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Buckingham, Edgar, 1867-1940. Papers, 1891-1938.

Title: Papers, 1891-1938.

Lecture and instructional notes; manuscripts; laboratory notebooks; reprints; correspondence. Lecture and instructional notes (1896-1918) concentrating on fluid and thermodynamics and dimensional analysis. Unfinished manuscripts and notes for unpublished papers and books on the subjects of vector analysis and fluid, and thermodynamics. Laboratory notebooks (1891-1938) recording the research of Buckingham in fluid and thermodynamics from his years as a student at Strassburg University to a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. Reprints (1894-1936) of articles written by Buckingham throughout his career. Correspondence (1932-1939) concerning publication matters and a critical discussion with Percy W. Bridgman over Bridgman's book, DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS. Correspondents include: Percy W. Bridgman, Guy Chadwick, and James Swinburne.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80779507 View

Bentley, Arthur Fisher, 1870-1957. Papers, 1891-1968.

Title: Papers, 1891-1968.

Consists of the correspondence, writings, and publication miscellanea of Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1870-1957, together with correspondence of his wife Imogene Shaw Bentley.

ArchivalResource: 8,586 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56083119 View

Michael S. Mahoney papers., 1923-2008

Title: Michael S. Mahoney papers. 1923-2008

Papers contain 38 boxes of Michael S. Mahoney's collection of books and serials related to the history of computing, mathematics, and related fields. The collection also includes 17 boxes of Mahoney's archival materials, including course work, subject files, and publication drafts.

ArchivalResource: 55 boxes (55 cubic feet)

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Unity of science movement records, 1934-1968.

Title: Unity of science movement records, 1934-1968.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, programs, reprints, a photograph, and newspaper clippings. Includes extensive correspondence of members involved in the movement, as well as organizational materials and abstracts from the International Congresses for the Unity of Science. Also includes material related to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Correspondents include Percy W. Bridgman, Rudolph Carnap, John Dewey, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Joergen Joergensen, Victor Lenzen, Charles W. Morris, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Louis Roughier, and Bertrand Russell.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52246185 View

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress records

Title: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress records

The inauguration of James R. Killian as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's tenth president on April 2, 1949, was preceded by the two-day "Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress" on March 31 and April 1. The collection contains thirty-seven 7 1/2 ips 7-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes of the three general assemblies and six panel discussions held during the 1949 midcentury celebrations; tapes of the inauguration ceremonies; 1949 video footage of the convocation; and a microfilm copy of a scrapbook on the convocation. The collection contains materials compiled by John E. Burchard for his book , including texts of the panel presentations. The collection also includes video recordings created in 1999 as part of an exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the convocation. Mid-Century: The Social Implications of Scientific Progress

ArchivalResource: 2.5 cubic feet; (7 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box)

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Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-. Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay. 1964 May 6 and July 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay. 1964 May 6 and July 9.

Early life in New Bedford, MA; father's informal education as chemist and engineer; difficulties in early education. Undergraduate at Brown University, 1916-1920; interest in mathematics. Graduate work at MIT, 1920-1922; physics exams; Edwin Wilson's tenure at MIT, state of physics teaching there, limitations of the department. Work with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, 1922, leading to self-consistent filed idea applied to alkali atoms, Bohr as a person, teacher, and philosopher. Continuation of Copenhagen work for Ph.D. thesis in Department of Mathematics at MIT. Work atmosophere at Yale University, 1923-1930; reluctance about the new wave mechanics, later work in this area. Recollections of Ernest O. Lawrence at Yale, rivalry between Leigh Page and William P. G. Swann; Swann's interest in spiritualism, Page's emission theory of electromagnetism. Development of interest in philosophy and methodology of science; association with Percy W. Bridgeman, Norton Weiner, J. D. Tamarkin. Foundation of Physics course at Yale. Teaching at Brown University from 1930; Carl Barus; development of Mathematics Department under R. G. D. Richardson; Lindsay's supervision methods. Chairman of Brown Physics Department, problems setting up undergraduate degree program post-World War II; supervision of teaching. Research during World War II. Connection with Acoustical Society, 1936, member of executive council; associate editor of ASA Journal, 1950, editor-in-chief 1957, interest in publication of archival technical material. Great figures of the Acoustical Society; growth of and comparison between Acoustical and Physical Societies; role of the American Institute of Physics.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 3 5-inch reels (ca. 5.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 69 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863413 View

Sharp, Robert P. (Robert Phillip). Oral history interview with Robert Phillip Sharp, 1990 April 25.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Phillip Sharp, 1990 April 25.

Born in California in 1911; recollections of childhood. Undergraduate studies in geology at California Institute of Technology, then one year of graduate work (J. P. Buwalda, Chester Stock, William Morris Davis). Graduate studies in geology at Harvard University (R. A. Daly, Kirk Bryan, Percy Bridgman, Francis Birch, David Griggs), 1935-1938; comparisons between Harvard University and Caltech. To University of Illinois for teaching position, 1938-1943; summer research in geomorphology and glaciology. Research in Army Air Force during World War II. Accepts position at University of Minnesota (Larry Gould); professorship at Caltech, 1947. Debates over geochemical and geophysical approaches to geology; reassessment of curriculum in Division of Geological Sciences; decision to encourage research in space and planetary sciences (Harrison Brown), late 1950s.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 48 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78404571 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 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

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994. Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.

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: Max Abraham, Sam Allison, Anderson, Harry Bateman, Eric Temple Bell, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Bragg, Percy Williams Bridgman, Clark, Edward Condon, Robert Dawson, Peter Josef William Debye, Hobart Cutler Dickinson, William Duane, Paul Ehrenfest, John Ellis, Kasimir Fajans, Ronald Geballe, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Victor Guillemin, William Draper Harkins, Walter Heitler, Lloyd Alexander Jeffress, Irving Langmuir, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Fritz London, H. J. Lucas, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Robert Andrews Millikan, A. A. Noyes, Wilhelm Ostwald, Boris Podolsky, Floyd Rowland, Erwin Schrödinger, Allen Goodrich Shenstone, William Shockley, Arnold Sommerfeld, Richard Chance Tolman, Albrecht Unsöld, Gregor Wentzel, Hermann Weyl; California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Kben︣havns Universität, Oregon Agricultural College, Universität München, Universität Zurich, and University of California, Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 66 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83300053 View

Hunt, Frederick V. Oral history interview with Frederick Vinton Hunt, 1964 December 18.

Title: Oral history interview with Frederick Vinton Hunt, 1964 December 18.

Life and career to 1965. Childhood and high school years, 1905-1920; undergraduate life and education at Ohio State University, 1920-1925; graduate work at Harvard University, 1925-1932; realization of his place in physics; research and problems with doctoral thesis; research on architectural acoustics and reflections on his teaching at Harvard, 1932-1945; cascade and frequency meter, relations in department, conflicts between teaching and research function, development of slight weight pickup and side wall support; war work on Navy acoustic mine sweeping project, National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) underwater sound projectr︣ecruitment, management problems, and dismantlement; instigating Navy postwar research in underwater sound; creation of the Engineering Science and Applied Physics department at Harvard, 1946-1965; development of the Acoustical Society of America since 1930s; assessment of his contributions; place of acoustics as a field of study. Also prominently mentioned are: Leo Beranek, John Bouyouvos, Percy Williams Bridgman, Emory Leon Chaffee, James Bryant Conant, Chris Engleman, Harvey Fletcher, William H. Klofan, Theodore Lyman, Philip McCord Morse, G. W. Pierce, Jack A. Pierce, Tim Shea, Alpheus Wilson Smith; Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Undersea Warfare Committee, and United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 83 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83510555 View

Kasimir Fajans Papers, 1912-1987, 1936-1975

Title: Kasimir Fajans Papers 1912-1987 1936-1975

Professor of Chemistry at the Univesity of Michigan, 1936-1957, previously professor at the University of Munich, internationally known for his work on radioactivity; papers include extensive correspondence files, lectures and publications, personal/biographical material and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft. and 2 oversize items (AC)

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Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961. Crank theories collection, 1925-1961.

