Papers, 1966-1977.

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Papers, 1966-1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77698917

Collection documents political activity among physicists during the Vietnam War era. Materials, including correspondence, petitions, newsletters, clippings, scrapbooks, flyers, and journals, relating to social issues and physics, and the organization of groups or subgroups to address issues such as employment in physics, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the environment, nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. These groups within the American Physical Society include the Forum on Physics and Society, Subcommittee on Professional Concerns, Committee on Problems of Physics and Society. Important correspondents include Barry Casper, William Havens, Jay Orear, Martin Perl, and Edward Purcell.

2.5 ln. ft. : 5 manuscript boxes and 1 oversize folder.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American physical society

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This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Study was commissioned by the American Physical Society on November 20, 1983 to evaluate the status of the science and technology of DEW. A study group was formed by Novembe...

Forum on Physics and Society

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Perl, Martin L., 1927-....

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Purcell, Edward M.

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Physicist; interviewee b.1912. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Mills Purcell : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376599 Vital dates, 1912-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82576526 From the description of Oral history interview with Edward M. Purcell, 1982 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Schwartz, Brian B., 1938-....

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Theoretical physicist; professor of physics at Brooklyn College, since 1977; Education Officer (1987-94) and Associate Executive Secretary, American Physical Society (1990-94). From the description of Papers, 1966-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77698917 ...

Orear, Jay

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Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-

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