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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. This version is taken from a DVD copy and not from the original film.

  • 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. This version is taken from a DVD copy and not from the original…

  • 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." This version is taken from a…

  • 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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  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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  26M 03S
  Video Recordings

  Expand Your Horizons

  • 2000-Apr-01

  One of a series of events held in Philadelphia for sixth grade girls interested in careers in science. Speakers talk about their careers as women in science and lead attendees in conducting experiments related to their…

  • Creator Of Work American Chemical Society. Philadelphia Section
  • Subject Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Science--Experiments
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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
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  4 items
  Pamphlets

  Howard University Cooperative Physics Program for Developing Institutions brochure

  • 1974

  Brochure for Howard University's cooperative physics program for developing institutions, which brought students from colleges and universities that offered no minor or major in physics to Howard University for advanced…

  • Creator Of Work Howard University
  • Subject Howard University, Physics, Physics--Study and teaching, Physicists--Education, African American physicists
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  23 items
  Manuscripts, Records (Documents)

  Draft Proposal for a National Center for Computational Chemistry at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California

  • 1974-May-17

  Preliminary draft, prepared by staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, of a proposal for the University of California to operate the National Center for Computational Chemistry at the Los Alamos Scientific…

  • Creator Of Work Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Subject University of California, Berkeley, Computational chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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  Business correspondence

  Letter to William A. Lester, Jr. from Fillmore Freeman, September 29, 1977

  • 1977-Sep-29

  Letter from Fillmore Freeman (1936-) to William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) about receiving various grants and fellowships.

  • Author Freeman, Fillmore, 1936-
  • Addressee Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Subject Chemists, Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Freeman, Fillmore, 1936-, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), National Science Foundation (U.S.), Fulbright scholarships, Scholarships, African American chemists
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  2 items
  Business correspondence

  Letter to William A. Lester, Jr. from Ayodeji Jeje, October 23, 1977

  • 1977-Oct-23

  Letter from Ayodeji Jeje to William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) inviting him to a conference in Lagos, Nigeria sponsored by the World Black Researchers Association (WBRA). Themed "Survival," the conference was about the…

  • Addressee Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-
  • Author Jeje, Ayodeji A., World Black Researchers Association
  • Subject Jeje, Ayodeji A., Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Congresses and conventions, Natural resources--Developing countries, Chemists, African American chemists
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  9 items
  Manuscripts

  Memorandum of Understanding Between the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation Concerning Procedures to be Used in the Establishment of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry.

  • 1976

  Memorandum regarding the establishment of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC) between the two entities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Energy Research and Development Administration…

  • Creator Of Work National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry
  • Subject United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Kane, James S., Computational chemistry
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  3 items
  Records (Documents)

  Shirley Ann Jackson's application for employment at IBM

  • 1977-Nov-08

  Shirley Ann Jackson's (1946-) application for employment at IBM.

  • Creator Of Work Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-
  • Subject Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-, International Business Machines Corporation, African American women physicists, Women physicists, African American physicists, Physicists