TY  - GEN
AU  - Ridenour,Louis N.
TI  - Louis N. Ridenour papers,
KW  - Alsop, Joseph,
KW  - Baker, Cary F.
KW  - Benjamin, Curtis G.,
KW  - Bennett, Ralph D.
KW  - Bowden, B. Vivian
KW  - Bowles, Edward Lindley,
KW  - Bryson, Lyman,
KW  - Cousins, Norman
KW  - Davison, Peter Hobley
KW  - Flanagan, Dennis,
KW  - Handsfield, Hugh,
KW  - Haydn, Hiram Collins,
KW  - Ledgerwood, Byron K.
KW  - Lessing, Lawrence
KW  - Levin, Lawrence Meyer,
KW  - Maurer, Herrymon,
KW  - Morton, Charles W.,
KW  - Muste, Abraham John,
KW  - Nagel, Carl E.
KW  - Nelson, Oliver A.
KW  - Paterson, Isabel
KW  - Piel, Gerard
KW  - Reid, James M.
KW  - Shinohara, Kenʼichi,
KW  - Solow, Herbert,
KW  - Spaatz, Carl,
KW  - Svirsky, Leon,
KW  - Tovrov, Orin
KW  - Weeks, Edward,
KW  - Wilder, Thornton,
KW  - Wylie, Philip,
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - Radiation Laboratory
KW  - United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe
KW  - United States
KW  - War Department
KW  - Antiaircraft guns
KW  - Computers
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Radar
KW  - Radar in aeronautics
KW  - Science and state
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Antiaircraft artillery operations
KW  - Physicists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Authors
KW  - itomac
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, journals, reports, draft and published writings, scientific papers, printed matter, and photographs particularly relating to Ridenour's efforts to familiarize scientists, engineers, and the public with science policy issues stemming from the use of nuclear energy and computers through his books and articles in professional journals and general interest magazines.  Also includes material on his work as assistant director of the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he headed the team that developed the SCR 584 radar device that was effective as an antiaircraft gun laying system.  Journals (1942-1945) and other papers document his World War II service as an expert consultant to the secretary of war, radar advisor in air operations in all theaters of the war, and especially as chief of the advisory specialist group for the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe under Gen. Carl Spaatz; Correspondents include Joseph Alsop, Cary F. Baker, Curtis G. Benjamin, Ralph D. Bennett, B. Vivian Bowden, Edward Lindley Bowles, Lyman Bryson, Norman Cousins, Peter Hobley Davison, Dennis Flanagan, Hugh Handsfield, Hiram Collins Haydn, Byron K. Ledgerwood, Lawrence Lessing, Lawrence Meyer Levin, Herrymon Maurer, Charles W. Morton, Abraham John Muste, Carl E. Nagel, Oliver A. Nelson, Isabel Paterson, Gerard Piel, James M. Reid, Kenʼichi Shinohara, Herbert Solow, Leon Svirsky, Orin Tovrov, Edward Weeks, Thornton Wilder, and Philip Wylie
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008060
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008060.3
ER  -