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Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966. Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.

Title: Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics collection, 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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, Paul Drude, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter Friedrich, Dirk ter Haar, Fritz Hasenöhrl, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, Heinz Hopf, Herman Julius, Felix Klein, A. Kleiner, Paul Langevin, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Fritz London, Gustav Mie, Walther Nernst, A. A. Noyes, Max Planck, W.C. Röntgen, Paul Scherrer, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Pierre Weiss, Max Wien, Wilhelm Wien, Zangger, Zermelo; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universität Leipzig, and Universität München.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 65 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78642348 View

Tanner, J. H. (John Henry), b. 1861. Vorlesungen über Varationsrechnung / gehalten von Prof. Dr. Weierstrass, 1882.

Title: Vorlesungen über Varationsrechnung / gehalten von Prof. Dr. Weierstrass, 1882.

Manuscript neatly written in cursive, recording the text of Prof. Weierstrass's lectures in German on the calculus of variations in the summer of 1882. Pages 342-344 are in a different hand from the rest of the text. At the head of the title page is written J.H. Tanner, Ithaca, N.Y. Bound in following the manuscript are two printed German dissertations on the calculus of variations: Untersuchungen zur Variations-Rechnung, by Ernst Zermelo at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität at Berlin (1894), and Behandlung einiger Aufgaben der Variationsrechnung, welche sich auf Raumcurven constanter erster Krümmung beziehen, by Oswald Venske at the Georg-Augusts-Universität at G̈öttingen (1891).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([6], 344 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67228693 View

Dehn, Max, 1878-1952. Dehn, Max Papers, 1899-1954, 1975-1979.

Title: Dehn, Max Papers, 1899-1954, 1975-1979.

Collection documents the career of Max Dehn (1878-1952), relating chiefly to his research in geometry, topology, group theory, and the history of mathematics. The bulk of the papers is from Dehn's years at Frankfurt University (1921-1935) and after his immigration to the United States in 1940, where he was chiefly associated with Black Mountain college. Correspondents include E. Artin, O. Blumenthal, H. Bohr, S. Breuer, C. Caratheodory, M. Kneser, E. Noether, M. Pasch, O. Toeplitz, and E. Zermelo. Biographical material on Dehn is included. The collection also contains lecture notes by E. Hellinger. Included are correspondence, lecture and course notes, notebooks, manuscripts of publications, and reprints.

ArchivalResource: 15 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19365253 View