Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Anderson, Herbert L., papers
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| Notes: | Series XV contains evaluative student material that is restricted for 80 years and budget material that is restricted for 50 years. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
Herbert L. Anderson (PhD. in physics from Columbia) had helped to build Columbia's first cyclotron and, with that same machine, and under the direction of Nobel Prize Winner Enrico Fermi, he confirmed the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939. That was the first collaboration with the distinguished Italian professor and the beginning of a very close personal and professional relationship that, among other greatly important experiments and results, produced the first self-sustaining chain reaction. Anderson participated in the Manhattan Project from beginning to end. After producing the first chain reaction, he was given the task of directing the construction of two new reactor piles. In 1944, Anderson went to Los Alamos, where he played a leading role in his research group and participated in all the tests leading to the production of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb. After WWII, Anderson returned to the University of Chicago where he worked until he left for Los Alamos again in 1978. In the last part of his career Anderson worked with biologist Theodore Puck in developing instrumentation to analyze the proteins made by living cells. Anderson was also the sponsor of many successful careers in physics.
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| Summary: | Consists of documents concerning the development of nuclear energy, including research data and calculations, narrative accounts, photographs and press materials. The notebook in which Anderson and Fermi recorded the first uranium fission is of particular interest. The collection also documents the development of the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Argonne National Laboratory, and the strong professional and personal ties that Anderson developed within the University of Chicago community.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Anderson, Herbert L.,[Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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