Marks, Anne W., 1922-2006
Anne W. Marks papers, 1952-1964.
Chiefly letters to Marks from Felix Frankfurter relating to national and international events and to personal matters. Other correspondents include Hubert H. Humphrey, Herbert S. Marks, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Subjects include Oppenheimer, his receipt of the Enrico Fermi Award for contributions to theoretical physics, and revocation of his security clearance; the John F. Kennedy presidential inauguration; Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, 1961; and Anne W. Marks's work for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Geneva, Switzerland. Includes photographs of Frankfurter.
Anne Wilson Marks was a graduate of the former Washington School for Secretaries and was an Army Department cryptographer early in her career. Later, she was administrative assistant to physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during World War II. Marks did press work at the State Department's Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and also helped write parts of a nuclear nonproliferation agreement. She also wrote on arms-control issues for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Marks, Anne W., 1922-2006
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Arms control
Enrico Fermi Award.
Nuclear disarmament.
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