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Argonne National Laboratory
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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 |