Guide to the Ernest J. Sternglass Papers,
[ca. 1952-2008]

Collection Number: 6842

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
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Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
October 2009
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, October 2009

© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ernest J. Sternglass papers, [ca. 1952-2008]
Collection Number:
6842
Creator:
Ernest J. Sternglass
Quantity:
80 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Newspapers, Printed Materials, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Notebooks, correspondence, clippings, and subject files relating to Sternglass's interests..
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Physicist.
Ernest Joachim Sternglass (born 1923) came to the United States in 1938. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell in 1944 and and M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied & Engineering Physics in 1951 and 1953. From 1952 to 1967, he worked at the Westinghouse Research Laboratory on nuclear instrumentation, especially fluoroscopy, and he headed the Lunar Station program there. Beginning in the early 1960s he became interested in the health risks of low-level radiation from nuclear testing and nuclear power plants. He was the co-founder and director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and has also written on cosmology.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Notebooks, correspondence, clippings, and subject files relating to Sternglass's interests, especially the health effects of low-level radiation, cosmology, and the history of science. Includes files about the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Sternglass, Ernest J.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
University of Pittsburgh--Faculty.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation.Research Laboratories.

Subjects:
Low-level radiation--Health aspects--United States.
Radioactive pollution--Toxicology.
Radiation--Toxicology.
Radiation--Physiological effect.
Environmental health.
Health risk assessment.
Nuclear power plants--Accidents.
Cosmology.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ernest J. Sternglass papers, #6842. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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