Kamen, Martin David, 1913-2002
Martin David Kamen papers, 1923-1992 (bulk 1945-1955).
Correspondence, research notebooks, manuscripts and publications, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous materials documenting Kamen's career, particularly his legal efforts to clear his name of charges of being a "spy and a traitor" and to regain his passport. The bulk of the collection dates from 1945-1955 and reflects Kamen's re-organization of his files in preparation for writing "Radian Science, Dark Politics". In addition to his legal travails, the collection illuminates Kamen's endeavors in biochemical research and his central role in the development of the UCSD's Chemistry Dept. and the university generally. Kamen's affiliation with Washington University is also well documented in the collection, but not so his affiliations with Brandeis University or the University of Southern California. Also notably lacking are materials relating to his co-discovery of carbon-14; these are held at UC-Berkeley's Bancroft Library. Major correspondents include: Arthur H. Compton, Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, James Franck, Georg von Hevesy, and Melvin Calvin.
Professor of biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. Professor at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1930s.
Kamen, Martin David, 1913- -- Archives.
Kamen, Martin David, 1913- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
University of California, San Diego. Dept. of Chemistry.
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) -- Faculty.
Radiant science, dark politics : a memoir of the nuclear age.
Biochemistry.
Photosynthesis.
Science and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Biochemists -- United States -- Biography.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 correspondent.
Calvin, Melvin, 1911-1997 correspondent.
Hevesy, Georg von, 1885-1966. correspondent.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 correspondent.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 correspondent.
Franck, James, 1882-1964. correspondent.
Calvin, Melvin, 1911-1997
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.