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Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-. Oral history interview with Paul E. Klopsteg, 1970 March 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Paul E. Klopsteg, 1970 March 31.

Role in establishment of American Institute of Physics (AIP) in 1931; relation between American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and American Physical Society (APS); views of Floyd Richtmyer and Karl K. Darrow. Physics in the 1930s, effects of the Depression. The Oersted Medal, 1934. Secondary school teachers and AAPT; fear within AIP of industrial domination. World's Fair of 1933. Robert W. Wood, chairman of governing board of the AIP, 1941-1948. War work: chief of Physics Special Devices Div. of National Defense Research Council (NDRC). War's effect on status of teachers. Postwar planning in physics; National Science Foundation, AEC, Bush Report. Chairman of Board at Argonne National Laboratories (ANL); structure of ANL. AIP-AAPT and large-scale fellowship support. Also prominently mentioned are: Henry Askew Barton, W. W. Buffum, Winston Churchill, Karl Taylor Compton, Morris Leeds, Alfred Loomis, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Robert Williams Wood; American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bausch and Lomb Co., Central Scientific Company, Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934), Commission on College Teaching, National Research Council (U.S.), Optical Society of America, Research and Technological Institute, Review of Scientific Instruments, Scientific Apparatus Makers of America, United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Congress, United States Congress Dadario Committee, United States Congress House Sub-Committee on Appropriations, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, United States Office of Scientific Research and Development National Defense Research Committee, and University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 43 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445932 View

Crew, Henry, 1859-1953. Papers [microform], 1833-1967, (bulk 1880-1940)

Title: Papers [microform], 1833-1967, (bulk 1880-1940)

Collection is primarily professional correspondence (1880s-1930s) between Crew and physicists, astronomers, and other colleagues documenting his work as a professor and scientist. The largest portion of the correspondence reflects his professional social obligations: letters of introduction, invitations to conferences, notes of recognition and thanks for the same. There is also much correspondence on the current state of a particular scientific inquiry with discussions of experiments in solar research and instrumentation, collaborative work in publishing texts and sharing materials, and opinions solicited and given on candidates for various academic and administrative posts. Also contains some family correspondence mainly between Crew and his sister Caroline, and Crew and his son William Henry, on a wide range of domestic and family matters; and a small amount of clippings and printed matter. Correspondents include Joseph Sweetman Ames, John Alfred Brashear, George Ellery Hale, Albert Abraham Michelson, Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry A. Rowland, Ernest Rutherford, Arthur Gordon Webster, and Robert William Wood.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84584808 View

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand),. Papers, 1914-1977.

Title: Papers, 1914-1977.

Correspondence and manuscripts. Mostly incoming letters from colleagues on scientific and professional matters; also a few letters from Herzfeld concerning his publications. Manuscripts (ca. 1974) are of scientific papers including drafts of an unpublished report, "Questions in Statistical Mechanics: Some Reactionary Viewpoints." Also contains a few reprints by others. Correspondents include Arnold Eucken, Paul Ewald, Maria Mayer, Max Planck, Michael Polanyi, Frank Rice, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Hugh Taylor, Harold Urey, Max von Laue, John Wheeler, Eugene Wigner, and Robert Wood.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

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Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955. Papers, 1838-1942.

Title: Papers, 1838-1942.

Clippings; incoming letters; family correspondence; manuscripts. Clippings (1887-1900, 1939-1942), some of which were written by Wood, describe Wood's experimental work, particularly in optics, and offer overviews of Wood's life and career. Incoming letters (1901-1906) are all professional and are concerned primarily with Wood's experiments on sodium. Included is a 1931 letter from Max Planck (letter in German, an English translation is also available) in which Planck describes the psychological side of the thought process which led him to the formulation of the hypothesis of energy quanta. Family correspondence (1838-1884) consists of the correspondence of Wood's parents and pertains to the birth and early education of Wood. Manuscripts are by and about Wood and focus on his work in optics. Correspondents include: Charles Vernon Boys, Pierre Curie, Heinrich Kayser, Lord William Thomson Kelvin, Heinrich Konen, Ladislaus Natanson, Wilhelm Ostwald, Max Planck, and Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Wiegand, Henry Hazlehurst, 1858-1943. Henry Hazlehurst Wiegand papers, 1876-1906.

Title: Henry Hazlehurst Wiegand papers, 1876-1906.

Student and laboratory notebooks of electrical engineer Henry Hazlehurst Wiegand.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft. (1 document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48369123 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

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Adel, Arthur, 1908-1994. Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Title: Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Letter to Spencer Weart, director of AIP Center for History of Physics, which includes brief reminiscences of Adel's early years at the University of Michigan with George Uhlenbeck; at Lowell Observatory with Gordon B. B. M. Sutherland; at Arizona State College as the--entire physics department; and a post-doctoral year at Johns Hopkins University with A. Herman Pfund and Robert W. Wood.

ArchivalResource: 3 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80225715 View

Pyler, Earle Keith, 1897-1976. Intellectual autobiography, 1962.

Title: Intellectual autobiography, 1962.

Plyler discusses his early influences and education, his undergraduate years and Master's work at Furman University, where he was later an assistant professor; his Ph. D. studies at Johns Hopkins University under Robert W. Wood and A. Herman Pfund; completion of his studies at Cornell University on fellowship under Carleton C. Murdock, Ernest G. Merritt, and Edward L. Nichols; his work in infrared absorption; his teaching position at the University of North Carolina; summer courses at the University of Michigan with Edward Condon, Arnold Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, David Dennison, and George Uhlenbeck; the growth of the physics department at North Carolina with the arrival of Arthur E. Ruark, James B. Fisk, and John Wheeler; sabbatical work on infrared measurements at the University of Michigan and Ohio State University; and his move to the National Bureau of Standards in 1945. Plyler also discusses his approach to research and details of his contributions in infrared spectroscopy, spectroscopy, and refraction.

ArchivalResource: 15 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79894796 View

Hall, J. L. (John L.), 1934-. Oral history interview with John L. Hall, 1979 February 21.

Title: Oral history interview with John L. Hall, 1979 February 21.

Early interest in astronomy; comments about family background and early childhood, schooling in Connecticut and college training at University of Amherst and Yale University. Early contacts and interests in photoelectric photometry, his pioneering efforts in red sensitive cell photometry, work at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT during World War II, postwar research at the Naval Observatory and his co-discovery of interstellar polarization. Also prominently mentioned are: Solon Bailey, A. L. Bennett, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Thomas Cochran, Robert H. Dicke, Harold Ewen, Fresnell, Green, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Ejnar Hertzsprung, W. A. Hiltner, Gerald Edward Kron, J. A. Miller, Prescott, Jan Schildt, Frank Schlesinger, Harlow Shapley, Theodore Stoller, Otto Struve, David Todd, Robert Williams Wood; Amherst College Observatory, General Electric Co., Harvard University, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Science (journal), Sproul Observatory, United States Navy, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 29 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83095354 View

Franck, James, 1882-1964. Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.

Title: Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.

This joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Mrs. Bauer, Richard Becker, Raymond Thayer Birge, Max Bodenstein, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Ode Clausius, Edward Condon, Dirk Coster, Richard Courant, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Peter Josef William Debye, Paul Drude, Dymond, Tatiana Ehrenfest, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter M. Elsasser, Paul Sophus Epstein, Enrico Fermi, Emil Fischer, Franck James, Walther Gerlach, Ladislas Goldstein, Fritz Haber, George Ellery Hale, Wilhelm Hanle, Werner Heisenberg, Herneck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, David Hilbert, Johan Holtsmark, Hueckel, Christopher Ingold, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Martin Kamen, Felix Klein, Kunsman, Ferdinand Kurlbaum, Irving Langmuir, Max. Theodor Felix von Laue, Philipp Lenard, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Frederick Lindemann, James Clerk Maxwell, Joseph Mayer, Lise Meitner, Robert Andrews Millikan, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Walther Nernst, Mrs. Nordheim, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Friedrich Paschen, Linus Pauling, Max Planck, Robert Wichard Pohl, Georg Quincke, Fritz Reiche, Heinrich Rubens, Carl Runge, H. Seeliger, Emilio Gino Segrè, Arnold Sommerfeld, Johannes Stark, Otto Stern, John T. Tate, Edward Teller, Woldemar Voigt, Otto Warburg, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Wilhelm Westphal, Wilhelm Wien, Windaus, Robert Williams Wood; Berlin Colloquium in Physics, Berliner Physikalische Gesellschaft, Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin), University of California at Berkeley, Universität Berlin, Universität Giessen, Universität Göttingen, and Universität Heidelberg.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 115 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79752451 View

Foster Gunnison, Jr. Papers., undated, 1945-1994.

Title: Foster Gunnison, Jr. Papers. undated, 1945-1994.

From 1963 to 1975, Foster Gunnison, Jr. collected the records of the Eastern Conference of Homophile Organizations (ECHO), an early coalition of organizations seeking the creation of a national homophile organization, and the records of gay and lesbian organizations throughout the United States. He founded his own organization, the Institute for Social Ethics (ISE), "a libertarian-oriented research facility and think tank for controversial social issues", in the early 1960's. In 1967 Gunnison authored, and the ISE published, the pamphlet which outlined the history, aims and objectives of the movement and profiles of organizations active in the movement. The publication was subsequently presented to the Committee on Religion and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association. The Foster Gunnison Papers are comprised of personal correspondence, organizational records, conference proceedings, student organization records, serial publications and periodicals, posters and fliers, buttons, newspaper clippings, and photographs. An Introduction to the Homophile Movement

ArchivalResource: 55 Linear Feet

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Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk), 1898-1950

Title: Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk) 1898-1950

Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 300.0 Microfilm reel(s), 12,500 items on 300 microfilm reels; 107 recordings

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Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955. [Miscellaneous pamphlets].

Title: [Miscellaneous pamphlets].

ArchivalResource: v. 26 cm.

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Vinal, George Wood, 1882-1969. Oral history interview George Wood Vinal, 1964 March 20.

Title: Oral history interview George Wood Vinal, 1964 March 20.

Deals mainly with Vinal's 43 years at National Bureau of Standards and his work on battery devices and their standards. Summer assistant to Edward B. Rose in at National Bureau of Standards (NBL), 1904; work with EMF of the Weston cell; Johns Hopkins Graduate School, 1906; work with J.F. Ames, Robert Wood; work on arc discharge between metallic electrodes. Return to Bureau in 1908; first work on silver voltmeter; 1910 conference on international electrical standards in Washington; work during World War I on anti-submarine warfare devices, development of dry cell; 1917 work on storage and perchloric acid batteries; trip to Europe to compare EMF standards, 1930; Dry Battery Research Committee activities under Hyman G. Rickover during World War II; comments on Rosa, early voltmeter work of P.W. Richards, E.N. Darcy, F.A. Wolfe and S.W. Stranton.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84586584 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, T-Z, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, T-Z, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80362516 View

Baum, William Alvin, 1924-. Oral History interview with William A. Baum, 1983.

Title: Oral History interview with William A. Baum, 1983.

This interview surveys Baum's career as a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and astronomer at Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories. After sketching Baum's early life, the discussion concentrates on Baum's role in the development of spectroscopy research at NRL, specifically his work on the UV spectrum of the sun - including the first successful UV spectra of the sun. Aspects of his experience in experimentation with V-2s and Aerobees, and his thesis research on rockets at CALTECH (PhD, 1950, physics) are also explored. Additional topics discussed include: Optics Division, NRL; White Sands Proving Ground (NM); relationships with, and costs and descriptions of Baird Atomic; V-2 missile experiments, development and launch; meetings with Werner Von Braun; and contacts with R.W. Wood, J. Strong, Lyman, Stockbarger, and Tousey.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 26 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305455 View

Wilson, Lucy, 1888-. Oral history interview with Lucy Wilson, 1978 October 4 and December 6.

Title: Oral history interview with Lucy Wilson, 1978 October 4 and December 6.

Family background, growing up in Indiana with her widowed mother and maternal grandparents; social and educational experiences in high school, college at Wellesley, diverse studies, teaching experiences at Mount Holyoke College; graduate study at Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. 1917; work with Robert W. Wood, other faculty; career as professor of physics and Dean of students at Wellesley College, 1917-1954; studies at University of Manchester with William Bragg, 1924; comments on women physicists and on their status in general. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph Ames, Mabel Chase, Dorothy Heyworth, Elizabeth Laird, and Louise McDowell.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 16 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82558836 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995. Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.

Title: Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.

Youth and family origins; student days at Amherst College, 1924-1928, and at Ann Arbor 1928-1931. Contact with European physicists and rising Nazism, 1932-1933; the physics departments at Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University in the 1930s, and Johns Hopkins University in the 1940s; atomic spectroscopy, ferromagnetism, uses of the vector model, shift from atomic to nuclear spectroscopy, the Thomas precession and spin-orbit coupling in nuclei, shell and droplet models for nuclei, intermediate coupling model for light nuclei, the earth's magnetic field, wind-dynamos and nuclear reactors; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory during World War II, Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s; expression of social concern, especially in relation to the nuclear arms race, in the 1950s through the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the political victimization of Donald Flanders, the Federation of American Scientists, congressional testimony concerning Lewis Strauss' (nominee for Sec. of Commerce) experiences at Pugwash Conferences, obstacles to slowing or reversing the arms race. Also prominently mentioned are: A.P. Alexandrov, Clinton Anderson, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Isiah Bowman, Gregory Breit, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, Walter Francis Colby, Edward Uhler Condon, Sydney Michael Dancoff, Paul Ehrenfest, Elmer Eisner, Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Wendell Furry, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit. Stanley Hanna, Werner Heisenberg, Walter Heitler, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Alger Hiss, Edith Hoyle, John Charles Hubbard, Alfred Landé, Otto Laporte, Joseph McCarthy, Gale McGee, Arnold Nordsieck, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Ernest Poole, Leonard Schiff, Hugh Scott, Alpheus Wilson Smith, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Edward Teller, Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, John Osgood Thomson, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, John Archibald Wheeler, Norbert Wiener, Samuel Robinson Williams, Robert Williams Wood, Lloyd Young; Bayrische Wahl, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Saturday Review, United States Army Signal Corps, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Congress, Universität Leipzig, Universität Zurich, University of Chicago, University of Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics, and Zeitschrift für Physik.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 82 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84075262 View

Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-. Biographical material, 1963.

Title: Biographical material, 1963.

The bulk of the file is Ruark's "Recollections Bearing on the Development of Physics, 1920-1926," which discusses his early life and education; his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University (which occured via his enlistment in the army during World War I) where he worked with Lorain Sherman Hulburt, Herman I. Tomsen, Abraham Cohen, Frederick Musselman and Francis D. Murnaghan in mathematics, and Joseph S. Ames, A. Herman Pfund, and Robert W. Wood in physics; and his work with the Bureau of Standards in spectroscopy under Paul Foote and Fred L. Mohler. He also discusses the general atmosphere and conditions of physics research in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in Washington D.C. and Baltimore; the Naval Research Laboratory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and the beginnings of "real physics" in America; work at Yale University, Gulf Laboratory in Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of North Carolina; the founding of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society; and his work in Alabama, at Oak Ridge, and in Washington. The file also contains a collection of various materials including a crriculum vitae and a list of publications; explanatory remarks on the publications; and a carbon typescript copy of a Johns Hopkins newsletter profile.

