Handwritten account of early work on fission and recollections (typed) of John Ray Dunning from memorial service, 1975-1984.

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Handwritten account of early work on fission and recollections (typed) of John Ray Dunning from memorial service, 1975-1984.

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A handwritten letter from Booth, dated May 1984, in answer to an inquiry from Richard Rhodes regarding the slow vs. fast neutron fission of separated uranium isotopes experiments at Columbia University in 1940. He discusses his collaboration with John Ray Dunning. Also included is a Memorial Service booklet of several eulogies of John R. Dunning, one of which was written by Booth and recalls the same experiments.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...

Rhodes, Richard.

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Booth, E. T. (Eugene Theodore), 1912-

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Physicist. Physics faculty of Columbia University from 1937, professor, 1949-1959; science director, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, Italy, 1959-1961; vice president, Laser, Inc., American Optical Company, 1961-1966; dean of graduate studies, Stevens Institute of Technology from 1968. From the description of Handwritten account of early work on fission and recollections (typed) of John Ray Dunning from memorial service, 1975-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798083 ...