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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Ayodeji Jeje to Olagoke Olabisi, March 28, 1977

  • 1977-Mar-28

  Letter from Ayodeji Jeje to Olagoke Olabisi (1943-) about starting the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA).

  • Author Jeje, Ayodeji
  • Addressee Olabisi, Olagoke, 1943-
  • Subject World Black Researchers Association, Jeje, Ayodeji, Olabisi, Olagoke, 1943-
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from William A. Lester, Jr. to Norman Mineta, December 6, 1977

  • 1977-Dec-06

  William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) writes to Congressman Norman Yoshio Mineta (1931-2022) about the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA). Lester asks Mineta if there are any concerns relating to U.S. policy and the…

  • Author Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Addressee Mineta, Norman Yoshio, 1931-2022
  • Subject Mineta, Norman Yoshio, 1931-2022, Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, World Black Researchers Association, Scientists, Black, African American scientists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from William A. Lester, Jr. to Ayodeji Jeje, January 3, 1978

  • 1978-Jan-03

  William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) writes to Ayodeji Jeje, letting him know he can no longer participate in the founding congress of the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA).

  • Author Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Addressee Jeje, Ayodedi
  • Subject World Black Researchers Association, Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Jeje, Ayodeji, Scientists, Black, African American scientists
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  9 items
  Records (Documents)

  General Organizational Guidelines for the World Black Researchers Association

  • Circa 1976

  General Organizational Guidelines for the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA), written by Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986).

  WBRA, founded around 1976, was a group that worked against racial limits in science and…

  • Author Diop, Cheikh Anta
  • Creator Of Work World Black Researchers Association
  • Subject Diop, Cheikh Anta, World Black Researchers Association, Scientists, Black
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  6 items
  Records (Documents)

  Statutes of the World Black Researchers Association

  • Circa 1976

  Statues of the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA).

  WBRA, which was established around 1976, was a group that worked against racial limits in science and technology. Its goal was to bring together Black…

  • Creator Of Work World Black Researchers Association
  • Subject World Black Researchers Association, Scientists, Black, Statutes
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  Business correspondence

  Invitation to the International Secretariat for the Natural Sciences of the World Black Researchers Association

  • 1977

  Invitation to the founding congress of the International Secretariat for the Natural Sciences of the World Black Researchers Association. Anthropologist and physicist Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) wrote the invitation,…

  • Creator Of Work World Black Researchers Association
  • Author Diop, Cheikh Anta
  • Subject Diop, Cheikh Anta, World Black Researchers Association, African American scientists
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  2 items
  Business correspondence

  Letter from Andrew M. Sessler to William A. Lester, Jr., October 19, 1976

  • 1976-Oct-19

  Letter from Andrew M. Sessler to William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) about establishing a National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC). Sessler invites Lester to an NRCC workshop to be held at the Lawrence Berkeley…

  • Author Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)
  • Addressee Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Subject Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, Computational chemistry
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Olagoke Olabisi to Florence L. Williams, May 12, 1977

  • 1977-May-12

  Olagoke Olabisi (1943-) asks Florence L. Williams to send him a membership application for the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers [i.e., the National Organization for the Professional…

  • Author Olabisi, Olagoke, 1943-
  • Addressee Williams, Florence L.
  • Subject World Black Researchers Association, National Organization for Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Olabisi, Olagoke, 1943-, Williams, Florence L.
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  17M
  Video Recordings

  Atoms for Peace

  • 1950s

  Atoms for Peace is a 17-minute film describing how atomic energy is used in the oil, automotive, power, medical, and agricultural industries.

  • Contributor Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., Paramount News, United States Information Agency, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • Subject Nuclear energy, Atomic bomb, Oil-shale industry, Radioactive substances, Nuclear power plants, Nuclear reactors, Agriculture, Nuclear medicine, Cancer--Treatment
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  27M 30S
  Video Recordings

  Atomic Energy As a Force For Good

  • 1955

  Atomic Energy As a Force For Good is a dramatization of a town debating whether or not to allow the Atomic Energy Commission to build a nuclear power plant nearby. Community members initially afraid of nuclear energy…

  • Creator Of Work The Christophers
  • Subject Nuclear energy, Atomic bomb, Nuclear medicine, Nuclear power plants, World War (1939-1945), Cancer--Treatment
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  28M 59S
  Video Recordings

  Atomic Power at Shippingport

  • 1958

  Atomic Power at Shippingport is a tour of America's first nuclear power plant devoted entirely to peaceful uses, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Includes footage the plant's construction and work done at the…

  • Creator Of Work Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  • Subject Nuclear energy, Nuclear power plants, Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969, Shippingport Nuclear Power Station
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  28M 17S
  Video Recordings

  Plowshare

  • 1961

  Plowshare is a short film about the U.S. government's Project Plowshare, which ran from 1957 to 1977, and explored peaceful uses for nuclear explosives, mostly around earth moving and construction.

