Records, 1939-1958.

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Records, 1939-1958.

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Miscellaneous correspondence files and committee papers of the wartime energy project. The papers are from a variety of sources including: the Ministry of Aircraft Production which sponsored the MAUD Committee and was in charge of the project; the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which took over the responsibility and created the Directorate of Tube Alloys for the purpose; scientists in various universities--Oxford (Clarendon Laboratory), Cambridge (Cavendish Laboratory), Imperial College, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol; scientists in Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.; the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington, which was the focal point for British participation in the Manhattan project; the joint atomic energy project set up in Canada under J. D. Cockcroft; post-war Ministry of Supply files; and miscellaneous unregistered folders.

675 files.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge and part of the School of the Physical Sciences. From the guide to the Cavendish Laboratory: Experimental Notebooks, c. 1900-1934, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) ...