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Midwestern Universities Research Association records, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
By action of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) Board of Directors and the individual members, the University of Minnesota Archives was designated the depository for all MURA corporate records with the exception of contract, fiscal and audit records which are on deposit at the Physical Sciences Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Stoughton. Laurence R. Lunden, Vice President of Business Administration, University of Minnesota, 1959-1971, who had been active in the affairs of MURA from its beginning until its final dissolution in 1973, was largely responsible for the designation of the University of Minnesota as the official repository.
The records are arranged in the following order:
These records trace the history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) from its beginnings in 1953 to its demise in 1973, leading to the formation of the Argonne Universities Association. They document the MURA's relationship to the Atomic Energy Commission, Argonne National Laboratory and Argonne Midwest Universities. Reports, meeting minutes, proposals, correspondence, and legal documents comprise the bulk of the collection.
Midwestern physicists who had attended the dedication of the Cosmotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the winter of 1952-1953 began discussing the need for a high energy research facility in the Midwest. In the spring of 1953, Professor Enrico Fermi addressed physicists from the Midwest at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Chicago, giving his views. As a result, physicists from the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Chicago formed an ad-hoc committee to guide the development of the facility. Dr. Donald W. Kerst (University of Illinois) was asked to act as the technical director. University presidents, comptrollers and other business officers cooperated. Meetings were held during 1953 and 1954 to discuss the development of a Cosmotron in the Midwest.
As early as 1953, the ad-hoc committee sought financial support from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The attempt was unsuccessful so the committee went to the National Science Foundation (NSF) which made a grant to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for support of the project through the winter and spring of 1953 and 1954. (There was no formal corporation at that time to administer funds.)
On May 6, 1954, the name "Midwestern Universities Research Association, Inc." was approved at the first meeting of the organization committee. This meeting was held after the seven participating institutions agreed to sign the "Agreement for Cooperative Nuclear Research." These institutions included the Universities of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana, State University of Iowa and Iowa State College.
On June 10, 1954, representatives P. Gerald Kruger, Donald Kerst, John Williams, Laurence Lunden, Allan Mitchell and R. Rollefson from MURA met with AEC representatives, General K.D. Nichols and Messrs. Tammaro, McDanniel and Kolstad to discuss AEC support. General Nichols announced that the Commission had decided on the day previous to the meeting to support a group to study possible large machines at Argonne. The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), located near Chicago had been operated by the University of Chicago since 1946. Mr. Tammaro indicated that Argonne had been told previously to stay out of the accelerator business and concentrate on the reactor program, but the Commission, now had revised its policy. However, MURA, as a group of Universities did not want to be subordinate to a single University, in this case the University of Chicago, that Argonne had never been in the machine business and would be tackling the problem without previous interest or experience.
During the summer of 1954, the AEC urged the technical group to move to ANL. The physicists were not attracted to this idea because they "felt that a university environment and a laboratory run by MURA was required to provide the proper environment and support to assure successful attainment of their objective." (See "Historical Sketch of MURA," 1957, p.4 in Reports and Proposals, folder 262.) Also during the summer of 1954, Keith Symon developed the Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) Principle. This would enable scientists to construct an accelerator producing much higher intensity than before developed.
That same year the selection of a site for the MURA machine began. Institutions that participated were Iowa State College, State University Iowa, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Purdue and the Universities of Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Other institutions that participated in planning for the accelerator project were the Carnegie and Case Institutes of Technology, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Washington University at St. Louis. Professor Leo Casagrande of Harvard University, a foundation and soil expert, was retained as a consultant.
On September 23, 1954, the Midwestern Universities Research Association became a corporation under the laws of the State of Illinois. The original members were the Universities of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Purdue and Indiana, Iowa State College and State University of Iowa. The University of Wisconsin joined the organization shortly afterwards. The AEC was again approached at this time, but support was refused and another grant was made to MURA by the NSF. On December 17, the University of Chicago was invited to become an associate member of MURA, but declined the invitation on January 19, 1955 because of ties to ANL.
