COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Notebooks, correspondence, clippings, and subject files relating to Sternglass's interests, especially the health effects of low-level radiation, cosmology, and the history of science. Includes files about the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant.
Dates
- circa 1952-2008.
Creator
- Sternglass, Ernest J. (Person)
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Research Laboratories (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Physicist.
Ernest Joachim Sternglass (born 1923) came to the United States in 1938. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell in 1944 and and M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied & Engineering Physics in 1951 and 1953. From 1952 to 1967, he worked at the Westinghouse Research Laboratory on nuclear instrumentation, especially fluoroscopy, and he was the lead scientist for its Lunar Station program. His work allowed for the live viewing of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Beginning in the early 1960s he became interested in the health risks of low-level radiation from nuclear testing and nuclear power plants. He was the co-founder and director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. His work on X-rays advanced the field of safer digital imaging, reducing patients exposure to radiation. He became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and has also written on cosmology.
Extent
111 cubic feet. (111 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Notebooks, correspondence, clippings, and subject files relating to Sternglass's interests..
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Resonant particles proceedings, second topical conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, June 10-12, 1965 containing the Sternglass article "New Evidence for a Molecular Structure of Meson and Baryon Resonance State" has been removed. A copy is available in the Physical Sciences Library as call # QC721.C743 1965
Physical Description
Correspondence, Newspapers, Printed Materials, Research Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- October 2009
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, October 2009
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2018
- Cosmology.
- Environmental health.
- Health risk assessment.
- Low-level radiation -- Health aspects -- United States.
- Nuclear power plants -- Accidents.
- Radiation -- Physiological effect.
- Radiation -- Toxicology.
- Radioactive pollution -- Toxicology.
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
- University of Pittsburgh -- : Faculty.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- October 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu