Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project records 1947-2003

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....

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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Epithet: writer and scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000021 C. S. Lewis was an Oxford professor, a Christian apologist, and a novelist, essayist and critic. From the description of C.S. Lewis collection. [1939]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667850821 One of Britain's foremost literary and philosophical scholars, C. S. Lewis was Professor of Medieva...

Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978

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Professor of physics, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, director of the Phoenix Project, and Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, scientist and administrator for the U.S. Navy during World War II, technical director of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, officer of the American Institute of Physics and Optical Society of America. From the description of Ralph A. Sawyer papers, 1918-1978. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302...

Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-1971

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President of University of Michigan, 1929-1951. From the description of Alexander Grant Ruthven papers, 1901-1961. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423262 Epithet: President University of Michigan Ann Arbor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00010a Alexander G. Ruthven was born April 1, 1882 in Hull, Iowa. He received his BS degree in 1903 from Morningside ...

Kerr, Walter

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Gomberg, H. J. (Henry Jacob), 1918-

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Professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan. From the description of H. J. Gomberg papers, 1941-1995. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84186903 Henry J. Gomberg was born in New York City on April 16, 1918. He began his higher education at the City College of New York before transferring to the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, Gomberg earned his B.S.E. (1941), M.S.E. (1943), and Ph.D. (1951) in electrical engineering. ...

Lang, Chester Henry, 1893-1961.

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Corporation official. From the description of Reminiscences of Chester Henry Lang : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587422 Graduate at the University of Michigan, Class of 1915; later an officer of General Electric Company. From the description of Chester Henry Lang papers, 1911-1914 and 1944-1945. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778438 Student at the University of Michigan, Class ...

Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project

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University of Michigan program concerned with study of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. From the description of Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project records, 1947-ongoing. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423439 See the historical sketch fo the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Records From the guide to the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project publications, 1949-ongoing, 1949-1961, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) ...

Glaser, Donald A.

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Ford Nuclear Reactor.

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

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...

University of Michigan. Development Council.

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The Development Council was an organization of university alumni established in 1953 to secure private financial support to supplement the university's traditional funding sources. When it was founded, the council consisted of a large body of volunteer solicitors guided by a volunteer board of directors. The group's day to day activities were supported by a small development office whose staff was paid for out of funds raised by the council. The council's first major project was the...