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Atomic quest a personal narrative

Author:
Compton, Arthur Holly 1892-1962  Search this
Physical description:
370 pages illustrations 21 cm
Type:
Books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
1956
Topic:
Atomic bomb  Search this
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Nuclear energy--History  Search this
Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Nuclear weapons--Religious aspects--Christianity  Search this
Nuclear weapons--History  Search this
Armes nucléaires--Aspect moral  Search this
Bombe atomique  Search this
Bombe atomique--Histoire  Search this
Énergie nucléaire--Histoire  Search this
nuclear bombs  Search this
Nuclear energy  Search this
Nuclear weapons  Search this
Call number:
QC773.A1 C73
QC773.A1C73
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9415
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Manhattan Project the untold story of the making of the atomic bomb

Author:
Groueff, St ephane  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 372 pages illustrations, map (on lining papers) ports 24 cm
Type:
Books
Printed books
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Massachusetts
Boston
Date:
1967
20th century
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Bombe atomique--Histoire  Search this
Atomic bomb  Search this
Geschichte  Search this
Kernwaffe  Search this
Call number:
QC773.3.U5 G88
QC773.3.U5G88
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_9720
view Major General Leslie R. Groves (seated) with his assistant Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell digital asset number 1

Major General Leslie R. Groves (seated) with his assistant Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell

Creator:
Westcott, J. E  Search this
Subject:
Groves, Leslie R. 1896-1970  Search this
Farrell, Thomas F (Thomas Francis) 1891-1967  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District  Search this
Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Topic:
Atomic bomb  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-2123]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_384502
view Sir James Chadwick (left), Major General Leslie R. Groves (center), and Dr. Richard Chace Tolman (right) digital asset number 1

Sir James Chadwick (left), Major General Leslie R. Groves (center), and Dr. Richard Chace Tolman (right)

Subject:
Chadwick, James 1891-1974  Search this
Groves, Leslie R. 1896-1970  Search this
Tolman, Richard C (Richard Chace) 1881-1948  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
California Institute of Technology  Search this
Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1945
Topic:
Physics  Search this
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical  Search this
Mathematical physics  Search this
Atomic bomb  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-2124]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_384503
view Composite photograph of Richard Chace Tolman and Major General Leslie R. Groves digital asset number 1

Composite photograph of Richard Chace Tolman and Major General Leslie R. Groves

Subject:
Tolman, Richard C (Richard Chace) 1881-1948  Search this
Groves, Leslie R. 1896-1970  Search this
California Institute of Technology  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers  Search this
Science Service  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints;
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Topic:
Physics  Search this
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical  Search this
Mathematical physics  Search this
Atomic bomb  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-2125]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_384505
view Menelaos Dimitri Hassialis (d. 1995) digital asset number 1

Menelaos Dimitri Hassialis (d. 1995)

Subject:
Hassialis, Menelaos Dimitri -1995  Search this
Henry Krumb School of Mines  Search this
Columbia University  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
Gelatin silver prints
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1965
05/17/1965
Topic:
Mining engineering  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3562]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_393486
view Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970) digital asset number 1

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970)

Subject:
Foster, Margaret D (Margaret Dorothy) b. 1895  Search this
Geological Survey (U.S.)  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1919
Topic:
Women scientists  Search this
Local number:
SIA RU007421 [SIA2010-0474]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_287607
view Norris E. Bradbury (1909-1997) digital asset number 1

Norris E. Bradbury (1909-1997)

Subject:
Bradbury, Norris 1909-1997  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory  Search this
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
July 1950
Topic:
Nuclear physics  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0332]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_290376
view Lauchlin M. Currie (1897-1983) digital asset number 1

Lauchlin M. Currie (1897-1983)

Subject:
Currie, L. M (Lauchlin MacLaurin) 1897-  Search this
Babcock & Wilcock  Search this
Union Carbide Nuclear Company  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Topic:
Nuclear energy  Search this
Physics  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0754]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_296600
view Frederic de Hoffmann (1924-1989) digital asset number 1

