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Purcell, Edward M. Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Early life in Illinois; B.S. from Purdue University under Karl Lark-Horovitz, 1929-1933. Visit to Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. Theoretical and experimental work and teaching at Harvard University, 1934-1941, under Emory L. Chaffee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John Van Vleck. World War II research on radar at MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1941-1946. Return to Harvard; teaching, nuclear magnetic resonance and 21-cm line research. Discusses government consulting work, 1950-1970, especially President's Science Advisory Committee, American Physical Society presidency; teaching at Harvard. Interests in astrophysics, developing physics curricula. Also prominently mentioned are: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, Felix Bloch, Bobby Cutler, Robert Henry Dicke, Edwards, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Ewen, Ferry, William Francis Giauque, William Webster Hansen, Malcolm Hebb, Ted Hunt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fritz Leonhart, Dunlap McNair, Otto Oldenburg, Jan Hendrik Oort, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert V. Pound, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Norman Foster Ramsey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Schnabel, Julian R. Schwinger, Francis Eugene Simon, Charles Steinmetz, Henry Torrey, Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst, John Von Neumann, Isidor Walerstein, Walter Witzel, Hubert J. Yearian, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; Bell System Technical Journal, Great Britain Royal Air Force Coastal Command, Radio Research Laboratory, Illinois Southeastern Telephone Co., Killian Committee, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Unitarian Church, United States Office of Naval Research, University of California at Berkeley, and Voice of America.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 59 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82576526 View

Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000. Papers, 1932-1986.

Title: Papers, 1932-1986.

The papers include correspondence, subject files, lectures and addresses, awards, citations and certificates, telephone notes, office calendars and personal appointment books, audio and video tape recordings, photographs, slides and other material documenting the career of William Nierenberg. The collection contains material dated 1932-1986 but consists largely of personal papers covering the years 1965-1968, when Nierenberg was Director the of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. There is also material documenting Nierenberg's work at the University of California, Berkeley, including correspondence, lecture notes, and committee service. Records related to his leadership role in the Atomic Beams Research Group are very limited. The collection includes almost nothing regarding either Nierenberg's tenure at the University of Michigan or his contributions to the Manhattan Project. The papers provide extensive documentation of Nierenberg's participation in professional and scientific associations, his consulting activities and wide-ranging government service, and his participation in international scientific forums. There is some information regarding the JASONS but little about Nierenberg's individual contributions to this group. His activities as a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Board, the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advisory Committee, the National Science Foundation Committee on International Science, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Acid Rain Review Panel are amply covered. The collection includes files regarding Nierenberg's long association with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His role as NATO Science Advisor, particularly his part in the development of the International Institute of Science and Technology is well documented. Nierenberg's service on governing boards of the American Friends of Tel Aviv University, the Center for Naval Analyses, the La Jolla Institute, and other organizations is covered. The collection includes correspondence and committee records related to Nierenberg's role as a UCSD vice chancellor and member of the Physics Department. There are also files covering his participation in local civic groups, his social engagements, and his personal travel. The collection includes personnel records, such as tenure and promotion reviews, that are restricted.

ArchivalResource: 95 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27364632 View

Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. 1939 - 1947. Records Relating to Fundamental Developments

Title: Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. 1939 - 1947. Records Relating to Fundamental Developments

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5635989 View

American Physical Society. Meeting (1974: Washington, D.C.). Distinguished speaker session [sound recording] / 1974 April 24.

Title: Distinguished speaker session [sound recording] / 1974 April 24.

Speakers include: remainder of David Bromley, "Whither U.S. Nuclear Science," from previous session; Leo Esaki, "Novel Tunneling Structure;" N. F. Ramsey, "Beams of Molecules, Atoms, and Nucleons;" and D. H. Wilkinson, "Second-Class Currents in Nuclear Beta Decay."

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels (2 hrs.) : 7.5 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391386 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Notes for Physics 243 : introduction to the quantum theory.

Title: Notes for Physics 243 : introduction to the quantum theory. n. d.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072532 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Notes for Applied Science 195 : introduction to solid state physics.

Title: Notes for Applied Science 195 : introduction to solid state physics. n. d.

ArchivalResource: 129 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072506 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Symposium in honor of H. Richard Crane [sound recording] / at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 1997 November 8.

Title: Symposium in honor of H. Richard Crane [sound recording] / at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 1997 November 8.

Speakers include: J. C. Zorn, "H.R. Crane, a Physicist;" Norman Ramsey, "Dick Crane, the AIP and Physics;" A. M. Sessler, "The Development of Colliders;" D. T. Wilkinson, "Recollections of g-2 Experiments;" S. Krimm, "Dick Crane and Biophysics at Michigan." The tape also includes the remarks given at the evening banquet at the Campus Inn.

ArchivalResource: 4 sound tape cassettes (5 hrs.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305774 View

Smithsonian Videohistory Program. The Manhattan Project oral history interviews [videorecording] / 1987-1990.

Title: The Manhattan Project oral history interviews [videorecording] / 1987-1990.

Stanley Goldberg, consulting historian for the National Museum of American History, recorded eighteen video sessions with fifty-five participants involved in the engineering, physics, and culmination of the Manhattan Project. Goldberg examined the research and technologies necessary to realize the uranium and plutonium bombs. He supplemented interviews with visual documentation of the industrial plants that refined and separated the isotopes, and of the machinery that delivered and dropped the bombs. Interviewees explained the other steps of designing, building, testing and detonating an atomic bomb. Discussions with participants also elicited a social history of the Project as recalled by men and women with different duties in different locales. Between January 1987 and June 1990 the sessions were recorded on-site or in-studio in Hanford, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts; Oak Ridge and Louisville, Tennessee; Alamogordo and Los Alamos, New Mexico; Washington, DC; and Suitland, Maryland. The sessions are divided into five collection divisions: Hanford, Oak Ridge, Cambridge, Los Alamos, and Alberta.

ArchivalResource: 32 videotapes, 18 transcripts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81639495 View

American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Title: Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Correspondence; reports; printed matter; memoranda; grant proposals; drafts of articles; speeches; minutes of meetings. The records of Hutchisson, director of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (1957-1964) are primarily from his tenure as director, a period of enormous growth at the AIP with the initiation of the Education Department, the history of physics project, the Documentation Research Project, and a major increase in journal publication, particularly Soviet translation journals. The collection focuses on the areas of Hutchisson's particular interests: science education including various projects to improve physics teaching at all levels and increase the public understanding of physics; physics history including the creation of the Niels Bohr Library; journal publication including internal examination of publishing procedures at AIP, and an evaluation of SCIENCE ABSTRACTS. The largest series reflects Hutchisson's activities in the scientific community at large with correspondence discussing educational and scientific legislation and funding, and international cooperation on scientific matters. Other material concerns AIP awards, organizational structure and operations with coverage of the revision of the constitution and bylaws to create associate member society status and of the physical expansion at the new headquarters; public relations activities with press releases and files on seminars for science writers; the development of citation indexing; and the placement of physics graduates. Files of the Member Societies: Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America, and Society of Rheology, are mostly informational copies, although the APS and AAPT files contain some substantive correspondence. Also contains speeches, reprints, personal correspondence, and correspondence concerning Hutchisson's involvement with the AIP in capacities other than director. Correspondents include: Henry A. Barton, W. Kenneth Brasher. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, Karl K. Darrow, John Henry Dillon, George F. Gainsborough, Grant O. Gale, Conyers Herring, William C. Kelly, W. James King, Robert E. Maizell, Thomas Harris Osgood, Shirley Leon Quimby, Norman Foster Ramsey, Raymond John Seeger, Frederick Seitz, Wallace Waterfall, Robert T. Webber, and Hugh Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft. (31 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81949161 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1983 July 12.

Title: Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1983 July 12.

Developments of the technique of separated oscillating fields and the atomic clock. Move to Harvard University from Columbia University and Brookhaven National Laboratory; work at Harvard concentrating on the first molecular beam magnetic resonance apparatus, doctoral thesis of Harwood Kolsky; Jerrold Zacharias and the cesium beam clock; Brookhaven Molecular Beam Conferences (beginning 1947), significant developments in resonance. Also prominently mentioned are: P.I. Dee, Harwood Kolsky, Polykarp Kusch, William Aaron Nierenberg, Pendulchron, Ken Smith, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Robert F. Vessot, Earl Wilkie; Brookhaven National Laboratory Molecular Beam Conferences, Fort Monmouth, Frequency Control Symposium, National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States Army Signal Corps, United States National Bureau of Standards, United States Office of Naval Research, and University of California at Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 18 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84132009 View

American Association of Physics Teachers. Correspondence of Albert A. Bartlett, 1978.

Title: Correspondence of Albert A. Bartlett, 1978.

Correspondence, primarily between Albert A. Bartlett, president of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and Norman F. Ramsey, president of the American Physical Society (APS), regarding a committee to determine the future of the joint AAPT/APS annual meeting. W. W. Havens, Jr. chaired the committee.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79015841 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1982 June 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1982 June 24.

Work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory during World War II. Introduction to the Rad Lab; work with Isaac I. Rabi in fundamental developments; 3 cm components; and analysis of British radar during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77749931 View

Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956. Papers, 1894-1958.

Title: Papers, 1894-1958.

Correspondence; 76 laboratory notebooks, 1894-1956, which furnish a continuous picture of Soddy's professional activity throughout his life.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155003309 View

Kolos, Wlodzimierz, 1928-1996. Files of Wlodzimierz Kolos.

Title: Files of Wlodzimierz Kolos.

Includes notes and computations. Correspondence with: T. Anderson, O. Bastiansen, L. Biermann, D. M. Bishop, A. D. Buckingham, J.L. Calasi, A. B. Callear, S. Carlton, A.Carrington, P. R. Certain,C. A. Coulson, A. Dalgarno, R. Daudel, J. T. Dowell, K. Fajans, S. Fraga, O. Hassel, D. Herschbach, G. Herzberg, S.Huzinaga, L. Jansen, B. Jerowska-Trzebiatowska, M. Karplus, W. R. Kenan, J. Los, J. Lindenberg, P. O. Löwdin, E. A. C. Lucken, J. Martinson, C. Moser, R. S. Mulliken, Y. Ohrm, W. Opechowski, E.W. Otten, B. Pacznyski, R. S. la Paglia, R. G. Parr, B. Pullman, W. E. Palke, P. M. Parker, H. O. Putchard, N. F. Ramsey, T. W. Richards, C. C. J. Roothaan, T. E. Sharp, W. C. Stanley, H.S.Taylor, G. A. Victor, J. T. Vanderlice, G. Wagnière, M. Weissbluth, M. J. van der Wiel.

ArchivalResource: 625 lin. cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84447646 View

American Institute of Physics. Office of the Secretary. Records, ca. 1950-1990.

Title: Records, ca. 1950-1990.

Miscellaneous subject files used for reference by the Officer personnel. Includes material on Assemblies (1969-1977); AIP Corporate Associates; legal matters such as rights and permissions; journal translation; member society committees and relations; space planning for AIP and its subsequent move from New York to Maryland. Individuals represented include Karl K. Darrow, Henry A. Barton, Sidney Millman, Norman F. Ramsey, Lewis Slack, and Wallace Waterfall.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81313239 View

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000. Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Manuscripts, correspondence (including many requests to give talks or seminars or advice on building accelerators), papers, talks, articles, clippings, notes and notebooks, course materials, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. He was also highly regarded as a lecturer and teacher of physics and historian of world affairs relating to the developing uses of atomic energy. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs, as well as designs and plans for his homes in New Mexico and Florida. Correspondents include: Len Ackland, J.B. Adams, Paul Aebersold, Samuel K. Allison, Luis Alvarez, Edoardo Amaldi, Robert Bacher, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Charles Parker Baker, Gilberto Bernardini, Hans A. Bethe, Norris Bradbury, Gregory Breit, Morton Camac, James Cassels, Wen-yu Chang, Stirling Colgate, Alice Cook, Donald Cooksey, Dan Cooper, Robert Cornog, Dale R. Corson, L.S. Cottrell, Ed Creutz, Karl K. Darrow, John DeWire, Pierre Donzelot, Philippe Eberhard, Bernard Feld, Dennis Flanagan, William A. Fowler, Jerome H. Fregau, R.C. Gibbs, William T. Golden, Maurice Goldhaber, Edwin L. Goldwasser, L. Goldzahl, S. Goutsmit, Kenneth Greisen, T.C. Griffith, Gaylord P. Harnwell, W.W. Havens, Jr., David Hawkins, Leland J. Haworth, S.S. Hecker, William Higenbotham, Frederic de Hoffmann, Robert Hofstadter, Gerald Holton, David R. Inglis, W.K. Jentschke, Donald W. Kerst, Seishi Kikuchi, Raymond N. Knellberg, George A. Kolstad, James A. Krumhansl, Hirao Kumagai, L. Jackson Laslett, Ernest O. Lawrence, Leon M. Lederman, T.D. Lee, A.J. Leigh, J.S. Levinger, Maurice M. Levy, Urner Liddel, Raphael Littauer, M. Stanley Livingston, Edward J. Lofgren, Franklin A. Long, Harry Lustig, T.W. Mackesey, John H. Manley, Robert E. Marshak, Boyce D. McDaniel, Paul W. McDaniel, Edwin M. McMillan, J. Howard McMillen, Richard L. Meier, E.E. Minett, Philip Moon, Philip Morrison, Paul M. O'Leary, Frank Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Orear, Philip S. Owen, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, and Richard Parmenter. Correspondents also include: Lyman G. Parratt, R.E. Peierls, James A. Perkins, F. Perrin, Melba Phillips, Bruno Pontecorvo, William Preston, Federico Quercia, Norman Ramsey, Leonard M. Rieser, Arthur Roberts, Thomas R. Rogers, Edward T. Rosenbaum, Arthur E. Ruark, Robert G. Sachs, Carl Sagan, Giorgio Salvini, Joseph Halle Schaffner, Herwig Schopper, Emilio Segrè, Frederick Seitz, R.S. Shankland, A.H. Shapley, Kai Siegbahn, Albert Silverman, Daniel M. Singer, Ralph Carlisle Smith, H.D. Smyth, Jack Steinberger, Jeremy J. Stone, Sandro Stringari, S. Cushing Strout, John M. Swomley, Leo Szilard, John T. Tate, Edward Teller, Emily Thompson, John S. Toll, Timothy E. Toohig, Robert L. Walker, Alvin M. Weinberg, Victor F. Weisskopf, John A. Wheeler, Harry J. White, Milton G. White, E.P. Wigner, Herman S. Wigodsky, Frederic H. Williams, John H. Williams, Robert Williams, Richard Wilson, Michael Witherell, William M. Woodward, T.P. Wright, William E. Wright, Chien Shiung Wu, Yuan Chia-liu, and A. Zichichi. Tape recording and transcript of the Memorial Service for Robert R. Wilson, March 11, 2000.

ArchivalResource: 12.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64756412 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-. Reminiscences of Norman Ramsey : oral history, 1960.

Title: Reminiscences of Norman Ramsey : oral history, 1960.

Education, Columbia; Depression; Cambridge University, England; research with I.I. Rabi, Enrico Fermi; National Defense Research Committee radiation laboratory; Massuchusetts Institute of Technology; England, 1941; security problems; radar; Manhattan Project, 1943; Los Alamos; discussions on use of bomb and possible targets; Trinity test; Tinian; estimates of damage, Hiroshima; Brookhaven; Harvard; Congressional investigations; Harold Velde and Joseph McCarthy hearings; area rule; appearance on "Meet the Press," subsequent meeting with Senator McCarthy; contempt citations; Kamen trial; Robert Oppenheimer case; Gray Board; science adviser, North Atlantic Treaty Organization; impressions of General Leslie Groves, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Edward Teller.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 358 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309723266 View

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports, 1985-1995

Title: Department of Computer Science Technical Reports 1985-1995

Consists of technical reports created by the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University between1985 and 1995.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; 340 volumes

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/h128nd73j View

Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe , and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA03093.xml View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011,. Collection of papers relating to the Manhattan Project, 1945-1946.

