Nuclear energy

Scope and Content For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1056620~S6The material in the collection is fragmented. The collection contains material from Hoffman covering the 1989 Cold Fusion controversy and the naming battle with the Russians over elements 97-106. The manuscript materials from Seaborg have little research value...

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All of the materials except for a manual published by Victoreen Instrument Co. for use with its Radiation Survey Meter, Model No. 3 was issued by the U.S. government's Civil Defense Administration. Topics include use of a Geiger counter, construction of home fallout shelters, etc. There is also a set of lesson plans to teaching about radiation and its effects in high schools.

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This is a tightly focused collection. In addition to Genthieu's typsescript, liberally corrected by hand by Cockcroft, there is some pro-forma correspondence in which Genthieu introduces himself, explains the thrust of his proposed article and makes his request for assistance. The responses are mostly by Cockcroft's secretary, but there is one letter signed by Cockcroft himself.

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A copy of LIFE Magazine, dated October 10, 1949, featuring J. Robert Oppenheimer on the cover.

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A copy of Time Magazine, numbered Vol. LXII No. 12, featuring an illustration of Lewis Strauss on the cover.

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Personal files, academic files, publications, manuscripts, printed materials, correspondence, photographs, and audio/visual materials from the American environmental scientist and theoretical physicist Robert H. Socolow.