Finding Aid for the Robert F. Bacher Papers 1924-1994
Series 1. CORRESPONDENCE: PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL
Agnew, Harold 1973-1978
Alvarez, Luis W. 1948-1988
American Philosophical Society 1979-1986
Anderson, Herbert L. 1940-1983
The Arms Control Association 1986-1990
Associated Universities Inc. 1966-1971
Atomic Energy Commission See: Series 3, U.N. Atomic Energy Commission See: Series 3, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Atoms for Peace Awards Inc. 1957-1969
Avery, Stanton R. 1970-1984
A Miscellaneous
Badash, Lawrence 1974-1983
Bainbridge, Kenneth 1973-1987
Baker, Charles P. 1941-1985
Bakker, C. J. 1948
Ballen, Samuel 1982
Baruch, Bernard 1947-1962
Bell, Whitefield J. Jr. 1980-1981
Bernstein, Barton 1985-1994
Bethe, Hans and Rose 1940-1976
Bethe, Hans and Rose 1976-1994
Bevan, William 1982
Bohr, Neils 1936-1959
Borsook, Henry 1976-1979
Breit, G. 1932
Briggs, Lyman J. 1941
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 1978-1982
Bromley, D. Alan 1972-1989
Bronk, Detley 1939-1973
Brown, Gov. Edmund G. 1966
Brown, Harold ( see also: Series 6.2) 1969-1984
Brown, Harrison 1962-1986
Buchata, J. W. 1946-1955
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1950-1987
B Miscellaneous
Carnegie Corporation of New York 1959-1984
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1960-1969
Center for Defense Information 1982
Central Scientific Company 1937
Chandler, Otis and Missy 1972
Chang, James T. H. 1972
Cisler, Walker L. 1970-1977
Claremont Graduate School 1974-1976
Cockcroft, John, Sir 1950-1966
Cohen, Alexander F. 1973
Common Cause 1970-1976
Compton, Karl T. 1948-1953
Conant, James B. 1949-1972
Condon, Edward U. 1950-1954
Corcoran, William and Martha 1969-1982
Cornell University 1941-1949
Corson, Dale 1950-1984
Cosmos Club 1979-1982
Cowan, Edward 1981-1982
C Miscellaneous
Day, Edmund E. 1941-1949
Detroit Edison Company 1961-1979
DeVault, Don 1939
Devons, Samuel 1977
Doolittle, James H. 1970-1971
Dreyfuss, Henry 1964-1969
DuBridge, Lee A. 1939-1991
D Miscellaneous
Edison Electric Institute undated
Einstein, Albert 1946
Electrical Research Developments 1939
Elliot, David 1981-1985
E Miscellaneous
Fermi, Enrico 1939-1950
Feynman, Richard P. 1949-1983
Fine, Paul C. 1947
Finney, Ross 1991
Fisk, James B. 1959
Fowler, William 1971-1985
F Miscellaneous
Gardner, John See: Carnegie Corporation of New York and Common Cause
Gibbs, R. C. ( see also: Cornell University) 1941-1946
Gold, Thomas 1981
Goldberg, Stanley 1988-1990
Goldberger, Marvin L. 1978-1987
Golden, William T. 1950-1987
Goudsmit, Samuel and Irene 1930-1939
Goudsmit, Samuel and Irene 1940-1980
Gowing, Margaret 1979
Gray, Harry and Shirley 1987-1988
Note
Groves, General Leslie R. 1946-1949
G Miscellaneous
Haley, Morris See: Carnegie Corporation of New York and Common Cause
Harvard University 1939-1940
Harvard University Press 1977-1987
Haskins, Caryl P. 1969-1975
Hastings, Robert P. 1975-1985
Havens, William W., Jr. 1968-1979
Hawkins, David 1951
Hawthorne, Sir William 1981
Haworth, Leland J. 1950-1966
Herb, R. G. 1938-1940
Herken, Gregg 1992
Hershberg, James G. 1981-1982
Higinbotham, W. A. 1949-1967
Hoffman, Joseph G. and Ruth B. 1939-1975
Hudspeth, Emmett L. 1945-1946
Humphries, Frances 1968-1986
Hussain, Farooq 1976
H Miscellaneous
Indiana University 1963-1964
Institute for Defense Analyses 1969
I Miscellaneous
Jamison, Benton 1989
Jens, Wayne 1974-1977
Johnson, Joseph See: Carnegie Endowment
Jones, L. Winchester and Margaret 1978-1988
Jones, William T. 1969
J Miscellaneous
Kac, Mark 1952-1970
Kaplan, Joseph 1963-1987
Kappa Sigma Fraternity 1975
Keck, Robert E. 1955
Kerwin, Larkin 1972-1973
Kevles, Daniel 1963-1980
Killian, James R. 1954-1979
Kistiaowsky, George B. 1950-1980
Konopinski, Marian 1947
K Miscellaneous
Ladenburg, R. 1939
Lamb, Willis E., Jr. 1960-1964
Larson, Clarence E.
Lauritsen, Thomas 1952-1963
Lawrence, Ernest O. 1950-1953
Lewis, H. W. 1966-1970
Lilienthal, David and Helen 1949-1981
Long, Franklin A. 1948-1989
Loomis, F. W. 1946
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1950-1986
L Miscellaneous
Marsak, Robert E. 1955-1967
Matthews, R. R. 1963
McCarthy, Walter 1971-1984
McDaniels, Boyce D. 1943-1985
McDaniel, Paul W. 1961-1965
McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1929
McLeod, Mary M. 1946-1962
McMillan, Edwin M. 1948-1991
McMillan, Priscilla 1983-1987
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1943-1967
Metropolis, Nicholas and Patricia 1979-1983
Mettler, Ruben F. 1984-1985
Millikan, Robert A. 1930
Mortimer, Charles G. 1970
M Miscellaneous
Nason, Howard K. 1973-1975
National Academy of Sciences (1) 1961-1992
National Academy of Sciences (2) 1961-1992
National Research Council 1930-1932
National Science Foundation 1952-1954
Neal, Homer 1988-1991
Newton, Charles 1980-1983
Nichols, General K. D. 1978-1986
N Miscellaneous
Oppenheimer, Frank 1969-1972
Oppenheimer, J. Robert and Kitty ( see also: Series 2.2 "Correspondence S-1") 1943-1972
Osborn, Frederick 1948
O miscellaneous
Panofsky, W. K. H. 1962-1986
Pauling Linus 1963
Penney, Sir William 1966-1989
Percy, Charles H. 1968-1983
Pentz, M. J. 1974-1975
Peterson, Vincent Z. 1960-1963
Pickering, William H. 1969-1983
Platt, Joseph 1966-1988
Press, Frank 1965-1982
Quarles, Donald A. 1954-1973
Quimby, Shirley L. 1964-1965
Rabi, I. I. and Helen 1931-1988
Rabinowitch, Eugene See: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Radio Corporation of America Laboratories 1956-1959
Radium Chemical Corporation 1938-1950
Ramo, Simon 1966-1967
Ramsey, Norman 1963-1974
Rand Corporation 1964-1988
Randall, Harrison M. 1932-1966
Reed, Charles K. 1978-1980
Robertson, Howard P. 1955-1961
Rogers, Carl R. 1965-1977
Root, Lin 1972
Rosen, Louis 1973-1977
Ruddock, Albert 1963-1965
Russell, Bertrand 1960-1961
R Miscellaneous
Sachs, Robert G. 1979
Salant, Edward and Margaret 1952-1979
Sands, Matthew 1953-1985
Sawyer, Ralph A. and Francis 1931-1979
Scientists and Engineers for Secure Energy 1988
Scott, William T. 1979-1980
Seaborg, Glenn T. 1962-1971
Seidman, Irving See: Quimby, Shirley L.
