Correspondence, professional files, scientific files, personal files, and publications of American scientist Richard W. Dodson. Dodson was an American scientist and the founding chairman of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Chemistry Department. In addition to his professional duties and scientific research, Dodson engaged in a number of extracurricular activities within the scientific community. Over the course of his career, he held leadership roles with several scientific organizations, including the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency. A small selection of the collection has been digitized and may be found here.
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Memo from J. Robert Oppenheimer to all members of the Los Alamos Laboratory, 1945
- 1945-Aug-08
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) passes along a message from Robert P. Patterson (1891-1952) to the staff of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The message congratulates the team for their work on the Manhattan Project in the…
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The Los Alamos News Letter, October 25, 1945
- The Los Alamos Newsletter, October 25, 1945
- 1945-Oct-25
The first issue of the Los Alamos News Letter, to be published weekly by the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, and covering national and international news about atomic energy. The first issue provides an overview…
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Dr. J. R.Oppenheimer's Speech of Acceptance for Scroll Presented to the Los Alamos National Laboratory by Major General L. R. Groves, October 16, 1945
- 1945-Oct-16
Transcript of J. Robert Oppenheimer's (1904-1967) acceptance speech for a scroll presented to the Los Alamos Laboratory by Major General Leslie R. Groves (1896-1970). The Los Alamos Laboratory was given the Army-Navy…
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War Department press release about Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 1945
Press release issues by the United States War Department providing background information on Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site for the Los Alamos Laboratory. The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is best known as the…
