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Series I: Correspondence Series II: Autobiographical and Blewett family material Series III: Brookhaven National Laboratory, undated Series IV: Writings Series V: Personal accounting books and notebooks Series VI: Telephone log books Series VII: Audio and visual material Series VIII: Miscellaneous

John P. Blewett papers, 1821-2000

Description of Collection

Repository

American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives.

Papers created by

Blewett, John P. (John Paul), 1910-

Size of collection

5 linear feet
5 records boxes

Short description of collection

Collection of correspondence, notebooks and other manuscript material of Canadian physicist, John P. Blewett.

Language(s) of collection

English

Collection number:

AR2009-896

Nuclear physicist (1910-2000). Ph.D, physics (Princeton, 1936). Senior physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; consultant on accelerator technology to the French Atomic Energy Commission and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Research in particle accelerators and synchrotron radiation.

Scope and Contents of Collection

Collection of correspondence, notebooks and other manuscript material of John P. Blewett. Topics include: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and his work on the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), Blewett's work with accelerators, Blewett's research in nuclear energy and other alternative energy sources. A significan portion of the collection is comprised of correspondence, including conversations with James Brittain, Robert Crease, Maurice Goldhaber, Leland Haworth, Donald Kerst, Leon Lederman, Norman Ramsey, Arthur Schawlow, Frederick Seitz, G. H. Vineyard, Victor Weisskopf, Rolf Wideroe, and Chien-Shiung Wu, among many others. Another significant portion of the collection includes notebooks documenting the subject matter of personal and professional phone converstations, as well as personal accounting books which reflect travel and daily life and work.

Restrictions on Use and Access

Researchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/item-request.

Selected Search Terms

These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.

Organization and Arrangement of Collection

This collection is organized into eight series:

Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Autobiographical and Blewett family material
Series III: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Series IV: Writings
Series V: Personal accounting books and notebooks
Series VI: Telephone log books
Series VII: Audio and visual material
Series VIII: Miscellaneous

Each series is arranged chronologically.

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Gift of Tandy Warnow, daughter of Blewett, 2008.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Melanie J. Brown in 2011.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], John P. Blewett papers. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

Administrative Information

Title

Finding Aid to the John P. Blewett papers, 1821-2000

Publisher

American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives

One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
USA
nbl@aip.org

2011

Encoding Information

Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in 2011. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process.

Series I: Correspondence

Suberseries A: Out-going correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1

