Papers of Philip Morse and Leland Haworth [microform], 1946-1961.

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Papers of Philip Morse and Leland Haworth [microform], 1946-1961.

Correspondence; memoranda; committee reports; minutes. Primarily records of Haworth's tenure. Writers' files of outgoing letters from the directors; correspondence, memoranda and committee reports relating to Associated Universities, Inc., the corporate holder of the Brookhaven National Laboratory contract; Atomic Energy Commission policy and administrative materials; materials relating to the activities of internal committees including the Cosmotron Failure Investigating Committee; records of the scientific and non-scientific departments; records documenting the relations to outside agencies such as industries and universities; and materials relating to Leland Haworth's activities outside of the laboratory, some of which pertain to national scientific planning.

20 microfilm reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8279218

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Haworth, Leland J. (Leland John), 1904-

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Physicist, educator, research director, member Atomic Energy Commission, and director of the National Science Foundation. Died 1979. From the description of Papers of Leland J. Haworth, 1960-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80602331 Biographical Note 1904, July 11 Born, Flint, Mich. 1925 A.B., India...

Associated Universities, Inc.

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Associated Universities, Inc. was founded in 1946 as the interuniversity corporation to administer Brookhaven National Laboratory. Participating universities included Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, University of Rochester, and Yale. Their objective was to create a multidisciplinary research institution, a primary purpose of which would be to provide, with the financial support of the Federal Government, fac...

Brookhaven National Laboratory. Office of the Director.

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A federally funded research laboratory founded in 1947. Operated by Associated Universities, Inc., sponsored by nine northeastern universities under a contract with the United States Department of Energy, the Laboratory conducts research in high energy physics, basic energy sciences, nuclear energy, nuclear and medium energy physics and chemistry, and basic life sciences, including biology and medical use and effects of radiation, radioisotopes, and other nuclear tools. Environmental and energy ...

Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

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Morse died in 1985. From the description of Autobiographical data, ca. 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716656 Philip McCord Morse was born August 6, 1903, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His parents, Allen Crafts Morse, a telephone engineer, and Edith McCord Morse, soon moved to Cleveland where he grew up. In 1921 Philip Morse started attending Case Institute, but he took the following year off to work in the Radiolectric Shop that he owned with friends. Upon h...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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