Seitz, Frederick 1955-1975
Selfridge, George C. 1947
Serafini, Anthony 1984
Shelton, Frank H. 1991-1992
Silverman, Albert 1985
Smith, Alice K. 1972-1980
Smith, Joseph V. 1983
Smith, Lloyd 1948-1949
Smyth, Henry D. 1949-1987
Stanley, George M. 1952-1953
Stern, Philip M. 1966
Stone, Marshall H. 1986-1987
Strauss, Lewis 1949-1970
Suits, C. Guy 1950-1960
The Sunset Club 1964-1987
Supple, Merrill & Driscoll, Inc. 1979
Sutherland, Sir Gordon 1939-1972
Sa-Sl Miscellaneous
Sm-Sz Miscellaneous
Tape, Gerald F. 1961-1980
Teem, John M. 1974
Telegdi, V. L. 1982-1986
Teller, Edward 1951-1979
Thompson, LaRoy B. 1978
Time Magazine 1964
Tollestrop, Alvin V. 1958-1973
Tolman, Richard C. ( see also: Series 2.2) 1946-1948
Truman, Harold 1947-1949
Truman Library 1976
Tsien, Hsue Shen 1950
Tuttle, William M. 1976
T Miscellaneous
Union of Concerned Scientists ( see also: Series 4.1) 1981-1985
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission See: Series 3
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission See: Series 3
U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Public Affairs 1986
Unz, Ron K. 1985-1986
Urey, Harold 1939-1947
U Miscellaneous
V miscellaneous
Walker, Robert L. 1949-1984
Watson, Earnest C. 1949-1983
Waymack, William W. 1949-1956
Weaver, Warren 1955-1958
Weisskopf, V. F. 1948-1965
WGBH Television 1986
Wheeler, John A. 1964-1985
Wilson, Carroll L. 1979
Wilson, Robert R. ( see also: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) 1948-1987
Winnett, P. G. 1952
Wouk, Herman 1973-1976
Wyden Books 1983-1984
W miscellaneous
Yntema, Theodore O. 1966-1974
York, Herbert 1973-1987
X, Y, Z miscellaneous
Unidentified correspondence
Series 2. NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND THE MANHATTAN PROJECT 1925-1949
Subseries 1. PHYSICS RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND CORNELL University of Michigan
Analytic Wave Functions (notes) 1928
S. Goudsmit, Hyperfine Structures (galleys and notes) 1929
Bacher and Goudsmit, Der Paschen-Back-Effekt der Hyperfeinstruktur 1930
Bacher and Campbell, Test of Hyperfine Structure Theory (manuscript, notes and correspondence) 1931-1932
Bacher and Campbell, Nuclear Moments of Indium and Gallium, (manuscript and notes) 1931
Bacher and Goudsmit, Atomic Energy States: Contract and correspondence 1929-1932
Bacher and Goudsmit, Atomic Energy States: Tables 1932
Bacher and Goudsmit, Atomic Energy States: Desk copy (with notes and corrections) 1932
Bacher and Condon, The Spin of the Neutron (manuscript and notes) 1932
Bacher and Goudsmit, Anomalies in Hyperfine Structure (manuscript and notes) 1933
Goudsmit, Nuclear Magnetic Moments (manuscript, notes and offprint) 1933
The Interaction of Configurations; SD-P2 (manuscript and notes) 1933
Note on the Magnetic Moment of the Nitrogen Nucleus (galleys and manuscript) 1933
Bacher and Goudsmit, Atomic Energy Relations: manuscript and correspondence 1934
Bacher and Goudsmit, Atomic Energy Relations: calculations, tables and notes 1934
Bacher and Goudsmit, The Electrostatic Interaction of Atoms (manuscript) 1934
Bacher and Sawyer, Isotope Shift in Magnesium (manuscript) 1934
Teaching material, reports, and notes
Lectures on partial differential equations ca.1928
Student examination material 1928-1930
National Research Council Report 1931
Isoelectronic spectra undated
D-electron and miscellaneous calculations undated
Miscellaneous technical notes and calculations ca.1927-1935
Notebooks
Undergraduate laboratory Number 1
Undergraduate laboratory Number 2
Undergraduate laboratory Exercises 1-29
Undergraduate laboratory Exercises 32-1969
Graduate lecture notes: Quantum theory 1926-1927
Graduate lecture notes: Dynamics 1926-1927
Graduate lecture notes: Differential calculus Winter, 1927
Graduate lecture notes: Spectral series 1927
Graduate lecture notes: Mechanics Summer 1927
Graduate lecture notes: Electricity and magnetism (Rainich) 1927-1928
Graduate lecture notes: Electricity and magnetism (Laporte) 1927-1928
Graduate lecture notes: Integral calculus 1927-1928
Graduate lecture notes: Thermodynamics 1927-1928
Graduate lecture notes: Quantum dynamics Summer, 1928
Graduate lecture notes: Differential geometry 1928-1929
Graduate lecture notes: Differential calculus 1928-1929
Lectures of E. Fermi 1930
Atomic Spectra 1931
Isotopes and miscellaneous references ca.1931
Lectures of E. Fermi 1933
Experimental work 1933
Handy Note Book (notes on atomic phenomena) undated
Cornell University
Hans Bethe, Nuclear Quadruple Moments (manuscript notes) 1935
Diffusion of neutrons ca.1935-1940
Nuclear Moments (manuscript) 1936
Slow Neutron Processes (incomplete manuscript) ca.1936-1940
Magnetic Moments of Nuclei (manuscript) ca.1936-1940
Magnetic Field on Neutrons (notes) 1937
Ionization chamber and electrometer: design plans 1937
Student examinations (McDaniel and Marshak) 1937-1939
Bacher et al., The Photographic Effect Produced under Bombardment 1938
Scattering of D-D Electrons (notes) 1938
National Research Council: neutron scattering reports 1938-1939
Report on Fast Neutron Scattering 1938-1939
Lecture notes 1938-1940
On the Collimation of Fast neutrons (manuscript and notes) 1939
J.P. Vinti correspondence re SP-P2 interactions 1939
Cornell research reports 1939-1940
Mono-energetic slow neutrons: grant proposals 1940
Nuclear Physics, 711 (lectures notes) 1941
Cyclotron proposal ca.1941
Cornell lab sketches 1941
Bacher et al., Slow Neutron Velocity (galleys and correspondence) 1946-1947
Bevatron proposal 1946
Cornell physics publications 1946-1947
Cornell Notebooks
Notes regarding Fermi, Dirac and others 1935
Modern Physics, 1895-1935 (lectures notes), and laboratory experiments 1936
Laboratory experiments 1937
Calculations and notes 1937
Laboratory experiments and circuits designs 1938, 1940-1941
Laboratory experiments 1938-1939
Cloud chamber experiments 1937-1938
National Pocket Roll Book 1940
Spiral Notebook re post-War Cornell 1945-1946
Cornell Student theses
D. C. Swanson, Energy Losses of Fast Neutrons 1938
R. F. Kingsbury, Calibration of Portable Ionization Chambers 1939
J. G. Hoffman, Experimental Studies of the Properties of Slow Neutrons 1939
B. L. Moore, Examination of the Absorption Method 1940
C. P. Baker, Measurements with a Neutron Velocity Spectrometer 1941
Subseries 2. THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND AFTERMATH 1943-1949
Correspondence S-1 ( re atomic bomb project) 1941-1944
MIT Radiation Laboratory: correspondence and documents 1943-1945
Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory 1946
Notebook (first visit to site) 1943
The Los Alamos Primer 1943
Richard Tolman: correspondence ( re Manhattan Project) 1943
Y Division (experimental physics): Reports 1943-1944
Y Division: Notebooks 1943, 1944
Y Division: S-1 Reports (laboratory work) 1942
Y Division: N. Bohr, Recent Investigations of Atomic Nuclei 1942
Y Division: Bacher et al, Time Dependence of Emissions of Neutrons 1942
Y Division: Bacher and McDaniel: electronics research 1943
Y Division: J.D. McDaniel, Slow Neutron Resonances 1943
Y Division: Isotopic Constitution of Plutonium undated
Y Division: Bacher et al, Report on Fission Cross Section of Uranium undated
G (Gadget) Division: Personnel 1944-1945
G (Gadget) Division: Organization and directives 1944-1945
Cornell equipment loans 1942-1945
Personnel lists and directories 1943-1945
Omega accident report Jun 1945
Memorandum on laboratory organization 1944
Personal –Site Y: General documents, memos and correspondence 1943-1945
General documents, memos and correspondence see also: Series I, correspondence of J. R. Oppenheimer 1943-1944
General documents, memos and correspondence 1945
Manhattan Project: miscellaneous documents 1943-1945
Classified documents receipts 1943-1946
Trinity experimental device: Schedules and documents 1945
Trinity experimental device: Test Report 1945
Air Corps itinerary for Nagasaki 1945
War Department news releases 1945
H.D. Smyth, A General Account of Atomic Energy ("The Smyth Report") 1945
His Majesty's Stationery Office, Statements Relating to the Atomic Bomb 1945
His Majesty's Stationery Office, The Effects of Atomic Bombs 1946
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1946
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Manhattan Engineering District) 1946
Photographs of the Atomic Bombings (Manhattan Engineering District) 1946
Manhattan Project: post-war aftermath
Post-war job placement Sep 1945
Manhattan Project organization chart 1946
Disposition schedules 1945-1946
Declassification of experimental work 1946-1947
Termination of government consulting contracts 1946
Selected information (digest of sources on nuclear materials and processes) 1945-1946
Committee on Declassification (Tolman Committee) Nov 1945-Feb 1946
Note
Committee on Declassification Feb-Jul 1946
Manhattan District, Advisory Committee on Rand (with notes 1980) 1946
Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies Jan 1946
Atomic Energy, Public Affairs Abstracts Jan-Nov 1946
Committee on Denaturing of Atomic Explosives (with notes 1980) Apr 1946
National Committee on Atomic Information Aug 1945
Post-war consulting contracts Oct 1946-May 1948
Note
General Groves Manhattan Project termination letter 1946
Los Alamos Super [H] Bomb, 1946-1971 ( see also: Los Alamos Super [H] Bomb history; Series 5.1 & 5.3)
J. H. Manley, Secret Science (includes declassified correspondence re) 1949-195
Klaus Fuchs espionage investigation 1950
Subseries 3. THE MANHATTEN PROJECT: HISTORIES AND ACCOUNTS 1953-1990
Life at Los Alamos (from Atomic Scientists Journal) 1953
G. T. Seaborg, Los Alamos: 25 Years in the Service of Science and the Nation Feb 1968
Nuclear Explosive Yield of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London) 1970
Manhattan District History: Nonscientific aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942-1946 1973
Daniel Kevles, draft chapter of The Physicists (with RFB's comments) 1976
The Smyth Report (special issue of Princeton University Library Chronicle) 1976
Trinity (by K. T. Bainbridge) 1976
The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb (review and correspondence) 1977-1978
The First 20 Years at Los Alamos 1963
Reach to the Unknown: the Trinity Story 1965
Los Alamos Archives history advisory committee (correspondence, notes and documents) 1978-1986
En Route to Shangri-L.A. (K.T. Bainbridge manuscript) ca.1980
Seeing the Light of Armageddon (article by Thomas Powers from Rolling Stone Magazine: manuscript, notes and correspondence) 1981
Comments on the History of the H Bomb (article by Hans Bethe from Los Alamos Science) 1982
K.D. Nichols autobiography (proposal by Lawrence Suid) 1982
Oppenheimer (BBC television series) 1982
Los Alamos 40th Anniversary (includes correspondence, notes, pamphlets and speeches) 1983
Nuclear Fission in 1939 (from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society) 1986
Los Alamos Super [H] Bomb history (manuscript by Sam Ballen) ( see also: Series 5.1 and 5.3) 1986
Los Alamos video history (correspondence and notes) 1987
Reflections of a Nuclear Weaponeer (by Frank H. Shelton; with notes and correspondence) 1989
Los Alamos Water Boiler Reactor history (1944-1974) 1990
History of Gen. Groves: correspondence (with Stanley Goldberg) and original documents (1943) 1990
Yearbook of Los Alamos, 1944 undated
Manhattan District History: Project Y Vol. I 1961
Manhattan District History: Project Y Vol. II 1961
Series 3. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
Air Force, Department of 1948, 1954
Note
Army, Department of, Chief Chemical Officer ( re A. Goetz) 1951
Note
Atomic Energy Commission, United Nations (UNAEC)
UNAEC: International Control of Atomic Energy (3 reports) 1945-1948
UNAEC: US Representative (B. Baruch et al.) 1946, 1949
UNAEC: Technical Committee on Inspections and Control (report, extracts) 16923
UNAEC: US Delegation press releases 1946
UNAEC: Scientific Information v. 1-3 1946
UNAEC: Scientific Information v. 4-6 1946
UNAEC: Reports and proposals 1946
UNAEC: Reports and proposals 1947-1949
UNAEC: Verbatim records, meetings 1-17 1946-1947
UNAEC: Official records, first year Meetings 1-3 1946
UNAEC: Official records, first year Meetings 4-10 1946
UNAEC: Official records, second year Meetings 11-14 1947
UNAEC: Official records, third year Meetings 15-17 1948
UNAEC: Official records, fourth year Meetings 18-21 1949
UNAEC: Reports to the Security Council 1946
UNAEC: Reports to the Security Council 1947
UNAEC: Reports to the Security Council 1948
UNAEC: Agenda and proposals Jun-Dec 1946
UNAEC: Agenda and proposals 1947
UNAEC: Working Committee, Verbatim Records, Meetings 1-5 1946
UNAEC Committee 1 (Working Committee): Subcommittee Agendas and Records 1947
UNAEC Committee 1: Recommendations 1949
Note
UNAEC Committee 1: Summary Records Jul 1946
UNAEC Committee 1: Summary Records Jan-Jun 1947
UNAEC Committee 1 (Working Committee): Summary Records Jun-Dec 1947
UNAEC Committee 1: Summary Records 1948
UNAEC Committee 2: Operations and functions 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Functions of the agency 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Memoranda of national delegations 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Statements of Osborn and Gromyko 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Informal Discussions Oct-Dec 1946
UNAEC Committee 2: Informal Discussions Dec 1946-Jan 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Summary Records Jul 1946-May 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Summary Records Jul 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Summary Records Aug-Sep 1947
UNAEC Committee 2: Summary Records Sep 1947-Feb 1948
UNAEC Committee 3 (Scientific and Technical Committee): Working Papers 1946
UNAEC Committee 3: First Report 1946
UNAEC Committee 4 (Legal Advisory Committee): Notes; Summary Records 1946
Atomic Energy Commission, United States (USAEC)
USAEC: Appointment: congratulatory letters, contract 1946
Note
USAEC: Correspondence and documents 1946-1967
Note
USAEC: Technical notes 1947-1949, undated
Note
USAEC: Operation Sandstone 1948
USAEC: Printed matter (including Atomic Energy Act of 1946) 1946-1949
USAEC: Resignation 1949
USAEC: Strauss, Lewis: testimony to Congress 1949
USAEC: Technical Cooperation Program, US-Britain-Canada ca. 1949
USAEC: Consultant contracts Aug 1949-Jun 1962
USAEC: Printed matter 1950s-1960s
USAEC: General Advisory Committee 1946-1952
USAEC: General Advisory Committee: E. O. Lawrence Award 1960
USAEC General Advisory Committee: Fermi Award ( see also: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)) 1960-1965
USAEC: Classified material receipts 1950-1961
USAEC Nuclear reactor program: testimonies of H. Brooks and H. Bethe 1957
USAEC Soviet Union scientific exchange: visit to Caltech 1959
USAEC Soviet Union scientific exchange: Report of US Team on visit to USSR Atomic Energy Installations 1959
USAEC Soviet Union scientific exchange: visit to USSR 1960
USAEC Soviet Union scientific exchange: visit to Caltech 1960
USAEC: National accelerator/high energy physics program 1960-1966
USAEC National accelerator/high energy physics program: Reports see also: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) 1969-1974
USAEC: Classification Panel on Laser Applications ( see also: Energy, Department of see also: Executive Office, PSAC, Joint PSAC-GAC Panel) 1970-1974
Classified material, control of 1946-1947
Classified material, control of 1950s
Note
Classified material, control of 1960s
Classified material, control of (with RFB's notes) 1970s
Classified material, control of 1980s
Classified material, log books: Book I Jan 1950-Jan 1953
Classified material, log books: Book II Jan 1953-Jul 1954
Classified material, log books: Book III Jul 1954-Aug 1958
Classified material, log books: Book IV Aug 1958-Oct 1962
Classified material, log books: Book V Apr 1964-Apr 1977
Classified material, log books: Miscellaneous log Jul 1954-Nov 1957
Classified material, log books: Log book, access permit Apr 1957-Apr 1963
Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 1951
Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Hearings ( see also: USAEC, Strauss, Lewis) 1966-1967
Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: R. Wilson, testimony 1974
Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Towards Project Independence (report 1975) 1975
Defense, Department of: Committee on Atomic Energy 1950-1953
Defense, Department of: Committee on Atomic Energy 1951-1953
Defense, Department of: Correspondence and documents 1953-1962
Energy, Department of (DOE): Argonne National Laboratory, Review Committee for Particle: Accelerator Division 1958-1960
DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory: Dedication of cosmotron 1952
DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory: Publications 1948, 1960-1966
DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory: History project 1982
DOE: History of the Atomic Energy Commission 1983
DOE: Security clearance termination 1985
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
EOP: Office of Defense Mobilization, Science Advisory Committee 1951-1955
EOP: Office of Science and Technology 1961-1966
EOP: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) Correspondence 1957-1958
EOP: PSAC Correspondence 1959-1960, 1968, 1976
EOP: PSAC Research Panel 1958
EOP: PSAC Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program (ANP) 1958-1959
EOP: PSAC Panel on Seismic Improvement 1959
EOP: PSAC Panel on Arms Limitation and Control Stable Deterrence (manuscript) 1959
EOP: PSAC Panel on Arms Limitation and Control 1959, undated
EOP: PSAC Panel on Arms Limitation and Control 1960
EOP: Joint PSAC-GAC (General Advisory Committee) Panel on High Energy Accelerator Physics 1958-1960
EOP: PSAC Panel on Arms Limitation and Control Report 1960
EOP: PSAC Revisited (panel discussion) 1984-1986
EOP: White House (misc) 1951-1992
Federal Council for Science and Technology, policy statement 1959
Geneva Conferences clippings May-Jun 1958
Geneva Conferences May-Sep 1958
Geneva Conferences Minutes of Informal Meetings 17 Jul-8 Aug 1958
Geneva Conferences Minutes of Informal Meetings 11 Aug-20 Aug 1958
Geneva Conferences: Oct-Dec 1958
Geneva Conferences: Technical Working Group 2 1959
Geneva Conferences: misc 1959-1962
Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Rand 1951
Justice, Department of 1949-1950
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1962
National Science Foundation (NSF): Advisory Panel on High Energy Accelerators 1954
National Science Foundation (NSF): Advisory Panel on High Energy Accelerators 1956-1958
Navy, Department of: Joint Task Force Seven 1948
Navy, Department of: Correspondence 1955
Navy, Department of: Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) 1957-1968
Security clearances 1950s
Security clearances 1960s
Security clearances 1970s, undated
Security clearances: Secretarial (M. Hemenway, F. Humphries, E. Miller, H. J. Nelson) 1950-1954
Security clearances: Alice Horne (secretary) 1953-1966
Security clearances: Mary Ann O'Connor (security officer) 1965-1978
Security clearances: Senior laboratory staff 1950-1956
Security clearances: Defense Supply Agency (DSA), Facilities Owners Lists 1966-1973
State, Department of, federal officials' oath Oct 1946
Series 4. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Subseries 1. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1949, 1968, 1973
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1963-1967
American Institute of Physics 1937, 1964, 1986
American Philosophical Society 1948, 1968, 1972
American Physical Society: Ann Arbor Meeting 1934
American Physical Society: Correspondence 1962-1967, 1980, undated
American Physical Society: Nominating Committee 1965
Associated Universities Inc. (AUI): Correspondence and documents 1969-1973
Associated Universities Inc. (AUI): National Radio Observatory 1971-1982
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1979, 1985
Carnegie Corporation of New York 1970-1974
Carnegie Corporation of New York 1975-1977
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1961
Edison Electric Institute 1958-1961
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 1946, undated
Federation of American Scientists See: Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
Hughes Aircraft Company 1956
Institute for Defense Analysis, correspondence 1963-1971
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) Correspondence: Decae, A. E. 1962-1963
ICSU Correspondence: Hörstadius, S. 1963-1964
ICSU Correspondence: Laclavère, G. and A. S. MacLennan 1962-1963
ICSU Correspondence: Rowan, E. C. 1961-1963
ICSU Correspondence: Peters, Sir Rudolph A. 1963
ICSU Correspondence: Steacie, E. W. R. 1962
ICSU Correspondence: Van Mieghem, J. 1962-1963
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 1960-1963
IUPAP 1965-1967
IUPAP 1968-1969
IUPAP 1970
IUPAP 1971
IUPAP 1972
IUPAP Fiftieth Anniversary 1972
IUPAP 1973-1974
IUPAP Summary Report 24-28 Sep 1975
IUPAP 1975-1977
National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Loyalty Committee 1956
NAS: Correspondence 1957-1988
NAS: Site Evaluation Committee (National Accelerator) 1965-1968
NAS: Soviet relations 1978-1979
Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation ( see also: Space Technology Laboratories) 1955-1958
Rand Corporation 1950-1987
Southern California Edison Company 1957-1963
Southern California Reactor Advisory Committee 1949-1950
Space Technology Laboratories 1958-1961
TRW Inc. 1975
Union of Concerned Scientists 1977, 1981, 1985-1986
Union of Concerned Scientists: Press release Apr 1982
Union of Concerned Scientists: Trinity Anniversary (Fortieth) Apr-Aug 1985
Universities Research Association (URA) 1965
URA 1966
URA 1967
URA 1968
URA 1969-1970
URA 1971
URA Jan-Jun 1972
URA Jul-Dec 1972
URA: Special Subcommittee, Board of Trustees ( see also: URA, 1972 Jul-Dec) 1972-1974
URA Jan-Jun 1973
URA Jul-Dec 1973
URA Jan-Jun 1974
URA Jul-Dec 1974
URA: Annual Reports 1968-1978 [1977 missing]
Subseries 2. CONFERENCES
