Papers, 1920-1976.

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Papers, 1920-1976.

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Correspondence for Loomis's work as associate director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory and as director of the Lincoln Laboratory; transcripts and tapes of a Nov. 19, 1965 interview; publications; and other papers. Topics include Loomis's family background, decision to teach at University of Illinois, the development of modern physics, staffing at University of Illinois and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois College of Engineering and Control Systems Laboratory, cyclotrons, spectroscopy, betatrons, World War I work in anti-aircraft ballistics, sabbatical in England before World War II, atomic bomb project, J. Robert Oppenheimer security clearance case, atomic physics, molecular spectroscopy, naval ordnance, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Persons represented include John Bardeen, Gilberto Bernardini, Maurice Goldhaber, Leland Haworth, Donald Kerst, Milo Ketchum, P. Gerald Kruger, Polykarp Kusch, Harold Mott-Smith, Louis Ridenour, Worth Rodebush, Frederick Seitz and Robert Serber. Organizations represented include Harvard University and Systems Laboratory of National Academy of Sciences (Section of Physics).

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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....

Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976

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Professor of physics, department head, and director of Control Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). From the description of Papers, 1920-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28409035 ...