This series consists of correspondence and subject files. Subseries 1, correspondence, includes letters sent and received concerned primarily with scientific conference meetings, manuscript preparation, exchange of information on current and proposed experiments and instruments, and inquiries regarding positions and experiments. Also included are project status reports regarding the laboratory's physics research; Alvarez' studies of proton scattering, hydrogen bubble chamber, cyclotron, and linear accelerator projects such as neutron half-life; memorandums of W. D. Kirkpatrick; letters and notices concerning member nominations to and meetings of the National Academy of Sciences; travel vouchers and travel authorization forms to visits to CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Soviet Union, and Australia.
The second subseries, subject files, includes experiment proposals and memorandums regarding use of the bevatron accelerator, including schedules and memorandums of the Bevatron Scheduling Committee; proposed summary, physics technical notes, and minutes of meetings of the Anti-Proton Experiment Group; use of the hydrogen bubble chamber to investigate Kaon-p interactions and to search for magnetic monopole; correspondence and biographical memoir concerning Alfred Loomis and son William Farnsworth Loomis; research proposals, article reprints, and drafts concerning magnetic measurements of monopole of moon materials, under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; travel vouchers, photographs, correspondence, and telegrams concerning the award of the 1968 Nobel Prize to Alvarez for research in elementary particle physics and discovery of several resonance states, using the hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis; Nobel lecture drafts and preprints; draft manuscripts and gallery proofs of articles on Kaon-p interactions, verification of omega mesons, structure of Geza pyramid using cosmic-ray analysis, synchrotron working model to demonstrate phase stability and focusing properties of the synchrotron; correspondence concerning Alvarez' invention patents, including scintillation chamber, golf training device, x-ray detection, cosmic-ray altimeter, ground control system for landing aircraft, modification to chromatron, television tube; and news clippings concerned with the laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, and Alvarez' scientific discoveries.
