The Lloyd Robert Zumwalt Papers consist of reports and papers authored and coauthored by Zumwalt while he was with the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation and was a professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University, 1960-1975; materials related to his participation in a Sierra Club conference, 1972, and a university workshop, 1978; and student papers and course materials from classes in nuclear engineering he taught at N.C. State, 1968-1975.
Lloyd Robert Zumwalt (1914-1998) was a nuclear chemist from Richmond, California, who worked for the Manhattan Project during World War II. After working for General Atomic in the 1960s, he was a professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University from 1967 to 1980.
Lloyd Robert Zumwalt was born on 1914 September 4. A native of Richmond, California, he received a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He was called up by the United States Army Reserves in 1942, and soon began working for the Manhattan Project, the United States Army Corps of Engineers program to develop the nation's first atomic bomb. During his three years with the program Zumwalt was involved in the production of enriched uranium, first at Berkeley, then beginning in 1943 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
After World War II, Zumwalt was involved in the project analyzing atmospheric radioactivity that enabled the United States to detect the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949. He worked during the 1960s for the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation (later Gulf General Atomic, then General Atomics) in San Diego, California. In 1967 Zumwalt accepted a position as a full professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University. An advocate of nuclear power, he retired as professor emeritus in 1980. Zumwalt died on 1998 August 27.
The Lloyd Robert Zumwalt Papers consist of reports and papers authored and coauthored by Zumwalt while he was with the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation and was a professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University, 1960-1975; materials related to his participation in a Sierra Club conference, 1972, and a university workshop, 1978; and student papers and course materials from classes in nuclear engineering he taught at N.C. State, 1968-1975.
This collection is divided into three series: Professional Writings, Speaking and Lecture Materials, and Course Materials and Student Papers.
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[Identification of item], Lloyd Robert Zumwalt Papers, MC 00136, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transfer from North Carolina State University Department of Nuclear Engineering, 1980 October 20 (Accession no. 1980-0022).
Processed by Will Andersen, 2006 September
Encoded by Will Andersen, 2006 September
The collection is organized into three principal series:
This series consists of reports and papers authored and coauthored by Zumwalt while he worked at General Atomic and was a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at N.C. State University.
2 folders
This series consists of materials relating to Zumwalt's appearance as a speaker at a Sierra Club conference on the hazards of nuclear power in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1972, and materials he used in preparation for a lecture on the use and availability of fossil fuels at a workshop at N.C. State University, 1978. The documents pertaining to the Sierra Club conference were originally contained in a binder labeled Nuclear Power and the Environment, 1972, while those used for the university workshop were in a binder labeled 1978 Summer Workshop: Utilization of Existing Energy Teaching Materials.
4 folders
This series contains student papers from courses Zumwalt taught in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at N.C. State University, 1971-1975; the first paper, HTGR Design Concepts, was originally contained in a single report binder. Also included are a course outline, term paper assignments, student class notes, and a copy of the final exam for a course Zumwalt taught at the university, 1968-1969.
7 folders
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[Identification of item], Lloyd Robert Zumwalt Papers, MC 00136, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.