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

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. 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: Duncan A. MacInnes, Ernst Mach, Fred Conrad Maienschein, Thomas F. Malone, H. F. Mark, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, Howard Nicholas Maxwell, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lawrence Earl McAllister, Alexander McBirney, James W. McGrath, J. H. McGuire, John A. McIntyre, Louis Williams McKeehan, D. P. McKenzie, Dan McLachlan, Edwin M. McMillan, Elsie Blumer McMillan, George C. McVittie, Rolf Meissner, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Donald Menzel, James W. Meyer, Walter E. Meyerhof, Albert A. Michelson, W. E. Knowles Middleton, Edward Arthur Milne, Freeman D. Miller, H. Minkowski, G. Miyamoto, F. L. Mohler, Karl Z. Morgan, Susuma Morita, Philip McCord Morse, Evan Mueller, Erwin W. Muller, Robert S. Mulliken, Gerard Francis William Mulders, Edward J. Jurphy, Mokichiro Nogami, Itaru Nonaka, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Ralph Emerson Nasbaum, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Louis Neel, Otto Oldenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Elburt Franklin Osborn, Thomas H. Osgood, William J. Otting, Clarence J. Overbeck, Thornton Page, Frederic Palmer, Eugene N. Parker, John Hilliard Parker, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernest Peierls, Raymond Pepinsky, Melba Phillips, Heinz Pick, George Pickard, J. C. Polanyi, William Pollard, Marion Llewellyn Pool, Daniel M. Popper, Thomas Charles Poulter, Robert V. Pound, H. Primakoff, Emerson M. Pugh, Earle Keith Plyler, I. I. Rabi, Harrison M. Randall, Jacobo Rapaport, Aravi Prakash Rau, Peter M. Rentzepis, George Thomas Reynolds, John Hamilton Reynolds, Hugh T. Richards, Norman Hurd Ricker, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Tsuneji Rikitake, George Roy Ringo, Alice M. Risley, Richard B. Roberts, Walter Orr Roberts, J. M. Robson, John Ransom Roebuck, Edwin Roedder, John Rogers, Elizabeth Rona, Joseph Lloyd Rood, Louis Rosen, Frank L. Roth, Arthur Edward Ruark.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 500 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83426762 View

Polanyi, J. C., 1929-. Response to Laser History Survey, 1984.

Title: Response to Laser History Survey, 1984.

Letter to Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project, as a response to the questionnaire, in which Polanyi discusses his early interest in lasers; his attendance at the Gordon Conference on Spectroscopy where he was further interested in laser research by one of Charles Townes' graduate students; and his work in Toronto on chemical lasers. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications.

ArchivalResource: 22 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84507324 View

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Laser History Project. Responses to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.

Title: Responses to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.

Responses to a survey of laser scientists conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics in 1983. Recipients were asked to discuss their education, their activities preceding their involvement with lasers, their work during the Second World War, their entry into the field of lasers, their scientific achievements, their work as laboratory administrators, their work in the laser industry, and their work as journal editors or society officers. File includes responses from: Michael Bass, William Earl Bell, James Francis Black, Arnold Lapin Bloom, Richard George Brewer, William B. Bridges, Lee Wendel Casperson, Irenee J. D'Haenens, Robert Henry Dicke, Leroy David Dickson, Nicholas Djeu, Viktor Evtuhov, Walter Luck Faust, Paul A. Fleury, Harry E. Franks, Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, Robert Noel Hall, Stephen C. Harris, Herman A. Haus, John Helmer, Donald R. Herriott, Abraham Hertzberg, Walter H. Higa, Stephen Frank Jacobs, Leo Francis Johnson, Ray Edward Kidder, KMS Fusion Project, Charles John Koester, Francis A. L'Esperance, Rolf William Landauer, Richard H. Levy, Rocco V. Lobraico, Edward V. Locke, Theodore Harold Maiman, James Wagner Meyer, Marshall I. Nathan, Isaiah Nebenzahl, William Joseph Otting, Jacques I. Pankove, John Hilliard Parker, John Charles Polanyi, Peter M. Rentzepis, William C. Schwartz, Donald Ray Scifres, Glenn G. Sherwood, Anthony Edward Siegman, George Foster Smith, William Vick Smith, Donald J. Spencer, Stanley Stellar, Malcolm L. Stitch, Satoru Sugano, Charles Hard Townes, Joseph Weber, Irwin Wieder, and Eric J. Woodbury.

ArchivalResource: 56 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83300180 View

Van Sickle, Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

Title: Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection 1900-1993

This collection represents the uncataloged pamphlets of the larger Van Sickle Collection at the University of Central Florida. Over 400 hundred pamphlets produced largely from the 1920s through the 1970s reflect communist and socialist ideologies and propaganda. Pamphlets from the United States, Soviet Union, Canada and many other geographic areas cover such topics as world pacifism and the banning of the atomic bomb, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, world labor movements and Marxist economics.

ArchivalResource: 3 Boxes;; 3.75 linear feet

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Chemical Kinetics Project Technical Reports, 1953-1956, 1953-1956

Title: Chemical Kinetics Project Technical Reports, 1953-1956 1953-1956

Consists of technical reports issued by the James Forrestal Research Center between 1953 and 1956. The reports contain results of theoretical and experimental studies conducted under contract with Headquarters Air Research and Development Command, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract No. AF 33(038)-23976).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; 29 volumes

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