Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1898, July 29 | Born Raymanow, Austria-Hungary |
| 1899 | Immigrated with mother to the United States |
| 1919 | B.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| 1923-1927 | Lecturer, City College of New York, New York, N.Y.; candidate for the Ph.D. in physics at Columbia University, New York, N. Y. |
| 1926 | Married Helen Newmark |
| 1927 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1927-1929 | Studied advanced theoretical physics in Europe, especially quantum mechanics, and worked at the Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; met J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 1929 | Appointed assistant professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.; later became professor and executive officer, Physics Department, and university professor |
| 1930's | Developed experiments using molecular beam technology, first developed in Europe by Otto Stern, to analyze the physical and magnetic properties of the atom |
| 1940-1945 | Associate director, radiation laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Consultant on the Manhattan atomic bomb project, Los Alamos, N. Mex. |
| 1944 | Nobel Prize in physics in recognition of work in the 1930s regarding properties of the nucleus of the atom |
| 1945 | Witnessed first atomic bomb explosion, Alamagordo, N. Mex.(July 16) Returned to Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Published “The Physicist Returns from the War,” Atlantic Monthly |
| 1946-1970s | Member, chairman, or advisor to various U. S., United Nations, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization committees regarding atomic energy |
| 1947 | Helped found Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, N.Y. Involved with construction of the cyclotron |
| 1954 | Testified on behalf of J. Robert Oppenheimer during internal security hearings before Congress |
| 1960 | Published, My Life and Times as a Physicist(Claremont, Calif.: Claremont College. 55 pp.) |
| 1963 | Published, Science and Public Policy(Haifa: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. 23 pp.) |
| 1969 | Published, with others, Oppenheimer,(New York: Scribner. 90 pp.) |
| 1970 | Published, Science: the Center of Cultureof Culture (New York: World Publishing Co. 155 pp.) |
| 1988, Jan. 11 | Died, New York, N.Y. |