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Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976. Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.

Title: Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.

Earliest associations with science; high school, through 1904, undergraduate at Harvard University under Wallace C. Sabine, Benjamin O. Peirce, George W. Pierce, William E. Byerly, William Osgood, Julian Coolidge, Theodore Lyman, 1910; graduate education, early teaching experiences and research in x-ray spectroscopy with Edward V. Huntington, William Duane, Franklin Hunt; University of Michigan, summer 1917; lieutenant in Science and Research Division of U.S. Army Signal Corps under Robert A. Millikan; aircraft stability studies, experiences as a pilot, Civil Pilot Training Program, 1939. Teaching at MIT, 1919; chairman of Physics Department of Stanford University, 1920-1941, development of department, Paul Kirkpatrick, Felix Bloch, early experimental work in theory of the continuous x-ray spectrum with Perley A. Ross, controversy about data and resolution of it; invention of the klystron by the Varian brothers, his contribution with William W. Hansen to its development; Sperry Gyroscope's effect on department; civilian member of U.S. Signal Corps, early research involving rockets; return to Stanford after World War II, interest in teaching. Current research interests in solar wind and plasmas in the vicinity of the Earth. Influences on him of his early teachers, colleagues, writings of Henry Poincaré, Max Planck, Hendrik A. Lorentz. Avocations and present personal life. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph A. Becker and Arthur Compton.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 35 pp.

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Samuel Henshaw letters from various correspondents, 1849-1937 and undated.

Title: Samuel Henshaw letters from various correspondents, 1849-1937 and undated.

Letters to the American entomologist Samuel Henshaw.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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Webster, Arthur Gordon, 1863-1923. Incoming letters, 1893-1913.

Title: Incoming letters, 1893-1913.

The letters concern Webster's research on sound and vibration, gyroscopes, and scientific notation, as well as professional meetings, such as the American Physical Society, of which he served as president from 1903-1904, and elections, appointments, travel, speeches, honorary degrees, and publications. Correspondents include: William E. Ayrton, Joseph G. Coffin, Henry Crew, Samuel P. Langley, Anatole LeBraz, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, William F. Magie, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Ernest George Merritt, Henry F. Osborn, Benjamin Osgood Peirce, Edward B. Rosa, Ernest Rutherford, and Robert S. Woodward.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

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Peirce, B. O. (Benjamin Osgood), 1854-1914. Papers of Benjamin Osgood Peirce, 1834-1971 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Benjamin Osgood Peirce, 1834-1971 (inclusive).

Includes personal and professional correspondence, family genealogical papers, research and teaching notebooks, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft. of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76972842 View

Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961. Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982 (inclusive).

The papers consist chiefly of professional and research material. The documents touch on many aspects of Bridgman's work, including experiments, procurement of research materials and funding, writing and publication, involvement with scholarly societies, work for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and teaching. There is a small amount of material dating from Bridgman's student days, chiefly course notes. There are also small amounts of memorial, biographical, and personal material. Formats include correspondence, laboratory notebooks, manuscripts and notes for Bridgman's writings, research laboratory notebooks, card indices, bibliographies, reports, photographs, diagrams, and charts.

ArchivalResource: 87 containers of mss.

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Peirce, B. O. (Benjamin Osgood), 1854-1914. [Miscellaneous pamphlets on physics].

Title: [Miscellaneous pamphlets on physics].

ArchivalResource: v. 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701750498 View

Ettlinger, H. J. (Hyman Joseph), 1889-. Ettlinger, H.J., papers, 1909-1981.

Title: Ettlinger, H.J., papers, 1909-1981.

Collection documents the career of H.J. Ettlinger. His student notes on Harvard courses of G.D. Birkhoff, M. Bocher, C.L. Bouton, W.E. Byerly, J.L. Coolidge, H.N. Davis, D. Jackson, W.F. Osgood, and B.O. Peirce (1910-1913) are present. Ettlinger's research interests in analysis and his UT Defense Research Laboratory work on aerodynamics are represented. The collection also contains a computer printout prepared by Ettlinger and Albert C. Lewis on doctoral descendants of University of Texas mathematics faculty. Material includes correspondence, student notes, teaching notes, mimeographed lecture notes, drafts of research papers and textbooks, reports, clippings, reprints, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 4 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19365137 View