Brookhaven National Laboratory

This collection largely consists of material from Gerhart Friedlanders' academic career at University of California, Berkeley, as well as materials about the Friedlander family villa in Munich. Regarding Gerhart Friedlander's academic career, there is a translation of a letter from Rudi Peierls advising Gerhart Friedlander about paths of scientific study given the world situation in 1935; there are letters from the Hillel Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley granting Mr. Friedlander a study opportunity; membership certificates from math and science societies Pi M Epsilon and Sigma Xi; plans and photographs of Friedlander villa; photographs of Max Friedlander and family (circa 1925-1995). Accompanying these folder-size materials are oversized matted photographs (17cm x 11cm) showing the furnished interior of the Friedlander villa circa 1920s.

The Gertrude S. Goldhaber Collection, which forms part of the larger Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber Collection, consists of mainly professional papers of nuclear physicist Dr. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber. The collection is comprised of professional correspondence, research files, materials related to conferences and lectures, clippings and article reprints, research notes, transparencies, photographs, glass slides, manuscripts and publications, and materials related to various organizations with which Dr. Goldhaber was involved. There are also some personal documents, including correspondence, calendars and diaries, and educational records.