Tuve, Merle Antony 1901-1982 creator mixed material monographic eng 147,000 420 1 168 Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, laboratory and personal notebooks, notes, personnel records, printed material, blueprints, diagrams, photographs, and other papers relating to Tuve's administration of government-sponsored scientific projects such as the development of the proximity fuze for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Documents his work as director (1945-1946) of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and as director (1946-1966) of the Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, as well as his involvement with the International Geophysical Year, National Academy of Sciences, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Greenbank, W. Va., and a conference on theoretical physics, Washington, D.C. (1939-1940). Subjects include astronomy, composition of the upper atmosphere, cosmic ray flares, geomagnetism, high voltage, conversion of war industries to peacetime uses, magnetism, physics, nuclear physics, seismology, and the Van de Graaff generator. Includes scientific notebooks (1930-1931) of his wife, Winifred Gray Whitman, who collaborated with Tuve in analyzing the effect of high frequency resonance radiation on animals. Correspondents include Vannevar Bush, Sir J. A. Fleming, Lawrence Hafstad, John C. Merriam, Howard Tatel, Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, Carl Van Doren, and James Lloyd Weatherwax. Open to research. Classified, in part. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Physicist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043 Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974 Correspondence Sir Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose) 1849-1945 Correspondence Hafstad, Lawrence 1904- Correspondence Merriam, John C. (John Campbell) 1869-1945 Correspondence Tatel, Howard E. (Howard Edwin) 1913- Correspondence Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison 1901-1967 Correspondence Van Doren, Carl 1885-1950 Correspondence Weatherwax, James Lloyd 1884- Correspondence Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory. National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.) Astronomy Atmosphere, Upper Cosmic rays Defense industries Electricity Geomagnetism Geophysics International cooperation High voltages International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 Nuclear physics Physics Physics Washington (D.C.) Congresses Proximity fuzes Radiation Science Societies, etc Seismology Van de Graaff generator World War, 1939-1945 Science Physicists Whitman, Winifred Gray. mm 74043448 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043.3 Open to research. Classified, in part. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 741226 20260227111615.0 mm 74043448