Records, 1946-1962.

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Records, 1946-1962.

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Contains correspondence, donor lists, lists of speakers, and some biographical material about Slotin.

.25 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7650877

University of Chicago Library

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Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund

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Louis Slotin died at Los Alamos in 1946 after being exposed to radiation in a laboratory accident. Following his death, the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund was established to raise money to finance lectures in the sciences at the University of Chicago. Most of the soliciting was done by Samuel K. Allison. From the description of Records, 1946-1962. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248423 Louis Slotin was born in Winnepeg, Canada, on December ...

Slotin, Louis, 1910-1946

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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...