Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977
Jesse W. Beams papers, 1926-1977.
Professional correspondence relating particularly to the Manhattan Project, 1941-1944, and the General Advisory Committee of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-1974; papers proposed or published by Beams and his colleagues; grant applications, 1956-1957, submitted by Beams or reviewed by him for National Institutes of Health; patent documentation; experimental data, diagrams, and miscellaneous research materials; War Dept. contracts; and biographical material, including clippings; also biographical materials on Doris Wilsdorf ne ̌Kuhlman, John W. Mitchell, and Lawrence R. Quarles. Topics: Kerr effect, ultracentrifuge, Uranium isotope separation, low temperature physics, tensile strengths, cryogenic instrumentation, centrifugation, gravitational g constant measurement, among others. Correspondents include Lyman J. Briggs, Ross Gunn, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Alfred O. Nier, Willard L. Severinghaus, Leland Bradley Snoddy, William Francis Gray Swann, and Eugene Paul Wigner.
Physicist (isotope separation, low temperature physics). On the physics faculty at University of Virginia (1928-1962), department chair (1948-1962); and member of science advisory committee, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (1942-1960).
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. General Advisory Committee.
Atomic bomb -- United States.
Centrifugation.
Centrifuges.
Experiments -- Documentation.
Gravitation (Constant of).
Independent regulatory commissions -- United States.
Kerr effect.
Low temperatures
Patents -- Documentation.
Peer review of research grant proposals.
Physics -- Research.
Research -- Evaluation.
Science and state
Uranium enrichment.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Biography files. aat
Clippings. aat aat aat
Contracts. aat aat
Diagrams. aat ftamc
Grant proposals. aat
Gravitational constant. phys-t
Tensile properties. phys-t
Briggs, Lyman J. (Lyman James), 1874-1963.
Gunn, Ross, 1897-1966.
Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, Doris
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Mitchell, John W.
Nier, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto), 1911-1994
Quarles, Lawrence R.
Severinghaus, Willard L. (Willard Lesly), 1882-1947.
Snoddy, Leland Bradley.
Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995-
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
United States. War Dept.
AIP-ICOS
University of Virginia. Alderman Library. Special Collections. Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA