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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

Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1929-1930.

Two A.L.S. (1929 Nov. 23 and 1930 Nov. 1, Amsterdam) to Ehrenhaft, and A. card S. (1930 Dec. 17, Amsterdam) to Eile [?] ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10449181 View

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1917-1941.

One A.L.S. (1932 March 29), 18 T.L.S., handwritten answers to 7 typed queries, 1 T.L., and 1 telegram, all to Ehrenhaft, 1917-1941 ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9998612 View

Planck, Max, 1858-1947. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1897-1930.

Five A.L.S. (1897-1930) ; 2 A. postcards S., one to Ehrenhaft (1929) and one to Armin Weiner ; 4 A. envelopes ; 2 A. sets of notes, one headed "Erster Teil" (1915), the other dated 1920 ; and A. Ms. S., "Ueber die Grenzschicht verdünater [?] Elektrolyte" (1929?) ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10377638 View

Ehrenhaft, Felix, 1879-1952. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1932-1947.

A.L.S. (1932 March 22, Vienna), and A. card S. (1947 April 16, Vienna) ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10135308 View

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Letters [microform].

Title: Letters [microform]. 1917-1941.

One A.L.S. (1932 March 29), 18 T.L.S., handwritten answers to 7 typed queries, 1 T.L., and 1 telegram, all to Ehrenhaft, 1917-1941 ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11507014 View

Willstätter, Richard, 1872-1942. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1915-1932.

Two A.L.S. (1926 Dec. 16 and 1932 Jan. 2, Munich) to unnamed colleagues (perhaps Ehrenhaft), and one A. card S. (1915 June 10, Berlin) to an unnamed doctor responding to his letter [of condolence?] ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10448329 View

Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943. Letters [microform].

Title: Letters [microform]. 1929-1930.

Two A.L.S. (1929 Nov. 23 and 1930 Nov. 1, Amsterdam) to Ehrenhaft, and A. card S. (1930 Dec. 17, Amsterdam) to Eile [?] ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11507044 View

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1928-1936.

Two A.L.S. to Thirring and Ehrenhaft, and a holograph manuscript "Zur theorie des Ferromagnetismus," in German.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10240052 View

Ehrenhaft, Felix, 1879-1952. Papers, 1915-1972.

Title: Papers, 1915-1972.

Primarily correspondence (bulk dates, 1941-1947) of Felix and Lilly Rona-Ehrenhaft concerning their efforst to gain recognition for his discoveries, and clippings; reprints; lectures; manuscripts. The clippings from both the popular and scholarly press document Ehrenhaft's research in unipolar magnetic charges, and partially charged electrons; the reprints by Ehrenhaft and others are on similar topics. Correspondence (bulk dates, 1940-1952) primarily between Ehrenhaft and his children, between his son and his daughter, and between his son (Johann L. Ehrenhaft, a physician) and Ehrenhaft's physicians in Vienna. The lectures are on magnetism and were delivered by Ehrenhaft at the Universität Wien (1947-1948). Manuscripts consist of an autobiography of Ehrenhaft, portions of an unpublished book on magnetism, illustrated with photographs, and Lilly's journal entries. Also included is a photocopy of the guest book at the Ehrenhaft home in Vienna (1927-1938). Correspondents include: Mrs. Ann Alpert (Ehrenhaft's daughter), and Johann L. Ehrenhaft.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81515095 View

Libby, Willard F. Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Early life and education; undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate years, 1927-1940 at the University of California, Berkeley. Growth of Berkeley science; Gilbert Lewis, Wendell Latimer and Ernest Lawrence; development of low-level counters; radiochemistry and discovery of isotopes; cross-disciplinary collaboration; interest in carbon-14; association with Samuel Ruben and Martin Kamen; hot atom chemistry and nuclear isomerism; experiences at Princeton University (hot atom chemistry, development of heterogenous catalysis and research on tritium), 1940-1941; work on the chemistry of the diffusion process during World War II at Columbia University (Manhattan Project). Development of the radiocarbon dating technique at the University of Chicago, 1945-1954; measurement of half-life of carbon-14; Harold Urey's importance to Libby; secrecy policy; collaboration with Aristid von Grosse, James Arnold and Ernest Anderson; improved counting technologies; first contacts with archaeologists; Viking Fund and cross-disciplinary collaboration; communicating ideas; Sunshine Project and fallout; AEC appointment; concluding remarks. Also prominently mentioned are: Samuel K. Allison, C.H. Currier, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Felix Ehrenhaft, R.W. Emerson, Enrico Fermi, Leslie Richard Groves, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Robert Hutchins, Immanuel Kant, Serge Korff, Robert Bruce Lindsay, Theodore Lyman, Henry Margenau, McKeehan, Karl Pearson, Henri. Poincaré, D. Richardson, Ernest Rutherford, Leo Schubert, H.S. Uhler, Arthur Gordon Webster, L.P. Wheeler, Norbert Wiener, Anthony Zeleny; American Physical Society, Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Niels Bohr Institutet, Process Corporation, University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies, Viking Fund, and Windermere Hotel.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hr.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81866341 View

Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1931.

A.L.S. (1931 April 7, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead) to an unnamed colleague in Vienna, in English, 2 T.L.S. (1931 Oct. and Nov. 3, Vienna) from Ehrenhaft to A. Weiner, all three letters concerning Richardson's lecture in Vienna, 1 ticket for that lecture (1931 Oct. 27, Vienna), and 1 copy of an article about Richardson with a photographic portrait ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10386816 View