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Gardner, George Knowles, 1891-1978. Papers of George K. Gardner, 1935-1956 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of George K. Gardner, 1935-1956 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence concerning loyalty oath cases involving teachers and U.S. employees.

ArchivalResource: 6 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76973044 View

Eulogies for Wendell Hinkle Furry, 1985.

Title: Eulogies for Wendell Hinkle Furry, 1985.

Eulogies delivered for Wendell Hinkle Furry (b. 1907) by Roy J. Glauber, Melba Phillips, and Edward M. Purcell.

ArchivalResource: 6 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78908804 View

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-. Oral history interview with Wendell Furry 1977 January 17 and 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Wendell Furry 1977 January 17 and 31.

Includes information on Wendell Furry's background before coming to Harvard in 1934 and his initial reaction to Cambridge and to life in the Harvard Physics Dept. Comments on teaching undergraduate courses and contacts with students in tutorial system. His work with specific graduate students before and after his World War II interruption for the work at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. Changes within the Dept. after the War and his new teaching duties at the graduate level. The second session includes recollections of Professor Furry's ordeal before Un-American House and Senate Committees starting in 1953 and consequent difficulties with the Harvard Corporation leading to his being put on a 30 year probation at Harvard. His stand before the McCarthy Committee led to his being cited for contempt of Congress, facing trial in Federal Court. Details of financial and psychological support provided by fellow faculty members, especially those in the Physics Department. Comments on life in the Department in more recent years just prior to retirement.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 76 pp. (2 sessions)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83030671 View

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-. Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999.

Title: Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999.

Interview focuses briefly personal details of Philip Anderson's life and almost exclusively on technicial aspects of Anderson's research. After discussing his undergraduate and graduate education at Harvard including his research on spectral lines, he begins the technical aspects of the interview by reviewing his interest in antiferromagnetism and his time in Japan. Included in this is his thoughts on the organization of the Japanese scientific community. The second half of the interview deals interely with his interest in superconductitity and localized moments. Within this general topic there is some treatment of his thoughts on the time that he spend in Cambridge, MA.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: (Six sessions), 12 cassette tapes.Transcript: 108 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305371 View

Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk), 1949-1974

Title: Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk) 1949-1974

The collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward the interview asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals of these letters is unknown. The Making of a Scientist.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet, Ca. 6000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R621-ead.xml View

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-. Papers of Wendell Hinkle Furry, ca. 1927-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Wendell Hinkle Furry, ca. 1927-1985 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence research notes, teaching materials (including lecture notes), manuscripts of publications and speeches, memoranda, reports, newspaper clippings, minutes, notebooks, letters of recommendation computer printouts, and other papers relating to the teaching and research career of Wendell Hinkle Furry, a physicist who worked in the areas of quantum mechanics, kinetic theory, molecular energies, positron theory, and microwave propagation. Includes materials from his graduate studies at the University of Illinois (1928-1932), his post-graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley (1932-1934), his wartime research at MIT's Radiation Laboratory (1943-1945), and his teaching and research activities at Harvard (1934-1977). Contains correspondence with students, scientific colleagues, academic officers, editors, professional societies, and foundations. Also includes papers relating to the McCarthy Era, particularly congressional investigations of Furry's past political connections with the Communist Party. Related publications and reference material available in repository. For information on component parts of collection, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

ArchivalResource: 12.2 cubic feet in 36 containers of manuscript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76977231 View

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-. Oral history interview with Wendell Furry, 1971 August 9.

Title: Oral history interview with Wendell Furry, 1971 August 9.

Some of the topics discussed include: his youth and education; working on his Ph.D. at University of Illinois; summer symposia at University of Michigan; his work in the early stages of his career; collaborating on a paper with Oppenheimer.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 73 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445516 View

Physical review records, 1940-1947.

Title: Physical review records, 1940-1947.

Primarily correspondence of Gregory Breit and John Tate as editors of the periodical Physical Review concerning attempts of U.S. scientists to impose voluntary restrictions on the publication of scientific papers relating to nuclear fission and other classified scientific information during Wor ld War II. Correspondents include Lyman J. Briggs, J.W. Bucha, Arthur Compton, James B. Conant, Enrico Fermi, Wendell Furry, Glenn T. Seaborg, Leo Szilard, and Harold Urey.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80335437 View

Jones, Robert Clark, 1916-. Correspondence with David Enskog, Sydney Chapman, Harrison Brown, and Wendell H. Furry concerning the development of the theory of non-uniform gases, 1922-1946.

Title: Correspondence with David Enskog, Sydney Chapman, Harrison Brown, and Wendell H. Furry concerning the development of the theory of non-uniform gases, 1922-1946.

ArchivalResource: .2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82251441 View