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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.

Title: Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.

The collection includes two series of lectures given at the informally organized Los Alamos University and attended by employees of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The first series, entitled 'LA Report 24: Lecture Series on Nuclear Physics', is comprised of typewritten, mimeographed notes on lectures given in 1943-1944 by: Felix Bloch, Robert F. Christy, C.L. Critchfield, Edwin M. McMillan, Emilio Segrè, Edward Teller, Victor F. Weisskopf, and John H. Williams. Topics include: diffusion theory, neutron physics, the statistical theory of nuclear reactions, terminology, the two body problem, and radioactivity. The second series of handwritten, mimeographed notes on advanced topics in physics is in two volumes. Volume One (1945-1946) contains notes from lectures given by: Hans A. Bethe (assisted by Robert E. Marshak), Lyman G. Parratt (assisted by Bruno Rossi and John W. Trischa), Rudolf Peierls (assisted by Robert F. Christy and Klaus Fuchs), John Manley and Victor F. Weisskopf (assisted by Bernard T. Feld and Julian Schwinger). Volume Two (1945-1946) comprises notes from lectures by: Joseph Keller (assisted by Julius Askin and Chaim Richman), George B. Kistiakowsky, Leonard Schiff (assisted by Eugene M. Baroody), and Edward Teller (assisted by Robert F. Christy and Emil J. Konopinski). Topics include: electromagnetic theory, hydrodynamics, modern physics and nuclear physics (vol. 1); quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, theoretical mechanics, and thermodynamics (vol. 2). The collection comprises notes taken by attendees of the lectures, and also some compiled by the lecturers. The notes were collected by Jack H. Smith during his employment at Los Alamos.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863423 View

Roe, Anne, 1904-1991. Papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

This collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, "The Making of a Scientist." The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals unknown.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6000 items (6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364923 View

Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk), 1949-1974

Title: Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk) 1949-1974

The collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward the interview asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals of these letters is unknown. The Making of a Scientist.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet, Ca. 6000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R621-ead.xml View

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988. Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.

Title: Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.

Interview covers the development of several branches of theoretical physics from the 1930s through the 1960s; the most extensive discussions deal with topics in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics as it relates to fission technology, meson field theory, superfluidity and other properties of liquid helium, beta decay and the Universal Fermi Interaction, with particular emphasis on Feynman's work in the reformulation of quantum electrodynamic field equations. Early life in Brooklyn, New York; high school; undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; learning the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on his own. To Princeton University (John A. Wheeler), 1939; serious preoccupation with problem of self-energy of electron and other problems of quantum field theory; work on uranium isotope separation; Ph. D., 1942. Atomic bomb project, Los Alamos (Hans Bethe, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi); test explosion at Alamagordo. After World War II teaches mathematical physics at Cornell University; fundamental ideas in quantum electrodynamics crystalize; publishes "A Space-Time View," 1948; Shelter Island Conference (Lamb shift); Poconos Conferences; relations with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga; nature and quality of scientific education in Latin America; industry and science policies. To California Institute of Technology, 1951; problems associated with the nature of superfluid helium; work on the. Lamb shift (Bethe, Michel Baranger); work on the law of beta decay and violation of parity (Murray Gell-Mann); biological studies; philosophy of scientific discovery; Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy; masers (Robert Hellwarth, Frank Lee Vernon, Jr.), 1957; Solvay Conference, 1961. Appraisal of current state of quantum electrodynamics; opinion of the National Academy of Science; Nobel Prize, 1965.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82862771 View

Hamermesh, M. (Morton), 1915-2003. Nuclear physics : lectures / by Morton Hamermesh.

Title: Nuclear physics : lectures / by Morton Hamermesh. 1947.

ArchivalResource: [138] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7928115 View

Pound, Robert Vivian, 1919-. Oral History interview with Robert V. Pound, 2003.

Title: Oral History interview with Robert V. Pound, 2003.

Some of the topics discussed include: his early life and education; interest in physics; his only formal degree, a Bachelors from University of Buffalo; from college to defense work and Submarine Signal Company; his work at the MIT Radiation Laboratory; the Harvard Society of Fellows; the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in bulk matter; the Bloembergen, Pound, and Purcell paper (BPP); the Pound Box, NMR patent issue; applications of NMR; after the war, writing Rad Lab books; Chicago Federation Group; nuclear quadruple moments; nuclear moments; alpha-gamma correlations and gamma-gamma correlations; becoming Assistant Professor; implications and influence of Mossbauer's work; Glen Rebka; gravitational redshift; Physical Review Letters controversy; Victor Weisskopf; the Harwell group in England; the gravitational redshift experiment; Nobel Prize; heating with microwaves; life as a professor at Harvard; Julian Schwinger leaving Harvard; overview of his career; physicists he has known; changes in the culture of physics; etc.

ArchivalResource: Transcript:: 2 sessions, 102 pages.Audio tapes: 5 cassette tapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305427 View

Bohm, David. Oral history interview with David Bohm, 1981 May 8.

Title: Oral history interview with David Bohm, 1981 May 8.

Work on theory of plasma between 1946 and 1953. Initial interest in plasma at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory during World War II; continued interest at University of California, Berkeley and then at Princeton University (especially in collaboration with D. Grass and David Pines). Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Albert Einstein, E. P. Gross, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Julian R. Schwinger, and Tor Staver.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 1.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 18 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79891373 View

American Physical Society. Meeting (1966 : Washington, D.C.). Invited papers [sound recording] : American Physical Society Meeting, 1966 April 28.

Title: Invited papers [sound recording] : American Physical Society Meeting, 1966 April 28.

Speakers include: Julian Schwinger, "Concept of Quantum Field Theory" and Richard P. Feynman, "Principles of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics."

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303358 View

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994. Papers, 1925-1989.

Title: Papers, 1925-1989.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 24 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83800475 View

MacDonald, Gordon J. (Gordon James), 1929-2002. Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1986 April 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1986 April 16.

Born in Mexico; interested in geology at a young age. Attended Harvard University, majoring in geology; formal physics education limited to half a term; early contacts with Edward M. Purcell, Julian R. Schwinger, and Nicolaas Bloembergen; James Thomson, Albert F. Burch, and George Kennedy most influential teachers; early interest in science policy. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, exposure to computers; transition to University of California, Los Angeles, 1958; collaboration with Walter Munk on geophysics text; affiliations with NASA and Goddard Space Institute; director of Atmospheric Research Laboratory, 1960. Early JASON involvement after invitation from Murray Gell-Mann; hiatus from JASON, 1970-1977; concurrent involvement with PSAC; relations with fellow JASON members regarding ABM testimony and acid rain; JASON's transition from IDA to SRI and then to MITRE; technical advice and policy implications.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 35 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81273648 View

Clapp, Roger Edge, 1919-1990. Papers, 1942-1991.

Title: Papers, 1942-1991.

Correspondence; lecture notes; patents; proposals; reports; research notebooks and notes; unpublished articles; drafts of proposed publications; a diary. This collection provides a record of Clapp's wide ranging career. While employed at the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1942-1946) Clapp worked on microwave scanning linear ray antennas, and made pioneering contributions to the theoretical and experimental understanding of radar reflections from the terrain. The material reflecting this work comprises correspondence, patents (describing microwave antenna inventions), and a report. Clapp was a doctoral student at Harvard University (1946-1949) under professor Julian Schwinger; he held an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical physics at MIT (1949-1950); and was a research associate at the MIT Lab for the Nuclear Sciences and Engineering (1951). This period (1949-1951) is documented primarily by research and lecture notes, thesis material, and a report to the AEC (both on a variational solution to the nuclear three body problem). The lecture notes are from lectures given at Harvard and MIT by Percy Williams Bridgman (thermodynamics), David H. Frisch (scattering elementary particles), Bruno Rossi (cosmic ray phenomena), Julian Schwinger (nuclear physics, wave fields, and quantum electrodynamics), and Victor Frederick Weisskopf (nuclear reactors). Between 1951 and 1978 Clapp followed a relatively. Unconventional career path, as a consulting physicist not located in academia. From 1978 he was on the staff of the MITRE corporation, while continuing a personal program of research in gravitation, elementary particle theory, and biophysics. Notebooks on gravitation, proposals, peer reviews, correspondence, and unpublished articles extensively document Clapp's research and theories, which were often controversial and inter-disciplinary. Topics covered in the collection include gravitation, elementary particle theory, biophysics, cell wall molecular operation, nerve cell electrical communication, mobius theory of electron excitation, non-impact printing-electrophoresis, electron orbits, philosophy, and plant growth. Correspondents include: John A. Behnke (as editor of BioScience), Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman, David Finkelstein (as editor of International Journal of Theoretical Physics), Thomas Kuhn, Elihu Lubkin, and John A. Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 8.75 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77878911 View

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994. Papers, 1920-1994.

Title: Papers, 1920-1994.

Collection consists of correspondence, lecture notes, problem sets, manuscripts, speeches, reports, research subject files, videotapes, films, notes, computations, and printed material related to Schwinger's research and teaching activities in physics. The bulk of the material covers the periods he taught at Harvard and at UCLA (1945-88). Manuscripts of published and unpublished articles and monographs form the largest category of material in the collection by volume. Correspondents include: George Abell, McGeorge Bundy, Richard P. Feynman, Wolfgang Pauli, William A. Nierenberg, B. Stanley Pons, J. Robert Oppenheimer, David S. Saxon, Edward Teller, Gregor Wentzel, and Eugene P. Wigner.

