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		Breit, Gregory, 1899-

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		Nuclear physics.
		Nuclear research -- United States.
		Yale University.
		State University of New York at Buffalo.
		Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism.
		Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
		Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
		National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
		National Research Council (U.S.)
		National Science Foundation (U.S.)
		U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory.
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		Breit, Gregory, 1899-
		Gupta, Saraj N.
		Hull, McAllister H., 1923-
		Mitchell, Allan C. G.
		Noyes, H. Pierre
		Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
		Rustgi, Moti L.
		Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
		Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982.
		Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
		Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-
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Gregory Breit papers, 1929-1980 (inclusive), 1960-1970 (bulk)

by Breit, Gregory, 1899-

48.5 linear ft. (65 boxes)

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Series I, Correspondence and Series II, Diaries and Notebooks have been microfilmed. Patrons must use FILM HM 211 instead of the originals.

Owning Repository:

Yale University Library. Manuscripts and Archives. Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520.

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Biography/History:

Gregory Breit was born on July 14, 1899 in Nickolaev, Russia. He attended the School of Emperor Alexander from 1909 to 1915. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1915 and became a naturalized citizen in 1918. Breit received the A.B. (1918), the M.A. (1920), and the Ph.D. (1921) from Johns Hopkins University. He was a National Research Council Fellow at the University of Leyden from 1921 to 1922, and at Harvard University from 1922 to 1923. He was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota (1923-1924), professor of physics at New York University (1929-1934), and Yale University (1947-1968), and a Distinguished Service Professor of physics at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1968-1976). He conducted research at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, and at the University of Chicago, where as the coordinator of the Fast Neutron Project, Metallurgical Laboratory (Manhattan Project), he was involved in the early development of the atom bomb. Breit was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Franklin Medal, and the T. W. Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society. He died in Salem, Oregon in 1981.

Scope of Material:

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, reports, data files, writings, printed material, and topical files relating to Gregory Breit's research and teaching career.

The papers were transferred to the Yale University Department of Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1982 and transferred from the Department of Physics to Manuscripts and Archives in 1987. The papers were formally donated to Manuscripts and Archives by Ralph W. G. Wyckoff in 1988.

Arrangement of Records:

The fully processed material is arranged in two series: I. Correspondence, 1932-1973. II. Diaries and Notebooks, 1935-1973. The preliminarily processed material is arranged by type and subject of material, ca. 1929-1980.

Correspondence (1932-1973) and Diaries and Notebooks (1935-1973) are available on microfilm (20 reels, 35mm.) from the American Institute of Physics, New York, NY.

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