Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1904, Apr. 22 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
1925 | A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1925-1926 | Student, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England |
1927 | Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany |
1928-1929 | Fellow, International Education Board, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, and University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
1929-1947 | Assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. |
1940 | Married Katherine Harrison |
1943-1945 | Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N. Mex. |
1946 | Member, Secretary of State's Committee on Atomic Energy |
1946-1952 | Chairman, General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
1946-1954 | Member, Research and Development Board's Committee on Atomic Energy |
1947-1966 | Director and professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. |
1949-1955 | Member, Board of Overseers of Harvard College |
1954 | Denied security clearance by the Personnel Security Board of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Published Science and the Common Understanding. New York: Simon and Schuster |
1955 | Published The Open Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster |
1963 | Received the Enrico Fermi Award |
1967, Feb. 18 | Died, Princeton, N.J. |