Title: Crank theories collection, 1925-1961.

Pamphlets; reprints; books; correspondence. The collection consists primarily of unsolicited printed matter and accompanying correspondence sent to Bridgman as a prominent scientist and Nobel Prize winner in physics. Maintained separately by Bridgman, these materials propose alternative, usually extremely unorthodox, theories as to the nature of matter, spacetime, the elements, magnetism, electricity, atomic theory, and the relationship of the Newtonian and Einsteinian views of the universe, including many which concern the concept of the "ether." The collection also contains a small number of reprints and conference proceedings on the topics of metallurgy and nuclear structure.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79973558 View

McFarlan, Ronald Lyman. Oral history interview with Ronald Lyman McFarlan, 1979 December 18.

Title: Oral history interview with Ronald Lyman McFarlan, 1979 December 18.

Family background; science interest arose in high school; education at University of Cincinnati and University of Chicago, Ph.D. in physics under Arthur Compton; assistant to Albert A. Michelson and George S. Monk in optics; to Harvard University as a National Research Council fellow, 1930-1932; and as instructor, 1932-1935. United Drug Co., 1935-1940; applied physics industrial career; Vitamin A packeting; BB Chemical Co., 1940-1943; war-related work; Bulova Watch Co. director of research, 1943-1946, war effort contributions in instrument research (Altimeter, Mach meter); Raytheon consultant, from 1946; guided missile program discussions with American Aviation Corp; vacuum tube computer (RADAC), 1950; Datamatic Corp, 1954, Raytheon and Honeywell co-operation; Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) involvement, from 1954; vice-president for Boston chapter, 1959; consulting assignment in numerous fields; the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IRE, and AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers merger). Also prominently mentioned are: Charles F. Adams, George Bailey, Lloyd Viel Berkner, Hendley Blackman, Percy Williams Bridgman, Warren Chase, Perry Crawford, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, William M. Duane, Don Fink, Pat Haggerty, Mervin J. Kelly, Clarence Linder, Dan Noble, Linus Pauling, Walter Peterson, J. Ernst Smith, and Ernst Weber.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 53 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79057595 View

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.

Title: Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.

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: George D. Birkhoff, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Percy Williams Bridgman, James Chadwick, Edward Condon, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Fowler, James Franck, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Edwin Crawford Kemble, Arthur Klock, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Von Neumann, Lothar Nordheim, Wolfgang Pauli, T.W. Richards, Ernest Rutherford, Richard Chance Tolman, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Whitehead, Eugene Paul Wigner; California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Universität Göttingen, Universität Zurich, and University of California at Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 53 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80709804 View

Unity of Science Movement. Records, 1934-1968

Title: Unity of Science Movement. Records 1934-1968

The Unity of Science Movement, founded by sociologist Otto Neurath, sought a common empirical attitude toward all the sciences and strove to develop a single, comprehensive scientific language. Along with a philosophic program, the members of the movement undertook the publication of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, programs, reprints, a photograph, and newspaper clippings. Includes extensive correspondence of members involved in the movement, as well as organizational materials and abstracts from the International Congresses for the Unity of Science. Also includes material related to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Correspondents include Percy W. Bridgman, Rudolph Carnap, John Dewey, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Joergen Joergensen, Victor Lenzen, Charles W. Morris, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Louis Roughier, and Bertrand Russell.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.USM View

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976. Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.

Title: Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.

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: George D. Birkhoff, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Percy Williams Bridgman, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Ebenezer Cunningham, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Ralph Fowler, P. Franklin, Werner Heisenberg, Friedrich Hund, Egil Hylleraas, Edwin Crawford Kemble, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Alfred Landé, Robert Sanderson Mulliken, Norton, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, George Washington Pierce, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, M. Vallarta, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Norbert Wiener; Harvard University, Harvard University Physics Conferences, Kbeh︣avns Universitet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universität Leipzig, University of Cambridge, and University of Rochester.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 7-inch sound reels (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 78 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78060526 View

Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954. Frank Addison Manny papers, 1890-1955.

Title: Frank Addison Manny papers, 1890-1955.

Correspondence, 1890-1953, largely concerning the progressive education movement, including extensive correspondence with John Dewey; journal, 1922-1950, diary, 1932-1934 and 1937, articles, newspaper clippings, and a memorial address, June 25, 1955, by Rolland Emerson Wolfe in tribute to Manny and his wife, Annette; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80634577 View

Bridgman, Perry Williams, 1882-. Letter, 1935 October 11, Cambridge, Mass., to Ingersoll Bowditch.

Title: Letter, 1935 October 11, Cambridge, Mass., to Ingersoll Bowditch.

Notes that the Rumford Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has appropriated a sum for the publication of his paper, Measurements of certain electrical resistances ... as v. 70, no. 3 of its Proceedings.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6506754 View

MacDonald, Gordon J. (Gordon James), 1929-2002. Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1993-1995.

Title: Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1993-1995.

Early life; study of chemistry and geology at Harvard University (1946-1950, AB); influence of Wendell Furry, John Rosenfeld, Jim Thompson, Francis Birch, Percy Bridgman, Cliff Frondell, Marlon Billings, R.A. Daly and Kirtley Mther. Harlow Shapley and McCarthyism at Harvard University. Elected to Harvard Society of Fellows, sponsored by George Kennedy (1951-1952, AM; 1953-1954, Ph. D.). High pressure studies of jadeite. Arguments about continental drift theories of Jeffreys and Harold Urey's views of geochemical history. Assistant then Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1954-1958); use of computers and time-series analysis and the influence of Steve Simpson. Discussions of geophysical research among King Hubbert, Tom Noland, Phil Abelson, Merle Tuve, and Bill Rubey. Research at Caltech with Fowler, Wasserberg, Greenstein, influence of Fred Hoyle. Editor of the "Journal of Atmospheric Sciences." Relationship of cosmology to geophysics. Development of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. John Tukey's report on greenhouse effect. Reaction to M's paper "How to Wreck the Environment". Early history of the Environmental Science Services Administration.

ArchivalResource: 7 sound cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84131957 View

Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961. Letter, 1939, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1939, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155879202 View

Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, (inclusive), 1905-1982

Title: Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, (inclusive) 1905-1982

The collection contains the professional papers of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), Nobel laureate in physics, whose chief contributions to physics were in the area of the effects of high pressures on materials and their thermodynamic behavior.  The papers consist chiefly of professional and research material.

ArchivalResource: 87 containers

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Libby, Willard F. Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Early life and education; undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate years, 1927-1940 at the University of California, Berkeley. Growth of Berkeley science; Gilbert Lewis, Wendell Latimer and Ernest Lawrence; development of low-level counters; radiochemistry and discovery of isotopes; cross-disciplinary collaboration; interest in carbon-14; association with Samuel Ruben and Martin Kamen; hot atom chemistry and nuclear isomerism; experiences at Princeton University (hot atom chemistry, development of heterogenous catalysis and research on tritium), 1940-1941; work on the chemistry of the diffusion process during World War II at Columbia University (Manhattan Project). Development of the radiocarbon dating technique at the University of Chicago, 1945-1954; measurement of half-life of carbon-14; Harold Urey's importance to Libby; secrecy policy; collaboration with Aristid von Grosse, James Arnold and Ernest Anderson; improved counting technologies; first contacts with archaeologists; Viking Fund and cross-disciplinary collaboration; communicating ideas; Sunshine Project and fallout; AEC appointment; concluding remarks. Also prominently mentioned are: Samuel K. Allison, C.H. Currier, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Felix Ehrenhaft, R.W. Emerson, Enrico Fermi, Leslie Richard Groves, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Robert Hutchins, Immanuel Kant, Serge Korff, Robert Bruce Lindsay, Theodore Lyman, Henry Margenau, McKeehan, Karl Pearson, Henri. Poincaré, D. Richardson, Ernest Rutherford, Leo Schubert, H.S. Uhler, Arthur Gordon Webster, L.P. Wheeler, Norbert Wiener, Anthony Zeleny; American Physical Society, Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Niels Bohr Institutet, Process Corporation, University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies, Viking Fund, and Windermere Hotel.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hr.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81866341 View

Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961. Some of the broader implications of science [sound recording] / John Franklin Carlson Lecture at Iowa State University, 1957 May 1.

Title: Some of the broader implications of science [sound recording] / John Franklin Carlson Lecture at Iowa State University, 1957 May 1.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (1 hrs.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80490083 View

Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961. Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982 (inclusive).

The papers consist chiefly of professional and research material. The documents touch on many aspects of Bridgman's work, including experiments, procurement of research materials and funding, writing and publication, involvement with scholarly societies, work for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and teaching. There is a small amount of material dating from Bridgman's student days, chiefly course notes. There are also small amounts of memorial, biographical, and personal material. Formats include correspondence, laboratory notebooks, manuscripts and notes for Bridgman's writings, research laboratory notebooks, card indices, bibliographies, reports, photographs, diagrams, and charts.

ArchivalResource: 87 containers of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76972984 View

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-. Papers, 1853-1981, (1920-1980)

Title: Papers, 1853-1981, (1920-1980)

Correspondence; manuscripts; notes; reprints; clippings; memorabilia; photographs. Professional correspondence (ca. 1920-1970s) is mostly alphabetized by correspondent. Other correspondence and related materials are by subject on such topics as quantum theory of solids, meetings on magnetism and ferromagnetism, the 1977 Nobel Prize, his role in the American Institute of Physics's history of science project, recent history of science, railroads, the Shockley controversy over race and intelligence, the American Institute of Physics Committee on mathematical typography (1940s), and the National Bureau of Standards battery additive controversy. Manuscripts include materials for a revision of his 1932 book, THE THEORY OF ELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES, and five course theses written as a graduate student of Percy W. Bridgman (1920-1922). Also included are speeches, miscellaneous notes and calculations, book reviews, news releases, teaching materials, mostly from Harvard, and notes taken at Van Vleck's quantum mechanics course (1927-1928). Genealogical and family materials on the Van Vleck family include correspondence of his grandfather, John M. Van Vleck (astronomer and mathematician) and his father, Edward B. Van Vleck (mathematician).

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft. (58 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80284705 View

Fajans, Kasimir, 1887-1975. Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1975.

Title: Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1975.

Correspondence, lecture notes, and other papers largely concerning his professional interests, especially relating to his teaching and publications; material pertaining to his concern for Jewish scholars in Germany before and during World War II; also photographs. Correspondents include: Richard B. Bernstein, Max Bodenstein, Max Born, (Sir) William H. Bragg, George Bredig, Percy W. Bridgman, George H. Cady, James B. Conant, Peter J.W. Debye, Karl Engler, H. von Euler, Paul P. Ewald, Bernard A. Fiekers. Paul D. Foote, James Franck, L. Frankenburger, E. Franz, Hans Fromherz, Fritz Haber, A. Hantzsch, Odd Hassel, Gerhard Herzberg, Georg von Hevesy, Otto Honigschmid, Michael Kasha, Izaak M. Kolthoff, Richard Kuhn, Max von Laue, Erich Lange, Max E. Lembert, Lise Meitner, Walter Nernst, Paul Niggli, Wilhelm Ostwald, Fritz Paneth, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Theodore W. Richards, Frederick D. Rossini, Ernest Rutherford, Glenn T. Seaborg, Frederick Soddy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Hermann Standinger, Michael M. Szwarc, Hugh S. Taylor, Harold C. Urey, Ervin R. Van Artsdalen, Paul Walden, Woldemar A. Weyl, Heinrich Wieland, Richard Willstätter, Ralph W.G. Wycoff, Pieter Zeeman.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34422856 View

Kasimir Fajans Papers, 1912-1987, 1936-1975

Title: Kasimir Fajans Papers 1912-1987 1936-1975

Professor of Chemistry at the Univesity of Michigan, 1936-1957, previously professor at the University of Munich, internationally known for his work on radioactivity; papers include extensive correspondence files, lectures and publications, personal/biographical material and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft. and 2 oversize items (AC)

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Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Title: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Linus Pauling (1901-1994), a 1923 OSU graduate and the only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes, (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962) undertook a wide range of studies during his seventy-year career as a scientist, humanitarian and peace activist. The collection, comprised of over five hundred thousand items, contains all of Pauling's personal and scientific papers, research materials, correspondence, photographs, awards, and memorabilia. Not only does the Pauling archive reflect Linus Pauling's long and varied scientific career, the presence of Ava Helen Pauling's (1903-1981) papers also indicates their mutual devotion to world peace and to each other.

ArchivalResource: 4437 linear feet; 1800 boxes

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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Oral history interview with Niels Bohr, 1962 October 31 to 17 November.

Title: Oral history interview with Niels Bohr, 1962 October 31 to 17 November.

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: Niels Bjerrum, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Albert Einstein, Ralph Fowler, Hans Marius Hansen, Werner Heisenberg, Georg von Hevesy, Harald Höffding, William James, James Jeans, Walter Kossel, Paul Langevin, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, John William Nicholson, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Boris Podolsky, John William Strutt Rayleigh, Rosen, Carl Runge, Ernest Rutherford, Johannes Robert Rydberg, Frederick Soddy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Edmund Clifton Stoner, John Joseph Thomson; Universität Göttingen, Universität München, and University of Manchester.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 5 7-inch reels (ca. 7.0 hrs.), 5 sessions.Transcript: 67 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81474404 View

Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997. Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.

Title: Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.

Early life and education in Germany; student years in U.S. and A.B., Midland College, 1924; M. Sc., University of Nebraska, 1927; Ph. D., Yale University, 1929. Discussion of change in interest from liberal arts to physics. Sterling Research Fellow in Germany working with Arnold Sommerfeld, Hans Bethe, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born and Fritz London on electron theory of metals and Van der Waal's forces. Instructor, 1929-1930; Professor, Yale University beginning 1931; changes in physics curriculum and resistance to it by Leigh Page. Physics textbooks written by Margenau. Work at Yale during World War II, present work being done such as plasma physics, line broadening, philosophy of physics. Reminiscences of associates including Eugene Wigner, John Wheeler, Percy W. Bridgman. Extensive discussion of philosophical views, notably philosophy of science and historical methodolgy, and influences on these views.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

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Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-. The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979.

Title: The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck discusses Slater's educational career at Harvard University, where they were both students in the 1920s, and the first few years following Slater's Ph. D. The account is anecdotal and describes: the classes Slater and Van Vleck took under Percy Bridgman and Edwin Kemble in quantum theory, life in the physics department at Harvard, Slater's Ph. D. thesis on alkali halides, his post-doctoral work in Europe (at the University of Cambridge and in Copenhagen, where he worked with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers), Slater's position on the Harvard faculty after his return from Europe, his early publications and research, and the development of quantum theory and Slater's role in it.

ArchivalResource: 11 p.

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Letters to John Torrence Tate, 1928.

Title: Letters to John Torrence Tate, 1928.

Letters to Tate, then managing editor of the American Physical Society's PHYSICAL REVIEW, from forty-nine American physicists in response to Tate's request for opinions on the advisability of starting a supplement to THE PHYSICAL REVIEW which later became the separate journal, REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS. Two of Tate's letters are included, as well as his draft list of physicists to whom letters were sent; a resume of the replies; and rough notes on subjects wanted and subjects offered for the journal. Correspondents include Percy Williams Bridgman, Arthur Holly Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Karl K. Darrow, Irving Langmuir, Robert A. Millikan, Robert S. Mulliken, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

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Drickamer, H. G. (Harry George), 1918-2002. Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

Title: Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

Response to a survey of approximately 250 leading geophysicists worldwide, conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics and the Committee on History of Geophysics of the American Geophysical Union in 1997. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as Part One of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics-related institutions. Contents include a list of biographical information, and an autobiographical statement describing Drickamer's education and research. While beginning as a chemical engineer, he gravitated toward research and finished a Ph.D. Because of his scientific interests, specifically fluid-liquids and dense gases, he accepted a position at University of Illinois where chemical engineering and chemistry were in the same department. He later expanded his studies, crediting P. W. Bridgman with pioneering modern techniques in chemistry and high pressure studies.

