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Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008
Frederick Seitz papers, 1935-1965.
Includes correspondence (1948-1968), reports, publications (1935-1957), agenda, minutes, and proposals concerning the administration of scientific organizations, programs, and research activities; advisory services with federal agencies on planning scientific research; consultant service with industrial research programs; evaluations of research projects and personnel; education and training; membership and research grants. The series covers Seitz' work with the American Institute of Physics (board chairman, 1954-1959); the American Physical Society (president, 1961); the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics; the National Academy of Sciences (president, 1962-1969); the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (science advisor, 1959-1960); the Department of Defense, Naval Research Advisory Committee, Office of Naval Research, Air Research and Development Command; National Science Foundation; Atomic Energy Commission; Argonne, Brookhaven, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Midwest Universities Research Association; and the University of Illinois Department of Physics and Coordinated Science Laboratory; contacts with federal administrators and congressmen concerning science policy and programs and industrial research for American Machine and Foundry, Bell Telelphone, E. I. du Pont, General Atomic and United Aircraft. The series contains general personal correspondence with physicists and science administrators concerning solid state physics, research projects, materials, positions, publications, lectures, meetings, travel and national science policy.
Professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1949-1968, department head, 1957-1964, and graduate college dean, 1964-1965; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1962-1969; and Rockefeller University, New York, NY.
American Institute of Physics.
American Physical Society.
Argonne National Laboratory
Bell Telephone Company.
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
United States. Department of Defense
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Citizens' advisory committees in science -- United States.
Physicists -- Correspondence.
Physicists -- Travel.
Physics -- Administration.
Research grants.
Science and state -- United States.
Science consultants.
Science -- Political aspects -- United States.
Science -- Research -- Evaluation.
Science -- Societies, etc. -- Administration.
Solid state physics.
University cooperation.
Agendas. aat aat
Lectures lcgft
Minutes. aat
Proposals. aat
Publications. aat
Reports. aat
Physicists -- Correspondence. lcsh
American Machine and Foundry Company
General Atomic Company.
Midwestern Universities Research Association
United Aircraft.
United States. Air Research and Development Command.
United States. Naval Research Advisory Committee.
United States. Office of Naval Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Coordinated Sciences Laboratory.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics.
AIP-ICOS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives. 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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