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Hare, Michael Meredith, 1909-1968. Michael Meredith Hare papers, 1935-1968 (inclusive).

Title: Michael Meredith Hare papers, 1935-1968 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, notes, diaries, research materials, and other papers of Michael M. Hare, architect, philosopher, and author.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702673502 View

Margenau, Henry, 1901-. Henry Margenau papers, 1927-1990 (inclusive).

Title: Henry Margenau papers, 1927-1990 (inclusive).

The papers document Henry Margenau's professional career as a physicist and philosopher of science. They chiefly consist of correspondence and published and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165925 View

Parapsychology Laboratory. Records, 1893-1984 (bulk 1930-1965).

Title: Records, 1893-1984 (bulk 1930-1965).

Chiefly correspondence and research files, as well as legal and financial papers, clippings, and photographs. Includes records of the laboratory primarily during its operation at Duke University, 1930-1965. Contains personal and professional papers of J.B. Rhine, L.E. Rhine, J.G. Pratt and other laboratory staff members, such as Rhea White. There are editorial files (1942-1959) of Dorothy Pope, Managing Editor of the JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY, and papers (1957-1963) relating to Rhea White and J.G. Pratt as officers of the Parapsychological Association. Topics include extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, displacement analysis, the Psychical Research Foundation, grants for parapsychology research, mediums, spirit survival, and the teaching of parapsychology. J.B. Rhine's correspondence with major figures in parapsychology and other fields is represented in the collection. Correspondents include Hereward Carrington, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Joseph Jastrow, C.G. Jung, William McDougall, and Henry Margenau. Margaret Mead, Gardner Murphy, Oliver Leslie Reiser, Upton Sinclair, Ian Stevenson, and Warren Weaver are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 250, 000 items (340 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22299969 View

John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008

Title: John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 1880-2008

There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. A student of Karl Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University, John Archibald Wheeler studied nuclear fission with Neils Bohr. The numerous volumes of research notebooks in the collection, Wheeler's daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. Among other subjects, they cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity. The correspondence in the collection contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.

ArchivalResource: 150.0 Linear feet, Ca. 17,000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W564-ead.xml View

Parapsychology Laboratory. Records, 1893-1984 and n.d. (bulk 1930-1965).

Title: Records, 1893-1984 and n.d. (bulk 1930-1965).

Chiefly correspondence and research files, as well as legal and financial papers, clippings, and photographs. Includes records of the laboratory primarily during its operation at Duke University, 1930-1965. Contains personal and professional papers of J.B. Rhine, L.E. Rhine, J.G. Pratt and other laboratory staff members, such as Rhea White. There are editorial files (1942-1959) of Dorothy Pope, Managing Editor of the JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY, and papers (1957-1963) relating to Rhea White and J.G. Pratt as officers of the Parapsychological Association. Topics include extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, displacement analysis, the Psychical Research Foundation, grants for parapsychology research, mediums, spirit survival, and the teaching of parapsychology. J.B. Rhine's correspondence with major figures in parapsychology and other fields is represented in the collection. Correspondents include Hereward Carrington, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Joseph Jastrow, C.G. Jung, William McDougall, and Henry Margenau. Margaret Mead, Gardner Murphy, Oliver Leslie Reiser, Upton Sinclair, Ian Stevenson, and Warren Weaver are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 250,115 items (340 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122299535 View

Henry Margenau papers, 1927-1990

Title: Henry Margenau papers 1927-1990

The papers document Henry Margenau's professional career as a physicist and philosopher of science. They chiefly consist of correspondence and published and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet (8 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0129 View

Syz, Hans C. Hans Caspar Syz papers, 1911-1991 (inclusive).

Title: Hans Caspar Syz papers, 1911-1991 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, reading notes, writings and research materials relating primarily to Hans C. Syz's career as secretary and president of the Lifwynn Foundation. The papers provide information on the formation and development of the Lifwynn Foundation, as well as research and writing by staff members and students. Syz's work as a psychiatrist in New York and Baltimore hospitals is also documented, as are his activities as a collector of 18th-century Western European porcelain.

ArchivalResource: 36.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702121348 View

Yourgrau, Wolfgang. Wolfgang Yourgrau papers, 1942-1979.

Title: Wolfgang Yourgrau papers, 1942-1979.

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Denver. Wolfgang Yourgrau's papers include correspondence, journal articles, journals, speeches, newspaper clippings, press releases, classroom notes, lectures, manuscripts of articles, transcripts of radio broadcasts, photographs, framed paintings, inventory of personal library on slides, reel-to-reel tapes, and academic regalia.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft. (11 boxes, 1 bag)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49495644 View

Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk), 1898-1950

Title: Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk) 1898-1950

Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 300.0 Microfilm reel(s), 12,500 items on 300 microfilm reels; 107 recordings

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml View

Hans Caspar Syz papers, 1911-1991

Title: Hans Caspar Syz papers 1911-1991

The papers consist of correspondence, reading notes, writings and research materials relating primarily to Hans C. Syz's career as secretary and president of the Lifwynn Foundation. The papers provide information on the formation and development of the Lifwynn Foundation, as well as research and writing by staff members and students. Syz's work as a psychiatrist in New York and Baltimore hospitals is also documented, as are his activities as a collector of 18th-century Western European porcelain.

