George Eugène Uhlenbeck papers, 1918-1981 (bulk 1925-1970).

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George Eugène Uhlenbeck papers, 1918-1981 (bulk 1925-1970).

Correspondence, lectures and speeches, publications, scientific notebooks, research papers, and topical files. Correspondence concerns technical discussions about nuclear physics, but includes some letters from 1930s and 1940s with European scientists discussing effects of National Socialism on European physics. Correspondents include: American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Paul Ehrenfest, Samuel Goudsmit, Mark Kac, Martin J. Klein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Wolfgang Pauli.

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