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Start Over Collection Robert E. Marshak Papers, 1933/1995 Date range 1988

Robert E. Marshak, "Contribution of the First Decade of the 'Rochester' Conferences to the restructuring of Particle Physics (1950-1960)." A paper presented by Marshak at a conference on "The Restructuring of the Physical Sciences in Europe and the United States, 1945-60" in Rome; to be published in the conference proceedings edited by M. De Maria and M. Grilli, 1988 Box 4, Folder 58

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2. Robert E. Marshak Papers, 1933/1995
  3. Series I. Rochester Conference, 1947/1990
  4. Miscellaneous, 1970/1990

Robert E. Marshak Papers, 1933/1995 71.3 Cubic Feet 54 boxes, 1 oversize folder

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
The collection consists of Marshak's professional and personal papers, detailing his career as university professor in physics at the University of Rochester and Virginia Tech, member and leader in several scientific institutions, and president of the City College of New York. Materials include Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conferences (1947-1949) and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conferences on High-Energy Physics (1950-1957), which he founded. The papers also includes correspondence, notes, reports, files, speeches, proceedings, newsclippings, autographs, photographs, interviews, transcripts, and other personalia related to his career at the University of Rochester, City College of New York, and Virginia Tech. Some materials relate to his work in international science and physics organizations, including USSR-US relations, Soviet science, the American Physical Association, International Center of Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and the International Foundation for Science in Sweden. Of special note are several items and files with other well-known physicists, including Hans Bethe, George Sudarshan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Susumu Okubo, Abdus Salam, Victor Weisskopf, Enrico Fermi, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Mildred Dresselhaus, Richard Feynman, and a letter from Albert Einstein.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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