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Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79239321 View

Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3.

Career in nuclear physics, chiefly through 1939; describes differences in atmosphere among the Universities of Vienna, Berlin, London and Copenhagen; his switch from mathematics to physics at Vienna; work at University of Berlin on a grant, with Peter Pringsheim, before going to Hamburg to work with Otto Stern; with Hitler laws in effect, leaves for position with Patrick M. S. Blackett at Birkbeck College, 1933; then to Niels Bohr's Institute, until 1939; anecdotes about working on neutron experiments and nuclear models in Copenhagen; recounts how he and Lise Meitner explained fission, and memorandum with Rudolf Peierls on bomb possibilities; brief comments on postwar career.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 44 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622710 View

Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000. Oral history interview with Abraham Pais, 1974 August 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Abraham Pais, 1974 August 27.

Niels Bohr and Wolfgang Pauli at Princeton University, early 1950s; Bohr and Dean Acheson; the birth of quantum physics (Erwin Schrödinger); Albert Einstein; Niels Bohr Institute, 1946; comparison of Einstein and Bohr; character and personality of Bohr.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83623096 View

Feenberg, Eugene. Oral history interview with Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

Early career through 1939. Midwestern background; education at University of Texas, graduate work at Harvard University in theoretical physics under Edwin C. Kemble and John Van Vleck, 1929-1933; traveling fellowship (chiefly in Germany, 1932); positions at Harvard, University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, and New York University. The nature of theoretical nuclear physics work in the 1930s including nuclear models and Feenberg's work with Eugene P. Wigner on nuclear forces. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Niels Henrik David Bohr, C. P. Boner, Gregory Breit, Walter M. Elsasser, Wendell Furry, George Gamow, Julian Knipp, Ettore Majorana, R. L. Moore, Otto Oldenburg, Melba Newell Phillips, Roberts, Simon Share, C. G. Smith, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker, (Freiherr von); Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Niels Bohr Institutet, and Raytheon Corporation.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 58 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83300129 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

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Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966. Home movies of William Meggers [motion picture] / taken by William Meggers.

Title: Home movies of William Meggers [motion picture] / taken by William Meggers. 1927-1957.

Home movies of William F. Meggers, photographed over a 30-year period. These films, taken by Meggers, include family milestones, first steps, birthdays, graduations, family reunions, as well as coverage of his local and international travels, for pleasure, as well as for professional meetings: meeting of August 19, 1927 with Pieter Zeeman, Taco Luite de Bruin, and Johannes van der Waals in Amsterdam; meeting of August 21, 1927 with Heinrich Kayser at the Physiks Institute in Bonn; meeting of August 29, 1927 with James Franck and Richard Chace Tolman at the Physikalisches Institut in Göttingen; visit to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, September 12, 1927; meeting with Friederich Paschen at the Physikalisches-Technisches Reichanstalt, Berlin, June 1928; coverage of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Leiden, July 1928, and IAU meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1932 where attendees included Georgio Abetti, Harold Babcock, George van Biesbroeck, Frank Dyson, Arthur Eddington, Georges Lemaître, Charles Mees, Andrew Pickering, Harlow Shapley, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Vesto Slipher, Frederick Slocum, Francis Woodworth Wright. Also includes visits to the Physical Institute at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, August 1935; the Physical and Chemical Institute at the University of Oslo, August 1935; the Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen in August 1935; and a solar eclipse expedition to Lund, Sweden, June 1954.

ArchivalResource: 16 film reels : si., b&w & col ; 16 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79752644 View

Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973. Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.

Early training as a physicist; quartz-fibre electrometer; high-voltage installations, above 200 kilovolts; high-voltage accelerator, especially Van de Graaff machines; cloud chamber; fission 1939; reminiscences of Niels Bohr; leaving Europe 1939; warwork at National Bureau of Standards 1940; rocket work 1940s; postwar rehabilitation of laboratory facilities; technological improvements after the war; learning nuclear physics after the war; nuclear spin; development of shell model; rotational model 1952; gamma-ray detection; changes in research styles; research plans for the present (1967). Also prominently mentioned are: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Jür̈gen K. Bg︣gild, Robert F. Christy, Eugene Feenberg, William Alfred Fowler, Otto Robert Frisch, Trevor Gardner, Raymond George Herb, Torben Huus, David Rittenhouse Inglis, J. H. D. Jensen, Donald W. Kerst, Dieter Kurath, Milton Stanley Livingston, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Herb Parkinson, Matthew Sands, Trump, Victor Frederick Weisskopf; Finsen Radiation Institute, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Inyokern Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Niels Bohr Institutet, Philips Elektronik Industrie GmbH, United States Navy, and University of Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 5-inch reel (ca. 3.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 33 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78375228 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics institutional history collection A-K, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Title: History of physics institutional history collection A-K, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Included are histories, in both published and manuscript form, of: college and university physics departments, laboratories, astronomical observatories, organizations of physics and allied sciences, industrial research divisions, and other academic and non-academic physics institutions. A few publications from the institutions themselves, such as college and university catalogs and bulletins, are also included. Among those represented are: Acoustical Society of America, Adler Planetarium, Aeorspace Corporation, Air Force Cambridge Research Center, A.F. Ioffe Physical Institute, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Astronomical Society, American Bosch Arma Corporation, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Geophysical Union, American Machine and Foundry Company, American Physical Society, Amherst College, Argonne National Laboratory, Associated Universities, Inc., Association of New York Scientists, Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission, Babcock & Wilcox Company, Barnes Engineering Company, Bausch & Lomb, Beckman Instruments, Inc, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, California Research Corporation, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cavendish Laboratory, CERN, European Physical Society, European Space Research Organization, Chemical Foundation, Clark University, College of William and Mary, Columbia University, Cooper. Union, Cornell University, Corning Glass Works, Dalhousie University, Dartmouth College, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, General Dynamics Corp., General Electric Co., General Motors Research Laboratories, General Telephone & Electronics Corp., Georgetown University, George Washington University, GCA Corporation, Goddard Space Flight Center, Grinnell College, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Hanford Works, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University, History of Science Society, Hughes Aircraft, Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Institute for Advanced Study, International Astronomical Union, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Iowa State College, Iowa State University, Johns Hopkins University, KMS Fusion, Inc., Kitt Peak National Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (ca. 700 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83555010 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection I-L, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection I-L, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are: George J. Igo, J. A. Jacobs, Stephen F. Jacobs, Theodor S. Jacobsen, Hubert Maxwell James, Sir Harold Jeffreys, Herbert Jehle, William Polk Jesse, John Bertrand Johnson, Leo Francis Johnson, Harold S. Johnston, John A. Jungerman, John Clarence Karcher, William M. Kaula, Wilbur Irving Kaye, H. Kayser, Joseph Henry Keenan, Philip C. Keenan, Bernard D. Kern, Motoharu Kimura, Paul Kirkpatrick, Carl Kisslinger, Charles Kittle, Oskar Klein, Ernest Donals Klema, Jere Knight, Charles Koester, George Andrew Kolstad, Zdenk Kopal, John D. Draus, Konrad Krauskopf, N. J. Krreidl, Dieter Kurath, Elizabeth Laird, Rolf William Landauer, Alfred Land, Lawrence M. Langer, A. S. Laughton, David Lazarus, Thomas H. Lee, Philipp Lenard, Francis A. L'Esperance, Humboldt Walter Leverenz, Joseph S. Levinger, I. M. Levitt, Richard H. Levy, D. K. Lilly, Rachael Tupper Lindsay, R. Bruce Lindsay, Sara Lee Lippincott, R. N. Little, Rocco V. Lobraico, Edward V. Locke, Leonard B. Loeb, Donald Holt Loughridge, Francis E. Low, Willem Luyten.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80405080 View

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1967 April 5.

Title: Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1967 April 5.

Early interest in science; training in physics and graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, courses, books, seminars, informal atmosphere, 1927-1933; summer work in spectroscopy laboratory at National Bureau of Standards, 1929; interest in elementary particles, attractions of nuclear physics, 1933; postdoctoral work with Gregory Breit on pair theory, New York University, 1933-1934; potential well model and its application to experimental results, 1933-1935; studies at Niels Bohr's Institute, Copenhagen 1934-1935; discussions in Copenhagen on electrodynamics; role of experimental results in formulation of Bohr's concept of compound nucleus, 1935; reasons for initial skeptical reaction to compound nucleus model; significance of Bethe-Bacher-Livingston review articles in Reviews of Modern Physics, 1936-1937; development of compound nucleus ideas after 1935; use of compound nucleus and Breit-Wigner formula as guide for experiment; development of collective model; reaction to Hideki Yukawa's 1935 meson theory and subsequent new cosmic ray particles, late 1930s; establishment of cosmic ray laboratory at Princeton University 1945; work considered personally satisfying; scattering matrix and other work at University of North Carolina, 1935-1938; close relationship of physics and mathematics departments at Princeton, 1938- ; collaboration with Bohr on theory of fission, Princeton 1939; relation of fission physics to other. Aspects of nuclear physics; plans of physicists for postwar work. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph Sweetman Ames, Robert Fox Bacher, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Max Delbrück, Paul Ehrenfest, Gray, Werner Heisenberg, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Maria Göeppert Mayer, Mernihan, Plesset, Tarrant, J. Arthur Thompson, John Toll, Merle Antony Tuve, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Eugene Paul Wigner, E.J. Williams, Hideki Yukawa; Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, and Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen).

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 40 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79151795 View

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976. Correspondence and autobiographical account of the history of writing of the Bohr-Kramer-Slater paper in 1924, 1968.

Title: Correspondence and autobiographical account of the history of writing of the Bohr-Kramer-Slater paper in 1924, 1968.

Manuscript and correspondence. A 50-page manuscript (1968) contains reminiscences of his experiences as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow at Cambridge University, England, and Copenhagen (1923-1924), particularly his involvement at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen in the writing of the Bohr-Kramers-Slater paper, with transcriptions of selections from letters to his parents and his papers. Also, some correspondence (1968) on the distribution of these excerpts and the use of his oral history interview with Thomas Kuhn. Correspondents include Leon Rosenfeld and J. H. Van Vleck.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78159141 View

Niels Bohr institutet. Journal of Jocular Physics, 1935-1955

Title: Journal of Jocular Physics, 1935-1955

Collections of short articles by physicists on physics subjects, originally created with the purpose of a Festschrift for Bohr's fiftieth birthday, but intended to be humorous in nature; also contains some cartoon drawings. The preface of the first volume states: ". . . the present volume inaugurates a new periodical, exclusively concerned with the jocular aspect of the physical world." Comprised of Niels Bohr Celebration Number [Vol. I], 7 October 1935, created for Bohr's fiftieth birthday, 37 pp.; Volume II dated 7 October 1945, 28 pp.; Volume III dated 7 October 1955, 49 pp. Includes items by Léon Rosenfeld; George Gamow; Hans Bethe and Edward Teller; Victor Weisskopf.

ArchivalResource: 3 vols. (114 pp.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78135493 View

Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-. Oral history interview with John Robert Schrieffer, 1974 September 26 and 1976 January 19.

Title: Oral history interview with John Robert Schrieffer, 1974 September 26 and 1976 January 19.

Childhood and high school education; undergraduate eduction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor's thesis with John Slater on energy level spacings in the multiple structure of transition metal atoms; graduate education at Urbana, Illinois, first paper under John Bardeen on the problem of transport of electrons bound to surfaces in semiconductors (Bardeen, David Pines); doctoral thesis on superconductivity, theoretical issues relevant to it; Leon Cooper's contributions, field theory, the bound state; Bardeen wins the Nobel Prize, emotional letdowns related to slow results of research; Stevens Conference on the many-body problem and American Physical Society Meeting, 1957; application of the Tomonaga variational technique, work on it with Cooper and Bardeen, problems with the second order phase transition, Bardeen's solution of the wave function; refinements of the new theory of superconductivity; feelings about working with Bardeen and Cooper; reactions of the scientific community to the new theory (Niels Bohr, Norman Ramsey); views on scientific creativity; the square dance analogy of the B-C-S theory; the Nobel Prize, 1972; American and Soviet competition for solution of superconductivity; objections to the theory based on gauge invariance properties; aftermath of discovery and Nobel Prize. Also prominently mentioned are: Jane Bardeen, John Bardeen, Nikolay N. Bogoliubov, Bohr family, Keith Allan Brueckner, Eli Burstein, Butler, Leon Cooper, Richard Phillips Feynman, Dave Frisch, Frölich, Ernest Guillemin, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Werner Heisenberg, David Hilbert, George F. Koster, Fritz London, Francis Eugene Low, Arkadii Beinusovich Migdal, David Pines, Léon Rosenfeld, Blat Schatloff, Ann Schrieffer, Frederick Seitz, Charles Slichter, Gregor Wentzel; Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), and Niels Bohr Institutet.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 5-inch sound reels, 2 sound cassette, 2 sessions.Transcript: 80 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79891395 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics institutional history collection L-S, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Title: History of physics institutional history collection L-S, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Included are histories, in both published and manuscript form, of: college and university physics departments, laboratories, astronomical observatories, organizations of physics and allied sciences, industrial research divisions, and other academic and non-academic physics institutions. A few publications from the institutions themselves, such as college and university catalogs and bulletins, are also included. Among those represented are: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Lick Observatory. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University. McKim Observatory, Metallurgical Laboratory, Motorola, inc., Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, National Accelerator Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards, National Research Council, New York Academy of Sciences, New York University, North American Philips Co. Northrop Corporation, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Philco Corporation, Philips Laboratory, Princeton University, Purdue University, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Rand Corporation, Rikagaku Kenky ujo (Japan), Roswell Museum and Art Center, Research Corporation, Russian Physical Society, Rutherford Laboratory, Shell Development Company, Snell Museum of Physics, Sigma Pi Sigma. Sigma Xi, Smithsonian Institution, Southwestern at Memphis, Sprague Electric Company, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stevens Institute of Technology.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (ca. 700 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84461548 View

Niels Bohr Library. Science clippings collection, 1768-1904.

Title: Science clippings collection, 1768-1904.

Newspapers and clippings. Newspapers and disbound pages of newspapers (bulk dates, 1850-1900) with articles on a variety of scientific topics: astronomy (comets for the most part), electrical phenomena, mechanical and electrical design and prominent scientists in America and Europe. Publications include: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, NEW YORK TRIBUNE, UTICA (New York) HERALD, BOSTON TRAVELLER, and VIRGINIA GAZETTE.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77698907 View

International Physics Conference. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen (Denmark): 1952 June 3-17. Report of the International Physics Conference, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 1952.

Title: Report of the International Physics Conference, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 1952.

This conference was sponsored by the Council of Representatives of European States for planning an international laboratory and organizing other forms of cooperation in nuclear research. The papers in the report relate primarily to the technical interests of the participating physicists.

ArchivalResource: 66 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84447570 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

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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

