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James Phinney Baxter III

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James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine – June 17, 1975 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time (1946). [1]

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Atomic Energy Commission's Historical Advisory Committee

The Atomic Energy Commission's Historical Advisory Committee was established in February 1958, when the United States Atomic Energy Commission was a decade old and continued until 1974 when the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and later the United States Department of Energy replaced the Commission.

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Baxter (name)

Baxter is an Anglo-Saxon and Scottish name, originally from the English occupational surname meaning "baker," from the early Middle English bakstere and the Old English bæcere. The form Bakster was originally feminine, with Baker as the masculine equivalent, but over time both names came to apply to both men and women.

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Cavity magnetron

The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field while moving past a series of open metal cavities (cavity resonators).

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Charles Wilbert Snow

Charles Wilbert "Bill" Snow (April 6, 1884 – September 28, 1977) was an American poet, educator and politician.

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Committee on the Present Danger

The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is an American foreign policy interest group.

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Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee

The Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee was established in January 1947 within the United States Army.

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James Baxter

James Baxter may refer to.

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James Phinney Baxter

James Phinney Baxter (March 23, 1831 in Gorham, Maine – May 8, 1921 in Portland, Maine) was an American businessman, historian, civic leader, and benefactor of Portland, Maine.

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John Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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John Edward Sawyer

John Edward Sawyer (1917 – 1995) was a prominent academic and philanthropic administrator.

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June 17

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List of Harvard University people

The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University.

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List of Kappa Alpha Society members

This is a list of Kappa Alpha Society members.

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List of Williams College people

This list reflects alumni of Williams College.

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List of Williams College presidents

Williams College is an American private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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Portland High School (Maine)

Portland High School is a public high school established in 1821 in Portland, Maine (Cumberland County), which educates grades 9–12.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Radar in World War II

Radar in World War II greatly influenced many important aspects of the conflict.

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Samuel Flagg Bemis

Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 – September 26, 1973) was an American historian and biographer.

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Scientists Against Time

Scientists Against Time is a book by James Phinney Baxter III published in 1946 by Little, Brown and Company which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History

The Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History was formally established in 1956 and is the second oldest of the historical advisory committee's within the Department of Defense.

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USS Monitor

USS Monitor was an iron-hulled steamship.

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Phinney_Baxter_III

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