Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011-, collector.
Norman Ramsey collection on the Manhattan Project, 1945-1946.
Typewritten documents (some annotated; some are carbon copies), printed or mimeographed materials, photographs, and carbon copies of handwritten notes. Includes documents from the United States War Department; the Headquarters of the First Technical Service Detachment, including two censored receipts for the materials used in the atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the United Nations Atomic Commission; Project A Headquarters; also miscellaneous issues of service branch newsletters (e.g. the 509th Composite Group's Daily bulletin), and other printed documents (some in Japanese); and notes from the crew of the Enola Gay (2 sheets). Primary correspondents include Thomas F. Farrell, William S. Parsons, William R. Purnell, and Norman Ramsey.
Physicist. Served as a member of the Radiation Laboratory from 1940-1943. Relocated to Los Alamos in 1943. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1989, for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.
Enola Gay (Bomber)
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Photographs.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
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Farrell, T. F. (Thomas Francis), 1891-1967.
Parsons, W. S. (William Sterling), 1901-1953.
Purnell, W. R. (William Reynolds), 1886-1955.
United States. Army Air Forces. Composite Group, 509th
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Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. National Museum of American History, Washington, DC 20560, USA