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LBL Archives and Records Office

Nuclear Testing and Fallout Records Survey
1. NARA Accession Number
2. LBL Accession Number
3. Location

434-90A-0168
19-14-6
AS9 OL-A591M

4. Division/Department or Research Group
RESEARCH MEDICINE & RADIATION BIOPHYSICS.

(BIOMEDICAL - DONNER LABORATORY)

John H.

Lawrence.

Director.

5. Description of Records
a. Record Title
Folder Title:

John H. Lawrence.
Scientist's Papers., 1941-1986.
1.
“AEC Monthly Reports."*
2.

“M-N-O-P,

1970-1979."

b. Record Media
TEX

c. Dates

June 8, 1948; 1977.

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d. Size of Records

Gubixkest

Numberof Units

Box 22 of 34.

Folder 5 (oversized).

. 80x23 of 34. Folder 8.

Dimension of Records

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e. Arrangement
Primarily chronological, then alphabetically by correspondents.
Items within each file are generally arranged chronologically.

f. Security Classification
Unclassified.

g. Creating Individual or Organizational Unit
John H. Lawrence.
Director, Donner Laboratory.

h. Series Description

The collection consists of correspondence, hand-

written and typed drafts, postcards, memoranda, lists and schedules, proofs,
brochures, research papers and articles, newsclippings, account books,
speeches, bibliographies, resumes, and photographs.
Relevant documents to this survey include a letter from Dr. John W. Gofman to

John H. Lawrence, June 8, 1948.

25-26."

"Proceedings of the AEC Washington Mtg, May

Page 3 of the Discussion transcript refers to radiation tolerances.

Page 7 includes comments of Dr. Shields Warren, subsequent director of AEC
Biology & Medicine.
On p. 11, Dr. Warren refers briefly to examinations of
the survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
Box 22, folder 5 contains a letter
concerning the possible location of Dr. Joseph Hamilton's research papers.

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