Conferences, miscellaneous and unidentified 1947-1984, undated
Rochester Conferences 1955, 1960, 1970
Sherwood Conference 1957
Cornell Synchrotron Dedication Conference 1968
Einstein Centennial Conference 1979
Dwight D. Eisenhower Conference, Hofstra 1984
United Nations Day, Pasadena 1984
Subseries 3. UNIVERSITIES
Claremont (Graduate School, Board of Fellows): Correspondence and documents 1970-1972
Claremont Correspondence and documents 1973-1979
Claremont Correspondence and documents 1980-1988
Claremont Presidential search Announcements 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Affirmative Action 1974-1975
Claremont Presidential search: Council of Presidents 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Search Committee, notes 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Notes 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Meeting agendas and summaries 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Candidates' files A-G 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Candidates' files H-P 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Candidates' files Q-Z 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Candidates, miscellaneous documents 1975
Claremont Presidential search: general correspondence: 1974-1975
Claremont Presidential search: Bevan, William 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Rhodes, Frank 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Executive search reports 1975
Claremont Presidential search: Final Report 1975
Cornell University 1948
Harvey Mudd College 1960-1962
Oak Ridge Associated Universities 1977-1978
University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory 1961
University of Chicago, Dept. of Physics Evaluation Committee 1973-1974
Series 5. POST-WAR NUCLEAR SECURITY, ARMS CONTROL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY
Subseries 1. ATOMIC WEAPONS AND DEFENSE
Vannevar Bush, Beyond the Atomic Bomb 1945
Association of Los Alamos Scientists 1945
Association of Scientists at Cornell University 1946
Control of atomic energy: miscellaneous publications 1946-1960
R. Blackett, Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament 1961-1962
The California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy
California Seminar: Correspondence and notes 1971-1977
California Seminar: Correspondence and notes 1978
California Seminar: Correspondence and notes 1979-1987
California Seminar: Interim reports, 1-3 1971-1973
California Seminar: Rapporteurs' Digests 1976-1978
California Seminar: Rapporteurs' Digests 1978-1984
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1971
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1973
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1974
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1975-1977
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1978
California Seminar: Working Group papers 1978
The Seminar (journal publication) 1975
The Seminar (Ernest Conine) 1975
The Seminar (Charles Cooper) 1975
The Seminar (Ciro Zoppo) 1975
The Seminar (Bernard Brodie) 1975
The Seminar 1975
The Seminar Nov 1976
The Seminar Apr 1977
The Seminar 1978
The Seminar Mar 1979
The Seminar Apr 1979
The Seminar Feb 1980
The Seminar Mar 1980
The Seminar Jul 1980
The Seminar Sep 1980
The Seminar (H. Stephen Gardner) 1981
The Seminar (Robert Campbell) 1981
The Seminar (Philip Hanson) 1981
The Seminar (Michael May) 1981
The Seminar Apr 1981
The Seminar May 1981
The Seminar Jul 1981
The Seminar Aug 1981
The Seminar 1983
The Seminar 1984
The Seminar 1984
The Seminar Jun 1985
The Seminar Aug 1985
The Seminar Mar 1987
The Seminar Aug 1987
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 1979
George Kennan: Albert Einstein Peace Prize 1981
The Arms Race: newspaper clippings 1981-1982
Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1981-1982
Pasadena Panel on Nuclear Proliferation: report 1984
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Six Minutes to Midnight" 1986-1987
Harold Brown: writings re arms control 1986-1990
Arms control: miscellaneous writings (with notes) 1975-1982
Arms control: miscellaneous writings (with notes) 1985-1994
The Hydrogen Bomb: Newspaper clippings 1950
The Hydrogen Bomb: William Laurence, The Hell Bomb (with correspondence re ) 1951
The Hydrogen Bomb: Hans Bethe, The Development of the H-Bomb ( see also: Series 2.3; Series 5.3) 1954
National Defense
W.L Cisler, Electric Power and our National Defense 1948
Preparedness for Surprise Attack 1958
Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky 1978-1985
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
SDI: Miscellaneous 1984
SDI: Edward Teller to Hans Bethe 1985
SDI: Miscellaneous 1985
SDI: Miscellaneous 1986-1987, undated
Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABMs) 1985
Review of Sandia National Labs 1986
Nuclear Testing: Detection of 1958
Nuclear Testing: Suspension of 1958
Nuclear Testing: Bacher, Bethe and Long, A Multi-Year Test Moratorium 1985-1986
Subseries 2. NUCLEAR ENERGY
PM Daily News, Peaceful use of atomic energy Mar 1946
G.I. McNaughton, Development and Control of Atomic Energy 1947
Fortune Magazine, The Atom and the Businessman Jan 1949
Hans Bethe, On the Doppler Effect in Fast Reactors 1957
Fusion Reactors as Energy Sources 1973-1974
Nuclear Power; Breeder facilities 1974, 1981
Proposition 15 on nuclear power 1976
Nuclear plant costs (analyses and notes) 1976-1977
Nuclear energy debate (reprints) 1966, 1974, 1981
Environmental hazards 1953, 1975, 1981
Hans Bethe, Reactor Safety and Oscillator Tests 1957
General reports 1975-1978
Scientists' Statement on Safety of Nuclear Power May 1976
Energy: general analyses: 1969-1971
Energy: general analyses: 1975-1979
Energy: general analyses: 1980-1989
Institute for Energy Analysis: occasional papers 1977
R. Hirsch, On Inexhaustible Energy Sources 1977
Fund for Peaceful Atomic Development: correspondence 1954-1963
Atoms for Peace Awards: correspondence and documents 1955-1959
Atoms for Peace Awards: correspondence and documents 1960-1962
Atoms for Peace Awards: correspondence and documents 1968-1979
H.D. Smyth, Development of Nuclear Power for Peaceful Purposes 1956
Subseries 3. J. Robert OPPENHEIMER
*note* For correspondence with R. Bacher from 1943-1972 see Series 1; Series 2.2, "Correspondence S-1"
Writings by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Bibliography undated
Writings by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Meeting of Los Alamos Scientists Nov 1945
Writings by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physics in the Contemporary World 1947
Writings by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Lecture on Atomic Energy 1951
Writings by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Luncheon talk to IBM Apr 1953
Army-Navy War Department Scroll Oct 1945
Oppenheimer and the H-bomb: Policy and progress report 1953
Oppenheimer and the H-bomb: Correspondence and articles 1953; 1977
US Atomic Energy Committee (USAEC) Commission in the Matter of Oppenheimer
"The Matter:" Statements by the AEC Apr-Jun 1954
"The Matter:" Brief May 1954
"The Matter:" Memorandum for the press Jun 1954
"The Matter:" Texts of principal documents Jun 1954
"The Matter:" H.D. Smyth letter to Admiral Strauss Jun 1954
"The Matter:" Time Magazine articles Jun 1954
"The Matter:" Statements of support 1954
