Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, 1921-1980 (bulk 1947-1967).
Correspondence, desk books, printed copies of Oppenheimer's lectures, statements, and scientific notes, memoranda, inventories, photos, and newspaper clippings, chiefly 1947-67, when Oppenheimer was director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J. Includes material on theoretical physics, Oppenheimer's work with the Los Alamos project and the development of the atomic bomb, the control of atomic energy and its role in international affairs, security in scientific fields, the moral responsibility of the scientist, and the relationship between science and culture. Oppenheimer's hearing before the Personnel Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission is well documented. Correspondents include Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Julian Boyd, Vannevar Bush, Pablo Casals, Harold Cherniss, James B. Conant, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Feis, Enrico Fermi, George Kennan, Shuichi Kusaka, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Julius Schwinger, Edward Teller, and Norman Thomas.
Educator and 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).
Bethe, Hans A, (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Bloch, Felix, 1905-1983-
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Born, Max, 1882-1970.
Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973.
Cherniss, Harold F. (Harold Frederick), 1904-1987.
Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Kennan, George Frost, 1904-
Kusaka, Shuichi, 1915-
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.).
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic bomb
Internal security -- United States.
Nuclear energy.
Science -- History -- 20th century.
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