Series 1: Correspondence, 1932-1985, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 1.1: Incoming, 1945-1985, n.d.
A miscellaneous 1950-1983
B miscellaneous, including 1949-1984, n.d.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht, 1906-
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir, 1909-1966
C miscellaneous 1958-1984
Cole, K.C. 1977-1983, n.d.
D miscellaneous 1958-1984, n.d.
Eklund, Sigvard 1947-1977, n.d.
F miscellaneous 1948-1984
G miscellaneous 1960-1984, n.d.
Gould, Jackie 1978-1984, n.d.
H miscellaneous 1958-1984
Hein, Hilde S., 1932- 1977-1984, n.d.
I-J, miscellaneous 1965-1984
K miscellaneous, including 1948-1985
Kabir, P. K.
Keim, Liz 1981-1985
L miscellaneous, including 1947-1984
Littauer, Sebastian B.
Lewis, Roger 1945-1983, n.d.
M miscellaneous, including 1960-1984
Marquit, Erwin, 1926-
Morrison, Douglas R. O.
Morse, Philip P.
N miscellaneous 1961-1981
Occhialini, G.P.S. 1976-1982
P miscellaneous 1949-1984
R miscellaneous, including 1963-1983
Reali, Mario
S miscellaneous, including 1947-1984, n.d.
Stannard, Russell
T miscellaneous 1968-1984
U-V miscellaneous 1948-1979
University of Colorado at Boulder 1964-1969
W miscellaneous 1947-1983
Y-Z miscellaneous 1974-1983
Subseries 1.2: Outgoing, 1932-1984, n.d.
Miscellaneous 1932-1984, n.d.
Series 2: Writings, 1936-1984, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 2.1: Books, 1980-1984
Scope and Content Note
Sentimental Fruits of Science
Correspondence 1980-1984
Contract 1982
Drafts, Chapters 1-6 1983-1984
Notes 1983-1984
Subseries 2.2: Articles and Essays, 1936-1982, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
A View from the Top 1936
Prevention of War 1948
The Role of Universities 1948
Recovery ca. 1949
The Freedom to Create 1950
Teaching Mathematics 1958
Science and Fear - The Centennial Review 1961
Traffic in Watertown Square 1962
The Character of a University 1964
The Mathematics of Destruction - The Saturday Review 1965
Persuasion, Coercion, and Overpowering 1965
Amnesty 1966
Statistics 1966
Stacked Deck - Colorado Daily 1968
A War in the Shadow of the H-Bomb - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1968
Prediction and Invention 1968
Science and Invention 1968
Science and Immunity - Scientific World 1969
Position Paper for the Council on Physics in Education 1972
The Freedom to Create 1982
Reflections After a Trip to New York 1982
An Alternative to Warring n.d.
Analytic Comparison n.d.
Chips and Choices n.d.
Communication: Physicists and Poets n.d.
[Creativity] n.d.
Cultural Procreativity n.d.
Desert People n.d.
Distortion: Bending the Sure Thing n.d.
European Education In the Seventeenth Century n.d.
A Factor of a Thousand n.d.
The Getting Used to the World n.d.
How Would an Angel Look at a Triangle? n.d.
Let the Teachers Teach and the Learners Learn n.d.
Mountain People n.d.
Paris to London n.d.
Science and the Ethics of Coercion n.d.
Science and Moral Responsibility n.d.
[Scientific Progress] n.d.
Simple People n.d.
The Sounds of Science n.d.
Vague Fears and Concrete Worries n.d.
Miscellaneous untitled writings n.d.
Subseries 2.3: Lectures and Speeches, 1945-1981, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
The Implications of Atomic Power 1945
Speech to California CIO Council 1945
[Potentialities of Atomic Energy] 1946
Science and Peace 1946
[International Control of Atomic Energy] 1947
[Atomic Energy and World Peace] 1947
Public Welfare in the Atomic Age 1948
Talk Delivered to the Pagosa Springs P.T.A. 1957
Pagosa Springs High School Commencement 1960
Talk delivered to University of Colorado Alumni 1964
The Importance of the Role of Pedagogy in the Developing Nations 1965
Nuclear Film Forum lecture 1981
[Modern Physics and the Atomic Bomb] n.d.
Subseries 2.4: Book Reviews, 1968-1982, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Lawrence and Oppenheimer 1968-1969
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial ca. 1969
Protest and Survive ca. 1982
From Nucleus to Universe n.d.
Subseries 2.5: Miscellaneous, 1936-1984, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Bibliography 1936-1983
Forward to Sympathetic Vibrations by K.C. Cole 1984
Writings about J. Robert Oppenheimer n.d.
Editorials n.d.
Series 3: Professional Activities, 1911-1984, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 3.1: Teaching, 1948-1984, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Letters of appointment and contracts 1948-1968
An Introduction to Special Relativity ca. 1960
The Library of Experiments
Proposals 1961-1968, n.d.
"A Library of Experiments" by Frank Oppenheimer and Malcolm Correll 1964
"The Library of Experiments at the University of Colorado" 1964
"Sophomore-Laboratory Experiment on the Viscosity of Air" 1964
Experiments A-Z ca. 1964
Photographs ca. 1964
Laboratory instructions ca. 1964-1976
Unfragmented Course Program
Proposals 1966-1968, n.d.