Letterbook (Yvonne Winterbottom), 1963-1975

Folder 2

Letterbook, April 1967-December 1967

Folder 3

Letterbook, January 1968-May 1968

Folder 4

Letterbook, June 1968-September 1969

Folder 5

Letterbook, September 1969-December 1970

Folder 6

Letterbook, January 1971-November 1972

Folder 7

Letterbook, 1973

Folder 8

Letterbook - Accelerator Department, 1973-1976

Folder 9

Letterbook - Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1974-1975

Folder 10

Letterbook - personal letters to editors and authors, 1974-1987

Subseries B: General correspondence

Box 2

Folder 1

A, 1971

Folder 2

Anderson, R.C., 1977

Folder 3

Archer, Jeanne, 1980-182

Folder 4

B, 1952-1989

Folder 5

Baldwin, George, 1975

Folder 6

Beck, Herb, 1992-1993

Folder 7

Beiersdorf, Herman, 1975-1978

Folder 8

Blewett family (to Blewett's mother and sister), 1950-1979

Folder 9

Blewett, Hildred, 1983-1991

Folder 10

Brechna, Hab, 1973

Folder 11

Brittain, James E., 1985-1986

Folder 12

Brodeur, Paul, 1993

Folder 13

C, 1950-1995

Folder 14

Carbon, Max, 1969

Folder 15

Clark, John, 1986

Folder 16

Cole, Francis T., 1989-1990

Folder 17

Coleman, John (Jack), 1990

Folder 18

Crease, Robert, undated

Folder 19

Crewe, Al, 1970-1971

Folder 20

D, 1974-1991

Folder 21

Dahl, Per and Eleanor, 1988-1999

Folder 22

Demos, Peter, 1977

Folder 23

F, 1974

Folder 24

G, undated

Folder 25

Goldhaber, Maurice, 1965-1969

Folder 26

Green, Peggy, 1996-2000

Folder 27

Grunder, Herman, 1975

Folder 28

H, 1946-1999

Folder 29

Halperin, I., 1946

Folder 30

Hau, Grace, 1980-1982

Folder 31

Hawkes, P.W., 1985

Folder 32

Haworth, Leland, 1952-1974

Folder 33

Heinz, Werner, 1969-1977

Folder 34

Herminghaus, Helmut, 1969

Folder 35

Herring, Conyers, 1947

Folder 36

Hirsch, E.E., 1974

Folder 37

J, 1956-1992

Folder 38

Jacobus, Elinor, 1995-1998

Folder 39

Johnsen, Kjell and Aase, 1952-2000

Folder 40

K, 1975-1993 and undated

Folder 41

Kapitza, Sergei, 1964-1978

Folder 42

Katy, Leon, 1975 and undated

Folder 43

Kerst, Donald, 1974-1989

Folder 44

Kinney, Herb, 1986-1996

Folder 45

re: Knapp, Edward, 1974

Folder 46

Krieger, Robert, 1978

Folder 47

re: Kukkonen, Jorma, 1967-1977

Folder 48

Kumagai, Hiroo, 9176-1977

Folder 49

L, 1975-1989 and undated

Folder 50

Lancaster, John and Phyllis, 1996-2000

Folder 51

Lapostolle, Pierre, 1970-1993

Folder 52

Lawson, J.D. (John David), 1978-1996

Folder 53

Lederman, Leon, 1969-1979

Folder 54

Le Duff, Joel, 1989-1995

Folder 55

Leppard, Leon, 1993-1996

Folder 56

Livingston, M. Stanley, 1952-1997

Folder 57

Lubkin, Gloria, 1986 and undated

Folder 58

M, 1980-1992 and undated

Folder 59

Maglich, Bogdan, 1972-1997

Folder 60

re: McInturff, Al, 1974-1996

Folder 61

Mills, Fred, 1988

Folder 62

N, 1975-1987

Folder 63

Nagorski, Zygmunt, 1990

Folder 64

Nishikawa, Tetsuji, 1972-1989

Folder 65

Nixon, Richard, 1968

Folder 66

O, 1978

Folder 67

Oliphant, M.L., 1955

Folder 68

O'Neal, John, 1982-1996

Folder 69

re: Orlov, Uri, 1977

Folder 70

P, 1953-1995 and undated

Folder 71

Page, Ralph, 1972

Folder 72

Panofsky, W.K.H., 1969-1978

Folder 73

Paulus, Kurt, 1978

Folder 74

Phillips, Melba, 1947 and undated

Folder 75

Pike, Otis G. , 1965

Folder 76

Pollock, Herbert C., 1947-1982

Folder 77

R, 1970-1998 and undated

Folder 78

Ramo, Simon, 1990

Folder 79

Ramsey, Norman, 1947-1965

Folder 80

Reiser, Martin, 1977-1989

Folder 81

Richardson, J.R., 1971-1974

Folder 82

Riddiford, L., 1977

Folder 83

Robertson, David, 1994-1995

Folder 84

Robertson, David (re: Anglo-Australian Telescope Observatory), 1975-1979

Folder 85

Rojansky, V., 1967

Folder 86

Rosner, C.H., 1976

Folder 87

Ruark, John P., 1967

Folder 88

S, 1946-1996 and undated

Folder 89

Sampson, Milo, 1945-1946

Folder 90

Schawlow, Arthur, 1974

Folder 91

Schmeltzer, Chris, 1988-1997

Folder 92

Seitz, Frederick, 1978-1999

Folder 93

Slack, Lewis, 1996 and undated

Folder 94

Smith, Peter, 1972

Folder 95

Southworth, Brian, 1972-1977

Folder 96

Spiro, Julius, 1986-1987

Folder 97

Stockton, Anne, 1971

Folder 98

Stuart, Brenda, 1996

Folder 99

Susini, Alfredo, 1971

Folder 100

T, 1969-1989

Box 3

Folder 1

Taylor, C.S., 1974

Folder 2

Trott, Betty, 1981-1982

Folder 3

Tunnicliffe, P.R., 1976

Folder 4

Van Steenbergen, A., 1972-1979

Folder 5

Veluts, Larissa, 1964-1975

Folder 6

Vineyard, G.H., 1970-1976

Folder 7

W, 1952-1993 and undated

Folder 8

Wainwright, Stuyvesant, 1959

Folder 9

Wang, Chia, 1989-1990

Folder 10

Weiss, Peter R., 1971

Folder 11

Weisskopf, V.F., 1971-1974

Folder 12

Welsh, Harry Lambert, 1984 and undated

Folder 13

Westfall, Catherine, 1987-1988

Folder 14

re: Wheeler, George, 1977-1981

Folder 15

Wideroe, Rolf, 1967-1992

Folder 16

Wilson, E.J.N., 1996

Folder 17

Wilson, Robert, 1965-1967

Folder 18

Winter, Stanley, 1983-1996

Folder 19

re: Winterbottom, Yvonne, 1968-1973

Folder 20

Woodsworth, Charles and Julie, 1995-1996

Folder 21

Wouk, Victor, 1987

Folder 22

Wu, Chien-Shiung, 1975-1996

Folder 23

Y, 1996

Folder 24

Zapolsky, Harold, 1974

Folder 25

Miscellaneous unknown correspondents, 1952-2000 and undated

Series II: Autobiographical and Blewett family material

Box 3

Folder 26

Joan Warnow Blewett biographical material, undated

Folder 27

Blewett family papers - ladies pocket memorandum booklet with notes, 1821

Folder 28

Biographical research - George John Blewett (father of J.P. Blewett), 1900-1994 and undated

Folder 29

Autobiographical material, 1921-1998 and undated

Folder 30

Autobiographical material, 1933-1986 and undated

Folder 31

Autobiographical material, 1952-1980 and undated

Folder 32

Autobiographical material, 1970-1978 and undated

Folder 33

Awards, 1986-1993

Folder 34

Symposium - John P. Blewett's 90th birthday, 1999-2000

Series III: Brookhaven National Laboratory, undated

Box 3

Folder 35

1963 Brookhaven Summer Study, undated

Folder 36

A.D.D. Bugle - mock newspaper re: Electron Analysis Group, 1955

Folder 37

A.A.D.D. party (photos), 1964

Folder 38

Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) injection booster - calculations, meetings, notes, 1966

Folder 39

Transport of super energy beams from an accelerator on Brookhaven's south tract to experimental areas on Brookhaven's north tract, 1970

Folder 40

History of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Robert Crease), 1972-2000

Folder 41

History of accellerators, 1972-1974

Folder 42

Brookhaven Accelerator Department - correspondence, 1973

Folder 43

Solar Research and Developments Coordinating Group - meetings, 1974

Folder 44

Log of Brookhaven National Laboratory energy program, 1974-1975

Folder 45

Brookhaven proposal - solar powered steam generator, 1975

Folder 46

Brookhaven's energy program - talk at Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) Nuclear Data Committee, 1975

Folder 47

International Conference on Particle Accelerators in Radiation Therapy (P.A.R.T. II and P.A.R.T. III) - Brookhaven correspondence, 1975-1976

Folder 48

Reminisciences about Accelerators: Brookhaven lecture, 1980

Folder 49

The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven, 1980

Folder 50

Historical accounts of Brookhaven Naitonal Laboratory and the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), 1987-1990 and undated

Series IV: Writings

Box 4

Folder 1

The relativistic magnetron: analysis of the static state, a positive ion megnetron for fusion experiments, undated

Folder 2

Electron linear accelerators, undated

Folder 3

Possible energy programs, 1973

Folder 4

Beam connector design details, 1990

Folder 5

Magnetic quadrupole triplet lenses, 1990

Folder 6

Field pattern in an electron lens, 1990

Folder 7

Generation of electron beams, 1991

Folder 8

Electron orbits in a magnetic lens, 1991

Folder 9

Light in early China, 1993

Folder 10

Accelerators, history of particle (article for MacMillan Encyclopedia of Physics) - draft and final, 1994

Series V: Personal accounting books and notebooks

Box 4

Folder 11

Notebook - M.H. Blewett, J.P. Blewett, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1936

Folder 12

Personal accounts log, 1941-1947

Folder 13

Personal accounts log, 1948-1955

Folder 14

Notebook - European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 1953

Folder 15

Personal accounts log, 1956-1964

Folder 16

Personal accounts log, 1964-1972

Folder 17

Personal accounts log, 1972-1978

Folder 18

Personal accounts log, 1979-1983

Folder 19

Personal accounts log, 1984-1989

Folder 20

Personal accounts log, 1987-1990

Series VI: Telephone log books

Box 4

Folder 21

Telephone log, 1961-1664

Folder 22

Telephone log, 1964-1968

Folder 23

Telephone log, 1968-1969

Folder 24

Telephone log, 1969-1971

Folder 25

Telephone log, 1971-1973

Folder 26

Telephone log, 1974-1975

Folder 27

Telephone log, 1975-1979

Folder 28

Telephone log, 1977-1980

Folder 29

Telephone log, 1979-1980

Folder 30

Telephone log, 1980-1981

Folder 31

Telephone log, 1981-1982

Box 5

Folder 1

Telephone log, 1981-1985

Folder 2

Telephone log, 1984-1985

Folder 3

Telephone log, 1991-1992

Folder 4

Telephone log, 1992-1993

Folder 5

Telephone log, 1993-1994

Folder 6

Telephone log, 1994-1996

Series VII: Audio and visual material

Box 5

Slides of cosmos and people, 1970s and undated

Folder 7

Video recordings: "My life with the accelerator" (Betamax tape) and "Autobiographical talk" (VHS tape), 1978

Folder 8

Audio recording: "R.R. Wilson Prize lecture: adventures with accelerators" (cassette), 1993

Series VIII: Miscellaneous

Box 5

Folder 9

Notes - nuclear physics, undated

Folder 10

Calculations, undated

Folder 11

Calculations and notes, undated

Folder 12

Untitled book reviews, undated

Folder 13

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) - correspondence, notes, reports, 1952-1979

Folder 14

Canadian research, 1963-1997

Folder 15

Notes taken on Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE) hearings, 1965

Folder 16

Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), 1965

Folder 17

Rand Corporation - consulting, contracts, 1969-1970

Folder 18

Helium, 1970-1971

Folder 19

Soviet physicists, 1972-1975

Folder 20

U.S. energy dependency, alternate energy, nuclear, solar, 1974-1979

Folder 21

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): a brief history, 1979

Folder 22

Taiwan, Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (SRRC) - correspondence, 1984-1989

Folder 23

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1985-1987

Folder 24

Biographical introduction - Mark Barton, 1986

Folder 25

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, 1988-1989

Folder 26

Note on visits to Cambridge and Acton, 1990

Folder 27

Robert A. Jameson - reference, 1991

Folder 28

American Physical Society Robert R. Wilson prize - correspondence, speeches, 1993

Folder 29

Nanodynamics - correspondence, 1993

Folder 30

Biographical paper - Odd Dahl, 1994

Folder 31

Nanodynamics - correspondence, drawings, plans, reports, 1994

Folder 32

Nuclear waste - notes, 1999

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Suberseries A: Out-going correspondence

Subseries B: General correspondence