University of Chicago Library Guide to the John A. Simpson Papers 1940-1988 © 2007 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Acknowledgments 6 Descriptive Summary 6 Information on Use 6 Access 7 Citation 7 Biographical Note 7 Scope Note 11 Related Resources 21 Subject Headings 22 INVENTORY 22 Series I: General Correspondence 22 Subseries 1: Professional correspondence 22 Subseries 2: Personal correspondence 53 Series II: University of Chicago (UC) 55 Subseries 1: General 55 Subseries 2: Course materials 59 Subseries 3: Annotated drafts of students' dissertations 67 Subseries 4: Department of Physics 68 Subseries 5: Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI) 71 Subseries 6: Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR) 73 Subseries 7: The College of the University of Chicago 79 Series III: Professional Affiliations 79 Subseries 1: Atomic scientists organizations 79 Subseries 2: International Geophysical Year (IGY) 83 Sub-subseries 1: Comité Spécial de l'Année Géophysique Internationale (CSAGI),83 general materials Sub-subseries 2: CSAGI, conferences and meetings 84 Sub-subseries 3: United States National Committee (USNC-IGY) 85 Sub-subseries 4: USNC-IGY Cosmic Ray Program 87 Sub-subseries 5: IGY Nuclear Radiation Program 90 Sub-subseries 6 Reports from participating countries 90 Subseries 3: Space Science Board (SSB) 91 Subseries 4 Astronomy Missions Board (AMB) 97 Subseries 5 National Academy of Sciences 100 Subseries 6 Space Science Working Group (SSWG) 100 Subseries 7: Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) 105 Subseries 8: Advisory Group on Science Policy (AGOSP) 106 Subseries 9: Other 107 Series IV: Lectures and Conferences 108 Subseries 1: Popular and non-scientific lectures 108 Subseries 2: Scientific lectures and conferences, general 112 Subseries 3: American Geophysical Union (AGU) meetings 117 Subseries 4: American Physical Society CAPS) meetings 118 Subseries 5: Midwest conferences on cosmic rays 121 Subseries 6: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) meetings122 Series V: Writings 124 Subseries 1: Final publications (1940-1987) 124 Subseries 2: Scientific papers 125 Series VI: Appointment Books 132 Series VII: Biographical 133 Subseries 1: "A" and "B" series (New York University) 133 Subseries 2: "C" series 133 Subseries 3: "D" series 134 Subseries 4: "E" series 136 Subseries 5: "F" series 136 Subseries 6: "G" series 140 Series VIII: Contracts and Funding 144 Subseries 1: General 144 Subseries 2: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Baltimore 144 Subseries 3: Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Air Research and Development147 Command (ARDC) Subseries 4: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 149 Subseries 5: National Science Foundation (NSF) 158 Series IX: Projects 160 Subseries 1: Early work 160 Sub-subseries 1: Reed College and New York University 160 Sub-subseries 2: Metallurgical Laboratory (Manhattan Project) 160 Sub-subseries 3: Research on materials and counters 161 Sub-subseries 4: Writings on radiation counters 162 Sub-subseries 5: Cosmic ray investigations from aircraft 164 Sub-subseries 6: Cosmic ray investigations from balloons 169 Sub-subseries 7: Neutron monitor stations on Navy ships 172 Sub-subseries 8: Neutron monitor ground stations 173 Sub-subseries 10: Solar flare events 179 Sub-subseries 12: Non-cosmic ray miscellanea 185 Subseries 2: Early Spacecraft 185 Sub-subseries 1: Pioneer II 185 Sub-subseries 2: Pioneer V and Explorer VI 185 Sub-subseries 3: Able 3 and 4 186 Sub-subseries 4: Able 5 187 Sub-subseries 5: Ranger I and II 188 Sub-subseries 6: Discoverer 188 Sub-subseries 7: Blue Scout rockets 189 Sub-subseries 8 : S-3 and S-64a 24-hour satellites 189 Sub-subseries 9: Surveyor 190 Sub-subseries 10: Pioneer 6 and 7-general 190 Sub-subseries 11: Miscellaneous or general files 194 Subseries 3: Pioneer 10 and 11 196 Sub-subseries 1: Mission planning 196 Sub-subseries 2: Instrument design 198 Sub-subseries 3: Instrument construction and testing 198 Sub-subseries 4: Post-launch research, publications, and funding 202 Sub-subseries 5: ARC technical documents 207 Subseries 4: Eccentric Geophysical Observatory (EGO)/Orbiting Geophysical209 Observatory, (OGO)/Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (POGO) Sub-subseries 1: OGO-general 209 Sub-subseries 2: EGO (OGO A and B) 209 Sub-subseries 3: POGO-project conception and proposals 212 Sub-subseries 4: POGO-instrument design 212 Sub-subseries 5: POGO-testing, pre-launch work 212 Sub-subseries 6: POGO-post-launch 213 Subseries 5: Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) A-E 217 Sub-subseries 1: General 217 Sub-subseries 2: IMP A (IMP 1) 217 Sub-subseries 3: IMP B (IMP 2) 220 Sub-subseries 4: IMP C (IMP 3) 220 Sub-subseries 5: IMP D and E (anchored IMP) 221 Subseries 6: IMP F and G 221 