Bernard Vonnegut papers, 1936-1997.

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Bernard Vonnegut papers, 1936-1997.

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The papers document Dr. Bernard Vonnegut's professional career as an atmospheric scientist from the mid-1940s at M.I.T. and the GE Research Laboratories, 1945-1952, at Arthur D. Little Corporation, 1952-1967, and at SUNY Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and Department of Atmospheric Sciences from 1967 through his death in 1997. The records in this collection document Vonnegut's research interests, including icing and atmospheric electricity, cloud physics, and tornado formation. The papers also contain extensive information about his major scientific discoveries and experiments, such as Project Cirrus, a program that sought ways to artificially influence precipitation. The collection is arranged into seven series. The records consist of scientific manuscripts, scientific research and data, patent forms, reports, correspondence, publicity materials, course materials, news clippings, photographs, cartoons, and audio and video. The majority of materials date from Vonnegut's tenure at GE and SUNY Albany. Currently, only series 1, Project Cirrus, is processed.

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University at Albany, University Libraries

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University at Albany, University Libraries

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Arthur D. Little, Inc.

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General Electric Company. Research and Development Center

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Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957

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Research chemist and physicist, General Electric Co. from 1909. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1932. From the description of Pathological science [sound recording] : an address to General Electric's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Colloquium; 1953 December 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715356 Chemist. From the description of Papers of Irving Langmuir, 1871-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449037 Biographical Note ...

Vonnegut, Bernard

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Atmospheric scientist Dr. Bernard Vonnegut was born in 1914 in Indianapolis. He was the older brother of American novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and his research inspired elements of Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction work such as the Ice-9 catalyst in Cat's Cradle. Dr. Bernard Vonnegut earned his bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1936 and doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1939 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He worked at M.I.T. before joining General Electric Company (GE) ...

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Schaefer, Vincent J.

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This collection documents the life and work of Vincent J. Schaefer of Schenectady, New York. From 1922-1926, he completed a four-year apprenticeship as a machinist and was assigned to the machine shop at the General Electric Research Laboratory. In 1929, Schaefer became a modelmaker at GE where he started building equipment for Irving Langmuir who had won the Nobel Prize for his work in surface chemistry. In 1932, Langmuir made Schaefer his assistant. Schaefer studied and published articles on s...