Langsdorf, Alexander, 1912-
Alexander Langsdorf papers, 1934-1983.
Ephemera relating to the development of the atomic bomb and the McCarthy Red Scare. Includes resolutions against further development of atomic energy by such groups as the American Physical Society and the Atomic Scientists of Chicago. Also included in the collection are reprints of publications by Arthur Holly Compton and a transcript of Langsdorf's security hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission in 1956.
American physicist (1912-1996). Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1937). During World War II, Langsdorf and Robert Thornton built a cyclotron at Washington Universitys Mallinckrodt Institute, for medical use in the rapidly developing field of nuclear physics. Langsdorf joined scientist Enrico Fermi in Chicago for research in neutron physics. He remained in Chicago when the Argonne National Laboratory was formed and was on staff until his retirement in 1977.
Langsdorf, Alexander, 1912-
American Physical Society.
Atomic Scientists of Chicago.
Atomic bomb
Nuclear arms control.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
Printed emphemera. lcsh
Transcripts. aat
McCarthyism.
Quantum theory -- History.
Independent Cittizens of Arts, Sciences, and Professions.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962.
AIP-ICOS
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