Letter, 1945 August 9 : to Professor R. Sagane, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan.

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Letter, 1945 August 9 : to Professor R. Sagane, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan.

Letter dropped from a bomber over Nagasaki warns Sagane of dire consequences to Japan through the use of the atomic bomb if Japan continues the war. Also contains envelope addressed to Professor Sagane. Includes two additional letters about the Sagane letter, one identifies the authors as Luis Alvarez, Phillip Morrison, and Robert Serber.

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Serber, Robert

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Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

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Luis W. Alvarez (b. June 13, 1911, San Francisco, CA–d. September 1, 1988, Berkely, CA) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay ...

Morrison, Philip J.

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Sagane, Ryōkichi 1905-1969

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