Arthur Edward Ruark papers 1885-1979

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Arthur Edward Ruark papers 1885-1979

Writings, technical reports, reprints, lectures, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, relating to physics.

61 manuscript boxes; (24.4 linear feet)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6655530

Hoover Institution Archives

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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...

Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-....

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Physicist (civil engineering). Chief, physics division research laboratory, Gulf Oil Corporation, 1930; professor of physics, University of Pittsburgh, 1930-1934; head physics department, University of North Carolina, 1934-1944; research positions at Johns Hopkins University, 1946-52; assistant and senior associate director of research, Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1969. Died 1979. From the description of Lecture notes and manuscript on theory of relativity ca. 1951. (Unknown). Wor...