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Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983. Papers, 1852-1994, (bulk 1910-1960).

Title: Papers, 1852-1994, (bulk 1910-1960).

Correspondence, reports, lectures and research notes, educational materials, minutes, published matter, photographs, glass plate negative, slides, ephemera, artifacts, newspaper clippings, postcards, and wire sound recordings. The collection encompasses the wide range of Dodge's interests and activities. The material from 1910 through the 1920s is primarily technical and scientific including lecture and research notes, classroom materials, work on patents, and writings based on his research. From the mid-1920s the papers reflect Dodge's contributions to the teaching of physics and promotion of its significance in education and in society. Detailed topics include his work at the University of Oklahoma; the founding of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in 1930 and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in 1931, the establishment of the American Physics Teacher (later the American Journal of Physics), the development of programs in engineering physics, the improvement of graduate education and college teaching, and the establishment of the University of Oklahoma Research Institute in 1941. Dodge's notes, reports and correspondence document his work on the two patents he was granted, one in 1920 for an improved rheostat, and the other in 1924 for a porous damper for acoustical instruments; his administrative work during World War II in ensuring the optimum utilization of scientists for the war effort as Director of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council; the growth of Sigma Pi Sigma; the findings of the ASEE engineering education mission to Japan in 1951; and his trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1955 to survey Soviet scientific education. Much of the personal materials relate to Dodge's enthusiasm for camping, canoeing, and conservation. Among his correspondents were: Henry A. Barton, Alfred Bailey, Karl T. Compton, Carroll Dodge, Harold Hazen, Elmer Hutchisson, Fred Kent, Paul Klopsteg, Atwood Manley, Charles A. Plumley, Floyd Richtmyer, Duane Roller, William Schriever, Wallace Waterfall, William S. Webb, and Marsh White. Dodge's papers also include correspondence and other materials from friends Fred W. Kent and Clyde Smith, son Fletcher Dodge, mother Isabella Donaghue Dodge, and wife Margaret Wing Dodge.

ArchivalResource: 41.5 ln. ft. (79 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81866718 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

Richtmyer, F. K. (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939. Division of Physical Sciences: Chapter VIII of the Consolidated Report upon the activities of the National Research Council, 1919-1932.

Title: Division of Physical Sciences: Chapter VIII of the Consolidated Report upon the activities of the National Research Council, 1919-1932.

ArchivalResource: 14 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81865427 View

Edward G. Ramberg Papers, 1916-1994

Title: Edward G. Ramberg Papers 1916-1994

A physicist and social activist, Edward G. Ramberg contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television, and devoted much of his life to pacifist and Quaker causes. Born in Italy to an American mother and German father, Ramberg experienced the losses of war firsthand during the First World War when his father was killed while serving with the German army. After moving to the United States with his mother, Ramberg attended Reed College and Cornell University before returning to Germany for postdoctoral study under Arnold Sommerfeld. Employed at RCA for most of his career (1935-1972), Ramberg refused any involvement in military or war-related research, and as a conscientious objector during the Second World War, was assigned to duty in Civilian Public Service camps. He continued to work in fostering social harmony until late in life. With his wife, Sarah Sargent, a Swarthmore graduate whom he met through the American Friends Service Committee, Ramberg helped to establish Bryn Gweled, a cooperative community in which people of various religious, social, and racial backgrounds lived and worked together. The bulk of the Ramberg papers consists of files pertaining to his work with Amnesty International, the American Friends Service Committee, and peace groups in the Philadelphia and Bucks County region. Of particular note is a bundle of correspondence with Sommerfeld.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 Linear feet

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Ries, Heinrich, 1871-1951. Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

Title: Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

Mainly personal and professional correspondence, especially concerning Cornell Geology Department administration and conflicts; correspondents include Henry Platt Cushing, Edmund Ezra Day, Livingston Farrand, Adam C. Gill, Gilbert D. Harris, Charles W. Merriam, Charles S. Prosser, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Ralph S. Tarr, Oscar D. von Engeln, Henry Shaler Williams, and others. Also, one diary kept by Ries (ca.1914-1939) and one by Henry S. Williams (1889-1892, 1904-1908) concerning departmental affairs, typescript departmental minutes (1904-1914), laboratory notes (1904-1909), memoranda, enrollment statistics, reports, notes, condolence letters, and other items relating to Ries, Williams, and the Geology Department at Cornell University.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073288 View

Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977. Papers of Jesse W. Beams [manuscript], 1926-1977.

Title: Papers of Jesse W. Beams [manuscript], 1926-1977.

The papers contain professional correspondence particularly re the Manhattan Project, 1941-1944, and the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-1974; papers proposed or published by Beams and his colleagues; grant applications submitted by Beams or reviewed as a member of the Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, 1956-1957; documentation for fourteen patents he received; experimental data, diagrams and miscellaneous research materials; personal and professional financial material including University of Virginia physics department finances, 1957-1960 and United States War Department contracts; and biographical information including newsclippings and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 9 feet (ca. 1,500 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647816257 View

Richtmyer, F. K. (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939. [Publications].

