Benedict, Manson
Manson Benedict papers, 1932-2016 (bulk 1932-1984).
Records of Benedict's years as a professor at MIT include course materials from classes he taught in nuclear engineering, 1958-1977; correspondence with MIT colleagues; reports and correspondence from the Department of Nuclear Engineering; notes from committee meetings, and information about the MIT reactor and the MIT Reactor Safeguard Committee. Also included are copies of speeches and reprints of his writings, including the manuscript for the second edition of Nuclear Chemical Engineering; notebooks from Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., 1946-1951; reports from the Kellogg Company; materials about the Manhattan District and Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1949; and an audiocassette of Benedict's remarks at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the MIT Department of Nuclear Engineering.
Records received in 1993 and 1994 (boxes 23-53) are unprocessed.
Manson Benedict, 1907- , B.S. 1928, Cornell University; S.M., Ph.D. in chemistry, 1935, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spent several years at Harvard University and in industry. During World War II, while working for the M.W. Kellogg Co., Benedict helped develop a process to extract toluene for making TNT from refinery products. He then helped plan and set up the plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., to separate uranium-235 for use in developing the atom bomb. Between 1946 and 1951 he was director of process development for Hydrocarbon Research, Inc. In 1951 he became a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT and developed a program of research and instruction which led to the establishment of the Department of Nuclear Engineering in 1958. He was head of the department from 1958 to 1971, and was named Institute Professor in 1969. Beginning in 1951 Benedict worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in a number of positions; in 1958 he was appointed to the AEC's General Advisory Committee, and was its chairman, 1962-1964. His later research focused on the design and operation of nuclear reactors.
Benedict, Manson. Nuclear chemical engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Reactor.
Nuclear engineering.
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