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

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, A-D, [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/81895962 View

Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-. Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1962 July 30.

Title: Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1962 July 30.

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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Paul Ehrenfest, Enrico Fermi, Ralph Fowler, James Franck, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, Henri Poincaré, Arnold Sommerfeld, John Von Neumann; Kbenh︣avns Universitet, Universität Göttingen, Universität München, and University of Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 23 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83017349 View

Morse, Philip McCord papers

Title: Philip McCord Morse papers

This collection documents the career of Philip Morse. Morse served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1931 to 1969 and was a leader in the field of operations research. The papers consist of biographical information; correspondence; notes; committee minutes; course material; reports; trip diaries; manuscripts; research data and graphs; and reprints and other printed material. The collection also includes a series of administrative records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology documenting committee and policy work Morse participated in.

ArchivalResource: 29.0 cubic feet; in 29 record cartons

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/635 View

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969. Oral history interview with Léon Brillouin, 1962 March 29 and 3 April.

Title: Oral history interview with Léon Brillouin, 1962 March 29 and 3 April.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, 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: Henri Abram, Edmond H. Bauer, George D. Birkhoff, Bouasse, Marcel Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Maurice de Broglie, Jean Cabannes, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Charles Fabry, Paul Langevin, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Jean Perrin, Henri Poincaré, Arnold Sommerfeld; Collège de France, Ecole Normale Supèrieure, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Henri Poincaré, Universität München, and Université de Paris.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 7-inch sound reels (ca. 2.5 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 24 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83299886 View

History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are C.G. Abbot, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, Paul Gough Agnew, Thomas Alexander, Leroy R. Alldredge, Fred Allison, IA. L. Alpert, Howard Andrews, Norman Austern, Harold Babcock, Lewis Balamuth, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, N.P. Barabashov, E. Scott Barr, H.H. Barschall, Carl Barus, Michael Bass, Robert Harold Bassel, Bath, Markus, Louis Andrew Beach, Linn Yardley Beers, Norman Carl Beese, William E. Bell, David Fulmer Bender, Walter Benenson, Harold E. Bennett, Ralph Decker Bennett, Robert Thomas Beyer, Ludwig Biermann, S. Biswas, John Paul Blewett, Arnold Lapin Bloom, David Bohm, Bertram Bordon Boltwood, Ludwig Boltzmann, Arnold Aaron Bondi, Max Born, Ira Bowen, Emily Hughes Boyce, Constance Doraine Boyd, D.B. Brace, James J. Brady, Walter H. Brattain, Aubrey Keith Brewer, Richard G. Brewer, William B. Bridges, Leon Brillouin, Herbert P. Broida, Frederick Lyons Brown, James William Broxon, Keith Allan Brueckner, Reid AJ. Bryson, Arthur Maynard Bueche, W.E. Burcham, J.M. Burgers, Robert L. Burman, Walter G. Cady, Jack Calvert A.G.W. Cameron, Lee Wendel Casperson, James MacDonald Cassels, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Britton Chance, Arnold Franklin Clark, Donald Clayton, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Robert Griffin Coleman, Daniel F. Comstock, Edward Uhler Condon, C. Sharp Cook, William David Coolidge, Richard Threlkeld Cox, William Henry Crew, Samuel Curran.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80616266 View

McLachlan, Dan, 1905-. Selected incoming letters, 1940-1974.

Title: Selected incoming letters, 1940-1974.

The letters document most aspects of McLachlan's career and interests, including professional appointments at American Cyanamid Corporation, Ohio State University, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Denver, and the University of Utah. The correspondence also refers to research in crystallography, McLachlan's reprints and publications in crystallography and x-ray diffraction, student placement, recommendations, and the meetings of scientific societies of which he was a member, including the American Crystallographic Association. Correspondents include: William A. Boekel, Léon Brillouin, F. William Cagle, J. Glenn Dyer, Walter M. Elsasser, Peter Paul Ewald, Isidor Fankuchen, F. Hobi Kuse, Henry Margeneau.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79074330 View

Halban, Hans, 1908-1964. Papers, 1939-1940.

