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Ullmo, Jean. Oral history interview with Jean Ullmo, 1963 January 7.

Title: Oral history interview with Jean Ullmo, 1963 January 7.

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: Edmond H. Bauer, Eugene Bloch, Leon Bloch, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Charles Fabry, Jacques Salomon Hadamard, Paul Langevin, Perot, Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, Boris Podolsky, A. Proca; and Ecole Polytechnique.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 15 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81192708 View

Entretiens de Pontigny records MS 0768., 1942-1945.

Title: Entretiens de Pontigny records 1942-1945.

Entretiens de Pontigny; gatherings of intellectuals in France, founded in 1910 as Decades de Pontigny and held at Mount Holyoke College in 1942-1944. Records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, article, press releases, schedules, programs, a guest register and photographs relating to the meetings at Mount Holyoke Include letters by Gustave Cohen, Jean Andre Wahl, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Beatrice Fry Hyslop, Jacques Maritain, Cecile Jahiel, Auguste Viatte, Andre Spire, Marcelle de Manziarly, Boris Mirkine-Guetzevitch, and Mrs. Raymond de Saussure.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (5 linear in.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm283.html View

Hurwitz, Adolf, 1859-1919. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence.

Includes ca. 300 letters. Correspondents include: Luigi Bianchi, Jacque Hadamard, David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Edmund Landau, Hermann Minowski, Gustav Mittag-Leffler, Georg Polya, Carl Runge, Arthur Schoenflies, Hermann Schubert, Fiedrich Schur, and Paul Sctaeckel, among others.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 300 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80630227 View

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949.

Title: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records

The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars was formed in New York City in 1933 by American academicians for the purpose of employing refugee German scholars in American institutions. Many of these refugee scholars were Jews displaced by the National Socialist government. The collection consists chiefly of grant files on refugee scholars who applied for aid from the Committee. The records also include correspondence with other refugee and philanthropic organizations and with the educational institutions which accepted refugee scholars.

ArchivalResource: 98.46 linear feet (222 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/922 View

Papers of Ethel Sturges Dummer, 1689-1962

Title: Papers of Ethel Sturges Dummer, 1689-1962

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Ethel Sturges Dummer, Chicago social welfare leader, philanthropist, and author.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft.; (57 file boxes, 2 1/2 file boxes, 1 oversize volume, 1 microfilm reel (M-55))

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00095/catalog View

Hadamard, Jacques, 1865-1963. [Collection of mathematical works by M. Jacques Hadamard from 1892-1912]

Title: [Collection of mathematical works by M. Jacques Hadamard from 1892-1912] [1892-1912]

ArchivalResource: v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9651722 View

Académie des sciences (France). Commission de la défense nationale, 1914-1919.

Title: Commission de la défense nationale, 1914-1919.

Contains the articles, notes, reports, etc. examined by the Commission, proceedings of the meetings of the Physics and Chemistry Commissions (1915-1916), correspondence with the French Government and with the Allies (esp. Italy), and some studies undertaken by members of different Commissions. The physicists involved include: Amagat, Paul Appel, Arsène d'Arsonval, G. Bigourdan, André Blondel, Valentin Boussinesq, Edouard Branly, Georges Claude, Gaston Darboux, Henri Deslandres, Jacques Hadamard, Lallemand, Gabriel Lippmann, Paul Painlevé, Emile Picard, Victor Puiseux, and many more. Topics include: ballistics, chemical warfare (aggressive and protective), artillery spotting by means of sound, optics, spectroscopic analysis of flames produced by enemy explosions, submarine warfare, air warfare and aviation, means of destruction of barbed wire, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79021440 View

George Pólya papers, 1884-1985

Title: George Pólya papers 1884-1985

Papers relate to Pólya's research and teaching in mathematics and include professional and personal correspondence with mathematicians worldwide, 1910-1984; course materials including lecture notes; mathematical research notebooks dating from 1917 to 1960; manuscripts including those from his published works , , , and ; ephemera; reprints; and photographs. Complex Variables How to Solve It Mathematical Discovery Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

ArchivalResource: 40 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7q2nf5cb View

Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, 1861-1916. Papers, ca. 1882-1916.

Title: Papers, ca. 1882-1916.

Includes extensive scientific correspondence; personal correspondence (chiefly on publications and with his daughter Hélène, 1909-1916); manuscripts on electromagnetic oscillations, the vacuum, electromagnetic properties of materials and other scientific subjects, textbooks, and physics history; notebook of extracts from medieval authors; address lists; student notebooks on physics and mathematics; course notebooks. Main correspondents include Hadamard, Hermite, C. Jordan, Lenoble, Marachis, Ostwald, Painlevé, Pelabon.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83565114 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

Boris Souvarine papers, 1915-1984 (inclusive), 1940-1984 (bulk).

Title: Boris Souvarine papers, 1915-1984 (inclusive), 1940-1984 (bulk).

Papers of Boris Souvarine, a founder of the French Communist Party and aBolshevik delegate to the Comintern until expelled in the mid-1920s. He was a leadingSovietologist and anti-communist. Includes correspondence, compositions, source files,and biographical materials.

ArchivalResource: 126 boxes (41.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00034/catalog View

Pólya, George, 1887-1985. George Polya papers, 1884-1985.

Title: George Polya papers, 1884-1985.

Papers relate to his research and teaching in mathematics and include professional and personal correspondence with mathematicians worldwide, 1910-1984; course materials including lecture notes; mathematical research notebooks dating from 1917 to 1960; manuscripts including those from his published works COMPLEX VARIABLE, HOW TO SOLVE IT, MATHEMATICAL DISCOVERY, and MATHEMATICS AND PLAUSIBLE REASONING; ephemera; reprints; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462019720 View

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944,. Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Title: Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of mathematicians and other scientists, often dealing with politics and fields other than mathematics. Many of these concern the French Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear ft.(ca. 10,100 items in 31 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515034 View