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J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, 1799-1980, (bulk 1947-1967)

Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers 1799-1980 (bulk 1947-1967)

Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, lectures, statements, scientific notes, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work there. Topics include theoretical physics, development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, nuclear energy, security, and national loyalty.

ArchivalResource: 74,000 items; 294 containers plus 2 classified; 117.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998007 View

American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (1964 : Washington, D.C.). High energy physics session [sound recording] / 1964 April 30.

Title: High energy physics session [sound recording] / 1964 April 30.

Speakers include: Murray Gell-Mann, "Particles and Principles;" L.M. Lederman, Observations in High-Energy Physics;" L. J. Laslett, "Problems and Advances in High-Energy-Accelerator Design;" and a panel discussion on high energy physics. Panel members include: Maurice Goldhaber, Leo Goldwasser, A.M. Weinberg, Cen Ning Yang, Owen Chamberalin, G. E. Pake, Val Fitch.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79239287 View

American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (1973 : New York, N.Y.). Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : Science in China ; 1973 January 30.

Title: Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : Science in China ; 1973 January 30.

Speakers include: C. N. Yang, "My Impression of the New China;" M. Goldberger, "Physics and Life in China;" and Arthur Galston, "Observations on Biology and Agriculture in China."

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77898600 View

Gibbs Symposium (1989 : Yale University). Records of the Gibbs Symposium, 1964-1989 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Gibbs Symposium, 1964-1989 (inclusive).

The records consist of videotapes of the Gibbs Symposium held at Yale in 1989. The symposium was held in honor of Josiah Willard Gibbs, a leader in theoretical physics.

ArchivalResource: 15 videotapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702159720 View

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-. Oral history interview with Chen Ning Yang conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 April 26.

Title: Oral history interview with Chen Ning Yang conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 April 26.

One of 36 interviews with particle physicists conducted as background material for Pickering's book, CONSTRUCTING QUARKS: A SOCIOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS (1984). This interview is one of several that emphasizes the scientific careers of individuals, from the time they entered physics to the current period. The emphasis was on technical research practice, tracing continuities over time, and exploring breaks. A principal concern was in situating an individual's historically important contributions within the overall context of his career. This interview touches on Yang's early career (chemistry major) in China, and University of Chicago; Ph.D in beta-decay, 1949. Continues work on beta-decay at Princeton University, 1949-1966; interest in statistical mechanics. Extensive discussion of the Yang-Mills gauge field theory, 1946-1978. Brookhaven National Laboratory collaborating with Bob Mills on original Yang-Mills paper, 1954; exchange with Wolfgang Pauli over mass of gauge vectors. Developments in the 1960s. Remarks on philosophy of science.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript (29 pp.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77698902 View

Pickering, Andrew. Interviews conducted for book, Constructing quarks, 1978-1982.

Title: Interviews conducted for book, Constructing quarks, 1978-1982.

Consists of audio taped interviews with thirty-six particle physicists, conducted as background material for his book, CONSTRUCTING QUARKS: A SOCIOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS (1984). (Two of the interviews have been transcribed: Glashow and Yang.) Pickering sought to document the founding and growth of research traditions structured around the quark concept, therefore, almost all interviews focused upon the interviewee's overall research career rather than narrowly defined historical episodes. They cover the period from 1964 when the quark model was formulated to 1980 when quark theories had come to dominate research practice in high-energy physics. More specific topics include J/psi color models, Fairbank's fractional charges, and the Price magnetic monopoole. Participants include: Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Luis W. Alvarez, Barry Barish, A. O. Barut, John Bell, James Bjorken, Elliott D. Bloom, Gordon Feldman, Geoffrey Chew, Sidney Coleman, A. De Rujula, Sid Drell, John Ellis, P.G.O. Freund, Erwin Gabathuler, Mary Gaillard, H. Georgi, Gerson Goldhaber, Sheldon Glashow, Peter Higgs, Roman Jackiw, R. L. Jaffe, P. V. Langshoff, Ed Lofgren, Seymour Joseph Lindenbaum, Francis Eugene Low, Y. Nambu, Robert B. Palmer, and Hugh David Politzer, Charles Prescott, P. Buford Price, Chris Quigg, B. Richter, A. Salam, G. t'Hooft, and C. N. Yang.

ArchivalResource: 2 transcripts (Glashow and Yang).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81866290 View

Records of the Atomic Energy Commission. 1923 - 1978. Zero Gradient Synchrotron Dedication Photographs

Title: Records of the Atomic Energy Commission. 1923 - 1978. Zero Gradient Synchrotron Dedication Photographs

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University of Virginia. Papers of the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Committees, 1935-1981, (bulk 1952-1974).

Title: Papers of the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Committees, 1935-1981, (bulk 1952-1974).

The collection contains files re the history of the lectureships; lists of lectures and published books resulting from them; minutes, agendas, and annual reports; general correspondence; financial correspondence; nominations; and topical files on the scholars containing correspondence and other papers re their appearance and the publication of their books. Manuscripts of several of the lectures are included.

ArchivalResource: 2000 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814738 View

Harvard Project Physics. Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

Title: Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

Collection consists of the documentation amassed in producing the documentary film. It includes transcripts of the interviews conducted for the film with physicists who worked with Fermi in Rome, at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Los Alamos; scripts; research notes; and correspondence. Only a small portion of this material was used in the final version of the 46 minute educational film intended primarily for American high school and college students. Unedited transcripts of filmed interviews with Dr. and Mrs. Harold M. Agnew, Eduardo Amaldi, Herbert Anderson, Hans A. Bethe, John Baudino, Gina Castelnuovo, Owen Chamberlain, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Geoffrey Chew, Laura Fermi, Eugenio Fubini, Samuel A. Goudsmit, David Hawkins, Percival King, Tsung-Dao Lee, John Marshall, Leona Marshall, Dorothy McKibbin, Nicholas Metropolis, Philip Morrison, Norman Nachtrieb, Jay Orear, Isidor I. Rabi, Franco Rasetti, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Emilio G. Segrè, Cyril S. Smith, George L. Weil, and Chen Ning Yang.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81003917 View

Lee, T. D., 1926-. Oral history interview with Tsung-Dao Lee, 1980 October 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Tsung-Dao Lee, 1980 October 31.

Family from Suzhow; fled from Japanese army at age 15; to Chekiang University, 1943-1944; transfer to Lianda University, Professor Wu Ta-you; good teachers, but no experimental facilities; Professors Ma Shijun, Yeh Qisun, Zhao Zhonggyao; M.A. highest degree in China; Lee better prepared than fellow graduate students at University of Chicago; no significant research at Lianda; completes 3 years in 13 months at Lianda; massacre of students during strikes, December 1945; leaves for U.S., September 1946. Lee and Chen-ning (Frank) Yang as part of Chinese science. Also prominently mentioned are: Xinan Lianda University, and Zhejiang University.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 20 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83300221 View

Harvard Project Physics. Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

Title: Materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, ca. 1930-1968.

Collection includes outtakes and trims from the production of the documentary on Fermi as well as documentary film footage and some candid footage from the 1930s. Includes the filmed interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer; as well as outtakes from interviews with other physicists who worked with Fermi in Rome, at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Los Alamos. These include Dr. and Mrs. Harold M. Agnew, Eduardo Amaldi, Herbert Anderson, Hans A. Bethe, John Baudino, Gina Castelnuovo, Owen Chamberlain, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Geoffrey Chew, Laura Fermi, Eugenio Fubini, Samuel A. Goudsmit, David Hawkins, Percival King, Tsung-Dao Lee, John Marshall, Leona Marshall, Dorothy McKibbin, Nicholas Metropolis, Philip Morrison, Norman Nachtrieb, Jay Orear, Isidor I. Rabi, Franco Rasetti, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Emilio G. Segrè, Cyril S. Smith, George L. Weil, and Chen Ning Yang.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 ft. motion picture film, 122 sound tapes in 85 tins.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79972919 View

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-. Reminiscences of Chen Ning Yang : oral history, 1964.

Title: Reminiscences of Chen Ning Yang : oral history, 1964.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 69 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608433 View

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-. Oral history interview with Chen Ning Yang, 1980 November 1.

Title: Oral history interview with Chen Ning Yang, 1980 November 1.

History of the development of the modern Chinese university system, the organization of Xinan Lianda University from three separate universities: Beida, Qinghua, Nankai; Lianda's administrative organization and contributions of the various separate faculties in physics and mathematics; Chinese educational system improved by return of Chinese students who studied abroad; comparison of Chinese and American systems of university education; Yang's family history, education of father in China and Ph. D. in mathematics at University of Chicago, father's influence on his studies, Yang's early life and education during war with Japan, his physics education in China, Ph. D. at University of Chicago, change from experimental thesis using Van de Graaff accelerator with Samuel K. Allison to theoretical work with Edward Teller, Yang's contemporaries, his impressions of current Chinese graduate students. Also prominently mentioned are: Baolu Xu, Kezhen Zhu; Beida University, Nankai University, Qinghua University, University of Chicago, and Xinan Lianda University.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 43 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84075053 View

Harvard Project Physics. The world of Enrico Fermi [motion picture].

Title: The world of Enrico Fermi [motion picture]. 1968.

Documents the life and work of Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi through the use of still photos, old newsreels, and interviews with those who knew and worked with him at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and on the Manhattan Project, including: Harold M. Agnew, Edoardo Amaldi, Herbert Lawrence Anderson, Owen Chamberlain, Bellur Sivaramiah Chandrasekhar, Geoffrey F. Chew, Laura Fermi, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Philip A. Morrison, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Franco D. Rasetti, George L. Weil, and Chen Ning Yang.

