10 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Atomic bomb.
Fox Movietone newsreel collection--World War II paper records, 1922-1946
14,000 items ; 37 containers plus 7 oversize ; 16 linear feet -- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Cameramen’s dope sheets (detailed notes of stories filmed), continuity sheets (synopses of newsreels distributed to theaters), and turnovers (one sentence descriptions of each story filmed) from this major pioneer in the newsreel industry. Collection also contains other paper materials including telegrams, speeches, photographs, programs, and memoranda that provide details of the newsreels...
Ernest Joseph King papers, 1908-1966
10,000 items ; 39 containers ; 15 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer. Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book file, memoranda, notes, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to King's activities as commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet and chief of naval operations during World War II.
Martin J. Sherwin collection relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1910-2006
26,000 items and 19 microfiche ; 69 containers plus 1 classified and 2 microfiche containers ; 27.6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, biographer, and educator. Research material gathered for the writing of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, including interviews and oral histories, government records, topical files, correspondence, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
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John Lansing Callan papers, 1907-1956
4,000 items ; 14 containers plus 1 oversize ; 6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer, aviator, and aviation executive. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, orders to duty, subject files, awards, biographical file, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating to Callan’s personal and business interests in aviation, service in World War I and World War II, and other public service activities.
I.I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989
41,500 items ; 105 cartons plus 1 oversize plus 4 classified ; 42 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physicist and educator. The collection documents Rabi's research in physics, particularly in the fields of radar and nuclear energy, leading to the development of lasers, atomic clocks, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to his 1944 Nobel Prize in physics; his work as a consultant to the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and as an advisor on science policy to the...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, 1799-1980
74,000 items ; 294 containers plus 2 classified ; 117.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, lectures, statements, scientific notes, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work there. Topics include theoretical...
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Carl Eckart papers, 1921-1973
8,400 items ; 24 containers plus 1 oversize ; 13 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physicist, oceanographer, and educator. Correspondence, writings, lectures, subject files, biographical information, printed material, photographs, and other material relating to Eckart's career as oceanographer and physicist.
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Robert R. Furman papers, 1944-1985
350 items ; 1 container ; .4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Civil engineer and United States Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diary notes, interviews and writings, notes and notebooks, and miscellaneous items relating to Furman’s service with the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Wallace R. Brode papers, 1901-1974
8,750 items ; 25 containers plus 1 classified ; 10 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator, scientist, and government official. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, and other papers relating primarily to Brode's career in science and government.
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Lawrence E. Glendenin papers, 1935-2009
850 items ; 3 containers ; 1.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Nuclear chemist and co-discoverer of Promethium, element 61 on the periodic table of elements. Subject files, correspondence, writings, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and awards documenting Glendenin's work on the Manhattan Project, the Bikini Scientific Resurvey, and his career at Argonne National Laboratory.