Gregory Breit papers 1917-1991

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Gregory Breit papers 1917-1991

The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, reports, data files, writings, printed material, and topical files relating to Gregory Breit's research and teaching career. There are also photographs, biographical information, and files related to his father's design of an anti-submarine attack device in the late 1910s.

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Noyes, H. Pierre

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

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John Archibald Wheeler is a physicist and a pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. He studied under Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University (Ph. D., 1933) and later studied nuclear fission with Niels Bohr. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1950s-1970s]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298147 Physicist (atomic and nuclear theory, relativity theory, and cosmology). On the physics faculty at Princeton University from 1938; physicist, ...

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism.

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Los Alamos scientific laboratory

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

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Died in 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Gregory Breit, 1975 December 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865399 Physicist (quantum theory, nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics). National Research Council Fellow, University of Leiden (1921-1922), and at Harvard University (1922-1923); on the physics faculty at University of Minnesota (1923-1924); on the staff of Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution (1924-1929); on the physics facu...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

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The National Academy of Sciences, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1863, grew out of a desire for a body of scientists to give advice on scientific matters to the federal government. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was a force behind its creation. From the description of National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1887 Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78403445 ...

Rustgi, Moti Lal, -1992

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Moti Lal Rustgi was born in Delhi, India, on Sept. 29, 1929. He received in Bachelor of Science and master's degree in Physics from Delhi University. He pursued his doctoral studies at Stanford University and later at Louisiana State University where he earned his doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics. In 1957 he went to Yale University as a research associate under Gregory Breit. In 1960 he began a postdoctoral fellowship divided between the National Research Council of Canada and Harvard Un...

U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

State university of New York at Buffalo

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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Hull, McAllister H., 1923-

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Mitchell, Allan C.G.

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Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

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Teller, Edward 1908-

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Gupta, Saraj N.

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Yale University.

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Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

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Physicist. From the description of Merle Antony Tuve papers, 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979847 Biographical Note 1901, June 27 Born, Canton, South Dakota 1922 B.S., University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, Minn. ...