Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946 Collection relating to Irving Kaplan and Francis Bonner on controlling atomic power [Decimalized .01-.09]

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Includes autograph notes written by Bonner and Kaplan during the initial meetings of The Association of Manhattan District Scientists. Their notes stress the need to establish control over nuclear energy. Contains an autograph letter signed by Bonner to the Manhattan Project Scientists informing them of the development of an association and its goals and concerns. Includes a typed four page document entitled, "Preliminary Statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists, New York City Area." Also contains a one page typed letter dated 31 January 1945 from J. R. Dunning to Staff members of Division 1 praising the progress of their work. Stamped restricted. Accompanied by a photograph of the Project's scientists, Kaplan, Bonner, Dr. E.O. Lawrence, and Dr. Harrison, and a clipping of the obituary of Dr. Harold Urey. Also includes a six page typed transcript of the personal recollections of Mildred Goldberg, Secretary to the Theoretical Group, SAM Laboratories, The Manhattan Project; 1943-1946.

GLC#
GLC03152
Type
Header Record
Date
circa 1945
Author/Creator
Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946
Title
Collection relating to Irving Kaplan and Francis Bonner on controlling atomic power [Decimalized .01-.09]
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
23 p. : photograph : clipping Height: 27.2 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
Postwar Politics and the Cold War World War II
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
Goldberg, Mildred, 1923-2008
Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997
Dunning, John Ray, 1907-?
Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946
World War II
Manhattan Project
Nuclear Energy
Science and Technology
Weaponry
Military History
Women's History
Atomic Energy

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GLC03152.01
Collection Item
Typed manuscript

Personal recollections of Mildred Goldberg, secretary to the theoretical group, SAM Laboratories, The Manhattan Project; 1943-1946

circa October 1945

Goldberg, Mildred, 1923-2008

Goldberg, a secretary working in the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University, recalls the people and events that were part of her work experience. Mentions various scientists and other colleagues at the...

GLC03152.01
GLC03152.02
Collection Item
Typed manuscript

Preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Typed by Mildred Goldberg, who was working as a secretary for the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University. Goldberg notes that this manuscript was created "two or three days" after the atomic bomb was dropped on...

GLC03152.02
Collection Item
Manuscript document

[Draft of the preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists]

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Handwritten draft of GLC03152.02. Contains several inserted typed paragraphs. The remainder of the declaration is written in pencil.

GLC03152.03
Collection Item
Manuscript document

Preliminary statement on legislation referring to the future development of atomic energy

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Apparently issued by the Association of Manhattan District Scientists in conjunction with GLC03152.03. The Association states, "It has been established beyond doubt that the atomic bomb, because of its tremendous destructive power and the...

GLC03152.04
Collection Item
Autograph manuscript signed

[Newsletter for the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

1 November 1945

Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. He writes as Secretary of the Executive Committee. Introductory note on first page indicates that the association...

GLC03152.05
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

[Bonner's notes related to a recent meeting of the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

circa 1 November 1945

Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. At the time this note was written, Bonner was Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of Manhattan...

GLC03152.06
Collection Item
Typed letter

[To staff members of Columbia University, S.A.M. Laboratories, Division 1]

January 31, 1945

Dunning, John Ray, 1907-?

Dunning, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project, tenders his resignation as Director of Division I (at the Nash building, where Columbia University's Substitute or Special Alloy Metals Laboratory was located). Writes, "The work to which we are...

GLC03152.07
Collection Item
Newspaper clipping

Harold Urey, scientist, dies at 87; war foe's work led to H-bomb [incomplete]

January 1981

Browne, Malcome W., fl. 1959-1981

Written by Browne, a noted journalist, for the New York Times. Contains only the first page of the article. Discusses Urey's achievements, including his receipt of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of heavy hydrogen. Describes...

GLC03152.08
Collection Item
Photograph

[Photograph of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project]

circa 1945

Depicts Drs. Irving Kaplan, Francis Bonner, Ernest O. Lawrence, and [Robert] Harrison together looking at an open volume on the table before them.

GLC03152.09