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Merle Antony Tuve papers, 1901-1982
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Merle Antony Tuve papers, 1901-1982

Author: Merle Antony Tuve; Winifred Gray Whitman
Edition/Format:   Archival material : English
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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.
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Genre/Form: Correspondence
Named Person: Vannevar Bush; J A Fleming, Sir; Lawrence Hafstad; John C Merriam; Howard E Tatel; Robert Jemison Van de Graaff; Carl Van Doren; James Lloyd Weatherwax
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Archival Material, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Merle Antony Tuve; Winifred Gray Whitman
OCLC Number: 70979847
Language Note: Collection material in English.
Description: 147,000 items. 420 containers plus 1 classified. 168 linear feet.

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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.

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