In 1955, a proposal for cooperative research in high energy physics was submitted to the AEC and was rejected because it did not include ANL, and the AEC did not want to put money into a second laboratory.
On July 1, 1955, a patent agreement was established between MURA and the Research Corporation, a nonprofit New York foundation which distributes its total net income as grants-in-aid of research to colleges universities and scientific institutions. Its purposes as set forth in its charter are: "To receive and acquire inventions and to render the same more available and effective in the useful arts, To provide means for the advancement of scientific investigation by contributing the net earnings of the corporation to scientific and educational institutions and To receive other moneys and property and to apply the same to the objects specified." (See Annual Report, 1954 for the Purposes of the Research Corporation, folder 27.)
Also during 1955, discussions were held regarding the establishment of the Enrico Fermi Memorial Laboratory of High Energy Physics in Chicago. MURA was approached to see if it would be interested. There is no indication in the papers that MURA ever became involved, however. (See "Reports and Proposals" for the report on the Laboratory, folder 251.)
On August 3, 1955, the AEC met with university presidents of member institutions and indicated support of the MURA study program for the coming year. However, on August 26, Commissioner Libby said no support would be given MURA when he met in Washington with Professor D.W. Kerst, Mr. H.O. Farber and Dr. P.G. Kruger all from the University of Illinois. The NSF and the Office of Naval Research were approached and grants were received from them.
Between October 1955, and January 1956, the following institutions were elected to membership in MURA: Ohio State University, October 1955; Michigan State University, November 1955; Notre Dame, December 1955; Northwestern, December 1955; Washington University at St. Louis, January 1956. In December 1955, the University of Chicago was again invited to membership, accepted and was elected in January 1956.
On November 8 and 13, 1955 meetings were held between the AEC and MURA, and as a result, a cooperative dual accelerator program was established. A long range "dream" machine program under the direction of MURA would be undertaken. It was estimated it would take seven years to complete at a cost of $100,000,000 and it would be "the finest in the world." A formal proposal was submitted to the AEC on April, 1956. A crash program at ANL was also to be established. The Commission would authorize construction of an accelerator in the range of 12 Billion Electron Volts (BeV) at Argonne to be completed as soon as possible. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was constructing a machine with energies higher than any U.S. machine of this period and it would be in operation before the large Brookhaven National Laboratory machine which was scheduled for completion in 1960. This program would prevent the USSR from achieving undisputed leadership in the field.
In February 1956, a contract between MURA and the AEC was established. On March 15, 1956, the contract was signed for $450,000 in support of work to be done by MURA from February 6, 1956-September 30, 1956. Theoretical work started at Madison, Wisconsin, in June, 1956 and on June 10, a contract was let to IBM for delivery of a model 704 IBM computer for the MURA laboratory in Madison. However, on June 13, a letter to Father Hesburgh (Notre Dame) from Lewis Strauss (AEC) suggesting an ANL-MURA merger repudiated all agreements reached the previous November. During this period, site proposals from eleven institutions had been submitted to MURA and three sites were chosen as the most favorable. They were located at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and at Purdue. In June, 1956, MURA transmitted to the AEC a "Report of Midwestern Universities Research Association Site Selection Committee" for its use in designating a site. Despite the November, 1955 agreement, the AEC added ANL as a fourth possible site.
In August, 1956 a meeting of MURA representatives and representatives of the University of Chicago and ANL took place. Chancellor Kimpton (University of Chicago) unsuccessfully suggested that a group of influential people from the Midwest representing science, education and industry be organized to take over the AEC contact for operation and management of ANL. Similar proposals were made by Father Hesburgh in June 1956 and would be made by Dr. Fred Seitz (University of Illinois) in early 1957, but were also rejected by the AEC. In October 1956, Dr. T. Johnson (AEC) and others met with MURA representatives. Dr. Johnson stated that: AEC wanted MURA to continue studying; the question of site would be postponed indefinitely; decision on the construction of a large machine would be postponed; no money for construction was being planned; AEC would consider construction of intermediate models at university and national laboratory sites. On November 30, 1956, in a letter to John Williams signed by Commissioner H.S. Vance, the following points were made: the AEC did not want to ask support from Congress for the MURA operation; the Argonne site was most favored by the Commission; MURA should associate itself organizationally with the management of ANL.
