Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978
Ralph A. Sawyer papers, 1918-1978.
Personal correspondence, publication and speech files, and topical files relating to his professional activities with the U.S. Navy laboratories, Joint Task Force One, the American Institute of Physics, and the Optical Society of America.
Ralph Alanson Sawyer (1895-1978). Professor of physics, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, director of the Phoenix Project, and Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, scientist and administrator for the U. S. Navy during World War II, technical director of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, acting director of the American Institute of Physics and president of the Optical Society of America.
American Institute of Physics.
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Optical Society of America.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
United States. Navy
Atomic bomb
World War, 1939-1945.
Photographic prints. ftamc
Physicists. lcsh
University of Michigan. Department of Physics
AIP-ICOS
University of Michigan. Bentley Historical Library. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA