38. George Price letter to Fred, August 19, 1946, GPP.
39. George Price letter to Dr. Erwin Haas, August 17, 1946, GPP; George Price
letter to Fred, August 19, 1946, GPP; Robert M. Hutchins, “The State of the
University, September 25, 1945,” 28, and “November 25, 1946,” 18, UCA.
40. Interview, Kathleen Price, April 13, 2008; Directory of University Officers
and Students, November 25, 1946, 118, and June 1947, 138, HUA.
41. Communication from Professor Gilbert Stork, January 11, 2008;
communication from Professor Leonard K. Nash, May 5, 2008.
42. Lloyd Shapley letter to George Price, February 3, 1947, GPP; Lloyd A. Wood
letter to George Price, October 24, 1947, GPP; “Chess Club Takes Lead in
Crucial Match,” Harvard Crimson, March 1, 1947.
43. Archival materials and historical sources are on the official Argonne National
Laboratory Web site, www.anl.gov.
44. Claude E. Shannon, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” Bell
System Technical Journal 27 (July 1948), 379–423 (October 1948), 623–66.
45. University of Minnesota, Office of the President, “Request for Information,”
May 9, 1950, University of Minnesota Archives (UMA).
46. John W. Rae and John W. Rae, Jr., Morristown’s Forgotten Past: “The Gilded
Age” (Morristown, NJ: John W. Rae, 1980).
47. George Price, “Transistor Work Already Started That Would Be Simple and
Valuable to Finish,” draft, June 27, 1949, GPP.
48. Interviews with Annamarie Price, April 15 and 17, 2008.
49. George Price letter to Al Somit, February 1, 1953, GPP.
50. Stanford Lehmberg and Ann M. Pflaum, The University of Minnesota
1945–2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 51–53; Jay
Edgerton, “U. of M. Medical College Had Become One of the World’s Greatest,”
Minneapolis Star, January 28, 1955.
51. “Conference Agenda,” box 4; “Memo,” box 10, Samuel Schwartz Papers
(SSP). The eventual paper was titled, “Some Relationships of Porphyrins,
Tumors, and Ionizing Radiations,” University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin 27
(1955), 7–13.
52. Box 10, SSP.
53. Samuel Schwartz letter to Dr. Avram Goldstein, January 25, 1978, box 33,
SSP.
54. Box 1, SSP, undated.
55. George Price letter to Bob and Marjorie Sheffield, December 3, 1953, GPP.