Smith, Alice Kimball.

Alice Kimball Smith, historian, educator, and college administrator was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1907. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College (1928) and Ph.D. from Yale University (1936). She was married to Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian of technology, in 1931 and they had two children Stuart and Anne. In 1942 the Smiths moved to Los Alamos where CSS worked on the development of the atomic bomb and AKS taught at Los Alamos High School ( 1943-1945). After their move to Chicago, she was Assistant Editor of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 1946-1948 and lecturer in history at Roosevelt College, 1948-1960. When her husband was appointed professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Smiths moved to, and settled in, Cambridge, Massachusetts. AKS was appointed a scholar at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (1962-1964) and served as Director of the Radcliffe Seminars and Assistant to the Dean of the Institute, 1963-1970, and Dean of the Institute, 1970-1973. She has written articles on atomic scientists and the atomic bomb. Her book, A Peril and a Hope: the Scientists' movement in America, 1945-1947 was published in 1965 and Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and recollections edited by AKS and Charles Weiner was published by Harvard University Press in 1980.

From the guide to the Oral history, 1987-, (Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)