Alfred O.C. Nier papers 1930-1996

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

University of Minnesota

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The West Bank Union at the University of Minnesota was established in 1967 to offer services to students. It took until 1980 for the union to have its own space in Willey Hall, including an auditorium and lounge spaces for students. Student services and facilities were established in the newly constructed West Bank Union skyway, which connected Willey and Blegen Halls. From the guide to the West Bank Union papers, circa 1970s-1980s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Arch...

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

American Society for Mass Spectrometry

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Mattauch, Josef

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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 ...

Meteoritical Society.

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Valasek, Joseph, 1897-1993

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Joseph Valasek was born on April 27, 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his B.S. from the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) in 1917, his M.A. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1921 from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Valasek joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1919 as a teaching assistant in physics. He was promoted to instructor in 1920, assistant professor in 1922, associate professor in 1927 and professor in 1941. He specialized in geome...

Buchta, Jay

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International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was founded in 1919. It is a union of national chemical associations meant to foster communication between nations and encourage the evolution and adoption of standardized nomenclatures and methodologies. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is itself a member of the International Congress of Scientific Unions. From the description of Addenda to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...

Booth, Eugene, 1940-

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Goddard Space Flight Center

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Erikson, Henry A. (Henry Anton), 1869-

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Erikson died in 1957. From the description of A history of the Department of Physics at the University of Minnesota, 1870-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78113868 Henry A. Erikson, B.E.E. (1896), Ph.D. (1908) University of Minnesota. Professor and chair of the department of physics at the University of Minnesota (1915-1938). Known for his research on the ionization of gases. Henry Anton Erikson was born on July 30, 1869 in Mount Morris, Wisconsin. He attended the Univer...

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

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Brownlee, Donald.

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Baxter, Gregory Paul, 1876-1953

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Baxter graduated from Harvard in 1896 and taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Gregory Paul Baxter, 1897-1953 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972959 ...

United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development

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Basic Sciences Foundation.

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Dunning, John R. (John Ray), 1907-1975

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of John Ray Dunning : lectures, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158093 ...

American physical society

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This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Study was commissioned by the American Physical Society on November 20, 1983 to evaluate the status of the science and technology of DEW. A study group was formed by Novembe...

Bieri, R. H. (Rudolf Herman), 1923-

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Holmes, Arthur, 1890-1965

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Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Symposium on Inorganic Mass Spectrometry.

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Los Alamos national laboratory

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik.

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Bardeen, John

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of John Bardeen : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122586692 John Bardeen (1908-1991). Physicist (solid state). Research physicist, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1945-1951; Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1951. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1956 and 1972. From the description of Superconductivity and other macroscopic quantum systems [videore...

Committee on Extension of the Standard Atmosphere.

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COSPAR.

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Kellex Corporation

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Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouk), 1899-

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Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

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Kenneth T. Bainbridge (1904-1996), the first George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University (1934-1975), was one of the leading scientists of his generation. He was a noted authority in the field of mass spectroscopy and the application of mass spectrographs as research tools. He designed and built the first cyclotron at Harvard University, participated in the development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II, and oversaw the test explosion of the first ...

Nier, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto), 1911-1994

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Physicist. Died 1994. From the description of An account of the first sample of separated Uranium 235 at the University of Minnesota in 1940, 1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82028106 Alfred Otto Carl Nier, world-renowned physicist and scientific instrument designer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 28, 1911. He spent most of his career at the University of Minnesota, both as a student and as a member of the faculty. His post-doctoral work was done at Harvard Univ...

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

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Midwestern Universities Research Association

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Midwestern physicists who had attended the dedication of the Cosmotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the winter of 1952-1953 began discussing the need for a high energy research facility in the Midwest. In the spring of 1953, Professor Enrico Fermi addressed physicists from the Midwest at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Chicago, giving his views. As a result, physicists from the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Chicago formed an ad...

Hintenberger, H. (Heinrich), 1910-

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Inghram, Mark Gordon, 1919-

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Williams, John H. (John Harry), 1908-

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John H. Williams, a resident of Tacoma, Wash., was an author and publisher of books dealing with the West. From the description of John H. Williams letters : to Nettie Williams, 1907-1918. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 62313942 ...

Ney, Edward Purdy, 1920-....

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Edward Purdy Ney was born in Minneapolis in 1920. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. During his graduate studies he worked with the Naval Research Laboratory in analysis of uranium isotopes for the Manhattan Project. After earning his Ph. D. at the University of Virginia, he joined their faculty before returning to the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor. Ney's research included work on cosmic rays, astronomy, and solar physics, and...

Thorness, Rudolph (Buddy)

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Lozier, William Wallace, 1906-

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Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985

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National Bureau of Standards (U.S.). Evaluation Panel.

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Pepin, R. O. (Robert Osborne), 1933-

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Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

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Physicist. Major affiliations include: Princeton University, 1930-1937; Westinghouse Co., Pittsburgh, PA, 1937-1945; National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC, 1945-1951; Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1956-1963; and Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, CO from 1963. From the description of Public relations file on Condon, mostly pertaining to the attack on his loyalty by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Lane, Alfred

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Signer, Peter

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Schlutter, Dennis

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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Manhattan Project (Organization)

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The Manhattan Project was a direct action campaign to shut down the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 28, 1979 on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. Founders of the Manhattan Project held Wall Street as largely responsible for the arms race and nuclear industry proliferation. From the description of Collection, 1979. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28371574 ...

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-

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Died in 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Harold Clayton Urey, 1964 March 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84584513 Epithet: US chemist, Nobel laureate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000b4 Mildred Cohn was a biochemist and biophysicist. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1938 and was a research associate in biochemistry at several univers...

Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950

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Perkin-Elmer Corporation

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Mauersberger, Konrad

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