Smith, Herbert W. collector.
Herbert Smith collection on J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1921-1974.
Incoming letters; clippings; typescripts; photographs; poetry. This collection was assembled by Herbert W. Smith, an English teacher of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Ethical Culture School in New York. Following Oppenheimer's graduation, Smith collected materials documenting his life. Incoming letters (1921-1925) from Oppenheimer are personal and reveal his thoughts and experiences as an undergraduate at Harvard University. Also included are letters to Smith, many referring to Oppenheimer, from Francis Furgusson, a schoolmate of Oppenheimer's at Ethical Culture and Harvard. Clippings (1953-1967) and typescripts are biographical reminiscences of Oppenheimer. Photographs are of friends and Oppenheimer at his family ranch in New Mexico.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Ethical Culture Society. Ethical Culture School.
Harvard University -- Students.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Poems. aat
Reminiscences. aat
Photographs. aat
Physicists. lcsh
Oppenheimer family.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Furgusson, Francis.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA