Lanzl, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Herman), 1921-
Lawrence H. Lanzl papers, 1929-2000.
Includes class notes (extending back to grade school); reports; memos and information about the Manhattan Project; newspaper and magazine articles documenting the atomic bomb; copies of publications and papers; correspondence; files on various professional and scientific societies; laboratory notebooks; conference programs and pamphlets; and scrapbooks.
B.S. degree in 1943 from Northwestern University, an M.S. degree in 1947 and a Ph.D. in 1951, both from the University of Illinois. He served on the Manhattan Project from 1944 to 1946, first in Chicago as part of Enrico Fermi's Metallurgical Laboratory, then in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the University of California. In 1960, he was certified by the Illinois Board of Radiation Physics as a Radiation Hazards Control Expert, and in 1967-1968 he was First Officer at the Division of Life Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Lanzl, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Herman), 1921-
Atomic bomb -- History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Documentation.
Scientific societies.
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