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• catalog abstract "This collection documents Kistiakowsky's career as a teacher, researcher, policy advisor, and political activist. Includes materials pertaining to his academic duties at Harvard (1930-1971); his wartime involvement with the National Defense Research Committee and the Manhattan Project; his services as consultant to defense agencies and private corporations; his positions as member, chairman, and consultant-at-large of the President's Science Advisory Committee (and as Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the Eisenhower administration); his activities in the National Academy of Sciences (chairman of its Committee on Science and Public Policy from 1962 to 1965 and vice-president of NAS from 1965 to 1973); and his participation in organized efforts to de-escalate the arms race (particularly his role as chairman of Council for a Livable World). Forms of material in this collection include correspondence, memoranda, agendas, minutes, grant proposals, technical reports, letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, speeches, lectures, and ephemera.".
• catalog contributor b3707116.
• catalog date "1928".
• catalog description "Detailed inventory available on paper in repository or electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua08001".
• catalog description "George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), who worked on the developing the first atomic bomb and later became an advocate for banning nuclear weapons, was Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He served as science adviser to President Eisenhower from July 1959 to 1961, and on the advisory board to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1962 to 1969. Born in Russia, he became a member of the White Russian army and later fled the country. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Berlin, then came to the United States in 1926. He spent four years at Princeton University before coming to Harvard. He became professor of chemistry in 1938, chairing the department from 1947 to 1950. Influenced by James B. Conant, President of Harvard University, Kistiakowsky became chief of the explosives division at Los Alamos, N.M. He designed the conventional explosives that detonated the atomic bomb.".
• catalog description "This collection documents Kistiakowsky's career as a teacher, researcher, policy advisor, and political activist. Includes materials pertaining to his academic duties at Harvard (1930-1971); his wartime involvement with the National Defense Research Committee and the Manhattan Project; his services as consultant to defense agencies and private corporations; his positions as member, chairman, and consultant-at-large of the President's Science Advisory Committee (and as Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the Eisenhower administration); his activities in the National Academy of Sciences (chairman of its Committee on Science and Public Policy from 1962 to 1965 and vice-president of NAS from 1965 to 1973); and his participation in organized efforts to de-escalate the arms race (particularly his role as chairman of Council for a Livable World). Forms of material in this collection include correspondence, memoranda, agendas, minutes, grant proposals, technical reports, letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, speeches, lectures, and ephemera.".
• catalog extent "32.8 cubic feet in 95 containers of manuscript.".
• catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Faculty archives. hua".
• catalog issued "1928".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog subject "Council for a Livable World.".
• catalog subject "Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-".
• catalog subject "National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)".
• catalog subject "United States. President's Science Advisory Committee.".
• catalog title "Papers of George B. Kistiakowsky, ca. 1928-1982 (inclusive).".
• catalog type "collection".