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection S-Z, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection S-Z, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are: Jakob Salpeter, Alexander Sandow, Ralph Sawyer, Vincent Schaefer, Marcel Schein, George Schoepfle, W. Schreyer, Donald Scifres, Frederick Seitz, Carl Shakin, Allen Shenstone, Glenn Sherwood, Jesse Sherwood, Ken'ichi Shinohara, George Shortley, A.J.F. Siegert, A.E. Siegman, S. Fred Singer, Albert M. Skellett, Lewis Slack, Walter Slavin, Joseph Slepian, Rodolfo Slobodrian, Alpheus W. Smith, Gail Preston Smith, Orrin H. Smith, William V. Smith, Charles P. Smyth, William Ralph Smythe, Arthur H. Snell, Arnold Sommerfeld, Donald Spencer, Athelstan Spilhaus, James K, Sprinkle, Wayne Treber Sproull, George Stern, Malcolm L. Stitch, John Willard Stout, J.D. Stranathan, Dirk Jan Struik, Satoru Sugano, Richard Sutton, P. Swings, Eizo Tajima, Richard Taschek, Lauriston Taylor, V.T. Ter-Oganezov, Edmund Thelen. Richard N. Thomas, Louis K. Thome, Clyde Tombaugh, Ralph Traxler, Cliford Truesdell, Edward Tyndall, Francois Ulam, Albrecht Unsld, Harold Urey, Joseph Valasek, J.H. Van Vleck, Frank Verbrugge, Donald Villars, George Vinal, Adolf Voight, William Von Arx, Georg Von Bekesy, Nicholas Wagman, Tetsuo Wakatsuki, Floyd Watson, William Watson, Harold Webb, Ernst Weber, J. Weber, Dorothy Walcott Weeks, Carl Friedrich Weizscker, Theodore Welton, John A. Wheeler, Gregor Wentzel, Joseph Weneser, Donald White, Marsh W. White, R. Stephen White, Balfour S. Whitney, Rolf Widere, Irwin Weider, L. Wilets, Dudley Williams, Van Zandt Williams, Harold A. Wilson, J. Tuzo Wilson, Raymond Wilson, Leon J. Winard, Ralph Winch, Edson Rae Wolcott, Eric Woodbury, Edith J. Woodward, George P. Woollard, E.J. Workman, Frances W. Wright, Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, Paul Yergin, Jerrold Zacharias, Anthony Zeleny, Clarence Zener, Mark Zemansky, Alexander J. Zink.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82251490 View

Hutchisson, Elmer, 1902-. Oral history interview with Elmer Hutchisson, 1970 October 22.

Title: Oral history interview with Elmer Hutchisson, 1970 October 22.

Childhood in Cleveland, 1902-1919; interest in mechanical things and in physics, Joseph Valasek's influence. At Case Western Reserve University (Dayton Miller), 1919-1923; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1923-1924; University of Minnesota, 1924-1926; work with Paul Heymans on photoelasticity; John Van Vleck's student. Marriage to Joseph Valasek's sister, 1925. About Anthony Zeleny, J. Valasek. University of Pittsburgh, 1926-1941; with Erwin Schrödinger in Berlin, 1929; interest in pedagogy and development of teaching equipment. American Institute of Physics (AIP) 5th anniversary conference 1936. At Case Western, 1944-1957 (Dean of Faculty, Dean of Graduate School, and Director of Research Division). AIP Directorship, 1957-1964; fund raising, the Niels Bohr Library and Archives. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles A. Coffin, Enrico Fermi, Theodore Folke, Dannie Heineman, Rose Hutchisson, Mervin J. Kelly, Albert Abraham Michelson, Dayton C. Miller, Morris Muscat, Jason John Nassau, George Braxton Pegram, John Torrence Tate, Oscar William Torreson; American Association of Physics Teachers Commission on College Physics, American Institute of Physics Corporate Associates, American Institute of Physics War Policy Committee, American Physical Society, Central Scientific Company, Council on Applied Physics, International Business Machines Corporation, Journal of Applied Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Universität Berlin.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 54 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79106941 View

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Bohr Institute administrative records, up to 1962, c.1916-1962.

Title: Bohr Institute administrative records, up to 1962, c.1916-1962.

Guest books, diaries, registers, account books, architects' drawings of plans for erection and expansion of the institute, etc. Correspondence concerning the establishment and financing of the institute.

ArchivalResource: 2 m + 9 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79753061 View

Bohr, Aage. Aage Bohr papers, 1950-1993.

Title: Aage Bohr papers, 1950-1993.

Papers document Aage Bohr's personal research as well as the development of the Niels Bohr Institute, a world center for nuclear physics, as well as other areas of theoretical physics. The correspondence, which comprises the bulk of the papers, covers the period 1950-1980, and includes in-coming as well as out-going letters. There are about 3100 correspondents, of which about 600 are considered to be of special importance. It includes material on the Institute's connections with Eastern, particularly Soviet and Chinese, physics and physicists at a time when East-West relations were practically blocked. Addition of 19 boxes contains scientific and administrative correspondence from 1981-1993 (8 boxes), and materials regarding funding and international cooperation, particularly with Eastern Bloc countries from 1965-1980 (11 boxes).

ArchivalResource: 6 meters (70 boxes)19 boxes (addition)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306501 View

Schultz, Betty. Oral history interview with Betty Schultz, 1971 March 25 and 26.

Title: Oral history interview with Betty Schultz, 1971 March 25 and 26.

A review of the first twenty-five years of the Niels Bohr Institute from its establishment in 1921 as the Institute for Theoretical Physics. Funding for its erection and expansion; grants and stipends for guest scientists; daily life; effect of the World Wars; Nazi occupation of the Institute in 1943 after Niels Bohr's escape. A number of photographs are looked at and persons identified.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80453209 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are C.G. Abbot, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, Paul Gough Agnew, Thomas Alexander, Leroy R. Alldredge, Fred Allison, IA. L. Alpert, Howard Andrews, Norman Austern, Harold Babcock, Lewis Balamuth, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, N.P. Barabashov, E. Scott Barr, H.H. Barschall, Carl Barus, Michael Bass, Robert Harold Bassel, Bath, Markus, Louis Andrew Beach, Linn Yardley Beers, Norman Carl Beese, William E. Bell, David Fulmer Bender, Walter Benenson, Harold E. Bennett, Ralph Decker Bennett, Robert Thomas Beyer, Ludwig Biermann, S. Biswas, John Paul Blewett, Arnold Lapin Bloom, David Bohm, Bertram Bordon Boltwood, Ludwig Boltzmann, Arnold Aaron Bondi, Max Born, Ira Bowen, Emily Hughes Boyce, Constance Doraine Boyd, D.B. Brace, James J. Brady, Walter H. Brattain, Aubrey Keith Brewer, Richard G. Brewer, William B. Bridges, Leon Brillouin, Herbert P. Broida, Frederick Lyons Brown, James William Broxon, Keith Allan Brueckner, Reid AJ. Bryson, Arthur Maynard Bueche, W.E. Burcham, J.M. Burgers, Robert L. Burman, Walter G. Cady, Jack Calvert A.G.W. Cameron, Lee Wendel Casperson, James MacDonald Cassels, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Britton Chance, Arnold Franklin Clark, Donald Clayton, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Robert Griffin Coleman, Daniel F. Comstock, Edward Uhler Condon, C. Sharp Cook, William David Coolidge, Richard Threlkeld Cox, William Henry Crew, Samuel Curran.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80616266 View

Møller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980. Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1971 August 25 to 21 October.

Title: Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1971 August 25 to 21 October.

Student years at Niels Bohr Institutet in the late 1920s; influence of Lev Landau and study of Hans Bethe's thesis on scattering of fast neutrons and to a lectureship at the Institute in 1929. Bohr's switch to nuclear physics in mid-1930s; the informal conferences at the Institute. Travels to Rome and to Cambridge, 1935-1936, reporting to Bohr on Fermi's work on resonances. Travel to U.S.S.R. in September and October of 1936; gives talk on Bohr's paper on neutron captive and nuclear constitution; collaboration with Leipunski on k-electrons; comments on life at Physical Technical Institute, arrests of Landau, Houtermans, and Weissberg; tension in Russia. Continued work on capture of k-electrons and meson theory work with Léon Rosenfeld. Teaching; students demand course in quantum mechanics. George de Hevesy's association with the Bohr Institutet (biology); popular science writing and publication procedures. German occupation of Denmark, 1940-1945, and the Institutet, December 1943 to February 1944; comments on the political and social situation prior to World War II. Werner Heisenberg as head of a German committee investigating the Institutet.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80044178 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics miscellaneous tapes collection [sound recording] / 1931-present.

Title: History of physics miscellaneous tapes collection [sound recording] / 1931-present.

A collection of audio and video tapes and digital files of speeches, lectures, papers, interviews, etc. of some of the physicists and astronomers of the 20th century. The recordings are primarily first hand retrospective accounts given in talks at conferences, meetings of science societies, departmental colloquia, retirements, radio and television broadcasts, public lectures, etc. Topics cover a full range of physics and allied sciences such as nuclear physics, solid state physics, high energy physics, optics, acoustics, crystallography, astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, science education, research facilities. Contributors include: American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Foundation and others.

ArchivalResource: 10 compact disks.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81716273 View

Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-. Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.

Title: Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.

Family background and early interest in astronomy (Elis Strömgren). Undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Copenhagen, late 1920s; studies at Niels Bohr Institute, 1927-1929; thesis work in classical astronomy (orbits of comets). Development of photoelectric photometry and observations; early electronics, 1925; conflicting results in calculations of opacities (Arthur Stanley Eddington, Gaunt, Thomas T. Sugihara, Svein Rosseland, J. R. Oppenheimer, Meghnad N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E. Arthur Milne, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin); assistant at University of Copenhagen, 1929; LaSilla Observatory. To University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve), 1936-1939; starts work on formation of H #II regions, 1939; work at Mt. Wilson Observatory on absorption lines (Walter S. Adams, Theodore Dunham); estimates of ages of stars (Hans Bethe); Hubble Constant; comparison of astronomy in Europe and U.S.; European astronomers in U.S. (Gerard Kuiper, Polydore Swings, Carl Osbourne, Ejnar Hertzsprung); comments on history of Yerkes (Struve), teaching at Chicago; discussion of work on equation of ionization and calculations of opacities (Carl von Weizsäcker, Struve, S. Chandrasekhar); comments on W. W. Morgan. Discussion of work on stellar evolution, ionization of interstellar hydrogen (Struve). Effects of World War II on astronomy; influence of European astronomers on Americans; Ludwig Biermann; European Southern Observatory; views on radio-astronomy after World War II (Grote Reber). Astronomy in Denmark during war; stellar evolution (Anders Reitz, George Gamow); Strömgren becomes director of Copenhagen Observatory; developments in astrophysics during the war; optical studies. Nazi occupation of Niels Bohr Institute (Werner Heisenberg); contacts with German astronomers; development of Brorfelde Observatory. Becomes director of Yerkes and McDonald Observatory (Robert Hutchins), 1950-1957; American astronomy after World War II; relation of scientific community and government (Office of Naval Research); stellar classification work. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Oppenheimer), investigation of intermediate population II and extreme population II, 1957; establishment of Kitt Peak Observatory; return to Denmark, 1967. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Bohr, Werner Bolton, George Ellery Hale, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Lev Landau, and Harlow Shapley.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 55 p.

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Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented: Sperry Eugene Darden, P. J. W. Debye, Arthur Louis Day, Lee De Forest, Russell Dewaard, Robert H. Dicke, Leroy Dickson, Nicholas Djeu, Gilbert Douglas, Harry Drickamer, Helen Dukas, Jesse Du Mond, Ora S. Duffendack, E. G. Ebbinghausen, Walter M. Elsasser, Richard M. Emberson, K.O. Emery, P. M. Endt, Richard W. Eppley, David Ernst, William Everitt, Viktor Evtuhov, Ugo Fano, Harrison Farnsworth, Hermon Waldo Farwell, Walter Faust, P. P. Feofilov, Walter Finnall Cross Ferguson, Carl E. Fichtel, R. W. Fink, Floyd A. Firestone, Irene Fischer, Harvey Fletcher, Paul A. Fleury, C. B. Ford, Kenneth W. Ford, Richard Gildart Fowler, Gerald Willis Fox, James Franck, Harry E. Franks, Joan Freeman, Naoshi Fukushima, Harold Q. Fuller, Fuson, Nelson, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Irvine Clifton Gardner, Richard L. Garwin, Andrew Gemant, Roger Gendrin, K. S. Gibson, George Glocker, Richard Glocker, Standord Goldman, Louis Craig Geeen, Lars Olai Grondahl, Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, Frederick Warren Grover, Enrique Gaviola, Janet Brown Guernsey, Piet Cornelis Gugelot, Ross Gunn, Robert Hall, Louis P. Hammett, Wilhelm Hanle, Clinton Richards Hanna, Alfred Olaf Hanson, Marshall Cathcart Harrington, Stephen C. Harris, Bernhard Haurwitz, Hermann A. Haus, Sherwood Kimball Haynes, Werner Heisenberg, John Helmer, Ernest M. Henley, Paul Herget, Donald R. Herriott, Abraham Hertzberg, Karl F. Herzfeld, Victor Hess, Clarence Wilson Hewlett, Francis J. Heyden, Benjamin F. Howell, Su-Shu Huang, Patrick M. Hurley.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

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Rapaport, Jacobo, 1930-. Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Title: Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Five-page questionnaire and response, and three additional pages covering Rapaport's achievements and collaborations with C. D. Goodman at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) and C. Gaarde at the Niels Bohr Institutet; and a brief discussion of the scientific environment in, and of his involvement with, the National Commission for Science and Technology in Chile. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences in their research, their work as educators, and their involvement in physics-related organizations.

ArchivalResource: 8 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84043363 View

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. Reflections on the resonances of physics history: talk presented at the dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library of the American Institute of Physics, 1962.

Title: Reflections on the resonances of physics history: talk presented at the dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library of the American Institute of Physics, 1962.

ArchivalResource: 6 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77646595 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, E-J, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, E-J, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79287391 View

Moore, Ruth E. Research materials for Niels Bohr - the man, his science and the world they changed, [ca. 1912]-1983.

Title: Research materials for Niels Bohr - the man, his science and the world they changed, [ca. 1912]-1983.

Printed material; draft manuscript of book; correspondence; newspaper and magazine clippings; notes. Printed material (1912-1975) collected by Moore, consists of copies of Niels Bohr's scientific publications and addresses (1912-1963), and related articles (1923-1975) concerning Bohr's work by colleagues and other authors. Draft manuscript of book, NIELS BOHR - THE MAN, HIS SCIENCE AND THE WORLD THEY CHANGED, published in 1966, with editorial changes and corrections by the author. Correspondence (bulk 1963-1966) is mostly with Harold Strauss, editor at Alfred Knopf, Inc., on the book's progress and success; and with Bohr's family and colleagues seeking information and personal anecdotes about Bohr. Also includes translations of Bohr's letters to colleagues on scientific and personal matters. Newspapers and magazine clippings (1966-1983) of book reviews and letters, assembled by Moore, from the general public regarding the book's reception. Notes (1963-1966) by Moore, on Bohr from various sources including personal interviews with family and colleagues. Topics include: nuclear and atomic physics, prevention of the nuclear arms race, and administration of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. Correspondents include: Aage Bohr, Margrethe Bohr, George Gamow, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83086369 View

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Two addresses in English [sound recording]

Title: Two addresses in English [sound recording]

Two short addresses in English given by Bohr to NBC radio. The first occurred in 1938 on the 25th anniversary of his atomic model, and in the second Bohr speaks to NBC in 1953. In each Bohr discusses the Niels Bohr Institute and international cooperation in science.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape cassette. (25 min.) : analog, mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84131921 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80633304 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk).

Title: History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk).

Audio tape recordings, video recordings, unpublished film footage, and 33 and 78 rpm disks. The recordings are primarily first hand retrospective accounts by physicists, given in talks at meetings of physics societies, departmental colloquia, retirements, radio broadcasts, public lectures, etc. The unpublished film footage (8 mm and 16 mm) is mostly of gatherings of physicists and astronomers at universities (e.g. the Summer Symposia at the University of Michigan in the 1930s) and at conferences in the United States and Europe in the post-World War II period; the collection also includes some films of talks by individual physicists, of an autobiographical nature. Topics cover a full range of physics and allied sciences such as nuclear physics, solid state physics, high energy physics, optics, acoustics, crystallography, astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, science education, research facilities, and physical instruments.

ArchivalResource: 1,200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306273 View

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics). Dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library, 1962 September 26.

Title: Dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library, 1962 September 26.

The recording includes the entire dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics. Speakers include: J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Reflections on the Resonances of Physics History;" George Uhlenbeck, "Recollections of Niels Bohr." Other speakers heard on the tape are: Ralph W. Sawyer; Richard Courant, and Mrs.Heineman, wife of the library's benefactor, Dannie N. Heineman.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (45 min.) : 3 3/4 ips., analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303353 View

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962,. Niels Bohr reprint collection, 1909-1964.

Title: Niels Bohr reprint collection, 1909-1964.

A collection of reprints of articles by Bohr and his students, primarily on physics, with a few on chemistry. Authors include Bohr, R.H. Fowler, Werner Heisenberg (one article), Georg von Hevesy, J. Holtsmark, Erich Hückel, J.C. Jacobsen, H.A. Kramers, Werner Kuhn, and others. Topics include radioactive decay, quantum mechanics, optics, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, and others. Included is a small collection of reprints on biochemical aspects of dentistry, collected by Aksel Tovborg Jensen. Also included are a few typewritten manuscripts, such as a 1955 account of the international activities of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen (later named the Niels Bohr Institute) from 1916-1955, an address given by Bohr at the Newton Tercentenary Celebration at the Royal Society, London, in 1946, and a copy of a spoof "Journal of Jocular Physics," v. 3 (Oct. 7, 1955).

ArchivalResource: 533 items (2 cubic feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70894734 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics institutional history collection T-Z, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Title: History of physics institutional history collection T-Z, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989).

Included are histories, in both published and manuscript form, of: college and university physics departments, laboratories, astronomical observatories, organizations of physics and allied sciences, industrial research divisions, and other academic and non-academic physics institutions. A few publications from the institutions themselves, such as college and university catalogs and bulletins, are also included. Among those represented are: Technical Operations, inc.; Texas Instruments Inc.; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research; U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; U.S. Office of Aerospace Research; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universit de Paris; Universities Research Association; University of Arizona; University of California, Berkeley; Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles; University of Cambridge; Cavendish Laboratory; University of Chicago; University of Cincinnati; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Gottingen; University of Hawaii; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Iowa; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; University of Mississippi; University of Missouri; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania; University of Washington; University of Wisconsin; Vanderbilt University; Voma Scientific Innovation Company; Warner and Swazey Co. Wellesley College; Wesleyan University; Yale University; Yerevan Physics Institute; Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (ca. 700 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83030848 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, A-D, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, A-D, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81895962 View

Hevesy, Georg von, 1885-1966. Oral history interview with Georg von Hevesy, 1962 May 25 and 4 February 1963.

Title: Oral history interview with Georg von Hevesy, 1962 May 25 and 4 February 1963.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Francis William Aston, Karl Auer von Welsbach, Niels Henrik David Bohr, William Henry Bragg, Johannes Broensted, Dirk Coster, Marie Curie, Charles Galton Darwin, Alexandre Dauvillier, Albert Einstein, Roland von Eötvös, Kasimir Fajans, Alexander Fleck, Fritz Haber, Martin Knudsen, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, Hantaro Nagaoka, Walther Nernst, Ida Noddack, William Ramsay, Ricci-Curbastro, A. S. Russell, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Frederick Soddy, Edward Teller, Thomson, Georges Urbain, M. Volmer; Niels Bohr Institutet, and University of Manchester.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 33 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81988966 View

Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.

Origins of interest in nuclear physics when George Gamow came to Göttingen and wrote his alpha radioactivity paper. Assisted Max Born with his treatise on quantum mechanics. Worked with Wolfgang Pauli in Zurich on quantum electrodynamics. Half-year in 1930 in Copenhagen working with Niels Bohr. Arrangement lasted until the war when Rosenfeld was called home. War years in Utrecht, Holland. Lived for the next 11 years (until 1958) in England. Topics discussed include 1931 Rome meeting; the reaction at Copenhagen when Bohr received Ernest Rutherford's letter announcing the discovery of the neutron; Werner Heisenberg's three papers on nuclear structure; a colloquium at Copenhagen on the Enrico Fermi experiments; attendance at the 1934 Kharkov conference; the large-scale exodus of German physicists because of the coming to power of Adolf Hitler; and Bohr's assistance in the emigration of refugees. He shows how physicists themselves recognized the significance of what they were doing, and uses of, for examples, the discovery of the neutron, the compound nucleus, the neutrino idea, the positron, the Hideki Yukawa prediction, and fission. Also prominently mentioned are: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Otto Robert Frisch, Fritz G. Houtermans, Dmitriy Dmitrevich Ivanenko, Lev Davidovich Landau, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Karl Scheel, Eugene Paul Wigner; Conference on Nuclear Physics (1931 : Rome, Italy), Conference on Theoretical Physics (1934 : London, England), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Kharkov Conference (1934 : Kharkov, USSR), Niels Bohr Institutet, and University of Manchester.

ArchivalResource: Audiotapes: 1- 5" reel, 3.0 hours.Transcript 35 pages

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306415 View

Lindsay, Rachel Tupper Easterbrooks. Impressions of Denmark and Germany, 1922-1923.

Title: Impressions of Denmark and Germany, 1922-1923.