ArchivalResource: 28 cartons (28 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38928655 View

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992. Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970.

Childhood and early education in New York, undergraduate education in philosophy at Columbia College, 1932-1936; years of graduate study in physics at Columbia University, 1936-1937; influence of Isidor I. Rabi, the joint NYU-Columbia seminar in physics; transfer to Cornell University for graduate work in nuclear physics, 1937-1939; influence of Hans Bethe; thesis work on white dwarfs; first teaching position at University of Rochester, joint work with Victor Weisskopf in nuclear physics and particles; remarks on war years, astrophysics, cyclotrons, and other matters; Shelter Island Conferences. Formation of the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) in 1946; Marshak succeeds Robert Wilson as Chairman, 1947. World Federation of Scientific workers, chaired by Frédéric Joliot-Curie, wants to enroll F.A.S. (1947, in Paris meeting). Marshak's work on two-meson theory. F.A.S. issues in the 1950s; the Emergency Committee and F.A.S.; Einstein's interests and views on relation of science to society; comments on J. Robert Oppenheimer; chairmanship at University of Rochester; Lee DuBridge; long-range plan and extensive development of physics department funded through AEC contracts; training of students from abroad such as Okubo, Sudarshan, Messiah, Regge. Last half of interview covers the Rochester conferences. Scientific work during the 1950s, the V-A interaction (George Sudarshan) theory (a.k.a. Feynman-Gell-Mann theory of weak interactions); books and works with graduate students. Travels to Europe and India (Tata Institute), 1953. Accepts City College (CUNY) presidency; reasons for leaving University of Rochester. Also prominently mentioned are: Robert Fox Bacher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George Braxton Pegram, Julian R. Schwinger, Edward Teller; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory.

ArchivalResource: Audiotape: 5 5-inch reels (16.0 hrs.)Transcript: 257 pp. (4 sessions)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81515112 View

Krause, Ernst Henry, 1913-. Oral History interview with Ernst Henry Krause, 1982.

Title: Oral History interview with Ernst Henry Krause, 1982.

This interview examines Krasue's early career at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) first as a physicist, then as Associate Director fo Research. Also covered is his work at Lockheed, at Systems Research Corporation, and at Ford Aeronuetronics. After detailing aspects of his early life and education (University of Wisconsin, PhD, 1938, physics), the interview closely follows Krause's career at NRL, including his involvement with wartime research, spectroscopic research using V-2 cosmic ray research, and his work with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Central to the interview is Krause's role as a manager of science, as well as his perceptions of the organizational relationships that evolved to made use of V-2s. Additional topics discussed include: Julian Schwinger, Frank Malina, Fritz Zwicky and his experiments, John Wheeler, Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins), and the original Wasserfall rockets.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 84 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305428 View

Mehra, Jagdish. Jagdish Mehra collection, 1924-2001

Title: Jagdish Mehra collection, 1924-2001

A vast number of books, monographs and reference works on physics, mathematics, philosophy and history of science compose the collection. There are thousands of reprints of original papers autographed by their authors. The manuscripts of hundreds of published and unpublished books, papers, and lectures from physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, and literati are in the collection. Dr. Mehra's research in the history of 20th century physics has produced taped interviews with many famous scientists. The tapes compile discussions on physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum mechanics and quantum physics. Those interviewed include P.A.M. Dirac, W. Heisenberg, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Willis E. Lamb Jr., Murray Gell-Mann and numerous other Nobel Laureates and distinguished scientists. Other tapes record speeches by many Nobel Prize winners in physics. The information in these oral histories is unique.

ArchivalResource: 175 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694866607 View

Kroll, Norman Myles 1922-. Oral History interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1986 June 28.

Title: Oral History interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1986 June 28.

This interview discusses: Kroll's youth and education at Columbia University; his work at Columbia Radiation Laboratory and his studies with Lamb and Melman on magnetrons; his collaboration with W.E. Lamb on shift calculations; his comments on the work of Lamb, Schwinger, Feynman and Dyson in the late 1940s; particle physics in Kroll's career; his participation in JASON laser studies; his research on the interactions of laser beams with plasmas, on visible parametric oscillators and free electron lasers.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 66 pages.Audio tapes: 4 cassettes, 3.5 hours.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305689 View

J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, 1799-1980, (bulk 1947-1967)

Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers 1799-1980 (bulk 1947-1967)

Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, lectures, statements, scientific notes, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work there. Topics include theoretical physics, development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, nuclear energy, security, and national loyalty.

ArchivalResource: 74,000 items; 294 containers plus 2 classified; 117.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007 View