ArchivalResource: 2 film reels (46 min.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81360319 View

Chan family. Combined Asian American Resources Project : oral history transcripts / of tape-recorded interviews conducted 1974-1976 in San Francisco, 1974-1976.

Title: Combined Asian American Resources Project : oral history transcripts / of tape-recorded interviews conducted 1974-1976 in San Francisco, 1974-1976.

Interviews with Chinese Americans in California, both native and China born. Interviewees include the following: Chan family; Margaret Chan; Luella L. Churchill; Ben Fee; Paul Fung; Alice Hoang; Ben Hong; William Hung; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Jung; Ruby Kim; Jane Lee; Joe Lee; Chalsa Loo; May and Edwin Low; Francis and Howard Low; C.N. Yang; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yee; Samuel Yee. Some comment on life in China as well as experiences after immigration to the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 18 folders in 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215459325 View

Wu, Ta-You. Oral history interview with Ta-you Wu, 1977 February 5.

Title: Oral history interview with Ta-you Wu, 1977 February 5.

Deals mainly with postwar buildup of NRC based on E. W. R. Steacie's visions of a fundamental research institute, in addition to industrial research. NRC appointment of G. Herzberg and Wu in 1949; Wu gives up hope of returning to China. State of Canadian physics in the late 1940s. Extensive discussion of the formation of NRC's theoretical division; Herzberg's spectroscopy group; solid state physics; summer seminars (P. A. M. Dirac, C. N. Yang); quantum field theory most fashionable field; many foreigners are postdoctoral fellows at NRC; theoretical physics section too small, Wu's proposal for expansion of theoretical physics staff rejected. Effect of Steacie's death in 1962; B.G. Ballard succeeds Steacie. Wu's plans for NRC, theoretical physics in Canada, 1949-1963 (Volkoff). Wu's frustration and resignation; accepts assignments in Taiwan, Princeton, Switzerland. Early career; China Foundation scholarship brings Wu to University of Michigan (Laporte and Sam Goudsmit), from 1931-1934. Professorship at National University in Peking, 1934; effect of war with Japan, no attempts to organize scientists in war work; comments on Western books on the war; C. N. Yang and T. D. Lee (students of Wu's at Kunming) are sent to the U.S. (University of Chicago) by Chinese government. Wu's affiliation with State University of NY at Buffalo; retired in 1978. Comments on Chalk River National Laboratories, Canadian Journal of Physics, evolution of Separate Pure and Applied Divisions at NRC (G. Herzberg, L.E. Howlett, C.J. Makenzie). Affiliation with science in Taiwan, beginning in 1973; Chinese language and modern science. Chinese physicists return to Taiwan. Council post (1967-1973) seen as his greatest achievement. Comparison of Taiwan National Science Council and the U.S. National Science Foundation. NRC's Dirac Conference, 1955; comments on Dirac; meeting Niels Bohr in China in 1935. Wu's clearance and citizenship difficulties in Canada and the U.S.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82862756 View

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-. Is parity conserved in weak interactions?: manuscript by Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, 1956.

Title: Is parity conserved in weak interactions?: manuscript by Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, 1956.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79617776 View

Lazarus, David, 1921-. Oral history interview with David Lazarus, 1981 December 4.

Title: Oral history interview with David Lazarus, 1981 December 4.

Family background; freshman course instructors at the University of Chicago; war-time training program; living next door to Manhattan Project people; Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University; work on jamming tools (radar counter-measures) and antennas; work and graduate study at the Institute for the Study of Metals the University of Chicago (with Clarence Zener); work with Andy Lawson; E. R. Piore and the Office of Naval Research; early history of the Institute for the Study of Metals; Cyril Stanley Smith; Zener's course in solid state physics; Lazarus' doctoral dissertation; University of Illinois at Urbana, fall 1949; work on diffusion in metals; interaction with Frederick Seitz and Japanese physicists. Also prominently mentioned are: Chuck Barrett, Enrico Fermi, Doug Fitchen, James Franck, Bill Fretter, Georges Friedel, Lou Girifalco, Marvin Leonard Goldberger, Mel Gottlieb, Pete Harvey, Gerald Holton, Hillard B. Huntington, Peter Gerald Kruger, Ting Tsui Kuh, Harvey Brace Lemon, Earl Long, Francis Wheeler Loomis, Robert Joseph Maurer, Douglas McArthur, Louis Ridenour, Win Salzberg, Larry Slitkin, Don Stevens, Leo Szilard, Carl Tomizuka, Chen Ning Yang; Argonne National Laboratory, Columbia University, General Electric Company, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Atomic Energy Commission.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 38 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81802998 View

Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Title: Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Papers of Russian physicist and human rights activist Andreĭ Sakharov.

ArchivalResource: 137 boxes (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01977/catalog View