Correspondence between renowned particle physicists of the post World War II era. Correspondence concerning the use of atomic energy and various policy issues on varied topics of concern to the United States during the mid 20th century.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically

Manuscript letter signed by James Christenson, James Cronin, Val Fitch and Rene Turlay challenging Abashin's memory of events given during conference on CP Violation in Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Chateau de Blois, France May 22-26, 1989.

Grant Awards for basic research in the physical sciences and accounting of sponsored projects.

Letter states it is a summary of a discussion with W.K.H. Panofsky on usefulness of high intensity accelerators in high energy range.

Other Descriptive Information: Invitation to sign "Statement on the U.S. Policy in Vietnam by a Group of Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society".

Deed of gift to American Institute of Physics of papers from Val Fitch covering term as president of the American Physical Society. News letters from The American Institute of Physics.

Val Fitch served as Vice President(1984) and President (1987) and on an ad hoc committee on high energy physics which determined that the American Physical Society would have a Division of Particles and Fields.

Invitation to be part of a visiting committee to California Institute of Technology.

Val Fitch served on Physics Department Visiting Committee at Yale.

Other Descriptive Information: Argonne National Laboratory was operated by the University of Chicago at this time.

Other Descriptive Information: Val Fisk served as member of the board of trustees.

Bahcall writes of state of gallium in Russia.

Folder includes letter Balleisen sent to Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Dean, Princeton University.

Letter about physics course 103 at Princeton.

Bernardini writes from CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland.

Bernstein writes from CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research. Observations of CP invariance.

Other Descriptive Information: Accnowledging Fitch's participation in Specieal Visiting Committee to University of California, Berkeley Physics Department.

Includes data on branching ratio limit with numbers for decays.

Includes Fitch's progress report for 1961-1962.

Planning trip to Brookhaven for important scattering experiments

Other Descriptive Information: Boggs is United States Senator

Fitch offered and accepted invitation to be Houston Lecturer for 1987-1988 academic year.

Fitch offered and accepts chairmanship of physics department at Princeton (1976)

Fitch willing to chair the Ad Hoc Physics Advisory Committee for Yale.

BBC plan to make seven part drama documentary on the life of Robert Oppenheimer.

Invitation to a party in celebration of the Birth of the Atomic Era.

Fitch apointed research collaborator of the Cosmotron at Brookhaven. Early in Brookhaven Lab history, the consortium of universities responsible for founding the new research center, decided that Brookhaven should provide leading facilities for high energy physics research. In April 1948, the Atomic Energy Commission approved a plan for a proton synchrotron to be built at Brookhaven. The new machine would accelerate protons to previously unheard of energies—comparable to the cosmic rays showering the earth's outer atmosphere. It would be called the Cosmotron.

Mentions the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) was built on the innovative concept of the alternating gradient, or strong-focusing, principle, developed by Brookhaven physicists Ernst Courant, M. Stanley Livingston, and Hartland Snyder in the 1950s. This breakthrough concept in accelerator design allowed scientists to accelerate protons to energies that would have been otherwise unachievable. The AGS became the world's premiere accelerator when it reached its design energy of 33 billion electron volts (GeV) in July of 1960. ISABELLE program involves colliding beams of protons.

Bumpers was a United States Senator. Fitch references the Superconducting Super Collider.

Fitch recipient of Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholarship.

Questions to Fitch about the K plus beam. Plans to meet at University of California, Berkeley for experiments.

Invitation to Fitch to serve on a panel of experts to evaluate proposals.

KAON Impact Study.

Fitch member of Visiting Committee for Carnegie Mellon University.

Case was a United States Senator. Fitch writes about the ISABELLE Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Extensive collection of reports of experiments done at CERN european Organization for Nuclear Research.

Extensive reports on experiments sent to Fitch.

Letters from various correspondents.

Other Descriptive Information: Fitch alma mater.

Includes remarks on M. Gell Mann remarks.

Concerned scientists writing letter about the sale of gallium from the Baksan Neutrino Observatory and the fate of the Russian-American experiment SAGE,

Fitch writes review of Whitrow's article in Science and Technology.

Fitch experiments planned for Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Including Ke3 decay.

Includes invitation for Fitch to take his oral exam,1954 May 25

Other Descriptive Information: CONVAIR, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, CA

Experiment plans for K2° discussed for Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Invitation for Fitch to serve on Ad Hoc Committee of Rocky Mountain Consortium for high energy physics.

Background note: Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of kaons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the interactions of subatomic particles are not invariant under time reversal. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered.

Cuomo was the Governor of New York. He extended an invitation for Fitch to be member of the New York Scientific Advisory Committee.

Includes information about experiments on CP violation. Val Fitch response to Cvijanovich: See Fitch, Val to G.B.Cvijanovich 1965 March 8

Defant of the Unviersity of South Florida requests input from Fitch on his manuscript "Terra Incognita: A Voyage of Discovery..."

Invitation from Dewey for Fitch to take position at G.C. Dewey Corporation as head of physics group.

Dresden invites Fitch to give talk to physicists at the American Physical Society regional meeting on high enerby and elementary particle physics.

Other Descriptive Information: Invitation to give talk at George Mason University.

Fitch will serve on Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc.

The Elie Wiesel Foundtion for Humanity conference "Facing the 21st Century Threats and Promises" 1988 January.

Fitch was copied on 1995 August 7 letter where Everitt was writing to NASA responding to NASA's concerns with on-orbit calibration for Gravity Probe B.

K decay experiment plans at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Includes notes from Physics Department Visiting Committee for Stanford University.

Correspondence to Fitch and Russell Drew from Hughes Research laboratories, Malibu, California.

