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Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers, Date (Inclusive): 1927-2011 Collection Number: 10163-MS Creator: Wasserburg, Gerald J http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8s46skf Online items available Finding Aid for the Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers 1927-2011 Processed by Charlotte E. Erwin, Loma Karklins, Kevin C. Knox, Nurit Lifshitz, Elisa Piccio and Ruth Sustaita. Caltech Archives Archives California Institute of Technology 1200 East California Blvd. Mail Code 015A-74 Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: (626) 395-2704 Fax: (626) 395-4073 Email: [email protected] URL: http://archives.caltech.edu/ ©2012 California Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the Gerald J. 10163-MS 1 Wasserburg Papers 1927-2011 Descriptive Summary Title: Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers, Date (inclusive): 1927-2011 Collection number: 10163-MS Creator: Wasserburg, Gerald J. (Gerald Joseph) 1927- Extent: 172 boxes; 85 linear feet. Repository: California Institute of Technology. Caltech Archives Pasadena, California 91125 Abstract: The scientific and personal correspondence, organizational and government files, NASA files including Apollo missions and lunar sample analysis, notebooks, biographical materials and audiovisual materials of Gerald J. Wasserburg (b. 1927) form the collection known as the Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Appointed to the faculty at Caltech in 1955, Wasserburg won the Crafoord Prize in 1986 with Claude J. Allègre for their pioneering work in isotope geochemistry. Physical location: Archives, California Institute of Technology. Languages represented in the collection: EnglishGermanFrench Access The collection is open for research. Researchers must apply in writing for access. Some files remain closed indefinitely for reasons of confidentiality and privacy. Publication Rights Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Caltech Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and, unless explicitly stated otherwise, is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers, 10163-MS, Caltech Archives, California Institute of Technology. Acquisition Information The collection was given by Prof. Gerald J. Wasserburg to the Caltech Archives in installments, beginning in 1996. The bulk of the collection was transferred to the Archives in 2002-2003. Small supplements were made by Prof. Wasserburg through 2011. Processing History Processed by Charlotte E. Erwin, Loma Karklins, Kevin C. Knox, Nurit Lifshitz, Elisa Piccio and Ruth Sustaita, completed October 2012. Processing of this large collection was begun in 2002 and done in increments over several years by a team of archivists at Caltech. A matching grant from the American Institute of Physics in 2008 provided significant assistance to this extensive project. Biography Gerald Joseph Wasserburg became Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology in 2002. He previously served Caltech as Professor of Geology and Geophysics, 1955-2001; Chairman, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, 1987-1989; and Executive Officer for Geochemistry, 1987-1989. Wasserburg was born March 25, 1927, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. After beginning college at Rutgers University, he entered the University of Chicago in 1948 with a major first in geology, then in physics. He earned his PhD from Chicago in 1954 with a thesis on potassium-argon dating under Harold C. Urey and Mark Inghram. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1955 and was named full professor in 1962 and John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics in 1982. Wasserburg's research interests are isotopic geochemistry, geophysics, and astrophysics. He developed ultra-high precision and high sensitivity mass spectrometric and chemical techniques to study the origins and history of the solar system and its component bodies. He designed the first digital output with magnet switching computer-controlled mass spectrometer, which he named Lunatic I, at the same time denominating his laboratory at Caltech The Lunatic Asylum. His work established a time scale for the development of the early solar system including the end of the process of nucleosynthesis and the formation of solid objects such as planets, moons, and meteorites about 4500 million years ago. Wasserburg is widely acknowledged for his isotope studies of lunar materials collected by NASA's Apollo missions and his involvement in Finding Aid for the Gerald J. 10163-MS 2 Wasserburg Papers 1927-2011 US space research programs. Among his many honors and awards is the Crafoord Prize, 1986. Wasserburg's autobiographical essay, "Isotopic Adventures," is a lively account of his life and scientific career (published in Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2003. 