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This collection covers information about the cyclotron built on the Danforth Campus in 1940 and subsequent redesigns of the cyclotron. It also includes information on the preliminary work towards the Positron Emission Transaxial Tomography Scanners (commonly abbreviated PET) at the School of Medicine. The collection does not include specific information about the cyclotrons at the School of Medicine.

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The Arthur Hughes Papers consists of correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings and announcements, and cassette tapes.

Scope and Contents The Edwin T. Jaynes Papers mostly contain material from Jaynes’ time as a professor at Washington University, his research, and material from his research at other institutions. It also contains physics papers written by other authors, correspondence, and personal material.The collection consists of correspondence, class notes, books, course material, class handouts, lecture notes, meeting minutes, research notes and notebooks, book drafts, publications by Jaynes and others,...