Detailed description of research program at Ecole Polytechnique, France, including work at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

New Jersey Governor Florio informs Fitch that he nominated him for the 1993 Enrico Fermi Award.

File includes 1940 Frisch-Peierls Memorandum regarding super bomb.

Correspondence involves the future of the cyclotron.

Correspondence refers to Chernomyrdin and the Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope in the Soviet Union. Last name of John is unknown.

Gibson corresponds from the University of Bristol with questions about designing an experiment on K mesons.

Separated material: Letter mentions Fitch at the Sakharov conference.

File includes Survey of American Nobel Laureates in Science 1967-1981 Concerning Federal Funding for Their Research by Senator John Glenn

Letters from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab

Background note: Goldwater was a United States Senator

Goheen was the President of Princeton University.

Correspondence about site for a 200 Bev machine.

Hand from Cornell University corresponding about K experiments.

Heard corresponds from the Radiation Lab, University of California, Berkeley regarding use of Bevatron.

Background note: Hereford is from the University of Burmingham, England.

Correspondence about disposition of physics buildings 25 and 29 at Princeton University.

Fitch response to Higinbotham on article.

Hyams writes from CERN, Geneva, Switzerland about experiments.

File includes book contract with Jonathan L. Rosner and Val L. Fitch: Elementary particle Physics in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.

President Johnson letter to Fitch informing him that he won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for 1968 in recognition of achievements in high-energy physics.

Report of the Visiting Committee to the the Laboratory of Nuclear Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kabir disagrees with a statement in Fitch's summary of CP Violation in publication and explains why. 1967 May 23

Planning to build Cerenkov counter at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Attorney informs Fitch she has filed a brief on "creation-science" with the Supreme Court on his behalf.

Correspondence about the David Bohm affair at Princeton University

Thomas Kean was the governor of New Jersey. Fitch wrote to him about the site proposal of the Superconducting Supercollider particle accelerator.

Correspondence with Val Fitch about the "push-pull effect" and electro magnetic mass driver idea.

Fitch invited to be symposium speaker at the National Academy of Sciences meeting, Wisconsin, 1964 October.

J. Robert Kerrey, United States Senator writes to Fitch about the superconducting supercollider.

Includes detailed notes on results of experiments.

Background note: Kean was the governor of New Jersey.

Grievance letter written by Jacqueline J. Keyhani, Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania about the treatment of her husband, Ezzatollah Keyhani, M.D. by Britton Chance.

Letter from the mechanical engineering department at the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley to plan for experiments on Bevatron.

Kowarski works at CERN, Geneva Switzerland and writes about 300 BeV machine.

Lanou writes extensive letter to Fitch about Isabelle and Brookhaven National Laboratory. 1976 May 6

Lederberg writes from Rockefeller University to invite Fitch to be outside consultant on Review Committee for Rockefeller University.

Lederman was a coordinator of Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics, a Journal of Critical Discussion of the Current Literature. He was in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, and with Fermilab, in Illinois. There is an extensive folder of correspondence with Fitch.

Leith writes about experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, California.

Lewis writes to Fitch on subjects pertaining to President's Advisory Committee.

Correspondence from the Universite de Geneve with details about experiments.

Interested in Fitch's papers.

File includes letter from Lofgren written in confidence to A.M. Sessler regarding a draft letter written by Fitch.

Restricted handbook for people involved with the Manhattan Project who were working on the production of the atomic bomb in New Mexico during World War II.

Letter to Victor Weisskopf concerning the closing of the Princeton Pennsylvania Accelerator.

Background note: Manning on faculty of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory.

Background note: Marquez was the President of the Government of Spain.

Letter discusses CERN particle accelerators.

File includes paper on 'An Electron-Positron Colliding Beam Facility at Cornell University". File includes handwritten notes of thoughts on Electron-Positron Colliding Beam.

Concerning long range plans for the Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

McDonald worked at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Fitch and Sam Treiman complain about interview of Pavel Sudoplatov. Tuesday 1994 April 19.

Milburn, instructor in Physics at Harvard, writes to Fitch about common interest in experiments on the long-lived theta particles.

Includes experimental data.

Fitch writes in favor of preserving 200 BeV.

File labeled "Cracked Pottery" according to Val Fitch.

File labeled "Cracked Pottery" according to Val Fitch.

Time-Life article notes.

Montag writes about experiments from CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Muller invites Fitch to be Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute in Spring, 1993.

File includes letter from the Academy informing Fitch of his election to membership. 1966 April 26.

Fitch invention of pulse storage system.

President Nixon appoints Fitch as a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee.

Oppenheimer acknowledges Fitch's contribution to the development of the atomic bomb.

Letter written in confidence to Val Fitch regarding gravity probe B.

Panofsky was the Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University. Extensive file including correspondence about experiments and manuscripts.

Panofsky was the Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University. Extensive file including correspondence about experiments and manuscripts.

Fitch writes to D.M. Perkins, Nuclear Physics at Oxford University, England regarding Perkin's comments in the December 1971 Physics Bulletin about charge conjugation parity symmetry (CP) and advises caution.

Perkins writes from the University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Corresponds with Fitch about experiments.

Extensive file of correspondence about experiments.

Fitch considers counter versus bubble chamber for experimentation.

File includes correspondence about experiments.

Extensive file of correspondence with Fitch about experiments.

Letter from Jerzy Urban of Poland responds to Fitch et al who protested the arrest and trial of Bogdan Lis, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, and Adam Michnik with explanation of Polish laws.

Correspondence from the White House and committee members

File includes inter-office memos on Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator

Fitch writes about the Superconducting Super Collider.

Reynolds was the president of the Associated Universities, Inc. at this time. Letter dated 1964 September 21 is incomplete.