ArchivalResource: 36.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1624 View

Michael Meredith Hare papers, 1935-1968

Title: Michael Meredith Hare papers 1935-1968

Correspondence, writings, notes, diaries, research materials, and other papers of Michael Meredith Hare, architect, philosopher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Hare's interest in the philosophical, theological, and mystical implications of the creative process and to his attempts to reconcile the laws of physics and parapsychological phenomena. In connection with this work, Hare corresponded with a number of psychologists, mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers. Correspondents of note include Henry Margenau, Percival W. Martin, J. B. Rhine, W. Grey Walter, and Paul Weiss.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (8 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0006 View

Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-. Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay. 1964 May 6 and July 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay. 1964 May 6 and July 9.

Early life in New Bedford, MA; father's informal education as chemist and engineer; difficulties in early education. Undergraduate at Brown University, 1916-1920; interest in mathematics. Graduate work at MIT, 1920-1922; physics exams; Edwin Wilson's tenure at MIT, state of physics teaching there, limitations of the department. Work with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, 1922, leading to self-consistent filed idea applied to alkali atoms, Bohr as a person, teacher, and philosopher. Continuation of Copenhagen work for Ph.D. thesis in Department of Mathematics at MIT. Work atmosophere at Yale University, 1923-1930; reluctance about the new wave mechanics, later work in this area. Recollections of Ernest O. Lawrence at Yale, rivalry between Leigh Page and William P. G. Swann; Swann's interest in spiritualism, Page's emission theory of electromagnetism. Development of interest in philosophy and methodology of science; association with Percy W. Bridgeman, Norton Weiner, J. D. Tamarkin. Foundation of Physics course at Yale. Teaching at Brown University from 1930; Carl Barus; development of Mathematics Department under R. G. D. Richardson; Lindsay's supervision methods. Chairman of Brown Physics Department, problems setting up undergraduate degree program post-World War II; supervision of teaching. Research during World War II. Connection with Acoustical Society, 1936, member of executive council; associate editor of ASA Journal, 1950, editor-in-chief 1957, interest in publication of archival technical material. Great figures of the Acoustical Society; growth of and comparison between Acoustical and Physical Societies; role of the American Institute of Physics.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 3 5-inch reels (ca. 5.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 69 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863413 View

Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997. Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.

Title: Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.

Early life and education in Germany; student years in U.S. and A.B., Midland College, 1924; M. Sc., University of Nebraska, 1927; Ph. D., Yale University, 1929. Discussion of change in interest from liberal arts to physics. Sterling Research Fellow in Germany working with Arnold Sommerfeld, Hans Bethe, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born and Fritz London on electron theory of metals and Van der Waal's forces. Instructor, 1929-1930; Professor, Yale University beginning 1931; changes in physics curriculum and resistance to it by Leigh Page. Physics textbooks written by Margenau. Work at Yale during World War II, present work being done such as plasma physics, line broadening, philosophy of physics. Reminiscences of associates including Eugene Wigner, John Wheeler, Percy W. Bridgman. Extensive discussion of philosophical views, notably philosophy of science and historical methodolgy, and influences on these views.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79357929 View

Wolfgang Yourgrau papers, 1942-1979

Title: Wolfgang Yourgrau papers 1942-1979

Wolfgang Yourgrau was born on November 14, 1908, near Berlin, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1932. During the second world war, Yourgrau edited an anti-fascist weekly, . Subsequently, he held professorships in Israel and South Africa before coming to the United States in 1959. Yourgrau came to the University of Denver in 1963 and remained at the school until he retired in 1978. Prolific as a scholar and lecturer, both in America and abroad, he earned the prestigious Einstein Medal in 1970 for his work in the field of general relativity. At the time of his death, July 18, 1979, Yourgrau was editor of , an international periodical he started with Henry Margenau. The Orient Foundations of Physics

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet (11 boxes, 1 bag)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=codu41.xml 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

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005. Gregory Breit Symposium [sound recording] / 1968 May 3.

Title: Gregory Breit Symposium [sound recording] / 1968 May 3.

Symposium in honor of Gregory Breit on the occasion of his retirement from Yale University. Symposium speeches by: M. H. Hull, "Nucleon-Nucleon Forces;" H. A. Bethe, "Nuclear Matter;" E. P. Wigner, "Nuclear Reactions;" D. A. Bromley, "Heavy Ion Interactions;" V. W. Hughes, "The Breit Interaction;" G. E. Brown, "Isotope Shifts;" R. G. Herb, "Proton-proton Scattering;" and M. A. Tuve, "Early Works in Nuclear and Geophysics." Banquet addresses by: J. A. Wheeler, H. Margenau, I. I. Rabi, V. Weisskopf, and G. Breit. Breit's speech includes recollections of physicists: Einstein, Ehrnfest, Bohr, Lawrence. He is critical of contemporary physicists involved in public relations and organizations.

ArchivalResource: 5 sound tape reels : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78951220 View