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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Robert F. Bacher Papers, 1924-1994

Collection number:
10105-MS

Creator:
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox) 1905-2004

Extent:
40 linear feet

Repository:
California Institute of Technology. Caltech Archives

Pasadena, California 91125

Abstract:
The working papers, correspondence, publications, photos and biographical materials of Robert F. Bacher (1905-2004) form the collection known as the Papers of Robert F. Bacher in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. Bacher was a nuclear physicist who during World War II worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and then from 1943 at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb. He was one of the first members of the US Atomic Energy Commission (1946-49). He served on the faculty and in the administration of the California Institute of Technology from 1949 until his retirement in 1976.

Physical location:
California Institute of Technology, Caltech Archives

Languages represented in the collection:

English
Russian
German

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