Lavatelli, Leo Silvio, 1917-
Leo S. Lavatelli papers, 1940-1978.
Includes correspondence, 1951-1979; reports, contracts, calculations, programs, publications and manuscripts relating to physics instruction and related experimentation; electricity and magnetism research; Los Alamos University lecture notes (1943-1946); Physics Department dinners, parties, and skits, 1940-1942, 1948-1969); electric delay line research, 1951-1956; Projects Quick Fix (1951-1953, 1958-1959) and Mink Refax (1958-1959) funded by U. S. Dept. of Defense to create tactical air control systems to provide ground control of weapons systmes (primarily aircraft) in combat, utilizing advanced radar and communications equipment; sabbatical research leave at the University of Bologna, 1957-1960; research on data processing in high energy physics, 1959-1962); letters of recommendation, 1964-1979) and physics publications, 1960-1965, 1969-1973. This series also includes correspondence, photographs, architectural plans for a house that Celia and Leo Lavatelli had designed by Harry Weese and had constructed in Aspen, Colorado, 1968-1970.
Physicist. On the physics faculty at Princeton University (1941-1943), Harvard University (1946-1959), and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) from 1959; staff member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1943-1946), and Control Systems Laboratory (1951-1956). Died 1998.
United States. Department of Defense
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Faculty.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
United States. Department of Defense
Universit ̀‰di Bologna.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Social aspects.
Air defenses -- United States.
Airborne warning and control systems.
Architecture, Domestic dwellings -- Design and construction -- United States -- Colorado -- Aspen.
Communications, Military.
Electric lines -- Research.
Electricity -- Research.
Communications, Military.
Defenses -- United States.
Electricity -- Research.
Fighter plane combat.
Laboratories -- United States -- New Mexico.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Data processing.
Physicists -- Social life and customs -- United States -- Illinois -- Urbana.
Physics -- Experiments.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Radar defense networks.
Sabbatical leave -- Italy -- Bologna.
Weapons.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Illinois.
Urbana (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Defenses.
Architectural records. aat
Lecture notes. aat
Letters of recommendation. aat
Photographs. aat
Publications. aat
Reports. aat
College teachers -- United States. lcsh
Physics teachers -- United States. lcsh
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Dept. of Physics.
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) -- Faculty.
Project Mink Refax.
Project Quick Fix.
AIP-ICOS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives. 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA