TY  - GEN
AU  - Astin,Allen Varley
TI  - Allen Varley Astin papers,
KW  - Astin, John.
KW  - United States
KW  - National Bureau of Standards
KW  - Office of Scientific Research and Development
KW  - Bombardment
KW  - Electric apparatus and appliances
KW  - Electric insulators and insulation
KW  - Electrification
KW  - Metric system
KW  - Ordnance
KW  - Proximity fuzes
KW  - Science
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Telemeter
KW  - Weights and measures
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Physicists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, studies, congressional testimony, writings, speeches, conference papers, university teaching and training course records, research data, printed matter, and photographs documenting Astin's career at the National Bureau of Standards (1928-1969), particularly as director (1952-1969), during which time the bureau was expanded and reorganized.  Topics include measurement techniques relating to electric insulating materials, telemeters, electric instrumentation, and the electrification of American industry.  Astin's World War II activities at the bureau in ordnance research and the development of proximity fuzes for bombs and rockets are documented as well as his service in the London office of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development as a liason with the British armed forces.  Other topics include science and public policy, international cooperation among scientists, and the metric system.  Includes some material relating to the career of his son, actor John Astin
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001007
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001007.3
ER  -