Michael Danos papers, 1950-2003 (inclusive)

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Michael Danos papers, 1950-2003 (inclusive)

15.75 linear feet (29 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7788002

University of Chicago Library

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United States. National Bureau of Standards.

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After World War II the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was charged with the task of following developments in computing. In response, NBS began to index and abstract books, journals, reports and other literature covering a broad range of computer-related topics beginning in the mid-1940s. Eventually the enormity of the task forced NBS to abandon this work in 1978. From the description of Computer Literature Collection, 1956-1978. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat re...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)

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Michael Danos was born in Latvia in 1922, the son of a Hungarian opera singer stranded in that country by the outbreak of World War I. He studied electrical engineering and physics in Riga, Latvia and Dresden, Germany, surviving the 1945 Allied firebombing of Dresden. After the conclusion of World War II he lived in a displaced persons camp in Hanover, and it was while living there that he completed his degrees in electrical engineering and physics. After immigrating to ...

Danos, Michael.

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Michael Danos was a theoretical physicist who worked in photonuclear physics, relativistic heavy ions and x-ray imaging devices, and spent several years as a Visiting Scholar at the Enrico Fermi Institute. The Michael Danos Papers consist of 15.75 linear feet of correspondence, calendars, writings, notebooks, clippings, transparencies, conference materials, photographs, blueprints and diagrams, and computer disks. From the description of Michael Danos papers, 1950-2003 (inclusive) (U...