Comments by students and professors 1967, n.d.
San Francisco Art Institute Courses 1980-1984
Introductory Physics Course n.d.
Subseries 3.2: Research, 1944-1970, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Projects
Scope and Content Note
Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Photograph of Radiation Laboratory staff ca. 1947
Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator 1953
Cosmic Ray Research
Apparatus for Cloud Chamber Investigation with Free Balloons 1949
Permission for travel to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 1949
Resolution of the Disagreement Between Measured and Computed Atmospheric Tritium n.d.
Bubble Chamber Research
A Bubble Chamber Study of the Trapping of Λ-Hyperons in Nuclear Matter 1963
Silicon Controlled Rectifier Circuit for the Control of High Wattage Projection Lamps 1964
Λ λ -p Elastic Scattering 1964
Cryptofragment Formation in a Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber ca. 1964
Bubble Chamber Film Surveys 1966-1970
A Bubble Chamber Study of the Reactions Occuring with Stopping K - Mesons in a Mixture of Propane and Freon 1968
A Bubble Chamber Study of K - Nucleus Interactions at Rest n.d.
Study of the Reaction n.d.
π Π - + p ⇒ π + + π - + n At 2.36 GeV/c
A Bubble Chamber Study of K - Nucleus Interactions at Rest n.d.
Notes on future work on K - capture by nuclei n.d.
Photographs n.d.
Patents
Secrecy orders 1944-1951
Inventions 1955-1959
Notes
Research Notes 1944-1951, n.d.
Notebooks n.d.
Papers
Scope and Content Note
Polarization by Reflection and Some Optical Constants in the Extreme Ultraviolet 1962
Absence of Any Temperature Dependence in the Ultraviolet Reflectivity of Platinum and Gold 1962
Apparatus Notes 1963
Baryon Exchange Model in Isobar Production 1964
A Simple Demonstration of the Retinal Evidence Involved in Distance Perception 1965
Enhancements in π - d Interactions at 2.26 GeV/c 1967
Proposal: Cartridge-Film-Procedure Demonstration 1967
Evidence for a I = 5/2 Baryon Resonance of Mass 1640 MeV/c 2 n.d.
Fission Chain Reactions as a Research Tool In Physics n.d.
Isobar Production in the Reaction π - + n ⇒ p + π - at 2.26 GeV/c n.d.
Observation of an I = O π - π + Enhancement in the 1.07 GeV Mass Region n.d.
Subseries 3.3: Conferences, 1965-1983
Scope and Content Note
World Federation of Scientific Workers International Symposium on Problems of the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries 1965
Smithsonian Conference on Museums and Education 1966
International Conference on Instrumentation for High Energy Physics 1966
Seminar on the Developing American Assertion of World Control in an Age of Multi-Revolution on All Continents 1967
Miscellaneous 1965-1983
Subseries 3.4: Subject Files, 1911-1983, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Kenneth T. Bainbridge 1945-1947, n.d.
K.C. Cole n.d.
Hilde Hein n.d.
Nuclear Issues 1945-1982, n.d.
Physics 1911-1979, n.d.
Radioactivity n.d.
Technology 1962-1973, n.d.
Visual Perception 1956-1975, n.d.
Victor F. Weisskopf 1956-1983, n.d.
Series 4: Personal Papers, 1902-1985
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 4.1: Family Papers, 1902-1985, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
Ella Friedman Oppenheimer 1902-1903, n.d.
Julius Oppenheimer 1930-1937, n.d.
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1925-1962, n.d.
Jacquenette Oppenheimer n.d.
Katherine Oppenheimer Silber 1973-1976
Peter Oppenheimer 1973-1982, n.d.
Photographs
Unidentified photographs n.d.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Letters to Herbert W. Smith 1922-1925, n.d.
Writings 1945-1965, n.d.
Obituaries 1967, 1972
Correspondence regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer 1967-1985, n.d.
"In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer" - playbills and reviews 1969, 1982
Biographical sketches 1976, n.d.
The Day After Trinity
Correspondence 1977-1981
Frank Oppenheimer interview 1979
Transcript 1981
Reviews 1981
Correspondence regarding BBC miniseries Oppenheimer 1978-1982
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Barton J. Bernstein ca. 1981
Photographs n.d.
Subseries 4.2: United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 1947-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence 1947-1950
Clippings 1947-1959
Subpoenas 1949-1950
Statements to HUAC ca. 1949
Transcripts of hearings 1949-1952
The Tail That Wags the Dog 1950
"On the Blacklist," by Paul Preuss 1982-1983
Subseries 4.3: Biographical Materials, 1912-1984, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Birth Certificate 1912
Academic transcripts 1933-1959
Memorabilia 1938-1981, n.d.
Awards and honors 1945-1982
Paintings 1950-1980
Clippings 1959-1984
Curriculum vitae ca. 1960
Financial records 1970-1981, n.d.
Legal claims 1971-1980
Health records 1975-1979
Passport 1975
Will 1981
Biography by K.C. Cole n.d.
Los Alamos National Laboratory interview n.d.