United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Gordon Hill papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0365
Abstract
The collection documents the career of Albert Gordon Hill, who was professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1947 to 1955. Hill also held administrative positions as the director of several research laboratories at MIT. The collection contains records of his tenure as vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1975, and includes material documenting the divestment of the Instrumentation Laboratory at MIT, which became the...
Dates:
1943 - 1981
Frank Press papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0159
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Papers received in 1981 include information about earthquake projects Press worked on for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); and correspondence, minutes, reports, and budgets from the American Geophysical Union of which Press was a member, serving as president, 1974-1976. His years as an Executive Council member of the National Academy of Sciences are documented in papers, programs, and minutes; and correspondence, proposals, and reports describe his consulting for several...
Dates:
1945 - 2013
Jerrold R. Zacharias papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0031
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Notebooks from the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1942-1947), correspondence about the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and information about his research on atomic clocks and molecular beams document Zacharias's scientific work. There is extensive correspondence with colleagues and professional organizations about scientific and educational issues. Correspondence documents his work on the Physical Science Study Committee and there are reports,...
Dates:
1912 - 1986
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- Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1
- Arms control 1
- Atomic clocks -- Research 1
- Earthquake prediction 1
- Education -- Africa 1
- Government consultants 1
- Institute Professors 1
- International Upper Mantle Project 1
- Lunar geology. 1
- Molecular beams -- Research. 1
- Physics -- Research. 1
- Planets -- Geology. 1
- Science -- Study and teaching 1
- Seismology -- Study and teaching. 1
- Underground nuclear explosions -- Detection. 1 ∧ less
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