  • Creator Of Work U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • Subject Nuclear energy, Project Plowshare (U.S.), Nuclear energy, Nuclear weapons, Explosives, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Project Gnome
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  53S
  Video Recordings

  First Private Atom Power Plant Opens

  • 1957

  This 1-minute short film shows the opening of the Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant in Alameda County, California. This plant was a boiling water reactor and the first privately owned nuclear power plant in the…

  • Creator Of Work Universal newsreel
  • Subject Vallecitos Superheat Reactor, Nuclear energy, Nuclear power plants, Boiling water reactors
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  20M 54S
  Video Recordings

  Pick of the Pod

  • 1939

  Pick of the Pod is about pea farming and the vegetable canning process, specifically promoting the Del Monte brand of the California Packing Corporation.

  • Creator Of Work California Packing Corporation
  • Producer W. A. Palmer & Co.
  • Subject Peas, Canning and preserving, Canned foods industry, Vegetables--Preservation, Del Monte Corporation, Food industry and trade, Agriculture, Vegetables--Harvesting, Housewives
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  1H 10M 41S
  Video Recordings

  The Miracle of the Can

  • 1956

  The Miracle of the Can uses skits to show the development of canning technology throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how that technology was a boon to American farmers, the economy, the employment rate,…

  • Creator Of Work American Can Company
  • Producer Caravel Films, Inc.
  • Subject Canning and preserving, Food industry and trade, Vegetables--Preservation, Housewives, Canned foods industry
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  Video Recordings

  Alaska's Silver Millions

  • 1936

  Alaska's Silver Millions is about the many natural resources in Alaska, but focuses on the salmon fishing and canning industry. Narrated by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "The Glacier Priest."

  • Creator Of Work American Can Company
  • Subject Canning and preserving, Canned foods industry, Alaska, Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962, Salmon, Food industry and trade
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  1H 50M 29S
  Video Recordings

  Samuel Natelson lecture to the Ohio Valley Section of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry

  • 1992

  Samuel Natelson's lecture focuses on his time at the Rockford Memorial Hospital (Rockford, Illinois) as a clinical chemist, where he worked on improving the odds for survival of the premature infants. Specifically,…

  • Creator Of Work Natelson, Samuel R., 1909-2001
  • Subject Clinical chemistry, Premature infants, Dehydration in infants, Acidosis, Calcium, Calcium--Metabolism, Natelson, Samuel R., 1909-2001, Neonatology
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  1 item
  Collections

  Samuel R. Natelson Collection

  This collection consists of writings and oral history materials by and about Samuel R. Natelson which were compiled by Amadeo J. Pesce. Natelson was a prominent American clinical chemist and a founding member of the…

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  14 items
  Collections

  Papers of Spofford Grady English

  Spofford Grady English (1916-1981) was a plutonium chemist that studied under Glenn T. Seaborg. In 1942 he became involved in the Manhattan Project as a member of Seaborg's group at the University of Chicago…

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  4 items
  Manuscripts, Records (Documents)

  Workshop on a National Resource for Computation in Chemistry

  • 1976

  Overview of a workshop on the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC) to be held at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on November 11-12, 1976. Documents include the workshop objectives and travel…

  • Creator Of Work Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • Subject Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, Computational chemistry, Congresses
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  4 items
  Publications

  Bulletin of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry

  • 1977-Oct

  Volume 1, no. 1 (October 1977) issue of the Bulletin of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC). Included in the bulletin is a questionnaire and list of the members of the NRCC policy board. 4 volumes…

  • Publisher Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry
  • Subject Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, Computational chemistry, Periodicals
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from William A. Lester, Jr. to Harry L. Morrison, April 7, 1975

  • 1975-Apr-07

  William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) accepts Harry L. Morrison's (1932-2002) invitation to speak at the "Symposium of Afro-American Scientists at Howard University that is to be held May 1, 1975 at Howard University."

  The…

  • Addressee Morrison, Harry L., (1932-2002)
  • Author Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Subject Scientists, Black, Howard University, Morrison, Harry L., Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, African American scientists, Physicists, African American physicists
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  3 items
  Manuscripts, Records (Documents)

  Draft program for the Second Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Black Physicists

  • 1975-May-01

  Draft program for the second Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Black Physicists, to be held at Howard University on May 1, 1975.

  This ceremony was a part of a Day of Scientific Lectures and Seminars (DOSLAS). These…

  • Subject African American physicists, Physicists, Howard University, Award presentations, Physics--Awards, National Society of Black Physicists
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  4 items
  Publications

  Second Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Black Physicists

  • 1975-May-01

  Program for the second Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Black Physicists, held at Howard University on May 1, 1975. The award ceremony honored Herman Branson (1914-1995), Warren E. Henry (1909-2001), and James R. Lawson…

  • Creator Of Work Committee for the Afro-American Physics Awards
  • Subject African American physicists, Physicists, Howard University, Lawson, J. R. (James Raymond), 1915-1996, Henry, Warren E., 1909-, Branson, Herman R. (Herman Russell), 1914-1995, Physics--Awards, National Society of Black Physicists, Award presentations
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Harry L. Morrison to William A. Lester, Jr., March 25, 1975

  • 1975-Mar-25

  Invitation from Harry L. Morrison (1932-2002) to William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) to speak at the upcoming Symposium of Afro-American Scientists at Howard University.

  • Author Morrison, Harry L.
  • Addressee Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Subject Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Morrison, Harry L., Howard University, Scientists, Black, African American scientists, University of California, Berkeley