ArchivalResource: 14 pp.

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George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

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Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. Oral history interview with Philipp Frank, 1962 July 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Philipp Frank, 1962 July 16.

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: Ludwig Edvard Boltzmann, Percy Williams Bridgman, Louis de Broglie, Patrick Browne, James Bryant Conant, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Franz Serafin Exner, Arthur de Haas, Fritz Hasenöhrl, Werner Heisenberg, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Victor Francis Hess, Jack Kennedy, Paul Langevin, Ernst Mach, Richard von Mises, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Kurt Sitte, Arnold Sommerfeld; Deutsche Naturforscher Versammlung (Prague), University of Prague, and Universität Wien.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 16 pp.

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Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-. Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.

Title: Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.

Studies in Europe, 1912; graduate study under Robert A. Millikan at University of Chicago; employment with Western Electric Co. and Bell Labs, 1917-1956; brief time doing experimental work on the "carbon microphone" and long distance sound detectors; review articles on contemporary advances in physics, 1920s-1930s; description of early meetings of American Physical Society (APS); 1933 visit to European centers for physical research; work on the relationship between commercial and basic research in physics. Organization and growth of APS, his terms as Secretary, 1941-1956, during which he introduced "invited papers" to major meetings; problems within APS and within the area of physics in general; his role in fostering international cooperation in physics. Outside interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Hans Albrecht Bethe, William Lawrence Bragg, Percy Williams Bridgman, J. J. Carty, Arthur Holly Compton, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Enrico Fermi, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, James Franck, Lester Halbert Germer, H. E. Ives, Frank Jewett, Arthur Lunn, Albert Abraham Michelson, George Braxton Pegram, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Frances Orr Severinghaus, William Francis Gray Swann, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Harold Worthington Webb; American Institute of Physics, United States National Bureau of Standards, and University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 30 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79715931 View

Allen, Mildred, 1894-1990. Oral history interview with Mildred Allen, 1979 June 18.

Title: Oral history interview with Mildred Allen, 1979 June 18.

Born in Massachusetts in 1894, the elder of two daughters of an MIT professor of civil engineering. Graduated from Vassar College in 1916 with training in mathematics and physics; Ph.D. in physics (1922) at Clark University with Arthur Gordon Webster, with thesis research done at MIT; taught at Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and Oberlin Colleges during the 1920s and early 1930s; studied further at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. Research at the Bartol Foundation, 1927-1930, and at Harvard University, 1931-1933; teaching at Mt. Holyoke from 1933 until retirement in 1959. Additional research, most recently (paper published 1971) on the behavior of torsion pendulums especially during solar eclipses. Also prominently mentioned are: Frank Allen, Percy Williams Bridgman, Henry Gordon Gale, Hiram Hadley, G. Stanley Hall, Erwin J. Saxl, William Francis Gray Swann; American Physical Society, Faculty Club of Harvard University, National Education Association, New Mexico State University, Swarthmore College, University of Chicago, and Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics at University of Michigan.

ArchivalResource: 1 session, (ca. 2.0 hrs.)Transcript: 21 p.

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Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-. Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2

Title: Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2

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: Raymond Thayer Birge, George D. Birkhoff, Gregory Breit, Percy Williams Bridgman, J. Brinsmaid, Arthur Compton, William Duane, Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Victor Fritz Lenzen, Henry Margenau, Dayton C. Miller, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Harris Osgood, Lee Page, George Washington Pierce, Wallace Clement Sabine, F. A. Saunders, John Clarke Slater, Arthur Gordon Webster; Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Molecular Spectrum Committee, and National Research Council.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 33 pp.

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