University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Physics Betatron Project records, 1941-1945.
Relates to Alis-Chalmers Company, Betatron, General Atomic Corporation, General Electric Company, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Midwest Universities Research Association. Betatron Project Records including financial records (1941-42), a notebook on the design and production of vacuum tight porcelain doughnut shaped tubes (1942-46), three notebooks on plate backing and heat tests of doughnuts and injector designs (1942-45), correspondence between Gerald Almy and Donald Kerst on testing and project support (April 21 - July 11, 1944) and a notebook on thyratron and flux forcing experiments (1945).
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois system. The university, then called the Illinois Industrial University, opened for classes on March 2, 1868, as a result of the 1862 Morrill Act. The name was officially changed to the University of Illinois in 1885, to reflect the broader scope of class offerings. The name of the Urbana location within the larger University of Illinois system was changed again in 1982, to The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The university department of physics is ranked among the top ten programs in the nation, and is the site of the Department of Energy's Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, programs in materials science and condensed matter physics research, the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and a national historic landmark astronomical observatory.
Almy, Gerald Marks, 1904-
Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993
Alis-Chalmers Company.
General Electric Company.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Midwestern Universities Research Association
United States. Office of Naval Research
Betatrons -- Research
AIP-ICOS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives. 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA