George Placzek papers
1934-1955
Repository
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives.
Papers created by
Placzek, G. (George), 1905-1955
Size of collection
5 linear feet
10 manuscript boxes
Short description of collection
Correspondence, typescripts and manuscripts, scientific papers, research notes, and mathematical calculations of George Placzek.
Language(s) of collection
English
Collection number:
AR101
Physicist (atomic structure, quantum mechanics, and nuclear reactors). Collaborator, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 1932-1934, 1935-1938; temporary principal scientific officer, Directorate of Atomic Energy, Great Britain, 1942-1945; member of staff, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1945-1946; member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University from 1948.
Contains correspondence; typescripts and manuscripts; scientific papers; research notes and mathematical calculations. Undated manuscript drafts of papers on nuclear physics, including an untitled paper on the compound nucleus. Collection of scientific papers (1950-1954) by others, dealing with research on atomic and molecular structures. Research notes and detailed algebraic calculations (probably circa 1950s but undated) concern Placzek's work on neutron scattering of crystals and the theory of Bose gases. Correspondence (1934-1952) both personal and professional, a portion of which details his interest in the study of Piero della Francesca's works on geometry at the Vatican, including a letter of recommendation to the conservator of the Vatican manuscripts, a description of the manuscripts, and reference notes. Correspondents include: Hans A. Bethe, Niels Bohr, Norris Bradbury, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Sir James Chadwick, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Enrico Fermi, Leopold Infeld, Kenneth Hay Kingdon, Arnold N. Lowan, Robert Eugene Marshak, Robert Green Sachs, Chauncey Guy Suits, Richard C. Tolman, George Volkoff, Philip Wallace, Gian Carlo Wick, Eugene Wigner, Chen Ning Yang.
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Persons
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Bradbury, Norris, 1909-1997
Chadwick, James, 1891-1974
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Infeld, Leopold, 1898-1968
Kingdon, K. H. (Kenneth Hay), 1894-
Lowan, Arnold Noah, 1898-
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492
Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-
Suits, C. Guy (Chauncey Guy), 1905-1991
Tolman, Richard Chace, 1881-1948.
Volkoff, George
Wallace, Philip R. (Philip Russell), 1915-
Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-
Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-
Subject terms
Art and science.
Atomic structure.
Bose-Einstein gas.
Geometry--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts--Conservation and restoration
Neutrons--Scattering.
Nuclear energy--Government policy. United States
Nuclear physics.
Optics.
Quantum statistics.
Raman effect.
Spectrum analysis.
Genre terms
Calculations.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts.
Notes.
Typescripts.
Arranged into three series
- Series I: Correspondence, proceedings, notes, and typescripts
- Series II: Manuscripts
- Series III: Calculations
Box [number], Folder [number], George Placzek papers, 1934-1955. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Title
Finding Aid to the George Placzek papers, 1934-1955
Publisher
American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
USA
nbl@aip.org
2017
Encoding Information
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| Box 1 |
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1934-1952 |
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Folder 2 |
University of California - Interim report of the committee on Academic Freedon to the Academic Senate, Northern Section, of the University of California, 1 February 1951 |
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Folder 3 |
Proceedings of the Third Annual Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics (1 of 3), 1952 |
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Folder 4 |
Proceedings of the Third Annual Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics (2 of 3), 1952 |
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Folder 5 |
Proceedings of the Third Annual Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics (3 of 3), 1952 |
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Folder 6 |
Notes preparatory to a study of Bose gas, ca. 1954-1956 |
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Folder 7 |
Preliminary material for study of the geometry of Piero della Francesca, ca. 1955 |
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Folder 8 |
Curriculum vitae, undated |
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Folder 9 |
Notes on hydrodynamics (manuscript), undated |
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Folder 10 |
Notes on thermodynamics, 200B, undated |
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Folder 11 |
Typescripts and manuscripts (by Placzek or unknown), undated |
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Folder 12 |
Typescripts or articles by Niels Bohr, undated |
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Folder 13 |
Typescripts (reproductions), no author; Ferromagnetism lectures, undated |
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Folder 14 |
Typescripts (reproductions), no author (probably lecture notes), undated |
| Box 1 |
Folder 15 |
Report: The Theory of Neutron Diffraction by Gases I - Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, Chalk River Project, May 1952 |
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Folder 16 |
AEC Cross Sections Committee - Thermal Cross Sectyions (Preliminary edition), 1 June 1951 |
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Folder 17 |
Anderson, H. L. and E. Fermi - Scattering and capture of pions by hydrogen, undated |
| Box 2 |
Folder 1 |
Ashkin, J. and Wick, G. C. - Comment on the "Impulse approximation", undated |
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Folder 2 |
Bethe, H. A. - The hydrogen bomb, undated |
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Folder 3 |
Bohr, Aage - On the quantization of angular momenta in heavy nuclei, undated |
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Folder 4 |
Bohr, A. and B. R. Mottelson - Rotational states in even-even nuclei, undated |
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Folder 5 |
Burgy, M., D. J. Hughes, J. R. Wallace, et al. - Double transmission and depolarization of neutrons, undated |
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Folder 6 |
"Lectures on the theory and design of alternating-gradient proton synchrotron" (CERN Protron Synchrotron Group), 1953 |
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Folder 7 |
Chew, Geoffrey and Goldberger, M. L. - The scattering of elementary particles by complex nuclei, ca. 1955 |
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Folder 8 |
Chew, G. F. and H. W. Lewis - A phenomenological treatment of photo-meson production from deuterons, 24 July 1951 |
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Folder 9 |
Coester, F. - Influence of extranuclear fields on angular correlations, September 1953 |
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Folder 10 |
Cooper, L. N. and Tobocman, W. - Deuteron stripping and the problem of nuclear radii, ca. 1955 |
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Folder 11 |
Dyson, Freeman J. - The use of the Tamm-Dancoff method in field theory, 16 April 1953 |
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Folder 12 |
Eden, R. J. - Covariant Integral Equations for Heisenberg operators, ca. 1955 |
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Folder 13 |
Ekstein, H. - Multiple elastic scattering and radiation damping: II, ca. 1951 |
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Folder 14 |
Fermi, E., H. L. Anderson, D. E. Nagle - Angular distribution of pions scattered by hydrogen, undated |
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Folder 15 |
Fermi, E., Metropolis, N. and E. Felix Alei - Phase shift analysis of the scattering of negative pions by hydrogen, ca. 1950s |
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Folder 16 |
Fermi, E., and C. N. Yang - Are mesons elementary particles?, undated |
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Folder 17 |
Feschbach, H., C. E. Porter, and V. F. Weisskopf - The formation of a compound nucleus in neutron reactions, undated |
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Folder 18 |
Feschbach, H., C. E. Porter, and V. F. Weisskopf - A model for nuclear reactions with neutrons, undated |
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Folder 19 |
Fitch, Val L. and J. Rainwater - Studies of x-rays from mu-mesic atons, undated |
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Folder 20 |
Friedman, F. L. and V. F. Weisskopf - The compound nucleus, August 1955 |
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Folder 21 |
Gell-mann, M. and A Pais - The behavior of neutral particles under charge conjugation, ca. 1950s |
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Folder 22 |
Gell-mann, M. and A. Pais - Theoretical views on the new particles, July 1954 |
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Folder 23 |
Goldberger, M. L. and Adams, E. N. - The configurational distribution function in quantum statistical mechanics, undated |
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Folder 24 |
Goldhaber, M. and A. W. Sunyar - Classification of nuclear isomers, 22 May 1951 |
| Box 3 |
Folder 1 |
Hoffmann, Metropolis, alei and Bethe - Pion-hydrogen phase shift analysis between 120 and 217 MeV, 1954 |
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Folder 2 |
Horowitz, J. and A. M. L. Messiah - Sur les réacions (dp) et (dn), 2 June 1953 |
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Folder 3 |
Horowitz, J. and Messiah, A. M. L. - two papers, undated |
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Folder 4 |
Hughes, D. J., M. T. Burgy and W. E. Woolf - Scattering and polarization of neutrons in an iron single crystal, 16 August 1950 |
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Folder 5 |
Hughes, D. J., M. T. Burgy - Reflection of neutrons from magnetized mirrors, 6 September 1950 |
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Folder 6 |
Jost, R. and Pais A. - On the scattering of a particle by a static potential, undated |
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Folder 7 |
Klein, G. and Prigogine, I. - "Sur la mecanique statistique des phenomes irreversibles; III", undated |
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Folder 8 |
Lax, M. and Burstein, E. - Optical absorption in Indium Antimunide, undated |
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Folder 9 |
Lax, M. and Lebowitz, H. - A moment of singularity analysis of vibration spectra, undated |
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Folder 10 |
Lee, T. D., Low, F. E. and Pines, D. - The motion of slow electrons in a polar crystal, undated |
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Folder 11 |
Lévy, Maurice M. - Notes on the pseudoscalar two-nucleons problem, undated |
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Folder 12 |
Lévy, Maurice M. - On the symmetrical pseudoscalar moson theory of nuclear forces, undated |
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Folder 13 |
Lloyd, Stuart P. - Explicit ? - ? angular correlations II: polarization correlations, undated |
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Folder 14 |
Low, Francis - A note on natural line shape, undated |
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Folder 15 |
Marshall, J., L. Marshall, D. Nagle and W. Skolnik - Scattering of 314 MeV polarized protons by deuterium, undated |
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Folder 16 |
Marshall, H., L. Marshall and V. A. Nedzel - Search for polarization in double scattering of 450 MeV protons from Be, undated |
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Folder 17 |
MIT - Notes from seminar in nuclear science and engineering (1 of 2), 1947 |
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Folder 18 |
MIT - Notes from seminars in nuclear science and engineering (2 of 2), 1947 |
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Folder 19 |
Columbia University Department of Physics - Neutron beam spectrometer studies of oxygen - Melkonian, Rainwater and Havens, 1947 |
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Folder 20 |
Nambu, Yoichiro - Analysis of the ?-p+ production data observed at California Institute of Technology, September 1953 |
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Folder 21 |
Newton, Roger G. - Radiative effects in a constant field, June 1954 |
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Folder 22 |
Newton, Roger G. - Radiative correction to electron scattering, September 1954 |
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Folder 23 |
Newton, R. G. - A note on the Born approximation zeros for high energy electron scattering, October 1954 |
| Box 4 |
Folder 1 |
Pais, A. - On the V-particles, undated |
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Folder 2 |
Pais, A. - Spherical spinors in a euclidean 4-space, ca. 1955 |
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Folder 3 |
Pais, A. and R. Jost - Selection rules imposed by charge conjugation and charge symmetry, undated |
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Folder 4 |
Peierls, R. E. - The commutation laws of relativistic field theory, undated |
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Folder 5 |
Rabi, I. I. - Science as a way of life, 1950 |
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Folder 6 |
Racah, Giulio - Group theory and spectroscopy, undated |
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Folder 7 |
Rainwater, James - Nuclear energy level argument for a spheroidal nuclear model, 9 May 1950 |
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Folder 8 |
Roberts, K. V. - Papers on strong-coupling theory and related topics [bibliography], February 1952 |
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Folder 9 |
Sands, Teasdale and Walker - Negative to positive ratio of photomesons from deuterium, May 1954 |
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Folder 10 |
Seidl, F. G. P., D. J. Hughes, H. Palersky, et al., - "Fast chopper" time-of-fight measurement of neutron resonances, undated |
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Folder 11 |
Siegert, A. J. F. - On the theory of condensation, June 1954 |
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Folder 12 |
A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes under the auspices of the United States Government - H. D. Smyth [incomplete after page A4-2], 1940-1945 |
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Folder 13 |
Tisza, Laszlo - On the general theory of phase transitions, undated |
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Folder 14 |
Tittman, Jay - The energy dependence of the resonant scattering of slow neutrons in gold, undated |
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Folder 15 |
Walker, Oakley and Tollestrup - Photoproduction of neutral mesons in hydrogen at high energies, ca. 1950s |
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Folder 16 |
Weisskopf, V. F. - Analysis of neutron resonances, undated |
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Folder 17 |
Report: Conference on physics, Pocono Manor, PA - Mimeograph copy of notes by J. A. Wheeler, 30 March to 1 April 1948 |
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Folder 18 |
Wick, G. C., A. S. Wightman and E. P. Wigner - The intrinsic parity of elementary particles, undated |
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Folder 19 |
Yang, C. N. - Selection rules for the dematerialization of a particle into two protons, undated |
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Folder 20 |
Yang, C. N. - The spontaneous magnetization of a two dimensional Ising model, undated |
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Folder 21 |
Yang, C. N. and David Feldman - The S matrix in Heisenberg representation, undated |
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Folder 22 |
Yang, C. N. and R. L. Mills - Conservation of isotopic spin and isotopic gauge incariance, undated |
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Folder 23 |
Yu, Ming Chen W. and Guth E. - On the theory of multiple scattering, particularly of charged particles, undated |
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Folder 24 |
Yuon, J. - La diffusion des neutrons lents dans les substances hydrogenees, principes de l'optique du neutron, suivis d'une remarque sur l'interaction electron neutron, 23 April 1952 |
| Box 5 |
Folder 1 |
Calculations, "Incomprehensible", undated |
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Folder 2 |
Calculations, "Efà Cap.", undated |
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Folder 3 |
Calculations, "Verlansammung I", undated |
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Folder 4 |
Calculations, "Diff. in air", undated |
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Folder 5 |
Calculations, "1/? capture", undated |
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Folder 6 |
Calculations, "DTH div.", undated |
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Folder 7 |
Calculations, "English", undated |
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Folder 8 |
Calculations, "Old capture", undated |
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Folder 9 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 10 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 11 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 12 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 13 |
Calculations, undated |
| Box 6 |
Folder 1 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 2 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 3 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 4 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 5 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 6 |
Calculations, undated |
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Folder 7 |
Calculations, undated |
