Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).
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History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [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 C.G. Abbot, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, Paul Gough Agnew, Thomas Alexander, Leroy R. Alldredge, Fred Allison, IA. L. Alpert, Howard Andrews, Norman Austern, Harold Babcock, Lewis Balamuth, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, N.P. Barabashov, E. Scott Barr, H.H. Barschall, Carl Barus, Michael Bass, Robert Harold Bassel, Bath, Markus, Louis Andrew Beach, Linn Yardley Beers, Norman Carl Beese, William E. Bell, David Fulmer Bender, Walter Benenson, Harold E. Bennett, Ralph Decker Bennett, Robert Thomas Beyer, Ludwig Biermann, S. Biswas, John Paul Blewett, Arnold Lapin Bloom, David Bohm, Bertram Bordon Boltwood, Ludwig Boltzmann, Arnold Aaron Bondi, Max Born, Ira Bowen, Emily Hughes Boyce, Constance Doraine Boyd, D.B. Brace, James J. Brady, Walter H. Brattain, Aubrey Keith Brewer, Richard G. Brewer, William B. Bridges, Leon Brillouin, Herbert P. Broida, Frederick Lyons Brown, James William Broxon, Keith Allan Brueckner, Reid AJ. Bryson, Arthur Maynard Bueche, W.E. Burcham, J.M. Burgers, Robert L. Burman, Walter G. Cady, Jack Calvert A.G.W. Cameron, Lee Wendel Casperson, James MacDonald Cassels, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Britton Chance, Arnold Franklin Clark, Donald Clayton, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Robert Griffin Coleman, Daniel F. Comstock, Edward Uhler Condon, C. Sharp Cook, William David Coolidge, Richard Threlkeld Cox, William Henry Crew, Samuel Curran.
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63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.
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