Argonne National Laboratory 
 
SERIES TITLE ANL Technical Notebooks 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1943 present 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Alphanumeric 
 
 
VOLUME 294 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
This series consists of technical notebooks issued by Argonne National Laboratory 
and its predecessor, the Metallurgical Laboratory, to employees and contractors to 
record experimental procedures and data; scientific and technical ideas and concepts; 
lecture and seminar notes; and other information. Also included are several logbooks 
which, in addition to use as finding aids for the technical notebooks, provide 
information on the history of the notebooks, (e.g., when issued, names of users, when 
returned, when declassified, and other information). The logbooks provide information 
on the organizational structure of the Metallurgical Laboratory. These records occasionally 
identify subjects or hospital patients. They were the working documents of the 
holders and therefore describe what projects they were working on, and what they 
thought important. For example, a notebook of R.S. Stone contains mention of the 
need to gain information on plutonium metabolism from humans, and seems to anticipate 
the plutonium injection experiments that were carried out at various locations 
during 1945 1947. Some classified laboratory notebooks exist and are maintained 
separately. 
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material; some notebooks have radioactive contamination.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Argonne National Laboratory 
Technical Information Services Department 
Information and Publishing Division 
Building 316, Room A136 
Argonne, IL 60439