Title: Collection of papers relating to the Manhattan Project, 1945-1946.

Typewritten documents (some annotated; some are carbon copies), printed or mimeographed materials, photographs, and carbon copies of handwritten notes.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (4 folders) ; 33 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32643208 View

Frauenfelder, Hans, 1922-. Responses to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.

Title: Responses to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.

Includes copies of overheads used in his presentation, and copies of correspondence relating to a survey of senior-level physicists regarding the impact of immigration on the state of U.S. physics that Frauenfelder presented at the Centennial American Physical Society Conference. Some of those surveyed included: Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, N. Bloembergen, Ed Creutz, Bryce DeWitt, Freeman Dyson, Ugo Fano, Herman Feshbach, Marvin Goldberger, Charles Kittel, Leon Lederman, Wolfgang Panofsky, Norman Ramsey, Louis Rosen, Robert Sachs, Charles Slichter, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, Victor Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 84 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83892500 View

Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-. Oral history interview with John Robert Schrieffer, 1974 September 26 and 1976 January 19.

Title: Oral history interview with John Robert Schrieffer, 1974 September 26 and 1976 January 19.

Childhood and high school education; undergraduate eduction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor's thesis with John Slater on energy level spacings in the multiple structure of transition metal atoms; graduate education at Urbana, Illinois, first paper under John Bardeen on the problem of transport of electrons bound to surfaces in semiconductors (Bardeen, David Pines); doctoral thesis on superconductivity, theoretical issues relevant to it; Leon Cooper's contributions, field theory, the bound state; Bardeen wins the Nobel Prize, emotional letdowns related to slow results of research; Stevens Conference on the many-body problem and American Physical Society Meeting, 1957; application of the Tomonaga variational technique, work on it with Cooper and Bardeen, problems with the second order phase transition, Bardeen's solution of the wave function; refinements of the new theory of superconductivity; feelings about working with Bardeen and Cooper; reactions of the scientific community to the new theory (Niels Bohr, Norman Ramsey); views on scientific creativity; the square dance analogy of the B-C-S theory; the Nobel Prize, 1972; American and Soviet competition for solution of superconductivity; objections to the theory based on gauge invariance properties; aftermath of discovery and Nobel Prize. Also prominently mentioned are: Jane Bardeen, John Bardeen, Nikolay N. Bogoliubov, Bohr family, Keith Allan Brueckner, Eli Burstein, Butler, Leon Cooper, Richard Phillips Feynman, Dave Frisch, Frölich, Ernest Guillemin, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, George F. Koster, Fritz London, Francis Eugene Low, Arkadii Beinusovich Migdal, David Pines, Léon Rosenfeld, Blat Schatloff, Ann Schrieffer, Frederick Seitz, Charles Slichter, Gregor Wentzel; Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), and Niels Bohr Institutet.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 5-inch sound reels, 2 sound cassette, 2 sessions.Transcript: 80 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79891395 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. [Collection of articles reprinted from periodicals, etc. : pamphlet vol.]

Title: [Collection of articles reprinted from periodicals, etc. : pamphlet vol.]

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77063484 View

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011. Materials on the history of magnetic resonance. 1983-1995.

Title: Materials on the history of magnetic resonance. 1983-1995.

A collection of 17 reprints by Ramsey on the early history of magnetic resonance. In addition to personal biographical articles regarding his own work in the field, the collection includes biographical information on I. I. Rabi, the contribution of Otto Stern to the development of molecular beams, and articles on the history of atomic clocks.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79200209 View