From 1955-1956 work was being done by several universities which included:
1) design and construction of radial sector FFAG accelerator by Illinois, Michigan, Purdue and Iowa. (This model was moved to Madison in October 1956 for tests and in order to continue studies on magnetic structures and orbit characteristics.)
2) design and partial construction of a separated FFAG accelerator to be used for further studies concerning high non-linear characteristics of the focusing forces and radio frequency accelerator systems at Illinois.
3) mechanically-modulated R-F cavity (to be moved to Madison for a study of R.F. accelerating systems) at Iowa State.
4) magnet models and measuring equipment at Purdue.
5) theoretical studies and computations using ILIAC and Wisconsin computer at Madison.
6) remodeling building and preparation for installation of IBM machine, October 19, 1956 and establishment of machine and electronic shops at Madison.
On May 23, 1957 a letter to John Williams to Lewis Strauss stated that the Commission would not establish another major laboratory in the Midwest, that MURA must eventually be integrated into the general program at ANL and that the site for the proposed accelerator would be decided by the Commission on the basis of which site would contribute most to maximum usefulness of the accelerator. He also repeated the Commission's desire to make ANL the instrument of cooperation between the universities in the Midwest and the AEC. The current position of the AEC was that the site would be at ANL. In response to Strauss's letter, MURA voted to continue scientific work at Madison. On July 11, 1957, MURA was granted tax exemption as a not-for-profit corporation.
By late 1957 the USSR had the world's highest energy accelerator (10 BeV) in operation. There was a general feeling among MURA people that the Russians were moving ahead of the United States with regard to nuclear research. That the AEC did not share this feeling is clear from a letter to Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman early in 1958. In it the AEC stated that in 1954 construction had started at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a 30 BeV accelerator which should be in operation in 1960 and would produce protons with energies three times as high as those of the largest known Russian machine.
On March 14, 1958 MURA prepared a proposal for a High Energy Research Facility and submitted it to the Atomic Energy Commission. Also in 1958, the design and construction of a new 40 million electron volt (MeV) two-way model was underway and theoretical studies and experiments with the two existing models continued. In 1959, the 40 MeV two-way electron model was completed and a proposal for a 15 BeV two-way electron model which was being considered in October, 1958 by the AEC, was withdrawn for further study because costs were too high. In 1960, progress was made in the design of a 15BeV high intensity proton accelerator and it was planned to submit a proposal to the AEC. Also it was decided to plan to operate the 40 MeV two-way model in the one-way mode.
In 1961, completion of the proposal for the high intensity proton accelerator was delayed because more tests were needed and there was a shortage of personnel arising from work done on the electron accelerator. Work was continued on a 50 MeV electron model and it was completed in August. MURA also planned to submit a proposal for a 10 BeV proton accelerator by the end of the year.On March 31, 1962, MURA submitted to the AEC a proposal for a 10 BeV particle accelerator which would utilize the FFAG principle. On December 15, 1962, MURA appeared before the Ramsey Panel (Ad Hoc Panel on High Energy Accelerator Physics of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC and the President's Science Advisory Committee) which recommended that the MURA accelerator proposal be submitted to Congress with an increase of accelerator energy from 10 to 12.5 BeV. The proposal was revised and resubmitted to AEC. (For further information see the 8th Annual Report to the Board of Directors for the Period October 1, 1962-September 30, 1963, attached to the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, October 28, 1963, folder 105.)
