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Acoustical Society of America. Office of the President. Records of Edward Christopher Wente, 1929-1946.

Title: Records of Edward Christopher Wente, 1929-1946.

Correspondence, minutes and financial reports. The correspondence (bulk dates, 1941-1943) primarily documents the interests and activities of Edward C. Wente as president of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Topics include membership, papers considered for presentation at ASA meetings or for publication in the JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; ASA program, award and nominating committees; as well as correspondence concerning annual meetings and finances. Also includes minutes of meetings and financial reports (bulk dates, 1941-1943). Correspondents include: Henry A. Barton, Floyd A. Firestone, F.R. Moulton, Floyd R. Watson, and Wallace Waterfall.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80284693 View

American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Title: Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Correspondence; reports; printed matter; memoranda; grant proposals; drafts of articles; speeches; minutes of meetings. The records of Hutchisson, director of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (1957-1964) are primarily from his tenure as director, a period of enormous growth at the AIP with the initiation of the Education Department, the history of physics project, the Documentation Research Project, and a major increase in journal publication, particularly Soviet translation journals. The collection focuses on the areas of Hutchisson's particular interests: science education including various projects to improve physics teaching at all levels and increase the public understanding of physics; physics history including the creation of the Niels Bohr Library; journal publication including internal examination of publishing procedures at AIP, and an evaluation of SCIENCE ABSTRACTS. The largest series reflects Hutchisson's activities in the scientific community at large with correspondence discussing educational and scientific legislation and funding, and international cooperation on scientific matters. Other material concerns AIP awards, organizational structure and operations with coverage of the revision of the constitution and bylaws to create associate member society status and of the physical expansion at the new headquarters; public relations activities with press releases and files on seminars for science writers; the development of citation indexing; and the placement of physics graduates. Files of the Member Societies: Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America, and Society of Rheology, are mostly informational copies, although the APS and AAPT files contain some substantive correspondence. Also contains speeches, reprints, personal correspondence, and correspondence concerning Hutchisson's involvement with the AIP in capacities other than director. Correspondents include: Henry A. Barton, W. Kenneth Brasher. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, Karl K. Darrow, John Henry Dillon, George F. Gainsborough, Grant O. Gale, Conyers Herring, William C. Kelly, W. James King, Robert E. Maizell, Thomas Harris Osgood, Shirley Leon Quimby, Norman Foster Ramsey, Raymond John Seeger, Frederick Seitz, Wallace Waterfall, Robert T. Webber, and Hugh Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft. (31 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81949161 View

American Institute of Physics. Office of the Secretary. Records, ca. 1950-1990.

Title: Records, ca. 1950-1990.

Miscellaneous subject files used for reference by the Officer personnel. Includes material on Assemblies (1969-1977); AIP Corporate Associates; legal matters such as rights and permissions; journal translation; member society committees and relations; space planning for AIP and its subsequent move from New York to Maryland. Individuals represented include Karl K. Darrow, Henry A. Barton, Sidney Millman, Norman F. Ramsey, Lewis Slack, and Wallace Waterfall.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81313239 View

American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Records of Henry A. Barton, 1931-1964.

Title: Records of Henry A. Barton, 1931-1964.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, and subject files. Correspondence (1931-1964), comprising the majority of this collection, concerns Barton's professional activities, interests, and responsibilities in those positions. Topics of the correspondence include member societies of AIP (American Association of Physics Teachers, American Physical Society, Acoustical Society of America, Optical Society of America, and Society of Rheology), affiliated societies, AIP Corporate Associates, AIP committees, the AIP Governing Board and its Executive Committee, grant proposals, publishing of physics journals, Lancaster Press (AIP printer), the U.S. Navy Department, the U.S. War Department, AIP awards, physics education, selective service, the Scientific Manpower Commission, and the censorship of publications related to nuclear fission during World War II. Also includes an undated audio tape, probably by Barton, reviewing the founding of AIP and its history. Administrative reports and minutes are of the AIP Governing Board and its Executive Committee, the AIP Publications Board, and AIP member societies. Correspondents include: George W. Bailey, Hans A. Bethe, Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, Edward U. Condon, Karl K. Darrow, Homer L. Dodge, Paul D. Foote, R. Clifton Gibbs, Arthur C. Hardy, Ross G. Harrison, Gaylord Harnwell, Elmer Hutchisson, William C. Kelly, Paul E. Klopsteg, Herbert R. Lang, Claude J. Lapp, Walter C. Michels, Joseph C. Morris, Cleveland Norcross, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Thomas H. Osgood, George B. Pegram, Shirley L. Quimby, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Duane Roller, Francis W. Sears, John T. Tate, Merriam H. Trytten, Wallace Waterfall, and Eugene P. Wigner.

ArchivalResource: 44.75 linear ft. 92 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81062461 View

National Noise Abatement Council. Records, 1940-1963.

Title: Records, 1940-1963.

Minutes; correspondence; financial reports; bylaws; newsletters; pamphlets; press releases. Contains the 1940 memorandum by Sam L. Hooper requesting authorization of funds that led to the establishment of the Council. The bulk of the collection consists of minutes of the annual meetings (1951-1960) and of the board of directors (1950-1961), correspondence of the executive secretaries, Wallace Waterfall (secretary 1951-1957, treasurer 1954-1961) and Leroy J. Buttolph (secretary 1957-1961), primarily about memberships and the Council's dissolution, treasurer's reports (1947-1961), auditor's reports (1957-1961), newsletters (1956-1960), public relations materials including pamphlets and brochures designed for the general public on noise reduction, and press releases about Council activities.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84275818 View