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Kruger, P. Gerald (Peter Gerald), 1902-
P. Gerald Kruger letters to Erika Wackenroder Kruger, Germany: 1939-1940.
Contains correspondence written by Kruger to his wife, while he was traveling to Calif. from Illinois and working at Lawrence Labs in Berkeley, and his wife was visiting family in Berlin, Germany. Describes his work on the cyclotron, his colleges including Lawrence, and G. Kenneth Green, his worries of the war starting in Europe and trying to get his wife out, the cost of living in different locations in the U.S., description of college campuses including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin--Madison, University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley, description of Yellowstone Park, the Grand Tetons and Yosemite and the changing of the date of Thanksgiving by President Roosevelt. Also includes a copy of letter from his wife, in German, about how he can get money to her in order for her to return to the U.S., a biography of P.G. Kruger, and articles by Kruger. Also includes a black and white photograph of P.G. Kruger and G. K. Green.
Physicist. Cornell University Ph.D. 1929. From 1926-1927, he received a German-American Exchange Fellowship to the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin, where he studied with Max Planck and others. In 1929-1930, a second fellowship, from the National Research Council provided him with the opportunity to study at the Physikalische Technische Reichsanstalt. In 1931 he returned to Cornell as a Heckscher Research Fellow. He then went to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, where he taught for the rest of his career and supervised the construction of their cyclotron. While in Germany, he met Erika Wackenroder whom he married on August 27, 1931. Dr. Kruger died on November 4, 1978.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Kruger, Erika Wackenroder.
Kruger, P. Gerald (Peter Gerald), 1902-
Green, George Kenneth.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
University of Wisconsin--Madison.
University of Minnesota.
Cyclotrons.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Germany.
Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)
Yellowstone National Park.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
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Correspondence. aat ftamc aat
Photographs. aat
Kruger, Erika Wackenroder.
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University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
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