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Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974. Papers, ca. 1920-1974.

Title: Papers, ca. 1920-1974.

This collection includes correspondence, notebooks, writings, photographs, newsclippings, etc., concerning Condon's education, teaching, and his government, industrial and academic work. There is also much interesting material relating to his problems with obtaining security clearances during to late 1940s and 1950s.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75,000 items (75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86165445 View

Panofsky, Wolfgang Kurt Hermann, 1919-. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 to 1974 June 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 to 1974 June 3.

Family background and childhood in Germany, 1919-1934; emigration to U.S. and undergraduate study and life at Princeton University, 1934-1938. Graduate work at California Institute of Technology, 1938-1942; work with Jesse W. M. DuMond, course load, and importance of his thesis. War work at California Institute of Technology; problems because of enemy alien status; work on firing error indicators. War work at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: atomic bomb explosion, feelings concerning implications. Research at University of California at Berkeley, 1945-1951: construction of linear accelerator under Luis Alvarez (training, funding, working relationships, work schedules, relationship with other research groups), work on synchrotron, bevatron, Material Testing Accelerator project, neutal meson work and pion work; campus life, teaching responsibilities, textbook writing with Melba Phillips; security measures at Berkeley, 1945-1951: Berkeley's loyalty oath leads to move to Stanford University, 1951. The "Screw Driver" report (with Robert Hofstadter) for the Atomic Energy Commission. Korean War-related work (Felix Bloch, Edward L. Ginzton, Robert Kyhl); rigid politics of physics department; Washington involvement; consultant to the Air Force Science Advisory Board; Hans Bethe, Edward Teller; Bethe's Conference of Experts, 1958; Geneva negotiations, 1959; George Kistiakowski and Isidor I. Rabi; appointment to President's Science Advisory Committee, 1960; Dwight D. Eisenhower. Government support of science; Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC); Joint Committee on Atomic Energy hearings (Ginzton, Varian Associates); avoiding the "Berkeley image" at SLAC. Also prominently mentioned are: Sue Gray Norton Alsalan, Carl David Anderson, Raymond Thayer Birge, Hugh Bradner, Henry Eyring, Don Gow, Alex E. S. Green, William Webster Hansen, Joel Henry Hildebrand, Giulo Lattes, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Edwin Mattison McMillan, John Francis Neylan, Hans Arnold Panofsky, Ryokishi Sagane, Robert Gordon Sproul, Raymond L. Steinberger, Charles Hard Townes, Watters, Gian Carlo Wick, John Robert Woodyard, Dean E. Wooldridge, Fritz Zwicky; Federation of American Scientists, and Lawrence Radiation

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 161 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83026914 View

Phillips, Melba, 1907-. Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1978.

Title: Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1978.

Transcript of a speech given to a 1978 meeting of the American Physical Society which recounts Phillips' early education; undergraduate education at Battle Creek College; the summer school at University of Michigan; and her graduate education at University of California, Berkeley, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Harvey E. White, Ernest O. Lawrence, Felix Bloch, and Linus Pauling. Phillips also discusses her perception of the attitude toward women in physics during the thirties and later. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.

ArchivalResource: 6 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82303159 View

National Broadcasting Company, inc. Final script and draft, lesson 33 "Work and Energy" of Continental Classroom: Physics for the Atomic Age, program on NBC Television, 1958.

Title: Final script and draft, lesson 33 "Work and Energy" of Continental Classroom: Physics for the Atomic Age, program on NBC Television, 1958.

The program was cosponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Program host was Harvey E. White and Melba N. Phillips was main speaker.

ArchivalResource: 17 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77898620 View

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000. Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Manuscripts, correspondence (including many requests to give talks or seminars or advice on building accelerators), papers, talks, articles, clippings, notes and notebooks, course materials, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. He was also highly regarded as a lecturer and teacher of physics and historian of world affairs relating to the developing uses of atomic energy. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs, as well as designs and plans for his homes in New Mexico and Florida. Correspondents include: Len Ackland, J.B. Adams, Paul Aebersold, Samuel K. Allison, Luis Alvarez, Edoardo Amaldi, Robert Bacher, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Charles Parker Baker, Gilberto Bernardini, Hans A. Bethe, Norris Bradbury, Gregory Breit, Morton Camac, James Cassels, Wen-yu Chang, Stirling Colgate, Alice Cook, Donald Cooksey, Dan Cooper, Robert Cornog, Dale R. Corson, L.S. Cottrell, Ed Creutz, Karl K. Darrow, John DeWire, Pierre Donzelot, Philippe Eberhard, Bernard Feld, Dennis Flanagan, William A. Fowler, Jerome H. Fregau, R.C. Gibbs, William T. Golden, Maurice Goldhaber, Edwin L. Goldwasser, L. Goldzahl, S. Goutsmit, Kenneth Greisen, T.C. Griffith, Gaylord P. Harnwell, W.W. Havens, Jr., David Hawkins, Leland J. Haworth, S.S. Hecker, William Higenbotham, Frederic de Hoffmann, Robert Hofstadter, Gerald Holton, David R. Inglis, W.K. Jentschke, Donald W. Kerst, Seishi Kikuchi, Raymond N. Knellberg, George A. Kolstad, James A. Krumhansl, Hirao Kumagai, L. Jackson Laslett, Ernest O. Lawrence, Leon M. Lederman, T.D. Lee, A.J. Leigh, J.S. Levinger, Maurice M. Levy, Urner Liddel, Raphael Littauer, M. Stanley Livingston, Edward J. Lofgren, Franklin A. Long, Harry Lustig, T.W. Mackesey, John H. Manley, Robert E. Marshak, Boyce D. McDaniel, Paul W. McDaniel, Edwin M. McMillan, J. Howard McMillen, Richard L. Meier, E.E. Minett, Philip Moon, Philip Morrison, Paul M. O'Leary, Frank Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Orear, Philip S. Owen, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, and Richard Parmenter. Correspondents also include: Lyman G. Parratt, R.E. Peierls, James A. Perkins, F. Perrin, Melba Phillips, Bruno Pontecorvo, William Preston, Federico Quercia, Norman Ramsey, Leonard M. Rieser, Arthur Roberts, Thomas R. Rogers, Edward T. Rosenbaum, Arthur E. Ruark, Robert G. Sachs, Carl Sagan, Giorgio Salvini, Joseph Halle Schaffner, Herwig Schopper, Emilio Segrè, Frederick Seitz, R.S. Shankland, A.H. Shapley, Kai Siegbahn, Albert Silverman, Daniel M. Singer, Ralph Carlisle Smith, H.D. Smyth, Jack Steinberger, Jeremy J. Stone, Sandro Stringari, S. Cushing Strout, John M. Swomley, Leo Szilard, John T. Tate, Edward Teller, Emily Thompson, John S. Toll, Timothy E. Toohig, Robert L. Walker, Alvin M. Weinberg, Victor F. Weisskopf, John A. Wheeler, Harry J. White, Milton G. White, E.P. Wigner, Herman S. Wigodsky, Frederic H. Williams, John H. Williams, Robert Williams, Richard Wilson, Michael Witherell, William M. Woodward, T.P. Wright, William E. Wright, Chien Shiung Wu, Yuan Chia-liu, and A. Zichichi. Tape recording and transcript of the Memorial Service for Robert R. Wilson, March 11, 2000.

ArchivalResource: 12.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64756412 View

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

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 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: Duncan A. MacInnes, Ernst Mach, Fred Conrad Maienschein, Thomas F. Malone, H. F. Mark, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, Howard Nicholas Maxwell, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lawrence Earl McAllister, Alexander McBirney, James W. McGrath, J. H. McGuire, John A. McIntyre, Louis Williams McKeehan, D. P. McKenzie, Dan McLachlan, Edwin M. McMillan, Elsie Blumer McMillan, George C. McVittie, Rolf Meissner, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Donald Menzel, James W. Meyer, Walter E. Meyerhof, Albert A. Michelson, W. E. Knowles Middleton, Edward Arthur Milne, Freeman D. Miller, H. Minkowski, G. Miyamoto, F. L. Mohler, Karl Z. Morgan, Susuma Morita, Philip McCord Morse, Evan Mueller, Erwin W. Muller, Robert S. Mulliken, Gerard Francis William Mulders, Edward J. Jurphy, Mokichiro Nogami, Itaru Nonaka, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Ralph Emerson Nasbaum, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Louis Neel, Otto Oldenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Elburt Franklin Osborn, Thomas H. Osgood, William J. Otting, Clarence J. Overbeck, Thornton Page, Frederic Palmer, Eugene N. Parker, John Hilliard Parker, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernest Peierls, Raymond Pepinsky, Melba Phillips, Heinz Pick, George Pickard, J. C. Polanyi, William Pollard, Marion Llewellyn Pool, Daniel M. Popper, Thomas Charles Poulter, Robert V. Pound, H. Primakoff, Emerson M. Pugh, Earle Keith Plyler, I. I. Rabi, Harrison M. Randall, Jacobo Rapaport, Aravi Prakash Rau, Peter M. Rentzepis, George Thomas Reynolds, John Hamilton Reynolds, Hugh T. Richards, Norman Hurd Ricker, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Tsuneji Rikitake, George Roy Ringo, Alice M. Risley, Richard B. Roberts, Walter Orr Roberts, J. M. Robson, John Ransom Roebuck, Edwin Roedder, John Rogers, Elizabeth Rona, Joseph Lloyd Rood, Louis Rosen, Frank L. Roth, Arthur Edward Ruark.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 500 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83426762 View

Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Title: Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.

Memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe , and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the collection are some family letters, documents and photographs.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA03093.xml View

American Association of Physics Teachers. Records of Paul E. Klopsteg, 1930-1975.

Title: Records of Paul E. Klopsteg, 1930-1975.

Correspondence; typescripts; minutes. The materials document Klopsteg's activities as a founding member of AAPT, its treasurer (1932-1952) and president (1953-1954). The correspondence (bulk dates, 1953-1962) relates to AAPT awards, annual and executive committee meetings, AAPT history, secondary school physics teaching, and the AAPT committee on physics in engineering education. The typescripts are second and third drafts of the AAPT history by Vincent Parker and Charles Wilder (1966) with Klopsteg's editorial suggestions. The minutes are the treasurer's copy of AAPT Annual Meetings and Executive Committee Meetings from 1930-1955. Correspondents include: Stanley S. Ballard, W. James King, Thomas D. Miner, Melba Phillips, Arnold A. Strassenburg, and Marsh W. White.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78732367 View

Zemansky, Mark Waldo, 1900-. Mark W. Zemansky commemorative session, American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting, 1982 June 23.

Title: Mark W. Zemansky commemorative session, American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting, 1982 June 23.

The file includes the printed program of the commemorative session in memory of Mark Zemansky at the meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, June 23, 1982, as well as the three-page manuscript of a tribute to him by Melba Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 11 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79789781 View

American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (1974 : Chicago, Ill.). Joint ceremonial session of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording] / 1974 February 5.

Title: Joint ceremonial session of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording] / 1974 February 5.

Speakers include: Joseph E. Mayer, "Address of the Retiring President of the American Physical Society;" Kenneth W. Ford, "Presentation of the Oersted Medal of the AAPT;" Melba Phillips, "Response of the Recipient of the Oersted Medal;" and Steven Weinberg giving the third Richtmyer Lecture of the AAPT, "Progress Toward a Unified Theory of Elementary Particles."

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels (2.5 hrs.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82999109 View

Phillips, Melba, 1907-. Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.

Title: Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.

Family background, childhood and education up through college, all in Indiana; her graduate study, first at Battle Creek College (M.A.), then at the University of California under J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ph.D. 1933; also attended University of Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics, 1929. Between her Ph.D. and her first college faculty position (Connecticut College for Women, 1937-1938) she held postdoctoral fellowships at University of California, Bryn Mawr College and the Institute for Advanced Study. With the exception of a period of war-time teaching at the University of Minnesota, she taught at Brooklyn College from 1938 to 1952, when she was fired for not cooperating with the McCarran Committee. During her period of unemployment she coauthored 2 textbooks, Classical Electricity and Magnetism (with Wolfgang Panofsky) and Principles of Physical Science (with Francis Bonner). In 1957 she was brought to Washington University in St. Louis by Edward U. Condon to run the Academic Year Institute program there. From 1962 until her retirement in 1972, she was professor of physics at the University of Chicago. She has long been active in the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) serving as its President in 1966 and as its Executive Officer in recent years; comments on AAPT's role and problems. She also gives her views on physics and physicists today, including the experience of women physicists in the U.S. Brief discussion of her work with J. Robert Oppenheimer and her political difficulties in the 1950s. Also prominently mentioned are: Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, David Bohm, Francis Bonner, Jay W. Buchta, Annie Jump Cannon, Suzanne Ellis, William Jordan, Robert Karplus, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Frank Press, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck; Academic Year Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Physics Teachers Commission on College Physics, American Physical Society, City College of City University of New York, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Project Physics, National Science Foundation, Optical Society of America, Physical Sciences Study Committee, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 24 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81793071 View

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Early 1930s Ph. D.s Project. Responses to Early 1930s Ph. D.s Survey, 1980.