31:1-74.). Scope and Content The Gerald J. Wasserburg papers extend to 172 document boxes. This large, complex and historically rich collection has been organized into nine series, and some series into subseries. The series organization is as follows: SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE; SERIES 2: CALTECH AND JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL); SERIES 3: LUNATIC ASYLUM AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; SERIES 4: WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS; SERIES 5: TALKS AND CONFERENCES; SERIES 6: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA); SERIES 7: PROFESSIONAL AND NON-NASA GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS; SERIES 8: BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL MATERIAL; SERIES 9: PHOTOS, SLIDES AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE. Gerald J. Wasserburg was a prolific correspondent who kept copies of nearly all of his letters. Though some letters predate Wasserburg's 1955 arrival at Caltech, the majority fall within the period of the 1960s to the 1990s. Correspondence to and from individuals is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically within folders, with incoming and outgoing letters filed together. Corporate correspondents include academic institutions other than Caltech-both domestic and foreign-and are filed under the geographically distinctive part of the institution's name; for example, California, University of: Berkeley. Other corporate entities include publishers, journals, cultural institutions, and professional organizations, for example, the American Geophysical Union, Elsevier Science Publishers, Harvard University, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Physical Review, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Wasserburg also preserved a fair amount of unsolicited correspondence, invitations and requests of various sorts. Additional corporate correspondence can be located in Series 6 and 7 relating to the government, especially NASA, and to a long list of professional organizations. Among Wasserburg's personal correspondents is an impressive array of prominent scientific figures, the majority representing the fields of geophysics, geochemistry, and related subjects. To name a few: C. J. Allègre, J. R. Arnold, J. N. Bahcall, H. Bethe, A. G. W. Cameron, H. B. Craig, J. de Laeter, W. M. Elsasser, J. Geiss, U. B. Marvin, B. H. Mason, W. H. Munk, L. E. Nyquist, R. K. O'Nions, K. Turekian, A. L. Turkevich, G. Turner, G. Wetherill, M. G. Inghram, and his University of Chicago PhD thesis advisor, H. C. Urey. Correspondents who became principal collaborators with Wasserburg on published papers include J. H. Chen, R. A. Creaser, H. J. Lippolt, D. Papanastassiou, F. A. Podosek, Y-Z. Qian, and F. Tera. Former graduate students who were also co-authors include D. J. DePaolo, S. B. Jacobsen, Typhoon Lee, and M. McCulloch. Some important personal correspondence is filed outside of Series 1, notably in Series 2 and 3, which document relationships at Caltech, whether within the academic divisions and programs or among close collaborators in Wasserburg's lab, the Lunatic Asylum. (See especially notes on Series 2 and 3 below.) Researchers are encouraged to conduct keyword searches to locate correspondence across the whole collection. The Wasserburg correspondence also encompasses a broad spectrum of intellectual, social, and political history. For example, attempts at international scientific cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s generated a substantial amount of correspondence with renowned Russian geologists, geochemists, and geophysicists of the day: V. L. Barsukov, O. A. Bogatikov, V. I. Keilis-Borok, E. Sharkov, Y. A. Shukolyukov, Y. A. Surkov, and I. N. Tolstikhin. For more material on U.S.-Soviet scientific collaboration in space, see also Series 6, NASA. As a man of strong social and political conscience, Wasserburg often took time away from his scientific endeavors to write to members of the U.S. Congress and Senate and even to U.S. presidents, especially in regard to the NASA funding of a Lunar Curatorial Facility in Houston, support of the Space Shuttle program, and the constant threat of cutbacks to the space program and NASA. His concerns did not end there but extended to such things as the U.S. involvement in Cambodia, the Kent State massacre, the American energy crisis and dependence on foreign oil, the human rights violations of political dissidents in the Soviet Union as well as other countries, and the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq. One disc of e-mails from the period 1996-2004 has been placed at the end of the correspondence series. These files are currently not accessible to researchers
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