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Higinbotham, William A.,. Reminiscences of William A. Higinbotham : oral history, 1980-1983.

Title: Reminiscences of William A. Higinbotham : oral history, 1980-1983.

William Alfred Higinbotham, 1910-1994. Childhood: family; Williams College 1928-1932, Cornell University 1932-1940, graduate research on surface ionization, technician, Cornell University Physics Dept., 1935-1940; radar research, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of technology [MIT] 1941-1943: invention of Higinbotham scaler circuit; head of electronics division, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos 1944-1945: development of Naval Tactical Data System [NTDS]; chairman National Committee on Atomic Information [NCAI] 1945; Federation of Atomic Scientists [FAS], Washington 1946-1947: mechanisms of lobbying, funding, public relations; Brookhaven National Laboratory 1947- , associated head of the instrumentation division 1947-1951, head 1953-1968; loyalty and security investigations of scientific community; nuclear research: atomic bomb, radiation damage, fallout shelters, nuclear energy, legilation; arms control: safeguards; Rowan Gaither panel, nuclear test ban, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT], disarmament; President's Science Advisory Committee, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy [SANE]; International Atomic Energy Association [IAEA], Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] and others; national and international cooperation: Pugwash-meetings, contacts with Soviet scientists; colleague reminiscences.

ArchivalResource: transcript: 2 v. (260 leaves).sound recording: 4 sound cassettes.

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Allan-Higinbotham Papers, 1834-1955. Correspondence to D. Allan From Grandchildren and Nephew, 1881-1895.

Title: Correspondence to D. Allan From Grandchildren and Nephew, 1881-1895. 1881- 1895.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

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Allan-Higinbotham Papers, 1834-1955. Correspondence of W.A. Higinbotham, 1885-1916.

Title: Correspondence of W.A. Higinbotham, 1885-1916. 1885- 1916.

ArchivalResource: A Scrapbook Is Also Included 32Cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625841450 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Allan-Higinbotham Papers, 1834-1955. Correspondence Written by W. Higinbotham From Philadelphia and Cairo, 1899.

Title: Correspondence Written by W. Higinbotham From Philadelphia and Cairo, 1899. 1899.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625863956 View

Higinbotham, William A. Computer memoranda and correspondence, 1948-1955 (bulk: 1948-1949).

Title: Computer memoranda and correspondence, 1948-1955 (bulk: 1948-1949).

Memoranda and correspondence related to Higinbotham's evaluation of the EDVAC project for the Atomic Energy Commission (1948-1949) and a letter related to Brookhaven's interest in building a computer (1955).

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62404203 View

Higinbotham, William A. Impact of World War II on nuclear instrumentation, 1993.

Title: Impact of World War II on nuclear instrumentation, 1993.

A paper delivered at an unnamed meeting of historians of science in late 1992 or early 1993.

ArchivalResource: 4 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305375 View

Allan-Higinbotham Papers, 1834-1955. Membership, Correspondence, of the Royal Templars of Temperance, 1884-1886.

Title: Membership, Correspondence, of the Royal Templars of Temperance, 1884-1886. 1884- 1886.

ArchivalResource: Also Includes Photocopied Article on Prohibition in Canada, 3Cm.

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American Physical Society. Meeting (1982 : Washington, D.C.). Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : scientists and public opinion: how to influence decision makers on nuclear war related issues; 1982 April 28.

Title: Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : scientists and public opinion: how to influence decision makers on nuclear war related issues; 1982 April 28.

Speakers include: N. A. Chomsky, W. A. Higinbotham, John Isaacs from the Council for a Livable World, with Bernard Feld, presiding.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape cassettes (1.5 hrs.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305334 View

Higinbotham, William A. Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Title: Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Four-page typed response to the questionnaire, including a description of his education at Cornell University; his work with Robert Bacher at Los Alamos in 1943 as head of the Electronics Division; his involvement in the Association of Los Alamos Scientists as its first chairman, and later in the Federation of American Scientists; and his joining the Brookhaven National Laboratory staff in 1947. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their work during the Second World War, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences--especially high energy physics--in their research, their work as educators, their perceptions of the public's attitude towards science, and their involvement in physics-related organizations.

ArchivalResource: 10 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79909403 View

Allan-Higinbotham Papers, 1834-1955. Letters to and From Mr. Lewis Concerning Sandilands Estate, 1900-1901.

Title: Letters to and From Mr. Lewis Concerning Sandilands Estate, 1900-1901. 1900- 1901.

ArchivalResource: 2Cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626437443 View

William A. Higinbotham papers, 1948-1955

Title: William A. Higinbotham papers 1948-1955

Memoranda and correspondence related to William Higinbotham's evaluation of the EDVAC project for the Atomic Energy Commission (1948-1949) and a letter related to Brookhaven's interest in building a computer (1955).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.1 cubic feet)

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