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Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985. Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.

In Munich, 1920, early association with Erwin Schrödinger; Stuttgart, 1921-1937; comments on Arnold Sommerfeld and Fritz Emde as physicists; work with Carl Hermann on crystal structures; crystal conference, 1925 (Bragg). Establishment of Ewald's Institute, 1930; early association with Hans Bethe. Nazi influence in professional scientific societies and schools; student unrest; Albert Einstein's resignation from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences; comments on Einstein; Nazi physicists. Visits to the U.S.; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Purdue University, 1936, and again in 1938; Ralph Wyckoff; desire to find employment in U.S.; run-in with Nazis, 1937; left for England; meetings with Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Impact of Rutherford's death. Life in Cambridge. Lectureship at University of Belfast, 1939; professor, 1944; life in Belfast; plight as German refugee in England. Portrait of Paul A. M. Dirac. Head of Physics Department at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1950. The Polycrystal Book Service. Appraisal of own scientific interests and accomplishments. Also prominently mentioned are: Henri Abraham, William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg, Maurice de Broglie, Doris Cattell, Marie Sklodowska Curie, George Darwin, Bergen Davis, Peter Josef William Debye, Eamon DeValera, Ehrenberg, Karl G. Emelius, Robley Dunglison Evans, Ella Ewald, Isidor Fankuchen, Feldkeller, Fleury, Garrido, Hermann Göring, E. P. Gross, Werner Heisenberg, A. Hettich, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Philipp Edward Anton Lenard, Charles Mauguin, Friedrich I. Mautner, Linus Pauling, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Max Planck, Pongs, Peter Pringsheim, Erich Regener, Friedrich Rinne, Rogers, Hubert W. Schleuning, Anne Schrödinger, Manne Siegbahn, Ernest Sommerfeld, Julius Stratton, Ernest Wagner, Gregor Wentzel; Acta Crystallographica, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, University of Cambridge Press, Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, Duke University, General Electric Company, Great Britain University Grants Committee, Handbuch der Physik, Dublin Institute for Advanced Physics, International Conference of Crystallographers (1946: London, England), International Union of Physics, Société d'Optique, Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Universität Stuttgart, University of Cambridge, and University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 95 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622688 View

McLachlan, Dan, 1905-. Selected incoming letters, 1940-1974.

Title: Selected incoming letters, 1940-1974.

The letters document most aspects of McLachlan's career and interests, including professional appointments at American Cyanamid Corporation, Ohio State University, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Denver, and the University of Utah. The correspondence also refers to research in crystallography, McLachlan's reprints and publications in crystallography and x-ray diffraction, student placement, recommendations, and the meetings of scientific societies of which he was a member, including the American Crystallographic Association. Correspondents include: William A. Boekel, Léon Brillouin, F. William Cagle, J. Glenn Dyer, Walter M. Elsasser, Peter Paul Ewald, Isidor Fankuchen, F. Hobi Kuse, Henry Margeneau.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79074330 View

Fankuchen, Isidor, 1904-1964. Papers, 1932-1964.

Title: Papers, 1932-1964.

Personal, scientific, and other correspondence, manuscripts, reprints, photographs, doctoral thesis, data books, samples of specimens, and lecture research notebooks. The bulk of the collection is post-1947 correspondence. Includes materials on x-ray diffraction and crystallography, and academic freedom, as well as Fankuchen's early research in molecular biology. Correspondents include: John Desmond Bernal, George Lindenberg Clark, Norman Fordyce McKerron Henry, Richard Fiske Jarrell, Raymond Pepinsky, Aaron Sidney Posner, Dorothy Wrinch, the American Crystallographic Association, the American Society for X-Ray and Electron Diffraction, the International Union of Crystallography, the National Bureau of Standards, National Research Council, National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Committee on Crystallography for the International Union of Crystallography, and representatives of various academic institutions, journals, publishing companies, technical and humanitarian societies, industry, and government agencies.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80180985 View