Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material J. Robert Oppenheimer papers,

Title

• J. Robert Oppenheimer papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, statements, scientific notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers consisting primarily of Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work at the institute.
• Subjects include theoretical physics, the development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, organization of research on nuclear energy, control of nuclear energy, security in scientific fields, secrecy, loyalty, disarmament, education of scientists, international intellectual exchange, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the relationship between science and culture, and the public understanding of science. Includes material on Oppenheimer's World War II contributions, particularly to the Los Alamos project. Also documented are his postwar work as a consultant on the technical and administrative problems of the atomic bomb; service on the Atomic Energy Commission, including his hearing before its personnel security board that resulted in the revocation of his security clearance; and his association with the Federation of American Scientists, National Academy of Sciences, the Twentieth Century Fund, Unesco, and other scientific and humanitarian organizations.
• Includes a group of letters and memoranda written by physicist Niels Bohr to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter relating to the role of nuclear energy in international affairs, supplemented by Oppenheimer's correspondence with Bohr.
• Correspondents include Hans A. Bethe, Raymond T. Birge, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Julian P. Boyd, Vannevar Bush, Pablo Casals, Harold F. Cherniss, Robert F. Christy, Sir John Cockcroft, Arthur Holly Compton, James Bryant Conant, P.A.M. Dirac, T.S. Eliot, Herbert Feis, Enrico Fermi, Lloyd K. Garrison, Leslie R. Groves, Wallace K. Harrison, Julian Huxley, George F. Kennan, Shuichi Kusaka, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, T.D. Lee, Archibald MacLeish, John Henry Manley, Herbert S. Marks, Nicolas Nabokov, Abraham Pais, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Rudolf E. Peierls, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Julian Schwinger, Emilio Segrè, Robert Serber, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Norman Thomas, John Archibald Wheeler, Yang Chen Ning, and Hideki Yukawa.

Names

• Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
• Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Headings

• -  Bethe, Hans A.--(Hans Albrecht),--1906-2005--Correspondence
• -  Birge, Raymond T.--(Raymond Thayer),--1887-1980--Correspondence
• -  Bloch, Felix,--1905-1983--Correspondence
• -  Bohr, Niels,--1885-1962--Correspondence
• -  Born, Max,--1882-1970--Correspondence
• -  Boyd, Julian P.--(Julian Parks),--1903-1980--Correspondence
• -  Bush, Vannevar,--1890-1974--Correspondence
• -  Casals, Pablo,--1876-1973--Correspondence
• -  Cherniss, Harold F.--(Harold Fredrik),--1904-1987--Correspondence
• -  Christy, Robert F.,--1916-2012--Correspondence
• -  Cockcroft, John,--Sir,--1897-1967--Correspondence
• -  Compton, Arthur Holly,--1892-1962--Correspondence
• -  Conant, James Bryant,--1893-1978--Correspondence
• -  Dirac, P. A. M.--(Paul Adrien Maurice),--1902-1984--Correspondence
• -  Eliot, T. S.--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Correspondence
• -  Feis, Herbert,--1893-1972--Correspondence
• -  Fermi, Enrico,--1901-1954--Correspondence
• -  Frankfurter, Felix,--1882-1965--Correspondence
• -  Garrison, Lloyd K.--(Lloyd Kirkham),--1897-1991--Correspondence
• -  Groves, Leslie R.,--1896-1970--Correspondence
• -  Harrison, Wallace K.--(Wallace Kirkman),--1895-1981--Correspondence
• -  Huxley, Julian,--1887-1975--Correspondence
• -  Kennan, George F.--(George Frost),--1904-2005--Correspondence
• -  Kusaka, Shuichi,--1915-1947--Correspondence
• -  Lawrence, Ernest Orlando,--1901-1958--Correspondence
• -  Lee, T. D.,--1926---Correspondence
• -  MacLeish, Archibald,--1892-1982--Correspondence
• -  Manley, John Henry,--1907-1990--Correspondence
• -  Marks, Herbert S.,--1907-1960--Correspondence
• -  Nabokov, Nicolas,--1903-1978--Correspondence
• -  Pais, Abraham,--1918-2000--Correspondence
• -  Pauli, Wolfgang,--1900-1958--Correspondence
• -  Pauling, Linus,--1901-1994--Correspondence
• -  Peierls, Rudolf E.--(Rudolf Ernst),--1907-1995--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Correspondence
• -  Russell, Bertrand,--1872-1970--Correspondence
• -  Schweitzer, Albert,--1875-1965--Correspondence
• -  Schwinger, Julian,--1918-1994--Correspondence
• -  Segrè, Emilio--Correspondence
• -  Serber, R.--(Robert)--Correspondence
• -  Szilard, Leo--Correspondence
• -  Teller, Edward,--1908-2003--Correspondence
• -  Thomas, Norman,--1884-1968--Correspondence
• -  Wheeler, John Archibald,--1911-2008--Correspondence
• -  Yang, Chen Ning,--1922---Correspondence
• -  Yukawa, Hideki,--1907-1981--Correspondence
• -  Federation of American Scientists
• -  Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
• -  Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
• -  National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• -  Twentieth Century Fund
• -  Unesco
• -  U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
• -  Atomic bomb
• -  Exchange of publications
• -  Humanitarianism
• -  Internal security--United States
• -  Loyalty
• -  Nuclear disarmament
• -  Nuclear energy
• -  Nuclear energy--Research
• -  Nuclear nonproliferation
• -  Nuclear physics
• -  Official secrets
• -  Science--History--20th century
• -  Science--Moral and ethical aspects
• -  Science--Social aspects
• -  Science--Societies, etc
• -  Science--Study and teaching
• -  Science and state
• -  Science and international affairs
• -  Science--Security measures
• -  Security clearances--United States
• -  World War, 1939-1945--Science

Notes

• -  Arranged in seventeen series. Series 1: Desk Books, 1945-1967; Series 2: General Case File, 1799-1967; Series 3: Invitation Correspondence, 1946-1967; Series 4: Membership File, 1943-1967; Series 5: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1945-1967; Series 6: Government File, 1942-1954; Series 7: Security Case File, 1953-1967; Series 8: Personal File, 1932-1967; Series 9: Speech, Lecture, and Writing File, 1926-1966; Series 10: Miscellany, 1957-1959; Series 11: Government File Supplement, 1941-1953; Series 12: Addition I, 1921-1980; Series 13: Addition II, 1947-1957; Series 14: Addition III, 1945-1963; Series 15: Classified, 1944-1954; Series 16: Top Secret, 1944; and Series 17: Restricted Data, 1948.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Microfilm edition of a history of the Institute for Advanced Study (1964) by Beatrice M. Stern, no. 16,646.
• -  Microfilm of a history of the Institute for Advanced Study (1964) by Beatrice M. Stern. [Place of reproduction unidentified].
• -  Gift, Katherine Oppenheimer, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and others, 1967-2017.
• -  Transfer, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1971.
• -  Purchase, 2022.
• -  Glass slides transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Magnetic tapes, chiefly of Oppenheimer's speeches; and motion pictures transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
• -  Related collection: Martin J. Sherwin collection relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
• -  Related collection: J. Robert Oppenheimer FBI security file [microform]. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
• -  Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Full name: Julius Robert Oppenheimer.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007

Medium

• 76,450 items.
• 301 containers plus 2 classified.
• 1 microfilm reel.
• 120.2 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm77035188

Access Advisory

• Open to research; other restrictions apply. Contact the Manuscript Reading Room for further information.
• Classified, in part.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

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