Title: Responses to Early 1930s Ph. D.s Survey, 1980.

Responses to a survey of physicists who received their Ph. D.s in the years 1931-1934 (whose names were taken from data acculmulated by M. Lois Marckworth for her book, Dissertations in Physics, Stanford, 1961). The survey was conducted in 1980 by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics as part of the 59th Anniversary of the AIP's founding in 1931. Recipients were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large. File includes responses from: Lewis Balamuth, James Joseph Brady, William Littell Everitt, Harold Q. Fuller, Stanford Goldman, Marshall Cathcart Harrington, Marathon Eby High, Hubert Maxwell James, John Daniel Kraus, Karl Ziegler Morgan, Ralph Emerson Nusbaum, Melba Newell Phillips, Alexander Sandow, George Kern Schoepfle, Wayne Treber Sproull, John Archibald Wheeler, and Jerrold Reinach Zacharias.

ArchivalResource: 17 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79015883 View

Phillips, Melba, 1907-. The American Physical Society: a survey of its first fifty years, 1988.

Title: The American Physical Society: a survey of its first fifty years, 1988.

ArchivalResource: 52 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79215119 View

Edward U. Condon Papers, Circa 1920-1974

Title: Edward U. Condon Papers Circa 1920-1974

Edward Uhler Condon was a theoretical physicist at Princeton University and Westinghouse Laboratories who later served as director of the National Bureau of Standards (1945-1951), and as the director of research and development (1951-1954) and consulting physicist (1954-1974) at Corning Glass Works. The Condon Papers includes correspondence, notebooks, writings, photographs, and other materials concerning Condon's education, teaching, and his government, industrial, and academic.

ArchivalResource: 75.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.C752-ead.xml View

Feenberg, Eugene. Oral history interview with Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

Early career through 1939. Midwestern background; education at University of Texas, graduate work at Harvard University in theoretical physics under Edwin C. Kemble and John Van Vleck, 1929-1933; traveling fellowship (chiefly in Germany, 1932); positions at Harvard, University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, and New York University. The nature of theoretical nuclear physics work in the 1930s including nuclear models and Feenberg's work with Eugene P. Wigner on nuclear forces. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Niels Henrik David Bohr, C. P. Boner, Gregory Breit, Walter M. Elsasser, Wendell Furry, George Gamow, Julian Knipp, Ettore Majorana, R. L. Moore, Otto Oldenburg, Melba Newell Phillips, Roberts, Simon Share, C. G. Smith, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker, (Freiherr von); Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Niels Bohr Institutet, and Raytheon Corporation.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 58 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83300129 View

Roope, Percy M. 1897-1987. Letter to Melba Phillips on Arthur Gordon Webster, 1986.

Title: Letter to Melba Phillips on Arthur Gordon Webster, 1986.

ArchivalResource: 3 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80775323 View

Brady, James Joseph, 1904-. Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

Title: Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

Description: File includes: a short memoir documenting Brady's early and graduate education during the 1920s and 1930s at Reed College with Lloyd E. Hunt, Frank E. Myers, and Lester C. Van Atta; at Indiana University; and at the University of California, Berkeley, with Ernest O. Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald Cooksey, Franz Kuri, Norris Bradbury, John M. Williams, Stanley Ballard, Melba Phillips, Ralph Christianson, and Stanley Livingston. Brady describes his work on Lawrence's cyclotron at Berkeley before World War II and on the ruby maser at the Navy Electronics Laboratory in 1961. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.

ArchivalResource: 9 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798093 View

Eulogies for Wendell Hinkle Furry, 1985.

Title: Eulogies for Wendell Hinkle Furry, 1985.

Eulogies delivered for Wendell Hinkle Furry (b. 1907) by Roy J. Glauber, Melba Phillips, and Edward M. Purcell.

ArchivalResource: 6 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78908804 View

Phillips, Melba, 1907-. Correspondence with Karl Kelchner Darrow primarily about program arrangements for joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers 1965-1967.

Title: Correspondence with Karl Kelchner Darrow primarily about program arrangements for joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers 1965-1967.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84273844 View