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Russell and Sigurd Varian papers, 1836-1988

Title: Russell and Sigurd Varian papers 1836-1988

ArchivalResource: 26 Linear feet

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Kirkpatrick, Paul Harmon, 1894-. Some personal actions and reactions, 1971.

Title: Some personal actions and reactions, 1971.

A fairly detailed biographical sketch of Kirkpatrick's early years; his study at Occidental College; teaching physics at Hanchow Christian College in China; his return to California with World War I; his drafting by the army to technical training school in Berkeley; thesis at Berkeley; job in Hawaii and marriage; further research; fellowship to Cornell; return to Hawaii; appointment to faculty at Stanford University; research with P. A. Ross; development of the cyclotron, klystron, continuous x-ray microscopy, and holography; political, religious and social philosophies; and outstanding influences of several physicists, including David L. Webster, William Hansen, Felix Bloch, and Russell Varian.

ArchivalResource: 94 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84586605 View

Ginzton, Edward. Edward Ginzton papers, circa 1937-1992.

Title: Edward Ginzton papers, circa 1937-1992.

Papers regarding Ginzton's activities at Stanford University, with Varian Associates, and on national committees and local organizations. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, journals, publications, technical reports, manufacturing reports, oral history materials, and photographs. Also includes correspondence, publications, biographical material and manuscripts of Russell, Sigurd and Dorothy Varian.

ArchivalResource: circa 105 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122332857 View

Kirkpatrick, Paul Harmon. Paul Harmon Kirkpatrick autobiography, 1971.

Title: Paul Harmon Kirkpatrick autobiography, 1971.

General reminiscences about his life, including recollections about his work and colleagues at Stanford. Also includes a bibliography.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (102 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754866846 View

Varian Associates Records, 1948-1998

Title: Varian Associates Records, 1948-1998

The Varian Associates Records, 1948-1998, document the history of this innovative and successful Silicon Valley pioneer from its inception in 1948 until just prior to its division into three separate companies in 1999. The bulk of the collection consists of minutes from the meetings of the board of directors. Also included are reports to the board, acquisition and joint venture studies, writings by Russell Varian related to the company, presentations by the board, files on subsidiary companies, company publications, and promotional and marketing materials.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 5 cartons and 2 oversize folders; Linear feet: 6.35

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Varian Data Machines. Records, 1972-1981.

Title: Records, 1972-1981.

The Varian Data Machines records include the company's annual reports to the Securities & Exchange Commission (1972-1976). Also included are the Engineering Department's policy and procedures manual, technical documents, sales literature, and system software manuals for the Varian computer.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134164 View

Varian Associates. Varian Associates records, 1948-1998.

Title: Varian Associates records, 1948-1998.

Documents the corporate history of Varian Associates from its inception in 1948 until just prior to its division into three separate companies in 1999. The bulk of the collection consists of minutes of the meetings of the board of directors. Also includes reports to the board, acquisition and joint venture studies, writings by Russell Varian related to the company, presentations by the board, files on subsidiary companies, company publications, and promotional and marketing materials.

ArchivalResource: 5 cartons and 2 oversize folders (6.35 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123504059 View

Ginzton, Edward. Ansel Adams' Portfolio Four papers 1987.

Title: Ansel Adams' Portfolio Four papers 1987.

A keepsake including photocopied letters to sons Leonard and David, ca. 1978, and Virginia Adams, 1984, all concerning the relationship of Ansel Adams and Russell Varian and the resulting portfolio created in 1963 by Adams to benefit Castle Rock State Park and honor Russel Varian.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754866538 View

Varian, Russell. Varian, Russell : [photography bio file].

Title: Varian, Russell : [photography bio file].

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82174794 View

Varian, Russell Harrison, 1898-1959. Notebook, 1898-1960.

Title: Notebook, 1898-1960.

Biographical material about Russell Varian, and articles and speeches written by him.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122500204 View

"Success Story: Stanford University Electronics and Research Lab" [videorecording], 1990

Title: "Success Story: Stanford University Electronics and Research Lab" [videorecording] 1990

Video copy of a 1954 film produced by Caryl Coleman about electronics research at Stanford University. Persons appearing in the film include Donald B. Harris, Russell H. Varian, Frederick E. Terman, William R. Hewlett, David Packard, and Marvin Chodorow.

ArchivalResource: 1 videotape (VHS)

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Hansen, W. W. (William Webster), 1909-1949. William Webster Hansen papers, 1928-1974.

Title: William Webster Hansen papers, 1928-1974.

This collection consists primarily of W. W. Hansen's correspondence with professional colleagues, 1934-1949, including several folders on the formation of the Stanford Microwave Laboratory (later renamed the Hansen Laboratory of Physics). Major correspondents include Felix Bloch, Edward Bowles, Ed Condon, E. S. Erwin, Paul Kirkpatrick, Philip M. Morse, Sperry Gyroscope Co., David L. Webster, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and John R. Woodyard. Other materials include research notes, bibliographic and biographic information, Hansen's account of the development of the klystron, reports on the first linear accelerator at Stanford, unpublished manuscripts, reprints, patents, some pieces of apparatus, photographs, and two scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754865994 View

Edward Ginzton papers, circa 1937-1992

Title: Edward Ginzton papers circa 1937-1992

Papers regarding Ginzton's activities at Stanford University, with Varian Associates, and on national committees and local organizations. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, journals, publications, technical reports, manufacturing reports, oral history materials, and photographs. Also includes correspondence, publications, biographical material and manuscripts of Russell, Sigurd and Dorothy Varian.

ArchivalResource: 105 Linear feet

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Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-. Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.

This short interview touches briefly on Hahn's education at Juniata College, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois; initial interest in nuclear magnetic resonance; his postdoctoral years with Felix Bloch's group at Stanford University; and his three years as a research scientist with IBM. Hahn also comments briefly on his consultantship with Hughes' maser group; his work on self-induced transparency; and his collaboration with Richard Brewer at IBM. Also prominently mentioned are: Sam Bass, Jesse Wakefield Beams, Felix Bloch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Richard Brewer, John Clarke, Gene Commins, Harry Daghalian, Robert Henry Dicke, Gordon Gould, Donald W. Kerst, Theodore Maiman, Sam McCall, Mitsunaga, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Norman Shiren, Charles Slichter, Dick Slusher, Russell Harrison Varian; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Columbia University, IBM Watson Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States Navy, and University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 42 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81178530 View

Varian, Russell Harrison, 1898-1959. U.S. Patent #2,558,021, 1951 June 26.

Title: U.S. Patent #2,558,021, 1951 June 26.

Includes early petitions, correspondence, and final patent for thermionic vacuum tubes and circuits, which was invented by Russell Varian and David Packard, and assigned to the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University in 1951 for 17 years.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122447619 View

Russell and Sigurd Varian papers, 1892-1988.

Title: Russell and Sigurd Varian papers, 1892-1988.

The Russell and Sigurd Varian papers span almost a hundred years of creative and independent thinking, from early manuscripts of poetry by their Irish father, John O. Varian, to the creation and growth of Varian Associates. In addition to original research notebooks and correspondence regarding the klystron, the collection includes materials on numerous other inventions and ideas from Russell's work for Philo Farnsworth and Humble Oil as well as the brothers' years at Stanford and at Varian Associates. Unpublished short stories by Sigurd reveal his sense of humor as well as the adventure and danger of his career as a pilot in Mexico and Central America. Includes volumes I-IV of Varian Associates Magazine, 1956-71.

ArchivalResource: 24.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122332788 View

Stanford Oral History Project interviews, 1971-1995

Title: Stanford Oral History Project interviews 1971-1995

ArchivalResource: 4 Linear feet (285 audiocassettes)

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Varian Associates: an early history, 1998

Title: Varian Associates: an early history 1998

Includes “Invention of the Klystron” by E. L. Ginzton; “The Founding of Varian Associates” by Russell Varian; and sections on “NMR, the Physics Experiment that Revolutionized Chemistry,” “The Linear Accelerator,” and “Vacuum Development.”

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Success Story: Stanford University electronics and research lab : videorecording, 1990.

Title: Success Story: Stanford University electronics and research lab : videorecording, 1990.

Video copy of a 1954 film produced by Caryl Coleman about electronics research at Stanford University. Persons appearing in the film include Donald B. Harris, Russell H. Varian, Frederick E. Terman, William R. Hewlett, David Packard, and Marvin Chodorow.

ArchivalResource: 1 video cassette: b&w; VHS.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122546745 View

Irish ballads as sung by Russell Varian [sound recording], 1943.

Title: Irish ballads as sung by Russell Varian [sound recording], 1943.

From the liner notes: "These are some of the Irish song which Russell Varian sang at many early Varian parties, and elsewhere for his friends. These are some of the songs he had learned from his father, who was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. The songs were recorded by Ed Ginzton in New York in 1943. The words were supplied by Dorothy Varian in 1962."

ArchivalResource: 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ; 10 in.1 sound disc :bdigital; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754865145 View

Irish ballads as sung by Russell Varian, 1943

Title: Irish ballads as sung by Russell Varian 1943

From the liner notes: "These are some of the Irish song which Russell Varian sang at many early Varian parties, and elsewhere for his friends. These are some of the songs he had learned from his father, who was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. The songs were recorded by Ed Ginzton in New York in 1943. The words were supplied by Dorothy Varian in 1962."

ArchivalResource: 1 folder; 1 phonograph record; 1 optical disc (CD-Audio)

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Sperry Corporation. Sperry Gyroscope Company Division. Records, 1910-1970.

Title: Records, 1910-1970.

The Sperry Gyroscope archive was originally housed in the firm's Public Relations Dept. Consequently, the bulk of the records are a heterogeneous collection assembled to serve advertising and public relations needs.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 76 linear ft.Photographs 100,608 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122292450 View

Varian Associates. Photographs from the Varian Associates records [graphic].

Title: Photographs from the Varian Associates records [graphic]. ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

Includes individual and group portraits of Russell Varian and Sigurd Varian (including two by Ansel Adams) and other employees of Varian Associates. Also includes photgraphs depicting early versions of the klystron and other technologies, as well as Varian facilities and laboratories in San Carlos and Stanford University.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 3 oversize folders (ca. 20 photographic prints) : b&w ; 43 x 41 cm or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746097568 View

Varian Associates. 10th anniversary celebration of founding : cassette audio tape, 1958 Nov. 2.

Title: 10th anniversary celebration of founding : cassette audio tape, 1958 Nov. 2.

The tape begins with comments by Russel Varian. Apparently his opening words were lost in transcribing from reel-to-reel to cassette. Numerous speakers follow.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122384411 View

Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976. Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.

Title: Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.

Earliest associations with science; high school, through 1904, undergraduate at Harvard University under Wallace C. Sabine, Benjamin O. Peirce, George W. Pierce, William E. Byerly, William Osgood, Julian Coolidge, Theodore Lyman, 1910; graduate education, early teaching experiences and research in x-ray spectroscopy with Edward V. Huntington, William Duane, Franklin Hunt; University of Michigan, summer 1917; lieutenant in Science and Research Division of U.S. Army Signal Corps under Robert A. Millikan; aircraft stability studies, experiences as a pilot, Civil Pilot Training Program, 1939. Teaching at MIT, 1919; chairman of Physics Department of Stanford University, 1920-1941, development of department, Paul Kirkpatrick, Felix Bloch, early experimental work in theory of the continuous x-ray spectrum with Perley A. Ross, controversy about data and resolution of it; invention of the klystron by the Varian brothers, his contribution with William W. Hansen to its development; Sperry Gyroscope's effect on department; civilian member of U.S. Signal Corps, early research involving rockets; return to Stanford after World War II, interest in teaching. Current research interests in solar wind and plasmas in the vicinity of the Earth. Influences on him of his early teachers, colleagues, writings of Henry Poincaré, Max Planck, Hendrik A. Lorentz. Avocations and present personal life. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph A. Becker and Arthur Compton.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 35 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80180893 View

Russell H. Varian Papers

Title: Russell H. Varian Papers

ArchivalResource: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)

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