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Hall, Douglas Deane, 1940-. Colloquim papers [manuscript] 1960-61.

Title: Colloquim papers [manuscript] 1960-61.

Papers accumulating during his chairmanship of the University-union sponsored colloquium at the University of Virginia in March, 1961. Included are correspondence, clippings, programs and advertising pieces. Among the correspondents are Jacques Barzun, Percy Elwood Corbett, Lawrence Durrell, John Richard Hersey, Aldous Leonard Huxley, Philip Cortelyou Johnson, David Mackenzie Ogilvy, Sylvia Field Porter, Paul Marvin Rudolph, Albert Bruce Salein, Alexander Procofieff De Seversky and Norbert Wiener.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938243 View

Gabor, Dennis, 1900-1979. Correspondence, 1961-1969.

Title: Correspondence, 1961-1969.

Collection contains correspondence, with attachments, related to futurism.

ArchivalResource: .45 cubic ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31179190 View

Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964. On the technical development of automatization and some of its moral consequences / by Norbert Wiener, 1959.

Title: On the technical development of automatization and some of its moral consequences / by Norbert Wiener, 1959.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49212159 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

Abraham Aaron Roback papers, 1909-1965.

Title: Abraham Aaron Roback papers

Papers of Abraham Aaron Roback (1890-1965), the Polish-born, American psychologist, philologist, folklorist, and educator.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01944/catalog View

Born, Max, 1882-1970. Oral history interview with Max Born, 1960 June to 18 October 1962.

Title: Oral history interview with Max Born, 1960 June to 18 October 1962.

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 Henrik David Bohr, E. Bormann, Louis de Broglie, Cauchy, Peter Josef William Debye, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, Huang, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Felix Klein, Alfred Landé, Max von Laue, Erwin Madelung, Albert Abraham Michelson, Hermann Minkowski, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Venkata Chandrasekhar Raman, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Stern, Toeplitz, Woldemar Voigt, Theodore von Kármán, Norbert Wiener; Como Conference, Universität Göttingen, and University of Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 7-inch sound reels (ca. 5.5 hrs.), 4 sessions.Transcript: 63 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83659745 View

Oswald Veblen Papers, 1881-1960, (bulk 1920-1960)

Title: Oswald Veblen Papers 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960)

Mathematician. Correspondence, diaries, subject files, articles, book reviews, drafts of books, lecture notebooks, financial papers, and miscellany relating primarily to Veblen's work and research in pure mathematics and mathematical physics and reflecting his association with Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the American Mathematical Society. Also includes material relating to Veblen's efforts on behalf of displaced German scholars and refugees.

ArchivalResource: 13,600 items; 43 containers plus 1 overize; 17 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011049 View

Alan Tower Waterman Papers, 1917-1967, (bulk 1940-1963)

Title: Alan Tower Waterman Papers 1917-1967 (bulk 1940-1963)

Physicist and science administrator. Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, articles, travel itineraries, subject file, and biographical material chiefly relating to Waterman’s activities as an administrator of scientific research organizations including his years as deputy chief of the United States Office of Naval Research and as director of the United States National Science Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 17,700 items; 59 containers plus 1 classified; 23.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010304 View

Wiener, Norbert papers

Title: Norbert Wiener papers

This collection documents the career of Norbert Wiener. Wiener was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1919 to 1960 in the Department of Mathematics, and was a leader in the field of cybernetics. The material in this collection includes biographical information, correspondence, course material, manuscripts, and reprints.

ArchivalResource: 24.0 cubic feet; in 71 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/600 View

Wintner, Aurel, 1903-1958. [Aurel Wintner papers, 1848-1961.].

Title: [Aurel Wintner papers, 1848-1961.].

Collection documents Aurel Wintner's professional life as a mathematician. The collection consists largely of Wintner's writings and reprints of his colleagues' work. There are some lecture notes and outlines from courses he taught at Hopkins and some professional correspondence. There is one box of papers dealing with Wintner's years as editor of the "American Journal of Mathematics."

ArchivalResource: 28.75 linear feet (21 record center boxes, 6 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48388295 View

Weeks, Dorothy Walcott, 1893-1990. Oral history interview with Dorothy Walcott Weeks, 1978 July 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Dorothy Walcott Weeks, 1978 July 19.

