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Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. The collection relates primarily to Vannevar Bush's role as coordinator of the scientific community for defense efforts during and after World War II when he served as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and director of its successor, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, where he supervised the Manhattan Project and other programs.

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Scientist. Photocopies of reports, newspaper clippings, articles, and journal reprints relating primarily to the organization of the government's scientific efforts begun under President Harry S. Truman and to the creation of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Includes a photocopy of Golden's unpublished volume titled, "Government Military-Scientific Research: Review for the President of the United States."

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Physical chemists. Writings, speeches, correspondence, research data, subject files, photographs, notes, and miscellaneous textual materials in both physical and digital formats primarily relating to the Karles’ careers at the Naval Research Laboratory and their contributions to the field of crystallography.

Abstract Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, statements, scientific notes, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work there. Topics include theoretical physics, development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, nuclear energy,...