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

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection S-Z, 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: Jakob Salpeter, Alexander Sandow, Ralph Sawyer, Vincent Schaefer, Marcel Schein, George Schoepfle, W. Schreyer, Donald Scifres, Frederick Seitz, Carl Shakin, Allen Shenstone, Glenn Sherwood, Jesse Sherwood, Ken'ichi Shinohara, George Shortley, A.J.F. Siegert, A.E. Siegman, S. Fred Singer, Albert M. Skellett, Lewis Slack, Walter Slavin, Joseph Slepian, Rodolfo Slobodrian, Alpheus W. Smith, Gail Preston Smith, Orrin H. Smith, William V. Smith, Charles P. Smyth, William Ralph Smythe, Arthur H. Snell, Arnold Sommerfeld, Donald Spencer, Athelstan Spilhaus, James K, Sprinkle, Wayne Treber Sproull, George Stern, Malcolm L. Stitch, John Willard Stout, J.D. Stranathan, Dirk Jan Struik, Satoru Sugano, Richard Sutton, P. Swings, Eizo Tajima, Richard Taschek, Lauriston Taylor, V.T. Ter-Oganezov, Edmund Thelen. Richard N. Thomas, Louis K. Thome, Clyde Tombaugh, Ralph Traxler, Cliford Truesdell, Edward Tyndall, Francois Ulam, Albrecht Unsld, Harold Urey, Joseph Valasek, J.H. Van Vleck, Frank Verbrugge, Donald Villars, George Vinal, Adolf Voight, William Von Arx, Georg Von Bekesy, Nicholas Wagman, Tetsuo Wakatsuki, Floyd Watson, William Watson, Harold Webb, Ernst Weber, J. Weber, Dorothy Walcott Weeks, Carl Friedrich Weizscker, Theodore Welton, John A. Wheeler, Gregor Wentzel, Joseph Weneser, Donald White, Marsh W. White, R. Stephen White, Balfour S. Whitney, Rolf Widere, Irwin Weider, L. Wilets, Dudley Williams, Van Zandt Williams, Harold A. Wilson, J. Tuzo Wilson, Raymond Wilson, Leon J. Winard, Ralph Winch, Edson Rae Wolcott, Eric Woodbury, Edith J. Woodward, George P. Woollard, E.J. Workman, Frances W. Wright, Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, Paul Yergin, Jerrold Zacharias, Anthony Zeleny, Clarence Zener, Mark Zemansky, Alexander J. Zink.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

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University of Virginia. Dept. of Physics. Summary of the records of holders of the Ph. D. in physics 1939.

Title: Summary of the records of holders of the Ph. D. in physics 1939.

The report lists the 32 men who earned the Ph. D. in physics from the University of Virginia and gives brief notes of their accomplishments. The list includes Fred Allison, William J. Archibald, John Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby, Jesse W. Beams, Charles D. Bradley, William M. Breazeale, Claude W. Bruce, Lois Carwile, Preston B. Carwile, James A. Chiles, Jr., Thomas Davis, John W. Flowers, Thomas E. Gilmer, William T. Ham, Fred B. Haynes, James A. Hootman, and Charles R. Larkin. Also Albert V. Masket, Dan H. Moore, Edward G. Pickels, Michael Podtaiguine, Gilford G. Quarles, Lawrence R. Quarles, Peyton Nalle Rhodes, Cleveland S. Smith, Henry Louis Smith, L.B. Snoddy, Edward C. Stevenson, Jaabez C. Street, John A. Tiedeman, Herbert Trotter, Jr., and E.J. Workman.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60780830 View