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Printed dedication program (with manuscript annotations) and typewritten transcripts of speeches given at the dedication of Clark Hall. Speakers whose remarks are transcribed include University Provost Dale Corson (presiding over the symposium), Morris Bishop, Hans Bethe, University President James A. Perkins (presiding over the dedication ceremony), Robert L. Sproull, Charles M. Herzfeld, and Donald Hornig.

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Typewritten texts of lectures on the dangers of nuclear weapons and the prospects for nuclear disarmament, sponsored by the Faculty Committee on the Nuclear Peril at Cornell in 1962. Speakers (some of them Cornell faculty, others from other institutions) included Hans A. Bethe, Cyril L. Comar, Seymour Melman, Herman Kahn, Louis B. Sohn, John Coleman Bennett, and William C. Foster.

Abstract Papers of Hans Albrecht Bethe, physicist, Cornell University professor of physics, Nobel laureate. Materials relate to Bethe's work concerning nuclear physics, solar, stellar, and nuclear energy, radiation, conduction in metals, and quantum mechanics; also the administration of the Cornell University Physics Department, and Cornell courses. Collection includes material on arms and arms control, underwater explosion research, the nuclear test ban, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the...

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Physicist James C. Keck (June 11, 1924-August 9, 2010) served on the faculty of Cornell Univeristy (B.S. 1947, P.h.D. 1951), the California Institute of Technology, and MIT, and is recognized for his work on the Manhattan Project and for his research on combustion engines. This collection contains notebooks by Keck from courses he took at Cornell, dating 1946-1949.