Papers, 1920-1965 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1920-1965 (inclusive).

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Manuscripts of articles and speeches; professional and personal correspondence; records of engagements; materials concerning travels and association with American Institute of Physics; physics notebooks; course and lecture materials; files concerning Enrico Fermi Institute. Papers relate to various aspects of physics and nuclear physics, including accelerators, artificial radioactivity, high energy physics, radioisotopes and their medical applications, the relation of nuclear physics and society, and x-rays. Includes correspondence for the Slotin Memorial fund and betatron files of the Fermi Institute.

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Manhattan Project (U.S.)

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University of Chicago. Dept. of Physics.

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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...

Enrico Fermi Institute

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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 ...