Peter Axel Papers, 1940-82

Description: Paper of Peter Axel, M.S. PhD. '49, (1923-83), professor of physics (1948-83), including correspondence (1946-82), physics course materials (1946-76), budgets, manuscripts, notes, proposals, publications (1949-82), reports, technical notes, biographical information (1955-76), conference announcements and programs (1950-83), Axel's student course notes (1940, 1946-48) and related material on teaching and research in nuclear physics, photonuclear reactions and the compound nucleus, lower energy superconducting accelerators, radioactivity, electronics and nuclear instrumentation. The papers include material on physics departmental committees and responsibilities (1946-82); University Senate, boards and committees (1960-61, 1969-83); academic staff appointments (1968-82); graduate students (1950-82); visiting researchers (1957-79); nuclear physics curriculum (1965-75); Physics Research Laboratory (1966-82); 22 MeV Betatron (1951-62); monochromator (1953-61); LINAC superconducting accelerator (1963-75); MUSL-2 accelerator (1975-81); American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics (1967-82); Argonne National Laboratory (1966-72); Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions (1959-77) and nuclear structure physics (1980-82); National Science Foundation, Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (1975-82) and grants; MIT, Radiation Laboratory (1940-46) and consulting (1946-55).