Midwestern Universities Research Association records, 1953-1974.

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Midwestern Universities Research Association records, 1953-1974.

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The collection comprises correspondence and general files, organizational committee correspondence and minutes, executive committee minutes, minutes and membership lists of the board of directors, individual membership lists, site data (1955-58), reports and proposals, legal papers, and other records of an organization of 15 Midwestern universities formed to design and develop a proton accelerator for high energy physics and nuclear research. The collection includes records (1964-68) relating to Associated Midwest Universities.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Midwestern physicists who had attended the dedication of the Cosmotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the winter of 1952-1953 began discussing the need for a high energy research facility in the Midwest. In the spring of 1953, Professor Enrico Fermi addressed physicists from the Midwest at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Chicago, giving his views. As a result, physicists from the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Chicago formed an ad...