ArchivalResource: 20 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78729283 View

Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-. Oral history interview with Betty Charity McCloskey Compton, 1968 April 11 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Betty Charity McCloskey Compton, 1968 April 11 and 14.

Early life on Ohio farm; College of Wooster; Arthur Holly Compton, his family, his academic and extracurricular interests. Princeton years, 1913-1916; associations and fellowships; marriage, 1916; experimentation at Westinghouse Lamp Co., 1917-1919; work on "large electron" leading to National Research Fellowship at Cavendish Laboratory, 1919-1920; association with Ernest Rutherford and J. J. Thompson, living arrangements, weekly colloquia; recollections of Albert Einstein. Chairman of Department of Physics at Washington University, 1920-1923; bringing in new faculty; freedom of research. Guggenheim Fellowship at Punjab University, 1926-1927; organizing Kashmir expedition, observational work and other expedition details. Reaction to A. H. Compton's Nobel Prize award, 1927; trip to Sweden and Nobel address. Recollections of Solvay and Volta Conferences; association with James Franck, Niels Bohr, and Marie Curie; development of A. H. Compton's cosmic ray interest, world cosmic ray expeditions, 1931-1934; anecdotes and places visited; Compton-Robert A. Millikan controversy; comments on Century of Progress Exposition, 1933; memories of stay at University of Oxford on A. H. Compton's Eastman professorship, 1934-1935; associates at Oxford; recollection of European colleagues Aston, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, and Karl Sommerfeld. About A. H. Compton: chairman of Physics Department at University of Chicago, 1940-1945; earlier contacts with Chicago; relation to Michelson; widening of philosophical interests; long-term consultant to General Electric Co., 1926-1945; consultant to National Cancer Advisory Council and Chicago Tumor Institute. Disappointment in Compton family life; close working relationship between A. H. Compton and Betty; relation of physicists' wives to their husbands' work; Betty's assessment of her career.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 211 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80932030 View

Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955. Robert Williams Wood papers, 1927-1942.

Title: Robert Williams Wood papers, 1927-1942.

Collection of physicist, Robert Williams Wood, contains a small amount of correspondence, printed biographical material, and copies of reports and proceedings from scientific societies. Of interest are photographs of gratings and of the interaction of shock waves.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft. (1 document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48380108 View

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919. Papers, [microform], 1864-1919.

Title: Papers, [microform], 1864-1919.

Correspondence and notebooks. Two series of correspondence include in-coming letters (1875-1911) of a scientific and professional nature primarily on research in acoustics, fluids and electromagnetism from over 350 scientists, and a second series (Argon correspondence, 1887-1904) consisting chiefly of Rayleigh - Sir James Ramsey letters and Rayleigh - Dewar letters focusing on Rayleigh's discovery of argon; included are some calculations and data readings as well as congratulatory letters following his announcement of the discovery. Notebooks (1864-1919) range from student notes Rayleigh took on topics including hydrodynamics, probability, and mathematics and from William Stoke's lectures on optics, as well as notes which he prepared for lectures on thermodynamics while Cavendish was Professor at Cambridge University and lectures elsewhere on induced currents and magnetism. Experimental notes from his research are on optics, acoustics, magnetism and electricity. Correspondents include: J. Aitken, William Crookes, James Dewar, A. J. Ellis, J. D. Everett, R. E. Froude, Francis Galton, A. R. Hunt, Horace Lamb, Joseph Larmor, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Augustus Edward Hough Love, Arnulph Mallock, Eleuthre Mascart, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Albert A. Michelson, William Ramsey, Arthur Schuster, Peter G. Tait, John Tyndall, and Robert W. Wood.

ArchivalResource: 6 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306463 View

Ferguson, Malcolm M. Collection of materials relating to Robert Williams Wood, 1968.

Title: Collection of materials relating to Robert Williams Wood, 1968.

ArchivalResource: 4 items ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29917087 View

Shankland, Robert S., 1908-. Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.