Title: [Publications]. 1917-1936.

ArchivalResource: 27 v. ; 25-28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173264578 View

Conn, H. J. (Harold Joel), 1886-1975. Harold Joel Conn papers, 1911-1959.

Title: Harold Joel Conn papers, 1911-1959.

Correspondence with other bacteriologists, public health officials, publishers, commercial laboratories, and Cornell administrators, as well as reports, financial records, notes, and printed material, all of which concern his participation in the work of the Biological Stain Commission, of which he was chairman, National Research Council, American Public Health Association, and Society of American Bacteriologists, his scientific writings, and research projects undertaken at Geneva and elsewhere; correspondents include Robert S. Breed, Arthur P. Hitchens, George J. Hucker, Floyd K. Richtmyer, William A. Stocking, and Selman A. Waksman. Also, copies of his publications, an autobiography (86 pp. typescript carbon), and "A Religious Scientist at the Turn of the Century" (123 pp. mimeo), his biographical essay on his father, Herbert William Conn, professor of bacteriology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, in which is included a bibliography of his father's writings.

ArchivalResource: 20 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938870 View

H.J. Conn papers, 1911-1959.

Title: H.J. Conn papers, 1911-1959.

Correspondence with other bacteriologists, public health officials, publishers, commercial laboratories, and Cornell administrators, as well as reports, financial records, notes, and printed material, concerning his participation in the work of the Biological Stain Commission, National Research Council, American Public Health Association, and Society of American Bacteriologists, his scientific writings, and research projects.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA00661.xml View

McCarthy, Rollin Herbert, 1899-. Rollin Herbert McCarthy lecture notes, 1921.

Title: Rollin Herbert McCarthy lecture notes, 1921.

Lecture notes and term report for Atomic Structure course given at Cornell University in 1921 by Professor F.K. Richtmyer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074808 View

Newman, Jared T. (Jared Treman), 1855-1937. Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk).

Title: Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk).

Papers include correspondence, legal documents, reports, accounts, blueprints, maps, clippings, and printed material dealing primarily with the interest of Newman and Charles H. Blood in the development of Cayuga Heights, but also with Renwick Heights and Bryant Park, Ithaca, New York; minutes of the organizational meeting of the Cayuga Heights Land Corporation, 1928. Also, letters and papers concerning banking institutions in Ithaca and elsewhere; real estate in South Dakota, Illinois, and Florida; other business concerns; the expansion and promotion of the New York State Barge Canal system; the affairs of Cascadilla School, Ithaca; alumni activities of the Cornell Class of 1875; manuscript and printed matter concerning the Ithaca Presbyterian Church, the Cornell University Christian Association, and Cornell United Religious Work; letter to Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer concerning his views of a proposed school of religion at Cornell; Newman's appointment as special lecturer in the Cornell Law School, 1897-1899; and his terms of service as a Trustee, including an Alumni Trustee Report, 1898. Also, correspondence with Wilmot Moses Smith, 1875; William Ozmun Wyckoff, 1891, concerning his interest in a Tompkins County, New York judgeship; a letter from Eugene Frayer concerning Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams; letters from George Lincoln Burr, Hiram Corson, Mina Miller Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, Livingston Farrand, and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

ArchivalResource: 23.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072855 View

Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976. Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1963 January 26.

Title: Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1963 January 26.

Early history of formation of American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT); formation of the education committee of the American Physical Society (APS) by George B. Wendell in 1919; the APS "exclusion principle" for teaching papers. Dayton C. Miller on the Council of APS led objections to report of the education committee, Webster's counter-arguments. Experiences and interests in teaching of physics; instructor at Harvard University, 1913-1917. First involvement at second Cleveland meeting to discuss forming AAPT by invitation, 1930; other participants at Cleveland meeting, contributions of Karl Compton and Floyd Richtmyer. Tenures as vice president, 1933-1934, and president, 1935-1936; Homer L. Dodge's presidency; Frederick Palmer's presidency; contributions in early years of AAPT of Paul Klopsteg and Marshall Ney States. Effect of formation of AAPT on teachers and researchers; need for and funding of the journal. First joint meeting of AAPT and APS.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 38 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78729231 View

Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

Title: Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

Correspondence and other papers relating to Ries' career as professor of geology at Cornell University.

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Cornell University Department of Physics records, 1876-1994.

Title: Cornell University Department of Physics records, 1876-1994.

Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, and other items pertaining to the Cornell University Department of Physics, primarily from the 1880s through the 1950s, along with some later memoirs and histories of the Department and those associated with it.

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Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk)

Title: Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk)

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

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