconverted to synchrocyclotron status for pure research. In addition to picturing the multiple iterations of the cyclotron, synchrocyclotron, and synchrotron, the series sheds light on other innovative Lab apparatus, such as the cloud chamber, the spark chamber, and, especially, the various versions of the bubble chamber--invented by Glaser, further developed by Alvarez--used to trace and record the trajectories of charged particles in transit. The Lab's wide-ranging experiments are represented visually through conventional depictions of personnel and instruments, as well as through specialized pictorial forms, including renderings of cyclotron-emitted beam patterns, and x-ray images of monkeys and other test animals injected with adenine or related radioactive substances. Among the many photos relating to particular Lab investigations, discoveries, and milestones (or official announcements thereof) are those showing: the first external beam obtained from a cyclotron (1936); the first cancer patient to be treated with a neutron beam (1938); the pioneering experiments, led by Hamilton and Marshak, on medical uses of radiosodium (1939); the equipment used by Alvarez and Cornog for their path-breaking discovery of the isotope helium-3 (1939); McMillan re-creating his search for neptunium on the occasion of the announcement of the element's discovery (1940); the first spectrum ever seen of an artificially created isotope (mercury-198) made from gold (1940); Seaborg engaged in his pivotal, and ultimately successful, search for plutonium in 1941, and, 25 years later, participating in ceremonies dedicating the site of the discovery (Room 307 in University of California's Gilman Hall) as a National Historic Landmark; the first beam emitted by the fully operational 184-inch cyclotron, noted by Ernest Lawrence, McMillan, and colleagues at the control panel (1946); the Lab announcement of the discovery of machine-made mesons (1948); Lab press conferences and other events revealing the discoveries of the elements berkelium (1949), californium (1950), nobelium (1958), and lawrencium (1961); Seaborg, Ghiorso, and Bernard Harvey re-creating the 1955 discovery of the element mendelevium; Segre engaged in the high-priority 1950s Lab project culminating in the discovery of the antiproton (1955); the christening of the 72-inch liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber, largest in the world (1959); and the announcement of the discovery of the first experimental evidence of the existence of omega meson resonance (1961). International and national award-related events featuring Lab scientists receive considerable exposure in this series. In the case of Ernest Lawrence, there are multiple perspectives on his receipt of the 1939 Nobel Prize--a view of Lawrence receiving the official telephone call informing him of the honor, as well as views of the Western Union telegram providing written notification and Lab blackboard annotations providing the "local" news angle--along with a sequence of 1946 photos showing Lawrence receiving the Medal of Merit, from the head of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves, for his wartime contributions. Also represented are the Lab press conferences and other gatherings marking the Nobel Prize announcements for Seaborg and McMillan (1951) for their transuranic element discoveries, Segre and Chamberlain (1959) for their antiproton discovery, Glaser (1960) for his bubble chamber invention, and Calvin (1961) for his tracking of chemical reactions involved in photosynthesis. Alvarez is shown in yet another high-profile award context, namely, receiving the National Medal of Science (1964), from President Lyndon Johnson, for his contributions to high-energy physics. The increasing fame of the Lab, and its key personnel, emerges in another way in this series, via coverages of numerous visits to the facility by political, cultural, scientific dignitaries. Heading the cast of visitors is President John F. Kennedy, shown touring the Lab in March 1962 along with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, California Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, Livermore Laboratory Associate Director and renown nuclear physicist Edward Teller, Atomic Energy Commission head Seaborg, and Berkeley Lab Director McMillan, among others. Documented, as well, are visits by artist Diego Rivera (1940); writer Sinclair Lewis (1940); British physicist Charles Galton Darwin (1941), grandson of Charles Darwin; King Muhammad V of Morocco (1957); Queen Frederika of Greece (1958); Victor Spitsyn, Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences (1960); Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander (1961); U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson II (1961); Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1962); Britain's Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, with the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon (1965); and the photographer Ansel Adams (1966). Coverage of the Adams visit features a picture within a picture angle, as Adams is shown setting up and carrying out a photo session with McMillan as the prime subject. Visitors are also shown in the context of prominent conferences hosted by the Lab, including such gatherings as the 1960 International Conference on Instrumentation for High Energy Physics and the 1966 High Energy Physics Meeting, with the latter drawing, among others, one-time Lawrence associate, and Manhattan Project scientific director, J. Robert Oppenheimer. While the Berkeley Lab, and the surrounding University of California campus, provides the setting for the vast bulk of the photos in this series, other locales show up in a few shots, including views from Lawrence's 1940 ventures to Purdue University to inspect a cyclotron application, and to Washington, D.C.'s Wardman Park Hotel for a preliminary discussion of the Manhattan Project. Images appearing in this series derive from varied sources. Many of the photographs from the Lab's first decade were taken by Cooksey or other scientific personnel, with scattered Ernest Lawrence shots from his pre-Berkeley days coming from unknown family-related or family-sponsored creators. The majority of the entries from subsequent decades, when a formal Lab photo unit was in operation, come from long-time Lab head photographer George Kagawa, along with staff cameramen Don Bradley, Perry Hamilton, and Doug McWilliams. There are scattered images from the Atomic Energy Commission, White House, and other federal government sources, and scattered items, as well, from commercial media, studio, and other private-sector sources, among them the San Francisco Examiner (photographers Dan Wilkes and William Schoeb, in particular), the Oakland Tribune, Popular Mechanics, Wide World, Pacific Gas and Electric (photographer Richard Hoorn in particular), the San Francisco-based Moss Photography (working for the California Academy of Sciences), and San Francisco Bay area freelance photographer John Brenneis. Several items from an event marking the 40th anniversary of Seaborg's Nobel Prize were generated by Swedish photographers Rolf Adlercreutz and Claes Lofgren of the Stockholm-based firm, Pressens Bild AB. Also included are US Atomic Energy photographs from a Life Magazine Exhibit (1948).