In 1963 construction of a 30-inch hydrogen bubble chamber was completed and the bubble chamber was moved to Argonne. In 1964, the 12.5 BeV accelerator proposal was rejected for reasons stated in a January 22 letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey. Programs for the year consisted of 1) Zero Gradient Sunchrotrom (ZGS), 2) improvement program for the ZGS, 3) construction of research equipment for ZGS, 4) operation of 50 MeV accelerator, 5) independent linac studies, 6) a design study for an ultra energy accelerator which was started as a result of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy hearings. Much of this work was done in collaboration with the Particle Accelerator Division (PAD) of Argonne National Laboratory.
Associated Midwest Universities was an inter-university corporation with headquarters at Argonne. In 1956, an ad-hoc committee was appointed by Chancellor Kimpton to discuss means of strengthening relationships between Argonne and the Midwest universities. It was chaired by Dr. John Rettaliata (Illinois Institute of Technology) and became known as the Rettaliata Committee. On February 8, 1957, the committee submitted a report to the Chancellor. As a result, the AMU was established in 1958 and was composed of 33 academic and research institutions. The purposes of AMU, as stated in the Articles of Incorporation were:
1)To Promote, encourage and conduct research and education in all branches of science, including but not limited to nuclear science in relation to all other fields of science.
2) To establish means for facilitating the use of the Argonne National Laboratory and other laboratories by duly qualified personnel and students from the several cooperating institutions and other research and educational institutions.
3) To establish, maintain and operate laboratories and other facilities as necessary for research and education.
In January, 1964, the AMU-Argonne, Chicago-MURA Ad-Hoc Committee was established with three representatives from MURA, two from Associated Midwest Universities (AMU), one from ANL and one from the University of Chicago. Professor John Williams from the University of Minnesota represented AMU and served as chairman of the committee which became known as the Williams Committee. The two responsibilities of the committee were the problem of increasing the capabilities of the ZGS at Argonne National Laboratory, and the long-range problem of assuring the growth and development of high energy physics in the Midwest. After a series of meetings the Ad-Hoc Committee submitted its final report on September 23, 1964. The recommendations called for a new organization and a tripartite agreement between the Midwestern universities, ANL and the University of Chicago. On October 21, 1964, the AEC announced the approval of the Tripartite Agreement and it became effective in 1966.
Also in 1964, as a result of the Williams Committee Report, a task force on relationships between AMU members and the new Corporation known as the Argonne Universities Association (AUA) recommended that AMU continue its programs and operate with the same relationships it then had to ANL and the AEC until it became clear how (AUA), would function, what its responsibilities would be, and how adequately it would represent all Midwestern universities, both AMU and non-AMU. (See Appendix C of the minutes of a special meeting of AMU Council, December 20, 1964, folder 219)
In 1965 the Argonne Universities Association was established as an association of 26 universities. They included Arizona, Chicago, Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Loyola, Marquette, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Purdue, St. Louis, Washington of St. Louis, Wayne State, Wisconsin, and the Carnegie, Case and Illinois Institutes of Technology.
During the period from 1964-1973, MURA was in the process of dissolution and liquidating assets. On June 19, 1973, the Articles of Dissolution of MURA were filed with the Secretary of State, State of Illinois.
Argonne Universities Association records
Alfred O.C. Nier papers
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.
Rough draft.
Includes rough drafts, and final agreement, University of Minnesota copy and correspondence.
Proposed with alternative provisions of Article III and V, section 2.
State of Illinois; No.3038.
Draft, final, signed approvals and correspondence.
Final draft with amendments of October 18, 1954 and October 17, 1955.
Draft with letter from W.T. Middlebrook to L.R. Lunden, March 7, 1956.
Proposed revisions.
Also included as Exhibit A of minutes of special meeting of the Board of Directors.
Also included as Exhibit C of minutes of special meeting of the Board of Directors,
As amended; appears only as Exhibit A of minutes of Board of Directors, April 12, 1960; see folder 148.
Two papers: one lists two-man depositing team, the other authorizes one man to handle corporation funds); appear also as Exhibits D and E of special meeting of Board of Directors.
As amended; with revisions on pages 10-12.
