Cyclotron records, 1946-1952 (inclusive).

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Cyclotron records, 1946-1952 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, memoranda, diagrams, and budgets. Topics include the building of the large cyclotron, the construction of the Accelerator Building, and equipment needed to service the cyclotron. Samuel K. Allison was Director of the Institute, 1945-1958 and 1963-1965.

.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7650764

University of Chicago Library

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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...

University of Chicago. Institute for Nuclear Studies

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The Institute for Nuclear Studies Cyclotron Records were collected by Professor Samuel K. Allison. Allison received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1923, did research at Harvard and the Carnegie Institute before going to the Department of Physics at the University of California. The collection focuses on the 170-inch synchrocyclotron, put into operation at the University of Chicago in March, 1947. The project was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research and the Atomic Energy...