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Hutchisson, Elmer, 1902-. Papers, 1919-1982.

Title: Papers, 1919-1982.

Correspondence; reprints; clippings; typescripts; photographs; doctoral dissertation. Primarily correspondence (1919-1979) covering most aspects of Hutchisson's professional career, other than his tenure at the American Institute of Physics, and his personal life. Topics include educational reports, transcripts, applications and acknowledgements for grants and fellowships, salaries and terms of employment, domestic and travel arrangements, and professional and academic affiliations (Case Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, and the Journal of Applied Physics). Also included in the correspondence are materials (bulk dates, 1970-1972) on his retirement as director of the AIP in 1964 and his subsequent activities for the Council of the Friends of the Center for History of Physics. Clippings and reprints pertain largely to the Friends of the Center for History of Physics, his career, and physics education in general. Typescripts include corrected and uncorrected drafts of Hutchisson's "Story of the American Institute of Physics 1956-1966" and his 1926 doctoral dissertation, "The Energy of the Crossed-orbit Model of the Hydrogen Molecule and the Theory of the Temperature Variation of the Specific Heat of Hydrogen," submitted to the University of Minnesota. Correspondents include: Luis Alvarez, D. Allan Bromley, W. Dale Compton, Edward U. Condon, Karl K. Darrow, William Fowler, Dayton C. Miller, Erwin Schrödinger, and Van Zandt Williams.

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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