Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974 creator mixed material monographic eng 60,000 186 74.4 Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, speeches, minutes, laboratory and other notes, articles, book file, scientific papers, diagrams, patents, clippings, press releases, printed matter, financial papers, biographical data, family papers, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bush's role in coordinating the scientific community for defense efforts during and after World War II 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. Other agencies represented include the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Joint Commission on New Weapons of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, and National Academy of Sciences. Bush's corporate and academic affiliations are documented by files on American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Merck & Co., Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. Also represented are the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Franklin Institute, Metals & Controls Corporation, Smithsonian Institution, and U.S. Patent Office. Also documented are Bush's views on the interrelationship between science and government, technological influences on postwar U.S.-Soviet relations, international control of nuclear energy, and the loyalty controversies during the McCarthy era. Includes material pertaining to Bush's interest in air-engines, fly rods, immunological reactions, medicine, optics, ornithology, solar pumps, and zoology. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Henry Harley Arnold, Omar Nelson Bradley, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Robert A. Choate, K.T. Compton, James Bryant Conant, Bradley Dewey, Charles Dollard, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Forrestal, W.W. Garth, Caryl Parker Haskins, D.C. Josephs, James Rhyne Killian, R.C. Leffingwell, David Eli Lilienthal, F. Alexander Magoan, Robert Porter Patterson, Don Krasher Price, Redfield Proctor, Palmer Cosslett Putnam, Alfred N. Richards, Elihu Root, Oscar M. Ruebhausen, John T. Rule, Orville J. Schell, Leslie Earl Simon, Carl Spaatz, W.H. Timble, Harry S. Truman, Tracy S. Voorhees, Warren Weaver, Bethuel Matthew Webster, Carroll L. Wilson, and Robert E. Wilson. Open to research. Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998004 Acheson, Dean 1893-1971 Correspondence Arnold, Henry Harley 1886-1950 Correspondence Bradley, Omar Nelson 1893-1981 Correspondence Bohr, Niels 1885-1962 Correspondence Choate, Robert A 1912- Correspondence Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor) 1887-1954 Correspondence Conant, James Bryant 1893-1978 Correspondence Dewey, Bradley 1887-1974 Correspondence Dollard, Charles 1907-1977 Correspondence Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890-1969 Correspondence Forrestal, James 1892-1949 Correspondence Garth, W. W Correspondence Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker) 1908-2001 Correspondence Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt) 1893-1977 Correspondence Killian, James Rhyne 1904- Correspondence Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell) 1878-1960 Correspondence Lilienthal, David Eli 1899-1981 Correspondence Magoan, F. Alexander Correspondence McCarthy, Joseph 1908-1957 Patterson, Robert Porter 1891-1952 Correspondence Price, Don Krasher Correspondence Proctor, Redfield 1831-1908 Correspondence Putnam, Palmer Cosslett 1900- Correspondence Richards, Alfred N. (Alfred Newton) 1876-1966 Correspondence Root, Elihu 1845-1937 Correspondence Ruebhausen, Oscar M Correspondence Rule, John T. (John Thomas) Correspondence Schell, Orville J Correspondence Simon, Leslie Earl 1900- Correspondence Spaatz, Carl 1891-1974 Correspondence Timble, W. H Correspondence Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 Correspondence Voorhees, Tracy S. (Tracy Stebbins) 1890-1974 Correspondence Weaver, Warren 1894-1978 Correspondence Webster, Bethuel M. (Bethuel Matthew) 1900-1989 Correspondence Wilson, Carroll L Correspondence Wilson, Robert E. (Robert Erastus) 1893-1964 Correspondence American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Brookings Institution. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) Johns Hopkins University. Manhattan Project (U.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Merck & Co. Metals & Controls Corporation. National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) National Research Council (U.S.) National Science Foundation (U.S.) Smithsonian Institution. Tufts University. United States. Council of National Defense. National Defense Research Committee. United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Commission on New Weapons and Equipment. United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. United States. Patent Office. Air-engines Cold War Technology Fishing rods Immunology Loyalty-security program, 1947- Medicine Nuclear energy Government policy Nuclear energy Research International cooperation Optics Ornithology Science History 20th century Science and state Solar pumps World War, 1939-1945 Science World War, 1939-1945 Technology Zoology Soviet Union Foreign relations United States United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Engineers Physicists Public officials Science administrators mm 78014498 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998004 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998004.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998004 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998004.3 Open to research. DLC 781002 20260227111622.0 mm 78014498