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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President records

Title: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President records

The collection documents the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the responsibilities and activities of the Institute's presidents between 1897 and 1930. This was a period of enormous growth and development of the Institute, which was chartered in 1861 and graduated it's first class of undergraduates in 1868. There is correspondence about the proposed merger with Harvard University in 1904 and a proposed alliance in 1911. The purchase of land, the planning and building of the new campus, and MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916 are documented. The collection also contains reports and correspondence recording the work of committees; correspondence with faculty and department heads, with donors, and with other universities, professional organizations, and government offices.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 cubic feet; (31 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/13 View

Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938. Papers, 1882-1938.

Title: Papers, 1882-1938.

Correspondence and documents (1904-37) relating to Hale's role in planning and developing major observatories in the U. S., including Mt. Wilson, Palomar, Yerkes and Kenwood; in founding the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, in the organization of the National Research Council, and in promoting international cooperation among scientists; correspondence and notebooks (1926-36) relating to Hale's work on the spectrohelioscope; family correspondence, diaries, autobiographical notes, fundraising appeals, and honors. Correspondents include Giorgio Abetti, C. G. Abbot, J. A. Brashear, Gano Dunn, Albert Einstein, E. B. Frost, Herbert Hoover, Sir James H. Jeans, John C. Merriam, A. A. Michelson, R. A. Millikan, Arthur A. Noyes, Ernest Rutherford, Robert S. Woodward, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology (1967-1968), International Astronomical Union. Additional donation of a diary written by Hale from the year 1901, with transcription by the donor, Professor Wallace Sargent.

ArchivalResource: 80 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84276268 View

Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938. Papers of George Ellery Hale, 1882-1938.

Title: Papers of George Ellery Hale, 1882-1938.

Correspondence and documents (1904-1937) relating to Hale's role in planning and developing major observatories in the U.S., including Mt. Wilson and Palomar, in founding the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, in the organization of the National Research Council, and in promoting international cooperation among scientists; correspondence and notebooks (1926-1936) relating to Hale's work on the spectrohelioscope; family correspondence, diaries, autobiographical notes, fundraising appeals, and honors. Correspondents include Giorgio Abetti, Andrew Carnegie, Gano Dunn, Albert Einstein, H. Guggenheim, Herbert Hoover, Sir James H. Jeans, Sir Joseph Larmor, Arthur A. Noyes, Ernest Rutherford, Woodrow Wilson, Robert S. Woodward, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 100 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71068765 View

[Arthur A. Noyes, biographical materials]

Title: [Arthur A. Noyes, biographical materials] 1927-

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21980526 View

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953. Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953.

Title: Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953.

These documents cover the years 1847 to 1953, the year of Millikan's death, but the core of the collection consists of the official papers generated by Millikan after his move to Pasadena in 1921. The collection includes more than 125,000 pages of letters, notebooks, unpublished speeches, addresses, lecture notes, and family papers.

ArchivalResource: 81 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539914 View

Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953, 1847-1953

Title: Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953 1847-1953

These documents cover the years 1847 to 1953, the year of Millikan's death, but the core of the collection consists of the official papers generated by Millikan after his move to Pasadena in 1921. The collection includes more than 125,000 pages of letters, notebooks, unpublished speeches, addresses, lecture notes, and family papers.

ArchivalResource: 81.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.38-ead.xml View

George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1938

Title: George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1938

This collection documents George Ellery Hale's role in planning and developing major observatories in the U. S., and in founding the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library. The collection also illustrates the role Hale took in organizing the National Research Council, and in promoting international cooperation among scientists. Records relating to Hale's work on the spectrohelioscope are also included.

ArchivalResource: 80 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt067nb6q6 View

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-. Edwin M. McMillan interview, 1972, June 1 and October 30.

Title: Edwin M. McMillan interview, 1972, June 1 and October 30.

Transcript of tape recorded interviews conducted by Charles Weiner, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. Covers his youth and early education; undergraduate study at California Institute of Technology and influence of Arthur A. Noyes and Linus Pauling; graduate work in physics at Princeton University, especially molecular beam research with Karl T. Compton, Edward U. Condon and Robert J. Van de Graaff; career with the Physics Department and the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and relationship with Ernest O. Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer; World War II research on radar, sonar and the automic bomb; postwar development of accelerators; and receipt of the Nobel prize in 1951.

ArchivalResource: [18], 311 l. : Ms.(phot.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82546436 View

Noyes, Arthur A. (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936. Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1919.

Title: Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1919.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555043 View

Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale, 1887-1972

Title: Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale, 1887-1972

The working papers, correspondence, publications, photos and biographical materials of George E. Hale (1868-1938) form the collection known as the Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. Not only was Hale the foremost solar astronomer of his day, but he was also exceedingly energetic in the organization and promotion of the enterprise of science, both at home and abroad. The materials in the collection reflect both aspects of his career, as well as his other interests and personal life.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1h4nd0qg View

Trow, Waldo Duane. Correspondence with Irving Langmuir, Arthur A. Noyes, and Walter C. Schumb, 1930.

Title: Correspondence with Irving Langmuir, Arthur A. Noyes, and Walter C. Schumb, 1930.

Letters concerning Trow's efforts to compile materials for a book on the history of the discovery of the chemical elements and his past professional laboratory work.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (15 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478961 View

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994,. Oral history interview with Linus C. Pauling, 1987 April 6.

Title: Oral history interview with Linus C. Pauling, 1987 April 6.

Linus Pauling begins this interview by describing his early interest in science. While growing up in Portland, Oregon, he collected laboratory equipment and carried out chemistry experiments in his home. He also worked in the chemistry laboratory of his high school. Pauling supported himself through his undergraduate years at Oregon State Agricultural College by working in the chemistry department stockroom and assisting an engineering professor. During graduate school at Caltech, he learned x-ray crystallography from Roscoe Dickinson and published his first paper. Pauling continued to use crystallography to attack more complex chemical problems. In 1926, Pauling was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Europe. In Zurich, he carried out research on the interaction of two helium atoms which later led him to develop the theory of the three-electron bond. Pauling concludes this interview with his return to Caltech as assistant professor of chemistry.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (33 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/710377601 View

Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Title: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991)

Linus Pauling (1901-1994), a 1923 OSU graduate and the only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes, (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962) undertook a wide range of studies during his seventy-year career as a scientist, humanitarian and peace activist. The collection, comprised of over five hundred thousand items, contains all of Pauling's personal and scientific papers, research materials, correspondence, photographs, awards, and memorabilia. Not only does the Pauling archive reflect Linus Pauling's long and varied scientific career, the presence of Ava Helen Pauling's (1903-1981) papers also indicates their mutual devotion to world peace and to each other.

ArchivalResource: 4437 linear feet; 1800 boxes

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv42415 View

Bray, William C. (William Crowell), 1879-1946. William C. Bray papers, 1890-1945.

Title: William C. Bray papers, 1890-1945.

Letters written to Bray and copies of letters by him; papers and articles; notes; reprints, etc. Concerning his career as professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes and 1 v. (2.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80346397 View

Van Antwerpen, Franklin John, 1912-. The Papers of Franklin J. Van Antwerpen, 1954-1980 (bulk 1970-1979)

Title: The Papers of Franklin J. Van Antwerpen, 1954-1980 (bulk 1970-1979)

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (3.30 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646501846 View

Noyes, Arthur A. (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936. Papers.

Title: Papers.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81949082 View

Department of Chemistry papers, 1880-1980

Title: Department of Chemistry papers 1880-1980

Collection contains the papers of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes; (24.2 linear feet)

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00915.xml View