Anton Carlson

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Prof. Anton J. Carlson

American Association of Scientific Workers

American Association of Scientific Workers was founded in 1938 and was affiliated to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

AASW sponsors and founders included;[1]

Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace

Anton Carlson was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[2]

References

  1. Crucibles: the story of chemistry from ancient alchemy to nuclear fission, By Bernard Jaffe, page 312
  2. Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949
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