Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

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Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

Collection consists of the documentation amassed in producing the documentary film. It includes transcripts of the interviews conducted for the film with physicists who worked with Fermi in Rome, at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Los Alamos; scripts; research notes; and correspondence. Only a small portion of this material was used in the final version of the 46 minute educational film intended primarily for American high school and college students. Unedited transcripts of filmed interviews with Dr. and Mrs. Harold M. Agnew, Eduardo Amaldi, Herbert Anderson, Hans A. Bethe, John Baudino, Gina Castelnuovo, Owen Chamberlain, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Geoffrey Chew, Laura Fermi, Eugenio Fubini, Samuel A. Goudsmit, David Hawkins, Percival King, Tsung-Dao Lee, John Marshall, Leona Marshall, Dorothy McKibbin, Nicholas Metropolis, Philip Morrison, Norman Nachtrieb, Jay Orear, Isidor I. Rabi, Franco Rasetti, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Emilio G. Segrè, Cyril S. Smith, George L. Weil, and Chen Ning Yang.

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Kemeny, John G.

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Born, Budapest, Hungary, May 31, 1926. Emigrated to the U.S., 1940; naturalized, 1945. Valedictorian, George Washington High School, N.Y., 1943; BA and PhD in mathematics, Princeton, 1949. Assistant within the U.S. Army, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Project, 1945-1946. Research assistant to Dr. Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1948-49. Fine Instructor and Office of Naval Research Research Fellow in Mathematics, Princeton, 1949-51. Asst. prof. of philosophy, P...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Chamberlain, O.

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Anderson, Herbert Lawrence.

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Anderson, 1914-1988. Physicist. From the description of Oral history interview with Herbert Anderson, 1981 January 13 and 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81567026 Herbert L. Anderson was born in New York City on May 24th, 1914. By 1940, Anderson had earned an A.B. degree, a B.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in physics, all from Columbia University. He also had helped to build Columbia’s first cyclotron and, with that same machine, and under the dire...

Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001

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Franco Dino Rasetti (1901-2001) was born in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Pisa, 1923, and honorary degrees from Laval University, Ph.D., 1948, and the University of Glasgow, LL.D., 1957. He came to the United States in 1947 and became a naturalized citizen in 1952. In the early 1970s he returned to Italy. Rasetti was an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Florence, 1923-1926, and the University of Rome, 1927-1930. He then...

Baudino, John.

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Morrison, Philip

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Physicist. Participant in the Manhattan Project. Affiliations: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1944-46; Cornell 1946-65; MIT 1965-2005. From the description of Oral History interview with Philip Morrison, 2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305417 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Philip Morrison and his wife, Phylis Morrison. From the description of Letters, 1974-1980, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873098 ...

Segrè, Emilio

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Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989). From the description of Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80714573 Educator, physicist; interviewee b.1905. From the description of Reminiscences of Emilio Segr'e : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527163 Emilio Gino Segrè is a nuclear physicist and discovered slow neutrons; the elements technetium, asta...

Amaldi, Edoardo

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Amaldi was born in 1908 and died in 1989. From the description of Papers, ca. 1930-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83095333 From the description of Papers, ca. 1930-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81330480 ...

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

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Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

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Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902-1978). Physicist. From the description of The development of physics in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s [sound recording] / 1974 April 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84276317 From the description of Address [sound recording] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830635 Physicist (atomic physics) and editor. On the physics faculty at University of Michigan, 1927-1946; on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1948-1970, and chai...

King, Ronold Wyeth Percival, 1905-

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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

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Physicist. From the description of Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories, 1966-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935483 Alsatian-born American physicist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for physics. From the description of Typed letter signed : Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to Samuel Goudsmit, 1936 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270953107 Unpublished document written as chapter 13 of the Smyth Report. Letters about it ...

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

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Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992, Metallurgist of Cambridge, Mass. Smith received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and taught there from 1961 until his retirement in 1969. His title of Institute Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and the History of Metallurgy, one rarely conferred and only on those whose work goes beyond traditional disciplines, reflects the high esteem in which he was held. Smith has had great influence on contemporary metalsm...

Rabi, I. I. 1898-

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Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-....

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Chen Ning Yang : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608433 ...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-....

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Chew, Geoffrey F

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Fermi, Laura

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Holton, Gerald James

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Harvard Project Physics

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Harvard Project Physics was a curriculum development group based at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. and supported by the United States Office of Education and the National Science Foundation. Its goals were to develop a humanistically oriented physics course by presenting the subject in historical and cultural perspective, help increase high school physics enrollments, and contribute to the knowledge of the factors that influence science learning. From the description of Mater...

Brittain, Donald

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Nachtrieb, Norman H.

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Lee, T. D., 1926-

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Physicist, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Tsung-dao Lee : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122632035 Tsung-Dao Lee (1926- ). From the description of Oral history interview with Tsung-Dao Lee, 1980 October 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83300221 ...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Agnew, Harold M.

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American physicist; member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory staff, 1943-1946. From the description of Harold Melvin Agnew motion picture film, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871134 ...

Chandrasekhar, S. 1910-

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Metropolis, N. 1915-

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Orear, Jay

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