Title: Papers, 1939-1940.

Research notebook; correspondence; reports; patents. Halban brought this collection from France after the 1940 German invasion. The notebooks (1939-1940) related to Halban's work on uranium chain reactions. The correspondence (1939-1940) refers to the funding and procurement of apparatus and radioactive materials (including uranium and radium) for research in chain reactions at the Joliot-Curie laboratory in Paris, questions on fission research, the progress of Halban's and Lew Kowarski's fission experiments, German atomic bomb research, and the possibility of realizing a uranium fission-based explosive device. The reports also document Halban's research in these areas. The patents (1939-1940) are for a polymerization process, and the utilization of thermal energy derived from atomic decomposition. Correspondents include: Léon Brillouin, André Heilbronner, Frédéric Joliot, and Lew Kowarski.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83308673 View

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969. Papers, 1877-1972.

Title: Papers, 1877-1972.

Reprints, miscellaneous notes, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, manuscript autobiography. The papers of Leon Brillouin primarily cover the period after he came to the United States, (1941-1968). Most of the correspondence is incoming, international in scope, and includes among the signatures those of Niels Bohr, Felix Bloch, Max Born, John Carstoiu, D. G. Magiros, P. P. Ewald, A. D. Fokker, Charles Manneback, Leon Rosenfeld, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Erwin Schrodinger, Eugene Wigner. The manuscript files often include his notes, corrections, informational materials, and sometimes correspondence related to his topic. They relate to Brillouin's most important post WW II research such as Brillouin scattering, relativity, and information theory. One such manuscript is that of "Relativity Reexamined." There are also reprints of Billouin's articles (1921-1967) on such subjects as quantum theory, particle physics, Brillouin scattering and information theory. The great majority of the remaining reprints included are those of Brillouin's colleagues doing work in his fields of interest--quantum theory, gravitation, nuclear and particle physics, atomic clocks, etc. Also included is Brillouin's undated (ca. 1911) student notebook of lectures by Paul Langevin in which he gives details of relativity theory shortly before Einstein published his work. The manuscript autobiography was written at the request of the American Institute of Physics Project on the History of Recent Physics.

ArchivalResource: 8.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80490114 View

Feenberg, Eugene. Correspondence, 1927-1958.

Title: Correspondence, 1927-1958.

Selected professional correspondence (bulk dates, 1935-1941, 1946-1952) concerning Feenberg's research, publications and papers; requests for reprints, placement, and letters of recommendation; and concerning Feenberg's teaching and consulting appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, the Naval Research Laboratory, New York University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Sperry Gyroscope Company, the University of Wisconsin, and Washington University. Correspondents include: Hans A. Bethe, Gregory Breit, Léon Brillouin, Max Born, Charles L. Critchfield, Arthur J. Dempster, Edwin C. Kemble, Irving S. Lowen, Charles E. Mendenhall, Henry Margeneau, Lothar W. Nordheim, Richard Present, John A. Wheeler, Eugene P. Wigner.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82944303 View

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969. Goettinger Nachrichten [facetiae], 1932.

Title: Goettinger Nachrichten [facetiae], 1932.

Special number for the 50th birthday of Max Born, edited by Joh. Ertl, in Göttingen, 11 Dec. 1932. A set of jocular short essays, poems, etc. by L. Brillouin, P. Ehrenfest, V. Fock, G. Gamow, W. Lotmar, L. Nordheim, L. Rosenfeld, V. Weisskopf, and C.F. von Weizsäcker in German and French.

ArchivalResource: 13 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391288 View

Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22.

Title: Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22.

