Slotin, Louis Memorial Fund. Records 1946-1962

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Slotin, Louis Memorial Fund. Records 1946-1962

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Slotin, born in Canada in 1912, earned his PhD in Chemistry in 1936. Slotin died at Los Alamos in 1946 after being exposed to radiation in a laboratory accident. Following his death, the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund was established to raise money to finance lectures in the sciences at the University of Chicago. The collection contains correspondence, donor lists, lists of speakers, and some biographical material about Slotin. The collection also contains two or three letters concerning the disposition of Slotin's personal library, as well as other material pertaining to his work.

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Slotin, Louis A

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Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965

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Physicist. S.B., University of Chicago, 1921; Ph. D., 1923. National Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1923-1925. Research associate, Carnegie Institution, 1925-1926. Instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1926-1930. Associate professor of physics, University of Chicago, 1930-1942; professor, 1942-1959; Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, 1959-1965. Member of Manhattan Project, 1942-1945. Director of Enrico Fermi Institute (origin...

Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund

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Louis Slotin died at Los Alamos in 1946 after being exposed to radiation in a laboratory accident. Following his death, the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund was established to raise money to finance lectures in the sciences at the University of Chicago. Most of the soliciting was done by Samuel K. Allison. From the description of Records, 1946-1962. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248423 Louis Slotin was born in Winnepeg, Canada, on December ...