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Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-. Papers, 1940-1963.

Title: Papers, 1940-1963.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, publications, and other papers, from Hafstad's work as consultant for Office of Scientific Research and Development (1942-1947), executive secretary of Research and Development Board, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), and director of reactor development, Atomic Energy Commission (1949-1955).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982. Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 March 30.

Title: Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 March 30.

Early interest in physics in South Dakota; early training as a physicist at University of Minnesota, early 1920s; acceleration of positive ions and electrons; instructor at Princeton University, 1923; doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University, 1924-1926; pulse radio and ionosphere experiments, 1925; work on high voltages with Tesla coils for proton acceleration, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 1926-1931; obtaining funds for research, effect of Depression; building Van de Graaff machine, 1932; connections between theorists and experimentalists in Washington-Baltimore region, 1925-1930s; disintegration of light elements, 1932; reaction to discovery of neutron, 1932; experimental work on proton-proton and proton-neutron forces, 1934-1936; organization of Washington conferences on theoretical physics, collaboration between Carnegie Institution and George Washington University, 1930s; early fission experiments. Also prominently mentioned are: Edoardo Amaldi, Joseph Sweetman Ames, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Gregory Breit, Enrico Fermi, John Fleming, Lawrence Randolph Hafstad, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Ernest Rutherford, John Torrence Tate, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff; Carnegie Institution of Washington Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Conference on Theoretical Physics (Washington, D.C.), General Electric Co., Princeton University, and United States National Bureau of Standards.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 29 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84011772 View

Merle Antony Tuve Papers, 1901-1982, (bulk 1941-1966)

Title: Merle Antony Tuve Papers 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966)

Physicist. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, laboratory and personal notebooks, notes, personnel records, printed material, blueprints, diagrams, photographs, and other papers relating to Tuve's administration of government-sponsored scientific projects such as the development of the proximity fuze for the United States Navy during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 147,000 items; 420 containers plus 1 classified; 168 linear feet

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Alpher, Ralph. Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.

Title: Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.

Ralph Asher Alpher (1921- ). Session two is a joint interview with Robert Herman. Family background and early education, work at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, studies at George Washington University, wartime employment and studies, work with Navy on detection of mines; graduate studies with George Gamow while working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, early universe theory, first encounter and later work with Robert Herman, interaction with physics community. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and L. R. Henrich, neglect of Alpher and Herman work by astronomical community; General Electric projects: supersonic flow, re-entry physics, the Talaria project; the Penzias/Wilson observations; honors, marriage. Miscellaneous recollections about youth in Washington, D.C., service on scientific committees, public education efforts, work at General Electric. Meeting of Alpher and Herman, their collaboration, cosmological theory, work with George Gamow, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, Edward Condon, cosmic background radiation, controversy with steady-state adherents and others; systematic neglect of their work, nucleosynthesis in stars, reactions to awards, discussions with Arno A. Penzias at the time of Nobel Prize award (with Robert W. Wilson), correspondence with S. Pasternack about P. James Peeble's cosmology papers, Alpher paper on neutrino and photon background calculation, James Follin, C. Hayashi, Steven Weinberg's presentation in his book The First Three Minutes; current cosmological efforts, A. Zee's papers on cosmology, views on the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Fred Hoyle's recent writings. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Albert Einstein, Richard Phillips Feynman, Lawrence Randolph Hafstad, Robert Hofstadter, Huntington, and H. P. Robertson.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes, 2 sessions.Transcript: 138 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82797962 View

Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982. Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1982 January 13 and 5 February.

Title: Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1982 January 13 and 5 February.

Early youth in Canton, South Dakota; teenage interest in radios and electricity (Ernest O. Lawrence). Origins of physics interest at Augustana Academy, Canton; college years at the University of Minnesota, until 1923; graduate work at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. at Hopkins, collaboration with Gregory Breit studying ionosphere with radio waves, 1926; position at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); nuclear physics work with Odd Dahl, Lawrence Hafstad, and others using Tesla coils in 1920s, and Van de Graaff generators in 1930s; head of proximity fuse work and first director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II; return to DTM; Director, 1946-1966; DTM research during directorship in seismology, biophysics, and radio astronomy.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82743666 View

Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-. Papers, 1940-1963.

Title: Papers, 1940-1963.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, publications, and other papers, from Hafstad's work as consultant for Office of Scientific Research and Development (1942-1947), executive secretary of Research and Development Board, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), and director of reactor development, Atomic Energy Commission (1949-1955).

ArchivalResource: 1 ft.

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[General Motors Corporation : historical materials]. Folder 87-4.19-5.

Title: [General Motors Corporation : historical materials]. Folder 87-4.19-5.

ArchivalResource: Box 20 of 21 boxes : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781461747 View

Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-. Papers, 1939-1976.

Title: Papers, 1939-1976.

Reports, clippings, pamphlets and correspondence. Topics include: history of proximity fuze, nuclear energy, the Atomic Energy Commission, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Motors Corporation, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the Fund for Peaceful Atomic Development, Johns Hopkins University and the history of the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79918241 View