Papers, 1910-1954 (inclusive), 1942-1954 (bulk).

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Papers, 1910-1954 (inclusive), 1942-1954 (bulk).

Contains personal and professional correspondence, degrees and awards, personal documents, lectures, course outlines and examinations, manuscripts, notebooks, diaries and calendars, bibliographies, books, reprints and other published works, slides, and sound recordings. Includes notebooks from elementary school. Includes correspondence with organizations of physicists from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s and correspondence and reports dealing with the Atomic Energy Commission and Robert Oppenheimer. Also includes research notes and notebooks, material on artificial memory, and patent claims. University of Chicago material includes internal correspondence, teaching material, and memoranda relating to the Department of Physics.

ca. 30.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7651745

University of Chicago Library

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

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...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

University of Chicago. Dept. of Physics.

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