Frederick Seitz Papers, 1935-1965 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Frederick Seitz (b. 1911), professor of physics (1949-1968), department head (1957-1964) and Graduate College dean (1964-1965), including correspondence (1948-1965), reports, publications (1936-1957), agenda, minutes and proposals concerning the administration of scientific organizations, programs and research activities; advisory service with federal agencies on planning scientific research; consultant service with industrial research programs; evaluations of research projects and personnel; education and training; publications; membership and research grants. The series covers Seitz's work with American Institute of Physics (board chairman, 1954-1959); American Physical Society (president, 1961); International Union of Pure and Applied Physics; National Academy of Sciences (president, 1962-1969); North Atlantic Treaty Organization (scientific advisor, 1959-1960); Department of Defense; Naval Research Advisory Committee; Office of Naval Research; Air Research and Development Command; National Science Foundation; Atomic Energy Commission; Argonne, Brookhaven and Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Midwest Universities Research Association; the University of Illinois Department of Physics and Coordinated Sciences Laboratory; academic institutions; contacts with federal administrators and congressmen concerning science policy and programs and industrial research for American Machine and Foundry, Bell Telephone, E. I. duPont, General Atomic and United Aircraft. The series contains general personal correspondence with physicists and science administrators concerning solid state physics, research projects, materials, positions, publications, lectures, meetings, travel and national science policy.