As amended.
As amended.
Proposed patent policy for MURA; correspondent regarding patent agreement with the Research Corp., and tax status of Research Corp.; Annual Report for the Research Corp. for the year 1954 is also included.
Annual Reports of Research Corporation to MURA are located in the Correspondence and General Files (Folders 228-232, 234-236).
regarding individual patent agreements with Research Corporation, especially Kerst and Symon.
regarding Kerst-Symon patent and possible use of patent by Sloan Kettering Institute.
Correspondence included.
regarding handling of patents upon dissolution of MURA, with relevant correspondence.
Includes correspondence.
re: MURA complies with Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code.
With Appendix A (draft).
With Appendix B, Supplement No.1, and Appendix C.
With Appendix B.
With Appendix "Advance Payments to the Contractor."
Appendix A "Reimbursement of Personnel Expenses in Connection with Midwestern Universities Research Association Contract..."
Appendix A "Personnel Policy."
Subcontract No. 384.
Supplement No. 2, draft and final with memorandum of understanding with respect to determination of allowance for indirect and management expenses; correspondence included.
Supplement No.3 with draft.
Supplement No.4.
Dane County, Wisconsin.
Appendix C.
Supplement No.5.
Supplement No.6.
Dane County, Wisconsin.
Dane County, Wisconsin.
Supplement No.7.
Supplement No.8.
Architects/Engineers for a new laboratory.
Supplement No.9.
Dane County, Wisconsin.
Letter regarding Supplement No.10.
Supplement No. 11.
Supplement No. 13
Supplement No. 14.
Supplement No. 15
Supplement No. 16
Supplement No. 17
Modification No.1, draft and final.
Modification 1-1.
Modification 1-2.
Modification 1-3 with correspondence.
Modification 1-4.
Modification 1-5.
Modification 1-6.
Modification 1-7.
Modification 1-8.
Modification 1-9
Modification 1-10.
Modification 1-11.
Modification 1-12.
Modification 1-13.
Modification 1-14.
Modification 1-15.
Between MURA and ANL with Appendices A, B, and C; correspondence included.
Supplement No.1.
Supplement No.2.
Supplement No.3.
Appendix A (revision).
Modification 1-16.
Supplement No.4.
Supplement No.5.
Supplement No.6.
Supplement No.7.
Summary of tentative audit findings.
Between Regents of the University of Wisconsin and MURA regarding sale of land.
Final Release of U.S. Government from responsibilities under the contract, and general assignment of refunds, etc. to the U.S. government.
Draft and final copies for Acting Director and Technical Director, and draft copy for Business Manager.
Includes minutes and correspondence.
Includes minutes and correspondence.
Includes minutes, handwritten notes, correspondence.
Includes minutes, handwritten notes, and correspondence
Includes minutes, correspondence
Includes minutes, correspondence
Includes minutes.
Includes minutes, proposed budgets, and correspondence
Includes minutes (also filed as Exhibit A of a report entitled, "Historical Sketch of MURA," February 14, 1957, in the section on "Reports and Proposals," folder 262).
Site report by E.A. Day; includes minutes of Annual Meeting of individual members.
Special report on MURA farm property.
B (proposal to purchase IBM 704); also includes agenda, minutes of Annual Meeting of individual members.
Includes agenda and handwritten notes of meeting.
Includes draft of minutes, correspondence.
Includes Minutes of special meeting of Executive Committee May 25, 1967; B, Treasurers Report, May 24, 1967; C, Treasurers Report, June 3, 1967; D, Treasurers Report, September 30, 1967; E, Draft No.1 to dissolve Corporation; F, Draft No.2 to dissolve Corporation.
Includes correspondence.
Working copy of minutes.
Exhibit B is a letter regarding agreement with ANL and the University of Chicago made at meeting on July 16, 1956; agenda.
Includes draft of report stating MURA's Objectives; agenda.