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: Harald Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Th. de Donder, John Ray Dunning, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Otto Robert Frisch, Gruenbaum, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Oskar Benjamin Klein, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Lev Davidovich Landau, Nevill Francis Mott, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, George Placzek, Edgar Rubin, Erwin Schrödinger, John Von Neumann, Eugene Paul Wigner; Universität Göttingen, Université de Liege, and Université libre de Bruxelles.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 63 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77898631 View

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-. Karl Kelchner Darrow Papers, 1872-1978, (bulk 1917-1972)

Title: Karl Kelchner Darrow Papers, 1872-1978, (bulk 1917-1972)

Correspondence; diaries; manuscripts; lectures; reprints; financial and legal documents; testimonials; photographs; student notebooks; postcards. The collection is important primarily for its intellectual and social history. With the exception of the reprints, lectures, and college notes, there is little substantive scientific information. It is made up largely of correspondence (1872-1978) which is primarily social in content, and includes a significant quantity of family letters and history. Darrow's wide international circle of friends in both the arts and sciences reflect such events in the correspondence as the Depression, World War II, the influx of foreign scientists into the United States, the impact of the development of the atomic bomb within the physics community, the increasing participation of women in science, Presidential campaigns, and political developments in both the United States and Europe. There is a small series of professional correspondence from Darrow's office at Bell Laboratories (1955-1956) which deals mainly with his retirement and his work as Secretary of the American Physical Society. Correspondents include Raymond T. Birge, Niels Bohr, Léon Brillouin, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Arthur J. Dempster, Jesse W. Du Mond, Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, Leona Marshall, R. A. Millikan, George Mulfinger, Manuel Vallarta, John H. Van Vleck, and Ralph W. Wyckoff among many others. Testimonial letters from his retirement represent some of the most imporant names in the international scientific community. The biographical materials include family histories, wills, obituaries and some of Darrow's childhood writings. The diaries (1902-1972) contain accounts of travels, appointments and daily activities. There are copies of many of Darrow's lectures, including an annotated copy of his Lowell Lectures of 1935, manuscripts, and a complete set of reprints of his published articles. Darrow's college notes include those from his Freshman physics course with R. A. Millikan in 1908 at the University of Chicago. Random financial information includes tax forms, investment records, contracts and family estate settlement papers. Photographs include family and professional pictures. Among the correspondence are approximately 800 picture postcards (1917-1976) from the United States and around the world.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306668 View

Halban, Hans, 1908-1964. Papers [microform], 1939-1940.

Title: Papers [microform], 1939-1940.

Research notebooks; correspondence; reports; patents. Halban brought this collection from France after the 1940 German invasion. The notebooks (1939-1940) relate to Halban's work on uranium chain reactions. The correspondence (1939-1940) refers to the funding and procurement of apparatus and radioactive materials (including uranium and radium) for research in chain reactions at the Joliot-Curie laboratory in Paris, questions on fission research, the progress of Halban's and Lew Kowarski's fission experiments, German atomic bomb research, and the possibility of realizing a uranium fission-based explosive device. The reports also document Halban's research in these areas. The patents (1939-1940) are for a polymerization process, and the utilization of thermal energy derived from atomic decomposition. Correspondents include Léon Brillouin, André Helbronner, Frédéric Joliot, and Lew Kowarski.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83103500 View

Mascart, Éleuthère Élie Nicolas, 1837-1908. Papers, 1877-1910.

Title: Papers, 1877-1910.

Correspondence, offprints, and scientific notes. The correspondence is largely with Lord Kelvin on Mascart's publications and personal life; offprints by Mascart (1894) and Kelvin (1900) on electricity; and scientific notes. Also biographical material on Mascart including a list of honors awarded to him. Mascart was the maternal grandfather of Léon Brillouin, and these papers a part of the Brillouin Collection.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80451954 View

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978. Papers, 1921-1978.

Title: Papers, 1921-1978.

Primarily correspondence (1921-1978) which documents his career from his discovery (with George Uhlenbeck) of the electron spin (1927), through his work as editor-in-chief at the American Physical Society (APS) (1951-1974), to his post as visiting professor at the University of Nevada (1974-1978). The APS correspondence mostly concerns the editing and publishing of THE PHYSICAL REVIEW and PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, including computer typesetting and other innovations. Other correspondence topics are atomic structure, cyclotrons, quantum theory, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, and his involvement with the American Philosophical Society and the Desert Research Institute. Also covers his work during World War II as scientific head of the ALSOS Mission, an American scientific intelligence combat unit whose main objective was to determine German progress in developing an atomic bomb, and the publication of his book, ALSOS. Additional materials include course lectures given at the University of Nevada; speeches on ALSOS and other subjects; reports on the work and attitudes of German scientists during the Nazi regime; research data from Brookhaven National Laobratory, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan; Goudsmit's notebooks from lectures given by Paul Ehrenfest (University of Leiden, 1920s and undated) and by others; and undated research notebooks. Other areas of interest covered include Egyptology, criminology, World War II refugees, parapsychology, UFOs, and philately. Correspondents include: Robert F. Bacher, Gregory Breit, Leon Brillouin, Detlev W. Bronk, Walter and Martha Colby, Dirk Coster, Gerard Heinrich Dieke, Paul Ehrenfest, Enrico Fermi, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Jaap Kistemaaker, John R. Kohn, Alfred Landé, Jonathan Logan, Wendell Mordy, Linus Carl Pauling, Harrison Randall, Paul Rosbaud, George Uhlenbeck, John H. Van Vleck, Joseph Weber, Friedwardt Winterberg, John Wulff, and Pieter Zeeman.

ArchivalResource: 38.75 linear ft. (77 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81192663 View

Ullmo, Jean. Oral history interview with Jean Ullmo, 1963 January 7.

Title: Oral history interview with Jean Ullmo, 1963 January 7.

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: Edmond H. Bauer, Eugene Bloch, Leon Bloch, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Charles Fabry, Jacques Salomon Hadamard, Paul Langevin, Perot, Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, Boris Podolsky, A. Proca; and Ecole Polytechnique.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 15 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81192708 View

Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-. Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1977 July 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1977 July 24.

Interview covers Nordheim's life and career up to 1976. Family background, education at Hamburg, München, and Göttingen; graduated 1923; position, 1928-1933; recollections of development of physical theories, 1920s, and of schools and physicists; trips to Cambridge, U.S., Russia, Paris, and Holland, late 1920s and 1930s; positions at Purdue University, 1935-1937, and Duke University, 1937-1956; war work and postwar work at Oak Ridge Laboratory, 1943-1947; secrecy and scientists' political involvements; work on H-bomb at Los Alamos, 1950-1952; opinions on postwar physics, J. R. Oppenheimer and President Carter's Energy Program; discussions of Germany culture, politics, and economy, 1920s through 1940s. Also prominently mentioned: Felix Bloch, Lèon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Victor Frenkel, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, Adolf Hitler, Lev Landau, Wolfgang Pauli, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Edward Teller, Wilhelm Wien, Eugene Wigner, Herbert York; Compton Effect, Federation of American Scientists, Manhattan Project, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 56 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82576216 View

Lasarev, Petr Petrovich, 1878-1942. Papers, 1914-1941.

Title: Papers, 1914-1941.

Scientific correspondence; biographical documents; scientific papers. Scientific correspondents include: A. A. Belopolskiy, A. F. Ioffe, N. P. Keasterin, A. N. Krylov, O. D. Hvolson, D. Brauer, Leon Brillouin, Ch. Guillaume, Charles Darwin, V. Conrad, P. Langevin, J. Loeb, P. Levene, T. Levi-Civita, Ch. Marie, Max Planck, J. Franck, P. S. Epstein. The biographical documents include diplomas, autobiographies (1930s), photographs, accounts of the work on magnetic iron ore near Kursk in the 1920s, detailed notes of lectures by H. A. Lorentz and P. Langevin, documents from visits to Europe in 1923-24, 1927, and 1930, accounts of his scientific work in the 1930s, official correspondence connected with his activities in the Academy of Sciences, the Biophysical Institute, and the Rentgenological Institute of the Ministry of Health (1920s). The scientific papers (1914-1941) are primarily on biophysics and include unpublished lectures on physics and biophysics in the 20s.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 15 meters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79074250 View

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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml View

Brillouin, Marcel, 1854-1948. Papers, 1887-1943.