DigitalArchivalResource: 11,679 digital image files

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Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley). Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.

Fundamental work in developing the cyclotron and other accelerators. Early life, education prior to graduate studies at University of California at Berkeley from 1931; work with Ernest O. Lawrence at Berkeley and with Hans A. Bethe at Cornell University. Work on the 42-inch cyclotron at MIT in 1938, subsequent war work, later role in development of new high energy installations at Brookhaven National Laboratory, CERN and University of Cambridge. Also prominently mentioned are: John Paul Blewett, James Chadwick, Eric Clark, John Cockcroft, Donald Cooksey, Ernest Courant, Robley Dunglison Evans, Malcolm Henderson, Marshall G. Holloway, Robert Eugene Marshak, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Mark Oliphant, David Sloan, Hartland Snyder, Tileston, Merle Antony Tuve, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff; Associated Universities, Inc., Atoms For Peace Conference, Cavendish Laboratory, Comptes Rendus, Federation of American Scientists, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, Ministry of Aircraft Uranium Development Committee (Great Britain), National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Office of Medical Research, United States Atomic Energy Commission, University of California at Berkeley Journal Club, and University of Rochester.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 5-inch reel (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 121 p.

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Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Papers, 1947-1988.

Title: Papers, 1947-1988.

Papers consist of Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conference (1947-1949); and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conferences on High-Energy Physics (1950-1957), which he founded. After 1957 the conferences were held under the sponsorship of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and Marshak's files from the conferences from 1958 to 1970 are also included. The collection also includes correspondence files on IUPAP (1953-1973) and on the Commission on High-Energy Physics (1958-1963); photographs (1950-1970); and a photocopy of an oral history interview done by Charles Weiner (1970).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 cu. ft.

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Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Papers, 1947-1988.

Title: Papers, 1947-1988.

High-energy physicist. A.B., Columbia University (1936); Ph. D., Cornell University (1939). Instructor and professor of physics, University of Rochester (1939-70). President of City College, City University of New York (1970-79). University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1979-86). Chairman, Federation of American Scientists (1947-48); President, American Physical Society (1983-84). Recipient of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1982) for his work on nuclear forces and of the Clark Kerr award (1987) for contributions to the advancement of higher education. Papers consist of Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conferences (1947-49); and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics (1950-57), which he founded. (Continued) After 1957 the conferences were held under the sponsorship of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and Marshak's files from the conferences from 1958 to 1970 are included. The collection also includes correspondence files on IUPAP (1953-73) and on the Commission on High Energy Physics (1953-63); photographs (1950-70); and a transcript of an oral history interview done by Charles Weiner (1970).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21720506 View

Tape, 1978.

Title: Tape, 1978.

Tape of luncheon for presentation of check for the Sol C. Chaikin Labor Studies Program at City College. Speakers include Chaikin, Dean Arthur Tiedeman, Shelly Appleton, secretary-treasurer of the ILGWU, and President Robert Marshak.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155501032 View

Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe , and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA03093.xml View

Conference on Crisis in Values: Its Meaning for Higher Education in the 1980's (1980 : Reno, Nev.). Collection, 1980.

Title: Collection, 1980.

This collection contains general correspondence, brochures, the grant proposal, final report of the conference, and 12 audio-cassettes of the speakers and panel discussions.

ArchivalResource: 1/4 cu. ft.

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City University of New York. City College. Letters, 1916-1982, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1916-1982, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from various members of the faculty and administration of the City University of New York, City College.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (38 l.).

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Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970.

Childhood and early education in New York, undergraduate education in philosophy at Columbia College, 1932-1936; years of graduate study in physics at Columbia University, 1936-1937; influence of Isidor I. Rabi, the joint NYU-Columbia seminar in physics; transfer to Cornell University for graduate work in nuclear physics, 1937-1939; influence of Hans Bethe; thesis work on white dwarfs; first teaching position at University of Rochester, joint work with Victor Weisskopf in nuclear physics and particles; remarks on war years, astrophysics, cyclotrons, and other matters; Shelter Island Conferences. Formation of the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) in 1946; Marshak succeeds Robert Wilson as Chairman, 1947. World Federation of Scientific workers, chaired by Frédéric Joliot-Curie, wants to enroll F.A.S. (1947, in Paris meeting). Marshak's work on two-meson theory. F.A.S. issues in the 1950s; the Emergency Committee and F.A.S.; Einstein's interests and views on relation of science to society; comments on J. Robert Oppenheimer; chairmanship at University of Rochester; Lee DuBridge; long-range plan and extensive development of physics department funded through AEC contracts; training of students from abroad such as Okubo, Sudarshan, Messiah, Regge. Last half of interview covers the Rochester conferences. Scientific work during the 1950s, the V-A interaction (George Sudarshan) theory (a.k.a. Feynman-Gell-Mann theory of weak interactions); books and works with graduate students. Travels to Europe and India (Tata Institute), 1953. Accepts City College (CUNY) presidency; reasons for leaving University of Rochester. Also prominently mentioned are: Robert Fox Bacher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George Braxton Pegram, Julian R. Schwinger, Edward Teller; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory.

ArchivalResource: Audiotape: 5 5-inch reels (16.0 hrs.)Transcript: 257 pp. (4 sessions)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81515112 View