US News article Sep 1954
"The Matter:" Correspondence 1954-1955
"The Matter:" Newspaper clippings 1954-1985
"The Matter:" J. L. O'Brian, Loyalty tests and Guilt by Association (Harvard Law Review) 1948
"The Matter:" Mark Taper theater production 1968
"The Matter:" Miscellaneous documents 1954-1981
Memorial Committee: A. Pais, The Princeton Period (presented at the J.R. Oppenheimer Memorial session of the American Physical Society) Apr 1967
Memorial Committee: Minutes and correspondence 1971-1988
Time Magazine, The Eternal Apprentice Nov 1948
The Fermi Award (magazine and newspaper articles) 1963-1964
Memorials and obituaries: Physics Today Oct 1967
Memorials and obituaries: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Oct 1967
Memorials and obituaries: Newspaper and journal articles 1967
R. Bacher, A Biographical Sketch of J.R. Oppenheimer, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Aug 1972): Notes and correspondence ( see also: Series 8) 1967-1972
Biographical Sketch: Draft manuscripts (with notes) ca.1971-1972
Biographical Sketch: Manuscript and reprint 1972
R. Bacher, "Robert Oppenheimer – the Post-war Years": Correspondence and notes 1986-1987
R. Bacher, "Robert Oppenheimer – the Post-war Years": Final manuscript 1987
Warner Brothers script on Oppenheimer (notes re) 1985
Daniel Kevles, J. Robert Oppenheimer: the Scientists and the State 1987
P. McMillan Oppenheimer biography: correspondence and related documents 1987
Series 6. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Subseries 1. DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY
Caltech Synchrotron: Proposal for 1949
Caltech Synchrotron: Phase 0 and Phase 1 specifications 1949-1952
Caltech Synchrotron: Press releases 1950-1961
Caltech Synchrotron: Notes and drawings ( see also: Series 10 for photographs) 1952
Caltech Synchrotron: Double Star (notes, reports and diagrams) 1952-1953
Caltech Synchrotron: Descriptive report 1952
Caltech Synchrotron: Phase 2 planning considerations 1952
Caltech Synchrotron: Phase 2 inflector construction schedule 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: Laboratory notes 1953-1954
The Caltech Synchrotron: Artificial meson experiments 1953
Caltech Synchrotron: Photoproduction of neutral mesons 1953
Caltech Synchrotron: Production of positive mesons and neutrons 1953
Caltech Synchrotron: Production of positive mesons and neutrons 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: specifications 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: oscillations 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: Negative-positive meson ratios 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: Negative photomesons, photoplate detectors 1954
Caltech Synchrotron: NAS abstracts 1955
Caltech Synchrotron: Bubble chamber program ( see also: Series 10 for photographs) 1955-1958
Caltech Synchrotron: Heating, ventilation and power 1958-1960
Caltech Synchrotron: Operations records 1960-1968
Caltech Synchrotron: Robert Walker, The Future of High Energy Physics at Caltech 1960
Caltech Synchrotron: AEC (Atomic Energy Commission): Miscellaneous correspondence 1950-1961
Caltech Synchrotron: AEC Sponsored modifications (Proposal) 1961
Caltech Synchrotron: AEC Sponsored modifications 1963-1964
Caltech Synchrotron: Phase-out and shutdown 1967-1969
Symposium on Cosmic Rays (in honor of R.A. Millikan's 80th birthday): pamphlet and notes 1948
Fall seminar on high energy physics (notes) 1957
Faculty appointments (correspondence with Murray Gell-Mann) 1960
Trustees meeting re high energy physics (notes) 1952
Report on travel to European laboratories 1962
A program for high energy physics 1962
Brookhaven Laboratory users' program 1963, 1967
Experimental notebook 1954
High-energy physics laboratory: AEC contract 1964
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator) proposals and reports 1971-1972
Long Range Plan for Physics at Caltech 1989
Miscellaneous correspondence and memos 1950-1960
Mount Wilson quasar spectra 1967
Caltech-Carnegie agreement re Hale Observatories 1968-1969
Caltech-Carnegie agreement re Hale Observatories 1969-1973
Caltech-Carnegie agreement re Hale Observatories 1979-1980
Miscellaneous memos and notes (including radio astronomy) 1969
Mount Wilson 100 in. Coudé telescope: operational difficulties 1969
Astro-electronics lab: removal of E.W. Dennison 1974-1976
Owens Valley Radio Observatory interferometer 1970-1971
Notes on division organization and appointments 1973
Subseries 2. PROVOSTSHIP
Creation of 1961
Press release and congratulatory correspondence 1961-1962
Humanities and Social Sciences, development of 1960-1962
Caltech-Carnegie agreement re Hale Observatories 1968
Subcommittee for the Behavioral Sciences: memos and correspondence 1960-1962
Subcommittee for the Behavioral Sciences: memos and correspondence 1963
Military security clearance on campus 1962-1964
Computer applications to biology 1963
An Open Letter to Linus Pauling 1965
Notes on Institute organization Jul 1967
Emeritus appointments 1969
Earnest C. Watson rare book collection 1969
Caltech oral history project 1969
National Science Foundation: correspondence re 1969-1970
Doctor of Arts degree proposal 1970
Sloan Foundation: "Scientific Venture Fund" for chemistry 1970
Miscellaneous memos and correspondence 1961-1966
Miscellaneous memos and correspondence 1967-1969
Miscellaneous memos and correspondence 1970
Appointment of Robert F. Christy 1970
Appointment of Rochus E. Vogt 1983
Research ethics 1988
Provosts' dinner talk 1989
Subseries 3. JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL)
JPL-Caltech Biomedical Engineering Program 1972
JPL-NASA Objectives and Goals 1973
Directorship search Nov 1974
Solar Thermal Project 1976-1979
Solar Thermal Project 1979-1980
Comments on the history of JPL Mar 1976
JPL Energy Program 1978-1980
JPL Advisory Council 1980-1981
JPL Advisory Committee: security clearance material 1983
JPL Advisory Committee: security clearance material 1984
Project Discreet (safety analysis) 1983
Project Discreet Jan-Mar 1984
Project Discreet Apr-Dec 1984
Project Discreet 1985
Army Analysis (Arroyo) Center Jul-Nov 1982
Army Analysis Center Nov-Dec 1982
Army Analysis Center 1983
Army Analysis Center 1984
Subseries 4. COMMITTEES AND STUDIES
Board of Trustees: Communism at Caltech (James Bonner, Linus Pauling et al.) 1949-1953
Linus Pauling discipline committee 1951
Project Vista and the defense of Western Europe: correspondence and notes 1950-1952, 1983
Project Vista: Orientation conference May 1951
Project Vista: Declassified military data 1951-1953
Project Vista: Classified materials receipts 1951-1953
Project Vista: Official report: redacted ch 5 1954
Project Vista: David Elliot, "Project Vista and Nuclear Weapons" (includes RFB's notes) 1984
Committee on Aims and Goals 1969
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure 1969-1971
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure Jan 1972-May 1972
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure Jun 1972-Dec 1972
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure 1973
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure 1974-1977
Academic Policies Committee 1973; 1981-1982
Sloan Foundation: allocation of funds 1971
Research faculty study 1971
Earnest C. Watson rare book collection and lecture series 1972
Campus Parking Facilities Report 1973