Sub-subseries 1: Mission planning and instrument design 221 Sub-subseries 2: Testing and spacecraft interface, telemetry 221 Sub-subseries 3: Post-launch 224 Subseries 7: IMP H and J 225 Subseries 8: IMP I (Eye) 228 Sub-subseries 1: General 228 Sub-subseries 2: Instrument Design 228 Sub-subseries 3: Testing 229 Subseries 9: Spacecraft integration, post-launch, miscellanea 229 Subseries 10: Mariner A. B. C 230 Subseries 11: Mariner C. D. Mariner '64 (Mariner 4) 232 Sub-subseries 1: General 232 Sub-subseries 2: Instrument design, construction, testing, and calibration 233 Sub-subseries 3: Launch and post-launch 235 Sub-subseries 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and other technical documents237 (numbered by JAS) Subseries 12: Mariner `67 237 Subseries 13: Mariner `69 237 Subseries 14: Mariner `71 238 Subseries 15: Mariner Venus-Mercury (MVM) 1973 (Mariner 10) 239 Sub-subseries 1: Mission planning, experiment teams 239 Sub-subseries 2: Simpson's charged particle experiment 244 Sub-subseries 3: Instrument design, construction, testing, spacecraft interface 244 Sub-subseries 4: Spacecraft interface 245 Sub-subseries 5: Data acquisition systems and instrument calibration 246 Sub-subseries 6: Post-launch. Mercury and Venus encounters 247 Sub-subseries 7: Data processing, publications 249 Sub-subseries 8: Publications and conferences 251 Sub-subseries 9: JPL. NASA. and Boeing documents 254 Subseries 16: Grand Tour mission 257 Subseries 17: International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE) 259 Subseries 18: Cosmic Ray Isotope Experiment (CRIE)/Solar Isotope and Radiation262 Experiment (SIRE) Sub-subseries 1: Communication with Navy, Hughes Aircraft Co., mission planning,262 instrument design Sub-subseries 2: Design and testing of instruments 266 Sub-subseries 3: Instrument testing and calibration at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory269 (LBL) Sub-subseries 4: S81-1 mission (Phoenix 1) 270 Sub-subseries 5: ONR-301, Energetic Heavy Ion Composition (EHIC) experiment272 Subseries 19: International Solar Polar Mission (ISPM, Ulysses) 273 Sub-subseries 1: Mission definition, international collaboration and planning 273 Sub-subseries 2: Instrument design, spacecraft interface, technical documents 277 Sub-subseries 3: Organizational and scientific meetings 279 Sub-subseries 4: Memos and correspondence 282 Sub-subseries 5: NASA budgeting, Congressional cutbacks 282 Sub-subseries 6 Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Investigation (COSPIN) pre-delivery283 design review Subseries 20: Solar flare studies 284 Sub-subseries 21: Solar energy 286 Subseries 23: Glossy print file 288 Sub-subseries 1: Miscellaneous projects and files 290 Series X: Instrument Drawings 293 Series XI: Restricted Correspondence (NOTE- Access to materials in this series294 is restricted until the year 2020.) Subseries 1: Letters of reference 294 Subseries 2: Personnel 300 Subseries 3: Referee reports 300 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.JASIMPSON Title Simpson, John A. Papers Date 1940-1988 Size 195 linear feet (394 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract John A. Simpson (1916-2000) Papers include professional and personal correspondence, scientific research notes, lectures and articles, teaching materials, grant proposals, and technical reports and drawings. They document Simpson’s graduate work at New York University, his activity in the Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II and his teaching and research at the University of Chicago. They also document his invention and development of radiation counters, cosmic ray neutron monitors, and numerous types of charged-particle analyzers designed for space research. Simpson utilized for his research the material and financial resources of the Air Force, Navy, NSF, and NASA, and these relationships are documented in the papers. They also document his chairmanship of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago in 1945-1946 and his work with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The papers represent Simpson’s scientific and administrative roles in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958, and his later interactions with European and Soviet scientists and space agencies. Acknowledgments In September 1987 Professor John A. Simpson began his tenure as the third incumbent of the Martin Marietta Chair in Space History at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Under the auspices of that chair, Professor Simpson drafted selected memories of his distinguished career in science and consulted with historians working within the Museum’s Space History Department. As part of this effort, using funds associated with the Martin Marietta Chair, a cooperative effort was initiated between the Department of Space History of the National