COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Files include correspondence relating to Pohl's sabbatic leave, research including communications with international colleagues and correspondence with his graduate students; notes on energy which comprise reference files of clippings and handwritten notations; published reports on nuclear waste and waste sites, contaminated and non-contaminated sites, high-level nuclear waste disposal, reactor decommissioning, reactor accidents, radiation health effects, EPA studies and specific sites of radwaste contaminiation, carbon dioxide, thermal studies in high-level waste disposal,and uranuium mill tailings.
Dates
- 1973-1998.
Creator
- Pohl, Robert O. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Physicist.
Robert O. Pohl received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1957. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1958 in the Department of Physics and the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. In 1984, Pohl was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize of the American Physical Society for his work on the structure of glass and glassy materials. In addition to his basic research, Professor Pohl has been interested in issues relating to nuclear waste disposal, serving on President Carter's advisory committee.
Extent
28 cubic feet. (28 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Files include correspondence relating to Pohl's sabbatic leave, research including communications with international colleagues and correspondence with his graduate students; notes on energy which comprise reference files of clippings and handwritten notations; published reports on nuclear waste and waste sites, contaminated and non-contaminated sites, high-level nuclear waste disposal, reactor decommissioning, reactor accidents, radiation health effects, EPA studies and specific sites of radwaste contaminiation, carbon dioxide, thermal studies in high-level waste disposal,and uranuium mill tailings.
Physical Description
Correspondence, reference files, clippings, published reportsl, studies.
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:
- Maria Keating
- Date completed:
- May 2003
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, Nov. 11, 2003
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Maria Keating
- Date
- Nov. 11, 2003
- 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