J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, (Record no. 39461)
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| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904-1967. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1799-1980 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1947-1967). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 74,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
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| Extent | 294 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 2 |
| Type of unit | classified. |
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| Type of unit | microfilm reel. |
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| Extent | 117.4 |
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| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 506 1# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Classified, in part. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, lectures, statements, scientific notes, inventories, newspaper clippings, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., but reflecting only incidentally his work there. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Topics include theoretical physics, the development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, organization of research on nuclear energy, control of nuclear energy, security in scientific fields, secrecy, loyalty, disarmament, education of scientists, international intellectual exchange, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the relationship between science and culture, and the public understanding of science. Includes material on Oppenheimer's World War II contributions, particularly to the Los Alamos project. Also documented are his postwar work as a consultant on the technical and administrative problems of the atomic bomb, service on the Atomic Energy Commission (including his hearing before its personnel security board that resulted in the revocation of his clearance), and his association with the Federation of American Scientists, National Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations, and the Twentieth Century Fund, Unesco, and other humanitarian organizations. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Includes a group of letters and memoranda written by physicist Niels Bohr to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter relating to the role of nuclear energy in international affairs, supplemented by Oppenheimer's correspondence with Bohr. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondents include Hans Albrecht Bethe, Raymond T. Birge, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Julian P. Boyd, Vannevar Bush, Pablo Casals, Harold F. Cherniss, Robert F. Christy, Sir John Cockcroft, Arthur Holly Compton, James Bryant Conant, P. A. M. Dirac, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Feis, Enrico Fermi, Lloyd K. Garrison, Leslie R. Groves, Wallace K. Harrison, Julian Huxley, George Frost Kennan, Shuichi Kusaka, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, T. D. Lee, Archibald MacLeish, John Henry Manley, Herbert S. Marks, Nicolas Nabokov, Abraham Pais, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Julian Seymour Schwinger, Emilio Segrè, Robert Serber, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Norman Thomas, John Archibald Wheeler, Yang Chen Ning, and Hideki Yukawa. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | Microfilm of a history of the Institute for Advanced Study (1964) by Beatrice M. Stern. |
| Place of reproduction | [S.l.]. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Sound recordings and motion pictures |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Glass slides |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. Full name: Julius Robert Oppenheimer. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bethe, Hans A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Hans Albrecht), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1906-2005 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Birge, Raymond T. |
| Dates associated with a name | (Raymond Thayer), |
| Fuller form of name | b. 1887 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bloch, Felix, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1905- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Born, Max, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1970 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Boyd, Julian P. |
| Fuller form of name | (Julian Parks), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1903-1980 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bush, Vannevar, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1890-1974 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Casals, Pablo, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1876-1973 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cherniss, Harold F. |
| Fuller form of name | (Harold Fredrik), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904-1987 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Christy, Robert F. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Cockcroft, John, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1897-1967 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Compton, Arthur Holly, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892-1962 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Conant, James Bryant, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1893-1978 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dirac, P. A. M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Paul Adrien Maurice), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1902-1984 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Eliot, T. S. |
| Fuller form of name | (Thomas Stearns), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888-1965 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Feis, Herbert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1893-1972 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Fermi, Enrico, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1901-1954 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Frankfurter, Felix, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1965 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Garrison, Lloyd K. |
| Fuller form of name | (Lloyd Kirkham), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1897- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Groves, Leslie R., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1896-1970 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harrison, Wallace K. |
| Fuller form of name | (Wallace Kirkman), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1895- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huxley, Julian, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1887-1975 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Kennan, George F. |
| Fuller form of name | (George Frost), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904-2005 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kusaka, Shuichi, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1915- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1901-1958 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Lee, T. D., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1926- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | MacLeish, Archibald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892-1982 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Manley, John Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1907- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Marks, Herbert S., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1907-1960 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nabokov, Nicolas, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1903-1978 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Pais, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pauli, Wolfgang, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1900-1958 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pauling, Linus, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1901-1994 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Peierls, Rudolf Ernst, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1907- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Roosevelt, Eleanor, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1884-1962 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roosevelt, Franklin D. |
| Fuller form of name | (Franklin Delano), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1945 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Russell, Bertrand, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1872-1970 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Schweitzer, Albert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1875-1965 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schwinger, Julian, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918-1994 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Segrè, Emilio |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Serber, R. |
| Fuller form of name | (Robert) |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Szilard, Leo |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Teller, Edward, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1908-2003 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thomas, Norman, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1884-1968 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wheeler, John Archibald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1911-2008 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yang, Chen Ning, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1922- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Personal name | Yukawa, Hideki, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1907-1981 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Federation of American Scientists. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Twentieth Century Fund. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Unesco. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Atomic bomb. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Exchange of publications. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Humanitarianism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Internal security |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Loyalty. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear disarmament. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear energy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear energy |
| General subdivision | Research. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear nonproliferation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear physics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Official secrets. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | Moral and ethical aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | Social aspects. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | Societies, etc. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| Location of event | Study and teaching. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science and state. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science and international affairs. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | Security measures. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Security clearances |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision | Science. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Educators. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Physicists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bohr, Niels, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1885-1962. |
| Title of a work | Niels Henrik David Bohr papers. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007.3</a> |
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