Emergency Core Cooling System Report 1974
Retirement Policy Committee (TIAA-CREF; RAND) 1969-1972
Retirement Policy Committee 1973-1974
Retirement Policy Committee 1978-1983
The President's Office: miscellaneous memos, correspondence and reports 1970-1971
The President's Office: miscellaneous memos, correspondence and reports 1972
The President's Office: miscellaneous memos, correspondence and reports 1973-1978
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF): administrative committee 1983
Subseries 5. MISCELLANEOUS
Caltech Appointments and salary 1949-1970
Lawrence S. Kubie psychological interviews of faculty May 1958
Frits Han de man[?]: "Chronological report of my life in Russian prisons" ca.1958-1959
Linus Pauling contempt of Congress: faculty support 1984
Honker Group meetings 1964
Honker Group meetings 1965
Honker Group meetings 1966
Honker Group meetings 1967
Conference on scientific progress and human values (notes) Oct 1966
Bacher-Tolman House 1967, 1969
Board of Trustees: resolution re Bacher 1970
The Associates 1971-1972
Max Delbrück, Aristotle-totle-totle (signed copy for Bacher) 1971
Max Delbrück Commencement address Jun 1978
Bruce Murray Commencement address 1979
H.D. Smyth visit 1981
American Association of University Professors: Caltech salaries 1982
"Yellow rain" and chemical warfare 1982-1983
Caltech Alumni Association 1982-1983
William Fowler Nobel Prize 1983
Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Prize: nomination, notes, article 1968-1969, 1977
Comments re Ned Munger's Kalahari Kanaxapn Dec 1979
Caltech discussion group on defense policy 1985-1986
Correspondence: Thomas Everhart 1988-1989
Institute Archives 1976-1990
Lee DuBridge memorial service 1994
Miscellaneous correspondence re Caltech 1967-1990
Series 7. WRITINGS, TALKS AND INTERVIEWS
Publications lists
Reprints, scientific 1929-1940
Publications, non-technical 1949-1960s
Publications, non-technical 1970s-1980s
Introduction to Atomic Energy (with R. Feynman) 1946
Atomic Energy Commission, various writings for 1947-1949
The physicist and the future of development of atomic energy (Talk, American Physical Society) Jan 1948
Adventures in science (Radio program) Apr 1949
Atomic energy and national security (Long Beach) 1950
Our progress in atomic energy Mar 1950
The Hydrogen Bomb May 1950
Demonstration lecture, Caltech Synchrotron Nov 1952
Science and Security Feb 1956
Town Hall talks 1956-1959
New Era of Particle Physics 1963
The photoproduction of mesons and hyperons (Retirement talk, American Physical Society) Jan 1965
Where is Caltech Going? 10 Jan, 1966
Conference on Scientific Progress and Human Values: Opening remarks, Caltech 75th anniversary Oct 1966
The career of Hans Bethe 1966
Five Feet Wide (Sunset Club) May 1970
Program on technology and society, Harvard 1972
We can't get along without it (Sunset Club) Mar 31 1976
Some Comments on our Energy Problems 1977
Our Energy problems Mar 1980
Book review of The Physicists 1978
Foreword (to Wohlstetter et al., Nuclear policies: fuel without the bomb) Apr 1978
Samuel Goudsmit, 1902-1978 1979
Samuel Goudsmit: The Ann Arbor Years and the War Years Apr 1979
Nuclear Energy: What went Wrong 1979
Our Energy Problems Mar 1980
Fiftieth anniversary of Kellogg Laboratory Nov 5 1981
On the reduction of nuclear weapons (Editorial, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Nov 1981
Early Years in the Nuclear Age (Caltech evening seminar) Jan 1982
Pasadena Presbyterian Church Talk Mar 1982
The nuclear weapons impasse (Sunset Club) Oct 26 1983
Commentary on P. Wyden, "Day One" 1984-1985
Origins of the Floyd R. Newman Laboratory (Symposium in honor of Boyce D. McDaniel) May 22 1985
A multi-year test moratorium, by Bacher, Bethe and Long 1986
Nuclear weapons: once again a chance for reduction Jun 1986
Untitled, dinner talk at Los Alamos Nov 1986
Memorial for I. I. Rabi Feb 1988
Recollections of Michigan physics (Michigan physics centennial) Sep 30 1988
Scientific exchange and arms negotiation (Thacher School) 1990
Unidentified interview on General Groves, undated
Interview with Charles Weiner Jun 1966
Interview with M. Balibrera, Los Alamos early 1980
Interview with L. Suid, Army Corps of Engineers Sep 1982
Interview with L. Hoddeson on Project Y, Los Alamos Jul 1984
Interview with G. Herken (audio tape only) Mar 1985
Interview with L. Hoddeson and G. Baym, Los Alamos Mar 1986
Interview (joint with L. DuBridge) for National Air and Space Museum 1988
Series 8. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Bacher family
Biographical information 1946-1988
Biographical souvenirs and memorabilia
Biographical clippings and printed matter
Appointments, Cornell, Michigan, MIT, Columbia 1935-1943
University of Michigan 1932-1988
Cornell University 1939-1946
Notes from LA [Los Alamos?] Record 1945 Apr-Oct
Diary prepared by Evelyn McQuown (with RFB's notes, 1980) 1946-1949
Twilight Club 1980-1982
Notes to self (miscellaneous topics) 1976-1982
Notes to self 1984-1994
Notes to self Undated
Notes to self regarding disposition of papers 1980-1992
Papers given to Los Alamos Archive 1983
Passes and ID cards (7 envelopes)
Pocket diaries (11 diaries) 1939-1949
Pocket diaries (10 diaries) 1950-1959
Pocket diaries (14 diaries) 1960-1969
Pocket diaries (10 diaries) 1970-1979
Pocket diaries 1980-1981, 1983-1985, 1988-1989
address books (2) 1990-1992
Memindex cards 1947-1949
American Physical Society, Fellow 1935
US War Department, Manhattan District, Service Award 1945
Medal for Merit 1946
Note
University of Michigan, Honorary Doctor of Science 1948
Washington Academy of Sciences 1949
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow 1953
Naval Research Advisory Committee 1957-1962
US State Department, Service Award 1959
Institute for Defense Analysis 1971
Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Fifty Year Club 1973
Claremont Graduate School, Doctor of Laws 1975 June 7
TRW Resolution 1978
Series 9. REPRINT COLLECTION
Bradt, von H.–Bray, R.
Breit, Gregory (1)
Breit, Gregory (2)
Bremmer, H.–Brown, W.W.
Broyles, A.A.–Bushkovitch, A.V.
Cady, W.–Casells, J
Catalán, M.–Chu, L.
Clayton, D.–Condon, N.
Cook. C.–Cowie, D.
Cranberg, L.–Crooker, A.
Daitch, P.–Darwin, C.
Dashen, R.–Demeur, M.
Dempster, A.–Donal, J.
Donoho, P.–Dyal, P.
Ebel, M.–Edlén, B.
Eichler, J.–Fermi, E.
Fisher, T.–Folmer, H.
Foote, P.–Frisch, S.
Fröman, P.O.–Filbright, H.
Gale, H.–Goble, A.
Goldberg, L.–Guthrie, A.
Goudsmit, S.
(ter) Haar, D.–Hamilton, W.
Hanstein, H.–Hazen, W.
Hebb, M.–Hinds, S.
Hirsch, F.–Hoyle, F.
Huber, O.–Hylleraas, E.
Icko Jr, I.–Isaard, W.
Jackson. D.–Jan, J-P.
Johnson, J.–Jurney, E.
Källén, G.–Kemble, E.
Kerman, A.–Kiess,C.
Kimura, M.–Kittel, C.
Klinkenberg, P.–Korsching, H.
Kramers, H.–Kusch, P.
Ladenburg, R.–Lapointe, C.
Langer, M.–Lawson, J.
Lazarus, J.–Lindhard, J.
Livingood, J.–Livingston, M.
Locher G.–Lyshede, J.
McDonald, W.–McMillan, E.
Madsen, C–Matheson, L.
Mathews, J.–Meem Jr, J.
Meggers, W.F.
Meggers, W.F.
Mei, J.–Meyerott, R.
Michel, F.–Mitchell, A.
Møller, C.–Morris, D.
Morse, P.–Mulliken, R.
Nadi, M.–Nier, A.
Nilsson, S.–Nŏrlund, N.
O'Bryan, H.–Otto, W.
Palit, P.–Paschen, F.
Paul, F.–Pauling, L.
Peacock, C.–Pieper, G.
Plain, G.–Price, B.
Radziński, B.–Rasetti, F.
Rasmussen, H.–Ritschl, R.
Roberts, A.–Rosen, N.
Rossel, J.–Rumbaugh, L.
Russell, H. N.
Russell, H. N.
Rustgi, M.–Sawyer, R.