Exhibit B is a draft of letter to Herman Wells from Lawrence Kimpton regarding history of ANL, undated; agenda; handwritten notes, letter from L.R. Lunden to Lawrence Kimpton regarding meeting.
Also includes agenda and correspondence.
Includes agenda.
Includes agenda.
Includes agenda.
Exhibit B (notes on meeting of the Committee of Six representing Midwestern universities, November 25, 1955); C (proposed budget to AEC in support of MURA program for a high energy accelerator...).
Includes agenda.
Includes agenda.
Exhibit A (bylaws as adopted July 20, 1956); includes correspondence.
Includes correspondence.
Exhibit C (bylaws as amended December 11, 1956); D (consulting policy); F (Final Report to NSF); G (draft of retirement resolutions, and proposed amendments to the bylaws).
Includes correspondence.
Includes agenda and correspondence.
January 1, 1957-March 31, 1957; correspondence; meeting cancelled.
Includes report, agenda and correspondence.
Includes Quarterly Report April 1, 1957-June 30, 1957; correspondence, handwritten notes.
Exhibit A (draft of agenda for a meeting of MURA and AEC).
Includes correspondence.
Treasurers Report; draft of minutes; correspondence.
Includes agenda.
Exhibit C (budget presentation to AEC, July 1, 1960-June 30, 1961).
Exhibit D (White House Press Release).
Includes Quarterly Report, October 1, 1959-December 21, 1959; A (Treasurers Report); C (meeting of Joint GAC-PSAC Panel on High Energy Physics, January 1, 1960); D (High Energy Physics Meeting, November 30, 1959).
Exhibit A (amended bylaws, July 1960); includes handwritten notes, agenda and correspondence.
Exhibit B (preliminary design for a laboratory office building); agenda; meeting cancelled.
Exhibit C (patent information); agenda; correspondence.
Includes agenda and correspondence.
Includes agenda and correspondence.
Headings says annual meeting; handwritten minutes; draft; correspondence.
Treasurers Report; proposed changes in the bylaws; agenda; correspondence.
Includes agenda and correspondence.
Handwritten notes; agenda; correspondence.
Exhibit D (corporate resolutions designating depository, April 18, 1963 - see also "Legal Documents"); agenda; correspondence.
Includes drafts of minutes; correspondence
regarding special meeting of Board of Directors with proposal for the management and operation of the Argonne National Laboratory; proposed bylaws of the Argonne Corp., prepared February 26, 1964; meeting cancelled.
Includes draft; handwritten notes of minutes; correspondence.
Exhibit B: memorandum for U.S. President L.B. Johnson regarding discussions with Senator Humphrey on he MURA proposal; also includes Treasurers Report; handwritten notes; correspondence.
Includes draft of minutes; revisions; handwritten notes; correspondence.
A (letter regarding discussions with Argonne Laboratory Director on future of MURA); B (Treasurers Report, December 31, 1965); no minutes of meeting found.
Exhibit E (minutes of special meeting of the representatives of ANL, the University of Wisconsin, and the MURA Board, May 31, 1966); Exhibit F (minutes of special meeting between representatives of MURA and ANL, April 6, 1966); Exhibit G (minutes of special meeting of the Ad-hoc Liquidating Committee of members of the corporation and the Executive Committee of MURA, February 21, 1966).
regarding AEC support; with appendix and correspondence.
Minutes for August 3, November 8, 13, 25, and May 25 are also filed as exhibits to a report "Historical Sketch of MURA," February 14, 1957 in Reports and Proposals, folder 262.
Meeting with NSF and AEC.
regarding AEC support.
Representatives of AEC and MURA
Appear only as Exhibit B of minutes of (special?) meeting of Board of Directors, December 6, 1955; see folder 123.
regarding high energy accelerator.
regarding MURA and AMU merger.
Letter regarding ANL in correspondence file, April 20, 1964; see folder 234.
Notes and correspondence; regarding reaching agreement on certain audit exceptions.
Agenda; correspondence; proxies.
Agenda; correspondence; proxies.
Correspondence; proxies.