Title: Papers, 1887-1943.

Notebooks and notes, reprints, correspondence, bibliographies. The bulk of the collection consists of notebooks and notes on the work of M. Brillouin and his colleagues on meteorology, global wave theory, and electricity. The reprints are by M. Brillouin (1892-1938) on subjects including meteorology, mathematical physics, wave theory, and hydrodynamics; the reprints by colleagues (1879-1944) are on hydrodynamics, oceanography, and tidal research. The correspondence (1887-1939) is both professional and personal, many centered on his research on tides and physics of the earth. There are several letters from his son, Léon Brillouin, concerning both physics and family matters. One file contains correspondence between Brillouin and H.A. Lorentz from 1911 regarding Marie Curie and Paul Langevin. The bibliographies include an annotated bibliography of M. Brillouin's published works, as well as a checklist of his public speeches. Correspondents include: Alfred Basset, Léon Brillouin, Lord William Thomson Kelvin, Augustus E.H. Love, Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Rolin Wavre.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80523768 View

J. H. (John Hasbrouck) Van Vleck papers, 1923-1959, 1923-1959

Title: J. H. (John Hasbrouck) Van Vleck papers, 1923-1959 1923-1959

These contain a few notes and memoranda by Van Vleck, but the bulk of the collection is letters to and from him. Correspondents include Raymond T. Birge, Gerhard H. Dieke, Paul A. M. Dirac, Edwin C. Kemble, and Robert S. Mulliken.

ArchivalResource: 189.0 Item(s)

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Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995. Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1977 May 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1977 May 20.

Student work with Arnold Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg; first paper with Heisenberg; paper on Hall Effect; history of early contributions to the electron theory of metals; extrapolation of second Hall paper by Léon Brillouin to three-dimensional case; errors in Pauli's work on anharmonic terms; Peter Debye's error; paper on free electrons. History of and contributions to theory of semiconductors: Felix Bloch, Yakov Ilyich Frenkel, Ralph H. Fowler, Nevill Mott; Max Born on non-linear electrodynamics; paper with Lev Landau on quantum electrodynamics; Walter Schottky. Search for superconductivity during 1930s. Knowledge of solid state physics in Germany and England beginning 1928; effects of World War II on development of solid state physics. Also prominently mentioned are: S. Chandrasekhar, Arthur Stanley Eddington; University of Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 20 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78951151 View

Bauer, Edmond H., 1880-1963. Oral history interview with Edmond H. Bauer, 1963 January 8 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Edmond H. Bauer, 1963 January 8 and 14.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, 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: Bouasse, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Maurice de Broglie, Victor Henri, Paul Langevin, Walther Nernst, Jean Perrin, Regnault, Erwin Schrödinger, Pierre Weiss; Acadèmie des Sciences, Université de Paris, Société Française de Physique, and Université de Strasbourg.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 7-inch sound reels (ca. 1.5 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 23 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77990792 View

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966. Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.

Title: Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics collection, 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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, Paul Drude, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter Friedrich, Dirk ter Haar, Fritz Hasenöhrl, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, Heinz Hopf, Herman Julius, Felix Klein, A. Kleiner, Paul Langevin, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Fritz London, Gustav Mie, Walther Nernst, A. A. Noyes, Max Planck, W.C. Röntgen, Paul Scherrer, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Pierre Weiss, Max Wien, Wilhelm Wien, Zangger, Zermelo; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universität Leipzig, and Universität München.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 65 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78642348 View