Papers of Jesse Wakefield Beams [manuscript] 1933-60.

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Papers of Jesse Wakefield Beams [manuscript] 1933-60.

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The collection consists of items pertaining to the following organizations of which he was a member: American Institute of Physics, 1958; National Research Council, and it's Committee on Growth, 1940-60; President's Science Advisory Committee, Panel on High Energy Accelerator Physics, 1957-60; U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-60; U. S. National Science Foundation, 1954-55; and the Virginia Academy of Sciences, 1940-53. There are minutes, reports and proceedings, correspondence, papers dealing with grants for research and fellowships, for those years mentioned above. [ca. 1,750 items]. There are some notes by Beams on the centrifuge, etc. Also twelve papers written by students under the Nobel prize winner Clinton Joseph Davisson.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958

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Physicist. From the description of Clinton Joseph Davisson papers, 1908-1962 (bulk 1937-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450630 Physicist (electron optics). From the description of Letters from J. J. Thomson, 1913, and letter to son, James W. Davisson, concerning Davisson's visit to Cavendish Laboratory, his marriage and family life, 1913-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77849727 Biographical Note ...

Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977

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Mr. Jesse W. Beams, Francis H. Smith Professor Emeritus of Physics, died July 23, 1977. Mr. Beams was a faculty member at the University of Virginia from 1928 until his retirement in1969. From the description of Papers of Jesse W. Beams [manuscript], 1926-1977. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816257 From the description of Jesse W. Beams papers [manuscript], 1926-1977. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647923251 Francis H. Smith Professo...

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...

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Growth (1940-60)

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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American Institute of Physics (1958)

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Virginia Academy of Sciences (1940-53)

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