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Collection Summary Title: Papers of Glenn Theodore Seaborg Span Dates: 1866-1999 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1940-1998) ID No.: MSS78514 Creator: Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-1999 Extent: 370,000 items; 1,015 containers plus 1 oversize plus 4 classified; 407.4 linear feet; 13 microfilm reels Language: Collection material in English Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Abstract: Nuclear chemist, public official, and educator. Journals, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, telephone and appointment logs, scientific research, speeches, writings, photographs, biographical material, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Seaborg's work as a nuclear chemist who codiscovered numerous chemical elements, as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, California, and as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. Names: Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912- Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962--Correspondence Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Correspondence Gol'danskiĭ, V. I. (Vitaliĭ Iosifovich)--Correspondence Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970--Correspondence Holifield, Chet, 1903- --Correspondence Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973--Correspondence Joliot-Curie, Frédéric--Correspondence Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956--Correspondence Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Correspondence Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958--Correspondence McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967--Correspondence Perlman, Isadore--Correspondence Petros'iants, A. M. (Andranik Melkonovich),1906- --Correspondence Segrè, Emilio--Correspondence Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965--Correspondence Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972--Correspondence Seaburg family. United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory United States. President's Science Advisory Committee Atomic Scientists of Chicago Chemical Education Material Study International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lawrence Hall of Science Manhattan Project (U.S.) U.S. Atomic Energy Commission--Officials and employees U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. General Advisory Committee University of California, Berkeley--Faculty University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Chemistry Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (1996) Papers of Glenn Theodore Seaborg 2
Subjects: Chemical elements Educational change--United States Intellectual property Nobel Prizes Nuclear arms control Nuclear chemistry--United States Nuclear energy--Government policy--United States Nuclear energy--International cooperation Nuclear medicine Nuclear physics--History Nuclear physics--Research--Moral and ethical aspects Nuclear physics--Research--Political aspects Nuclear physics--Research--Social aspects Nuclear physics--Study and teaching Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States Nuclear weapons--Research--United States Plutonium Plutonium--Storage--United States Radioactive waste disposal Science--Soviet Union--International cooperation Science--United States--International cooperation Science projects--Competitions--United States Seaborgium Transuranium elements Transuranium elements--Nomenclature Westinghouse Science Talent Search Occupations: Educators Public officials Scientists Administrative Information Provenance: The papers of Glenn Theodore Seaborg, nuclear chemist, public official, and educator, were given to the Library of Congress by Seaborg and his estate between 1989 and 1999. Processing History: A description of the Seaborg Papers appears in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1989, pp. 29-32. Transfers: Audio recordings and a videotape have been transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of these papers. Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Glenn Theodore Seaborg in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public. Papers of Glenn Theodore Seaborg 3
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