LBL Archives and Records Office
Nuclear Testing and Fallout Records Survey
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NARA Accession Number
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16-5-44
Location
Archives Vault
Division/Department or Research Group
LBL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
Director Ernest O.

Lawrence

5. Description of Records
a. Record Title

Folder Title:

Ernest 0. Lawrence, Scientist's Papers,

University of California.

[1928] - 1968.

"Los Alamos Laboratory, 1943-1954."

b. Record Media

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MIC (TEX)

Dates
1943 - 1954

Size of Records
Cubic Feet

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Number of Units

Total of 36 reels (original: 50 cartons).

Dimension of Records
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Reel #1 (original: Box 2)
(Counter-071)

Arrangement

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Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically within
subject folder.

Security Classification

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Unclassified.

Creating Individual or Organizational Unit
E.0.

Lawrence, Helen Griggs.

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.

h. Series Description

Microfilm of original textual records of Dr. E.0. Lawrence, founder and
first director of the Radiation Laboratory, renamed the Lawrence Radiation

Laboratory after his death.

The records present detailed documentation of

Lawrence's life, projects, and career, and instruments, including the
cyclotrons, of the Laboratory. The collection includes correspondence
(letters, telegrams, telephone transcripts), reports, newsclippings,
notes, expense records, experimental notebooks. Letter, Carroll L. Tyler
to E.0. Lawrence re:UCRL radiation monitoring of personnel, Jan 25,

1952.

Also includes a letter of appreciation to Hugh Bradner and Herbert

house,

26 May 1951.

York, UCRL, from Frederick Reines, Director, Project 1, Operation Green-

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