Saylor, D.–Schönberg, M.
Schüler, H.
Schuurmans, P.–Setti, R.
Shankland, R.–Shortley, G.
Shull, C.–Slater, J.
Slawsky, Z.–Smith, S.
Snell, A.–Sommers, H.
Steffensen, J.–Sutherland, G.
Svartholm, N.–Szilard, L.
Tamor, S.–Tolanski, S.
Tomboulin, D.–Tuve, M.
Uehling, E.–Van Lear Jr., G.
Van de Graaf, R.–de Vries, H.
Wäffler, H.–Whaling, W.
Wheeler, J.A.–Williams, R.
Wilson, R.–Wyndham, J.
Yagoda, H.–Yovits, M.
Zachariasen, F.–Zwicker, B.
Series 10. IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS
Subseries 1. PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES, NEGATIVES AND GLASS SLIDES
Manhattan Project: declassified photos 1944-1945
Manhattan Project: Trinity detonation 1945
Manhattan Project: Trinity detonation 1945
Manhattan Project: Los Alamos High School Yearbook 1981
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "Little Boy," "Fat Man," and explosion aftermath 1945
Nevada Proving Ground 1951, 1953
Bikini Atoll: Bravo explosion 1954
Cornell cloud chamber experiments ca.1938-1960
Images from cyclotrons and synchrotrons
Caltech synchrotron
Caltech synchrotron
Negative pion experiment 1971
National Accelerator Laboratory 1973
Fermi Lab undated
Pioneer V, Cape Canaveral (RAND Corporation) 1960
Mars Surveyor 1964
Mars Mariner and Viking 1969, 1976
Voyager II and Ranger VII 1979
Voyager Uranus encounter 1986
Owens Valley, Mount Wilson, Palomar and other observatories undated
Atomic Energy Commission: Hanford 1947
Atoms for Peace: Geneva conference 1958
Atoms for Peace: award recipients 1960-1961
Soviet Union physics exchange trip 1960
Physics conference, unidentified undated
Bell and Howell (with Eisenhower); RAND
Committees and assemblies (various) undated
Committees and assemblies (various) undated
Caltech-JPL
Bacher–Tolman house
Bacher portraits
Bacher portraits
Glass slides
Los Alamos and the atomic bomb
Cloud and bubble chamber images and diagrams
Cloud and bubble chamber images and diagrams
Cloud and bubble chamber images and diagrams
Synchrotron and cyclotron images and diagrams
Synchrotron and cyclotron images and diagrams
Synchrotron and cyclotron images and diagrams
Nuclear reactors
Soviet high energy physics trip
Soviet high energy physics trip
Soviet high energy physics, RESA meeting 1960
Soviet high energy physics, RESA meeting 1960
Subseries 2. ARTIFACTS
( Oversize Box)
Gamatek Radiation Detector (1)
Gamatek Radiation Detector (2)
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission ore samples (1)
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission ore samples (2)
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission ore samples (3)
Radio Receptor Co. Raytheon tube
"Jimmy and Nancy meet Mr. Atom" film clip undated
Copper engraving blocks (1)
Copper engraving blocks (2)
Copper engraving blocks (3)
Copper engraving blocks (4)
AEC 25th anniversary commemorative coin 1971
Radiation shield
Radiation shield (used at Trinity site) 1945
Unidentified item
( Oversize Box)
Caltech Stock Company music album 1955
"Let's Advance on Science" Caltech Stock Company music album 1975
"Songs from Academic Life" undated
"The Bacher File" (retirement ceremony) 1970
Edward Teller interview (audio tape) 1980
"Our World: 1949" (video) 1987
Bacher interview for BBC, "Yesterday's Witness in America" 1976
Bacher interview (audio cassette) 1983
Bacher interview (video-cassette; part II only) Jun 1984
Caltech Alumni honorary membership certificate undated
Korean Physical Society commemorative souvenir
Rand bomb damage effect computer
( Oversize Box)
The Bacher-Tolman house (photo album) undated
A scrap book for Bacher from the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (photo album) 1976
Oversize photos: the Caltech synchrotron 1954
Oversize photos: Caltech Board of Trustees 1969
Oversize photos: Throop Hall undated
Group and committee photographs (oversize)
Life Magazine, Citizens give ideas in crisis 1958
NRC fellowship certificate
( Oversize Poster Tube)
Photo of the first AEC members at the first AEC meeting 1946
National Academy of Science: certificate of membership 1947
American Philosophical Society: certificate of membership 1948
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: certificate of membership 1953
Series 11. ITEMS REMOVED FROM PAPERS
The followings books, which contain contributions from Robert Bacher, were removed from the collection and deposited in the library of the Archives.
Bacher, Robert and Goudsmit, Sam. Atomic energy states, as derived from the analyses of optical spectra (New York, London, McGraw–Hill Book Company, inc., 1932)
"The H Bomb," in The H Bomb (New York, Didier, 1950)
"Looking to the Future," in Brown, Sanborn, ed., Physics; 50 years later (Washington, National Academy of Sciences, 1973)
"The new era of particle physics" in Killian, James ed., Proceedings of the Atoms for Peace awards (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1978)
"The career of Hans Bethe," in Marshak, R.E. ed., Perspectives in modern physics; essays in honor of Hans A. Bethe (New York, Interscience Publications, 1966)
Atomic Energy and national security," in Proceedings of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Vol. 54 (Chicago, 1950)
"Stationary states of nuclei," (with Hans Bethe) in Basic Bethe (New York, American Institute of Physics, 1986)
The following books from the Bacher collection were integrated into the Caltech Archives' library: persons wishing to consult these monographs should refer to the catalog of the Caltech Library System (CLAS).
A Commemorative Report Sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Toward a New Security: Lessons of the Forty Years Since Trinity, July 16, 1985.
Ackland, Len, Steven McGuire, eds. Assessing the Nuclear Age, 1986.
Adamczewski, Jan. Nicolaus Copernicus and his Epoch, undated
Adams, Ruth and Susan Cullen, eds. The Final Epidemic: Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War. 1981.
Alexanderson, E. Pauline, ed. Fermi–I: New Age for Nuclear Power, 1979.
Annals of The Sunset Club of Los Angeles. Vols. 4 and 6. 1957, 1986.
Aristotle's Physics, translated by Richard Hope, 1961.
Arms Control Association. Arms Control and National Security: An Introduction, 1989.
Arms Control Association. Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security, 1990.
Becker, Abraham S. Military Expenditure Limitation for Arms Control: Problems and Prospects, 1977.
Bethe, Hans A. and Frederic De Hoffmann. Mesons and Fields, Vol. II: Mesons, undated
Blackett, P. M. S. Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy, 1948.
Blanpied, William A., ed. Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of U.S. Science Policy, 1995.
Brown, Harold. Thinking About National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World, 1983.
Bush, Vannevar. Modern Arms and Free Men, 1949.
Byerly, William Elwood. An Elementary Treatise on Fourier's Series, 1893.
Cairns, John, Gunther S. Stent and James D. Watson, eds. Phage and the Origins of Molecultar Biology, 1966.
California Legislature. Fifth Report of the Senate Fact–Finding Committee on Un–American Activities, 1949.
Carhart, Henry S., and Horatio N. Chute. Practical Physics, 1920.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The United States, Japan, and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, 1995.
Clausen, Peter, Allan Krass, Robert Zirkle. In Search of Stability: An Assessment of New U.S. Nuclear Forces, A Report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 1986.
Cleveland, Harlan, and Gerard J. Mangone, and John Clarke Adams. The Overseas Americans, 1960.
Cohen, E. Richard, Kenneth M. Crowe, and Jessse W. M. DuMond. The Fundamental Constants of Physics, 1957.
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