Family life and early childhood environment; undergraduate studies at Case School for Applied Sciences, 1925-1929; M.S., 1933; influence of Dayton C. Miller; reanalysis of Miller's absolute motion experiments, meetings with Albert Einstein; National Bureau of Standards (NBS) work on ionosphere and standard frequency regulation, 1929-1930; contact with University of Chicago, 1930s and 1940s, thesis work on photon scattering under Arthur H. Compton, 1935; World War II sonar work in submarine warfare; architectural acoustics interests; tasks as Chairman of Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University, 1940-1958; consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, neutrino experiments, 1953-1969. Associations with D. C. Miller and A. H. Compton, their experimental style, personalities and influences on others; climate of opinion around relativity and quantum mechanics; the crucial Michelson-Morley experiments and others in relativity; comments on the resistance of the older generation of physicists; reaction to fission and the atomic bomb; problems of modern physics and comments on relation between pure and applied sciences, the existence of a scientific method, physics as related to other sciences, approaches to the history of science. Also prominently mentioned are: Samuel K. Allison, Luis Walter Alvarez, Samuel Austin, Raymond Thayer Birge, R. Blondlot, Niels Henrik David Bohr, C. P. Boner, Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, Gregory Breit, Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Dale Compton, Karl Kelchner Darrow, R. L. Doan, Saul Dushman, Carl Henry Eckart, Thomas Alva Edison, Enrico Fermi, Armand Hippolyte Fizeau, Lester L. Foldy, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Oliver Wendell Holmes, F. R. von Horn, J. W. Horton, William Vermillion Houston, Frank Clark Hoyt, Z. Jeffries, Edwin Crawford Kemble, G. Kuerti, Joseph Larmor, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, F. Leone, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, W. H. Martin, Emanuel Maxwell, Sidney McCuskey, Albert Abraham Michelson, Dayton C. Miller, Robert Andrews Millikan, Jason John Nassau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Henri Poincaré, Baron Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Owen Willans Richardson, Henry A. Rowland, Henry Norris Russell, Ernest Rutherford, Harlow Shapley, John Clarke Slater, G. Szell, John Torrence Tate, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Joseph John Thomson, Merle Antony Tuve, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, M. Walsh, M. Walters, Robert Williams Wood; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Case School of Applied Science, George Washington University Law School, Mount Wilson Observatory, Phillips Petroleum Co., United States Navy New London Laboratory, and United States Office of Scientific Research and Development.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 7-inch reels (ca. 8.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 180 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798862 View

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981. Oral history interview with Harold Clayton Urey, 1964 March 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Harold Clayton Urey, 1964 March 24.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Bichowsky, Raymond Thayer Birge, Walker Bleakney, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde, Compton, Albert Einstein, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Jesse, Edwin Crawford Kemble, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Ralph de Laer Kronig, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Robert Sanderson Mulliken, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Arthur Edward Ruark, John Clarke Slater, Arnold Sommerfeld, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Robert Williams Wood; Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Kben︣havns Universitet, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Montana.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 34 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84584513 View

Feather, N. (Norman). Oral history interview with Norman Feather, 1971 February 25 and 5 November.

Title: Oral history interview with Norman Feather, 1971 February 25 and 5 November.

Undergraduate atmosphere at University of Cambridge: course work, lecturers, extra-curricular groups, training experiments in radioactivity and scintillation-counting; obtains old radon tubes for neutron experiments while doing radioactivity work with Robert W. Woods at Johns Hopkins University in 1929; discussions with James Chadwick of Joliot papers, 1932; move with Chadwick to University of Liverpool, 1935; return to University of Cambridge 1936; reaction to selection of William Bragg as Ernest Rutherford's successor; shift in Cavendish Laboratory's world role in nuclear physics; World War II service at Cambridge: administration, teaching, measurement of fission cross-sections; move to University of Edinburgh to replace Charles D. Barkla, 1945.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 90 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78261279 View

Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955. Letters to A. H. Raynolds, 1925-1927.

Title: Letters to A. H. Raynolds, 1925-1927.

On the subject of color films.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575306 View