Family background, education, and emergence of scientific orientation. Undergraduate years at Wellesley College, 1912-1916; description of physics department. Assistant examiner in U.S. Patent Office during World War I. At MIT under Edwin B. Wilson as graduate student and laboratory assistant, lab instructor, 1920-1924. Returned to MIT for doctoral work in 1928. Mathematical physics thesis under Norbert Wiener, while teaching at Wellesley. Depression years brought teaching position at Wilson College, 1930-1943; used Wellesley as model. Work on Zeeman Pattern earns her Guggenheim Fellowship at MIT and European labs, 1949-1950. World War II years as head of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD British Report Section). Return to Wilson, 1945-1956, working part-time at National Science Foundation, 1953-1956. Retirement years, including affiliation with U.S. Army and spectroscopic work at Harvard College Observatory. Comments on women in physics in U.S., her own opportunities and teaching in general. Also prominently mentioned are: Pauline Morrow Austin, Louisa Eyre, George Harrison, Louise McDowell, Ethelbert D. Warfield, Edwin Bidwell Wilson; American Association of University Professors, American Physical Society, Jordan Marsh Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spectroscopy Laboratory, Radcliffe College, State University of New York at Binghamton, United States National Bureau of Standards, United States Office of Scientific Research and Development, and United States Ordnance Materials Research Office.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 23 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79894747 View

Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964. Norbert Wiener papers, 1949-1952.

Title: Norbert Wiener papers, 1949-1952.

Correspondence with Walter Reuther to stimulate consideration of the long range effect of automated manufacturing on labor.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321256 View

Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995. Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.

Title: Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.

Youth and family origins; student days at Amherst College, 1924-1928, and at Ann Arbor 1928-1931. Contact with European physicists and rising Nazism, 1932-1933; the physics departments at Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University in the 1930s, and Johns Hopkins University in the 1940s; atomic spectroscopy, ferromagnetism, uses of the vector model, shift from atomic to nuclear spectroscopy, the Thomas precession and spin-orbit coupling in nuclei, shell and droplet models for nuclei, intermediate coupling model for light nuclei, the earth's magnetic field, wind-dynamos and nuclear reactors; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory during World War II, Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s; expression of social concern, especially in relation to the nuclear arms race, in the 1950s through the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the political victimization of Donald Flanders, the Federation of American Scientists, congressional testimony concerning Lewis Strauss' (nominee for Sec. of Commerce) experiences at Pugwash Conferences, obstacles to slowing or reversing the arms race. Also prominently mentioned are: A.P. Alexandrov, Clinton Anderson, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Isiah Bowman, Gregory Breit, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, Walter Francis Colby, Edward Uhler Condon, Sydney Michael Dancoff, Paul Ehrenfest, Elmer Eisner, Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Wendell Furry, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit. Stanley Hanna, Werner Heisenberg, Walter Heitler, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Alger Hiss, Edith Hoyle, John Charles Hubbard, Alfred Landé, Otto Laporte, Joseph McCarthy, Gale McGee, Arnold Nordsieck, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Ernest Poole, Leonard Schiff, Hugh Scott, Alpheus Wilson Smith, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Edward Teller, Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, John Osgood Thomson, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, John Archibald Wheeler, Norbert Wiener, Samuel Robinson Williams, Robert Williams Wood, Lloyd Young; Bayrische Wahl, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Saturday Review, United States Army Signal Corps, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Congress, Universität Leipzig, Universität Zurich, University of Chicago, University of Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics, and Zeitschrift für Physik.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 82 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84075262 View

John Von Neumann Papers, 1912-1996, (bulk 1935-1957)

Title: John Von Neumann Papers 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957)

Mathematician, atomic energy commissioner, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, speeches, article and book drafts, notes, charts, graphs, patent, biographical material, family papers, and other material pertaining primarily to John Von Neumann's career as professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study; adviser and commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; scientific consultant to government and private concerns; and author of works on ballistic research, computers, continuous geometries, logic, operator theory, quantum mechanics, and the theory of games.

ArchivalResource: 11,660 items; 34 containers; 13.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View