Box

Correspondence

• 1955-1957 (Creation)

15 folders

2/1: General correspondence, including letters pertaining to Dr. Aebersold's participation in the Eighth International Congress of Radiology to be held in Mexico City in 1956 and the U. N. Conference in Geneva, memos on the functions of the Radiological Safety Branch, Isotopes Division, a proposal for international peaceful atomic development centers, and a membership directory of the Association of Research Directors, January-June 1955.

2/2: General correspondence, including letters about Dr. Aebersold's trip to Europe to attend the U. N. Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy at Geneva and visit the radio-isotope production, distribution and utilization centers, an itinerary for the trip, a list of contacts in Europe, notes compiled by Dr. Aebersold during the trip, and a capsule summary of the isotope distribution program, July 1955.

2/3: General correspondence, including letters and memos about Ford Motor Company's Atoms for Peace exhibition in 1956, memos regarding the coordination of and responsibility for the isotopes division under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and exchanges of letters, especially with Lorraine Meyer and Henry L. Moses, about the establishment of the Samuel S. Seidlin Memorial Fund, August-December 1955.

2/4: General correspondence, including letters with Lorraine Meyer, Henry L. Moses, and Marshall Brucer regarding the Samuel S. Seidlin Memorial Fund, letters about Ford Motor Company's Atoms for Peace exhibition, notes for an Isotopes Extension Technical Staff meeting, notes on isotope production and licensing, and background notes prepared for Joint Committee on Atomic Energy hearings, January-March 1956.

2/5: General correspondence, including letters about the pending official visit of Dr. Aebersold to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela as part of a team of isotope experts and about his unofficial visit to Peru. Most of the correspondence is with users of isotopes in researching the several countries, April-May 1956.

2/6: General correspondence, including an itinerary for Dr. Aebersold's visit of South America, copies of various programs participated in by the team of isotope experts, and Dr. Aebersold's notes on the Atoms for Peace Mission to South America, June 1956.

2/7: General correspondence, including follow-up letters on the Atoms for Peace Mission to South America, a memo on a proposed program for the Radiation Advisory Section Division of Civilian Application, and one letter on the Samuel S. Seidlin Memorial Fund, July-August 1956.

2/8: General correspondence, including letters about Dr. Aebersold's participation in the First Cuban National Forum on Nuclear Energy in Havana, letters pertaining to the Samuel S. Seidlin Memorial Fund, and memos on generally licensed and licensed exempt quantities of radioisotopes and simplifying and strengthening licensing procedures for high-level irradiation facilities, September-December, 1956.

2/9: General correspondence, including letters about the Samuel S. Seidlin Memorial Fund, correspondence with John Clover Monsma about his booklet "Is There a God?" in which 100 American scientists answer their atheistic colleagues in Russia, a list of specialists on industrial uses of isotopes, and a report by H. D. Bruner on his trip to Havana to participate in the First Cuban National Forum on Nuclear Energy, January-February 1957.

2/10: General correspondence, including letters with John Clover Monsma about his booklet, a program for the Nuclear Congress held in Philadelphia, a program and other materials for the Fifth Annual Conference on Atomic Energy in Industry of the National Industrial Conference Board, and materials from the Pan American Union on inter-American activities in the field of science and technology, March 1957.

2/11: General correspondence, including many congratulatory letters to Dr. Aebersold on his transfer from Oak Ridge to Washington to assume the duties of Assistant Director for Isotopes and Radiation, Division of Civilian Application, program of the 1st Pan American Cancer Cytology Congress, and a letter from Robert S. Stone on the early developments in nuclear medicine, April 1957.

2/12: General correspondence, chiefly additional congratulatory letters, May 1957.

2/13: General correspondence, including a memo on a national reactor project for the Philippine Islands, a program for the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, a program for the Nineteenth Mid-summer Radiological Conference of the Rocky Mountain Radiological Society, and a few additional congratulatory letters, June-August 1957.

2/14: General correspondence, including a handbook and list of participants in the International Conference on Radio-Isotopes in Scientific Research in Paris, correspondence with John Clover Monsma, and drafts of Dr. Aebersold's statement for Monsma's booklet, September 1957.

2/15: General correspondence, including letters with John Clover Monsma and a copy of his booklet, a list of participants and schedule of lectures for an Atomic Energy Course for Management in Chicago, a memo on a research reactor for Taiwan, a memo on an unscheduled symposium on the production of radioisotopes at the UNESCO Conference for Isotope Research in Paris, a directory of the Atom Fair '57 in New York, correspondence regarding Dr. Aebersold's visit to the University of Dubuque as a participant in the American Institute of Physics Visiting Scientists Program, and a course outline and lecture schedule for a medical officers course in radioisotope techniques at Bethesda, MD, October-December 1957.