Correspondence; lists of members; proxies.
Exhibit A: "Remarks on the Progress of MURA during the Past Year," by H.R. Crane; also includes correspondence; lists of members; proxies.
Agenda; handwritten notes of minutes; correspondence; lists of members; proxies.
Exhibit A: general remarks for MURA meeting; also includes correspondence; lists of members; proxies.
Exhibit A: general remarks; also includes correspondence; draft of minutes; lists of members; proxies.
Meeting postponed until October 28.
Exhibit A: work of MURA during the past year; also includes handwritten notes; draft of minutes; correspondence.
Exhibit A: Final Report of the AMU-Argonne-Chicago-MURA Ad-hoc Committee-"William's Committee"; also includes draft of minutes; correspondence; proxies.
Handwritten notes of minutes; correspondence; proxies.
Agenda; correspondence; proxies.
Exhibit D: draft of resolutions of MURA; Exhibit E: draft No.2 of resolutions; also includes correspondence.
Includes correspondence.
Includes correspondence; proxies.
Includes correspondence; proxies.
Includes correspondence.
Includes draft; handwritten notes.
Includes rough draft; handwritten notes.
Incomplete.
Included as Exhibit G of minutes of Annual Meeting of Individual Members, October 18, 1971.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes correspondence.
Appendix C: Report of the Task Force on Relationships between AMU members and the proposed new corporation.
regarding MURA and atom smasher.
regarding Proposed Cosmotron project; memo regarding meeting of Midwest Cosmotron Committee, September 20, 1953; report by W.T. Middlebrook on meeting of the Engineering College Research Council Committee, November 17-18, 1953; letters from Midwestern universities approving the Cosmotron project, handwritten organizational chart.
regarding Cosmotron project, grants and funding, securing a contract with AEC for construction and operation of proposed Cosmotron, designation of members of Board of Directors and individual members, site selection, relations with ANL, University of Chicago.
regarding University of Chicago becoming a member of MURA; negotiations with AEC and NSF regarding building accelerator and laboratory; meeting of National Association of State Universities in New York, May 2, 1955; site; budget; funding; admission of Notre Dame, Northwestern and Washington Universities to MURA; proposed revisions of bylaws.
regarding University of Chicago's membership in MURA, negotiations with AEC, appointments and salaries of MURA staff, application of University of Kansas for MURA membership, funding and budget.
Includes salaries; AEC negotiations and relationships; possible close-out of MURA operations; morale problem among MURA scientists; resignation of P. Gerald Kruger as Acting Director of MURA; report by A.O.C. Nier on meeting of Council of Participating Institutions of ANL, October 15, 1957; universities in favor of AMU organization; relations with Argonne; funding and budget; letter from Orville Freeman to President Eisenhower regarding MURA, December 18, 1957.
Relations with AEC, resignation of John Williams from MURA Board of Directors.
Emphasis on proposed accelerator, appointment of director.
Personnel, budget IBM equipment, proposed accelerator, MURA employee handbook.
Proposal for 10 BeV high intensity accelerator, proposal for MURA laboratory and office building at Madison, IBM equipment, salaries.
Negotiations with AEC regarding accelerator proposal; budget and funding; relationships with Argonne and University of Chicago; copy of Williams Committee Report (Final Report of the AMU-Argonne-Chicago-MURA-Ad-hoc Committee) with surrounding correspondence; relations with ANL and University of Chicago; political pressures.
Relations with Argonne, AEC, and University of Chicago; dissolution of MURA; resignation of Marshall Keith as Associate Director of MURA; formation of Argonne Universities Association.
Patents; value of MURA property; relationships between MURA; University of Wisconsin and Argonne.
regarding Dissolution of MURA.
Includes MURA's problems with IRS regarding 1969 Tax Reform Act.
Dissolution of MURA.
Papers to be deposited with University of Minnesota Archives.
2 volumes
2 volumes
MURA Project for the USAEC; at Argonne, Minnesota, Purdue, and Wisconsin.