Correspondence, documents, notes. Includes materials on a trip by an American delegation to the USSR under the McCone-Emelyanov Agreement,, 1960 - 1960

The collection consist of Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conferences (1947-49) and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conferences on High-Energy Physics (1950-57), which he founded. After 1957 the conferences were held under the sponsorship of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and Marshak's files from the conferences from 1958 to 1970 are also included. The collection also includes correspondence files on IUPAP (1953-73) and on the Commission on High Energy Physics (1958-63); photographs (1950-70); and a photocopy of an oral history interview done by Charles Weiner (1970).

The papers also includes correspondence, notes, reports, files, speech texts, newsclippings, autographs, photographs, transcripts, and other personalia donated in 1994. Topics include the national and international development of high-energy physics, meetings and symposia, and scientific committees; awards and prizes, administration and education, science in the Eastern Bloc and Third World, and the scientist as social activist or citizen-scientist.

Please note: The 1994 donation (materials in boxes other than Box 1-Box 5) is unprocessed. The "Contents List" below contains information from a paper inventory created in 1994, beginning with "Box A1." This is a working inventory and may not reflect all the contents of a particular box or folder. Materials were collection from multiple locations and are in their original order.