Frederic de Hoffmann (1924-1989)

Subject:
De Hoffmann, Frederic 1924-1989  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Salk Institute for Biological Studies  Search this
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
5-21-1970
Topic:
Physics  Search this
Nuclear physics  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0957]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Copyright Not Evaluated
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_296721
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Atom bombs : the top secret inside story of Little Boy and Fat Man / John Coster-Mullen

Title:
Top secret inside story of Little Boy and Fat Man
Author:
Coster-Mullen, John  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
409 p. : ill ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
C2009
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Call number:
QC773.3.U6 C67 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_919890
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Working on the bomb : an oral history of WWII Hanford / written by S.L. Sanger ; editor, Craig Wollner

Author:
Sanger, S. L  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Hanford Engineer Works History  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1995
C1995
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Call number:
QC773.A1 S22 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_492490
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Manhattan District history : nonscientific aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 / written by Edith C. Truslow and edited by Kasha V. Thayer

Author:
Truslow, Edith C  Search this
Thayer, Kasha V  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
United States Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District History  Search this
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory History  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 111 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1991
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_462592
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Genius in the shadows : a biography of Leo Szilard : the man behind the bomb / William Lanouette with Bela Silard ; foreword by Jonas Salk

Author:
Lanouette, William  Search this
Silard, Bela A  Search this
Subject:
Szilard, Leo  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 587 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1992
C1992
Topic:
Physicists  Search this
Call number:
QC16.S95L36 1992X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_437128
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Standing by and making do : women of wartime Los Alamos / Jane S. Wilson and Charlotte Serber, editors

Author:
Wilson, Jane 1916-  Search this
Serber, Charlotte  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New Mexico
Los Alamos
Date:
1988
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Wives--Effect of husband's employment on--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_462593
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The general and the bomb : a biography of General Leslie R. Groves, director of the Manhattan Project / William Lawren

Author:
Lawren, William  Search this
Subject:
Groves, Leslie R. 1896-1970  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 324 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1988
C1988
Topic:
Generals  Search this
Military engineers  Search this
Nuclear weapons--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_456400
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The Manhattan Project : a documentary introduction to the Atomic Age / edited by Michael B. Stoff, Jonathan F. Fanton, R. Hal Williams

Author:
Stoff, Michael B  Search this
Fanton, Jonathan F. 1943-  Search this
Williams, R. Hal (Richard Hal) 1941-  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 290 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1991
C1991
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Call number:
QC773.A1M36 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_408414
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The plutonium story : the journals of professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1939-1946 / edited and annotated by Ronald L. Kathren, Jerry B. Gough, Gary T. Benefiel

Author:
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912-1999  Search this
Kathren, Ronald L. 1937-  Search this
Gough, Jerry B. 1940-  Search this
Benefiel, Gary T  Search this
Subject:
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912- Knowledge Plutonium  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 920 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Plutonium--Research--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_476827
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Picturing the bomb : photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project / Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra ; introduction by Richard Rhodes

Author:
Fermi, Rachel  Search this
Rhodes, Richard 1937-  Search this
Samra, Esther  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History Pictorial works  Search this
Physical description:
232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 x 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1995
Topic:
Nuclear weapons--History  Search this
Nuclear weapons--History--Pictorial works  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_486727
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The Los Alamos primer : the first lectures on how to build an atomic bomb / Robert Serber ; annotated by Robert Serber ; edited with an introduction by Richard Rhodes

Author:
Serber, R (Robert)  Search this
Rhodes, Richard 1937-  Search this
Subject:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) History  Search this
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory History  Search this
Physical description:
xxxiii, 98 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1992
C1992
Topic:
Atomic bomb--History  Search this
Physicists  Search this
Call number:
QC773.A1S47 1992X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_433679

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