Glenn T. Seaborg papers 1962-1996

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Glenn T. Seaborg papers 1962-1996

The processed component of this collection includes various speeches delivered by Glenn T. Seaborg at important events, classes, and organizations. The accession also includes photographs that document Seaborg's activities in his role as the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Highlights include a tour of the Nevada test site with President John F. Kennedy and various functions with President Lyndon Johnson. These materials range from 1962 to 1996. This collection includes several cubic feet of unprocessed records (scattered correspondence, journals, and photographs) maintained at the University Records Center.

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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...

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912-

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Seaborg was born on Apr. 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, MI; AB, UCLA, 1934; Ph. D, UC Berkeley, 1937; research assoc. (1937-39), instructor (1939-41), asst. professor (1941-45), prof. of chemistry (1945-71), univ. professor beginning in 1971, UC Berkeley; director of plutonium work for Manhattan Project at Univ. of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (1942-46); head of Nuclear Chemistry Division (1946-58 and 1971-75), and assoc. director of laboratory, 1954-61 and again beginning in 1971, Lawrence Berkeley...