Kate and Herman Hoerlin collection 1932-1983; 2003-2013 Bulk dates: 1934-1955

The bulk of the Kate and Herman Hoerlin Collection consists of the personal correspondence between Kate Tietz Schmid (later Hoerlin) and Herman Hoerlin in prewar Germany, 1934-1938. In addition are documents pertaining to Kate Schmid's insistence of reparations from the Third Reich for the wrongful murder of her first husband Willi Schmid and to the complexities of Kate Hoerlin's classification as a Mischling under the Nuremberg Laws, including how this factored into Kate and Hermann Hoerlin's efforts to wed when a Jewish/ Aryan marriage was forbidden. Other professional and official documents are included.Käte (also Kaethe) Tietz was born Jewish and converted to Catholicism when marrying the music critic Willi Schmid (Wilhelm Eduard Schmid) in 1921. The couple had three children, Duscha, Hedwig and Thomas. In 1934 Willi Schmid was murdered by Nazis during the Night of the Long Knives ("Röhm Putsch") in a case of mistaken identity. Prior to his death Willi Schmid had been working, along with his wife, as press liaison for the ill-fated 1934 German Nanga Parbat Expedition; following his death Käte Schmid had sole responsibility for this role. It led to her coming into contact with and becoming close to the world-record holding mountaineer and physicist Hermann Hoerlin.Over the next four years Käte Schmid advocated for reparations for the death of her first husband and was supported in this process by Fritz Wiedemann, first adjutant of Adolf Hitler. Later, she and Hermann Hoerlin used such connections to receive permission to marry in Germany – as a "Mischling" under the Nuremberg Laws, a marriage with the "Aryan" Hoerlin was rarely allowed, especially by the time they married in Berlin on July 12, 1938. On August 9, 1938 they left Germany on the S.S. Columbus for the United States, where Hermann Hoerlin had secured a position in Binghamton, New York with the firm Agfa Ansco, an American subsidiary of I.G. Farben. The following year they had a daughter, Bettina. During World War II Hermann Hoerlin aided the war effort by providing the U.S. Army with his mountaineering maps of the Alps, including the Berechtesgarden area. In 1944 the Hoerlins became American citizens, and altered the spelling of their first names.In 1953 Herman Hoerlin accepted a position as a group leader at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. His research focused on the environmental effects and detection of high altitude nuclear testing. In 1963 he testified before the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy on his research. They later moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Herman Hoerlin died in 1983; Kate Hoerlin in 1985..Detailed box inventory by Bettina HoerlinProcesseddigitize

The pope of physics: Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age

Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions. This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics. Fleeing Fascism and anti-Semitism, Fermi became a leading figure in America's most secret project: building the atomic bomb. The last physicist who mastered all branches of the discipline, Fermi was a rare mixture of theorist and experimentalist. His rich legacy encompasses key advances in fields as diverse as comic rays, nuclear technology, and early computers. In their revealing book, The Pope of Physics, Gino Segré and Bettina Hoerlin bring this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi’s life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century, this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves

Development of a wavelength-independent radiation monitoring film, final report /

At head of title: Argonne National Laboratory."August 1, 1953."Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68) and summary.Work conducted by ANSCO, a Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation, Binghamton, New York with the Argonne National Laboratory, underMode of access: Internet