An autobiographical account of the everyday life that Rachel Tupper Lindsay and her husband, R. Bruce Lindsay, lived while he studied on an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark in the early 1920s. The memoir was written in the 1950s, and goes into her impressions of the Danes and Danish culture, and their travels in Germany.

ArchivalResource: 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78403392 View

Niels Bohr Library. History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are: Duncan A. MacInnes, Ernst Mach, Fred Conrad Maienschein, Thomas F. Malone, H. F. Mark, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, Howard Nicholas Maxwell, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lawrence Earl McAllister, Alexander McBirney, James W. McGrath, J. H. McGuire, John A. McIntyre, Louis Williams McKeehan, D. P. McKenzie, Dan McLachlan, Edwin M. McMillan, Elsie Blumer McMillan, George C. McVittie, Rolf Meissner, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Donald Menzel, James W. Meyer, Walter E. Meyerhof, Albert A. Michelson, W. E. Knowles Middleton, Edward Arthur Milne, Freeman D. Miller, H. Minkowski, G. Miyamoto, F. L. Mohler, Karl Z. Morgan, Susuma Morita, Philip McCord Morse, Evan Mueller, Erwin W. Muller, Robert S. Mulliken, Gerard Francis William Mulders, Edward J. Jurphy, Mokichiro Nogami, Itaru Nonaka, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Ralph Emerson Nasbaum, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Louis Neel, Otto Oldenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Elburt Franklin Osborn, Thomas H. Osgood, William J. Otting, Clarence J. Overbeck, Thornton Page, Frederic Palmer, Eugene N. Parker, John Hilliard Parker, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernest Peierls, Raymond Pepinsky, Melba Phillips, Heinz Pick, George Pickard, J. C. Polanyi, William Pollard, Marion Llewellyn Pool, Daniel M. Popper, Thomas Charles Poulter, Robert V. Pound, H. Primakoff, Emerson M. Pugh, Earle Keith Plyler, I. I. Rabi, Harrison M. Randall, Jacobo Rapaport, Aravi Prakash Rau, Peter M. Rentzepis, George Thomas Reynolds, John Hamilton Reynolds, Hugh T. Richards, Norman Hurd Ricker, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Tsuneji Rikitake, George Roy Ringo, Alice M. Risley, Richard B. Roberts, Walter Orr Roberts, J. M. Robson, John Ransom Roebuck, Edwin Roedder, John Rogers, Elizabeth Rona, Joseph Lloyd Rood, Louis Rosen, Frank L. Roth, Arthur Edward Ruark.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 500 items) in entire collection.

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Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-. Intellectual autobiography of R. Bruce Lindsay.

Title: Intellectual autobiography of R. Bruce Lindsay.

Unpublished, typewritten autobiography in 6 installments that Lindsay compiled at the request of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics over a period of years beginning in 1962 through 1983. Some of the topics discussed are his early education, study at Brown University and M.I.T., his two years at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, his work at Brown University during World War II, his association with the National Bureau of Standards, his position as editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society, conferences, travels, his collabortions with other scientists and his students, and his retirement activities.

ArchivalResource: 497 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78435291 View

Govindjee, 1932-. Eugene Rabinowitch: His life -- primarily based on an interview with him on January 5, 1964 at 1021 West Church, Champaign (mostly in his words).

Title: Eugene Rabinowitch: His life -- primarily based on an interview with him on January 5, 1964 at 1021 West Church, Champaign (mostly in his words).

Based on conversation with Rabinowitch about his life while both were faculty in biophysics at the University of Illinois. Table of contents includes topics on life in the Soviet Union; as a refugee in Poland and Germany; student years and work as a research assistant under James Franck from 1929-1933, and study at Niels Bohr's Institute; work on the Manhattan Project and the Franck Report; reflections on use of the atom bomb in Japan; professorship and research in biophysics at University of Illinois. Govindjee's association with Rabinowitch centered on photosynthesis and Rabinowitch's work on the dissociation of iodine and bromine atoms by light using spectroscopic methods he devised.

ArchivalResource: 47 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79789812 View

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4 to November 28.

Title: Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4 to November 28.

First part of interview focusses on Wheeler's work and relationship with Niels Bohr at the Copenhagen Institute in the 1930s; discovery of the meson, Delbrück effect, and resonance capture of neutrons; how the Institute worked; character of James Franck; Margrethe Bohr; origins of the compound nucleus model; Wheeler's first encounter with Bohr; pair theory; gravitational theory; Wheeler's philosophy of physics; Bohr's philosophy, the "open world." Second session deals mainly with science policy and science advising in the United States and Europe after World War II. Vice-president of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 1951-1954; chairman of U.S. NATO subcommittee (Henry Jackson); work for establishment of the NATO Science Council; U.S. delegate to the NATO Parliamentarians, Paris 1957. Discussion of his concern about scientific manpower; postwar Europe (Holland, France) leads to awareness of need for a national defense research laboratory in U.S. (discussed here at great length using correspondence, reports and memos); "Project 137" summer study (Los Alamos) (Marvin Goldberger, Kenneth Watson, Keith Brueckner); JASON. Discussions of pre-World War II Europe, war work at Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago with Eugene Wigner (DuPont); scientific work on acceleration of cosmic rays (Enrico Fermi; elementary particle physics) leads to Directorship of Cosmic Ray Laboratory at Princeton. University; work on general relativity; the Crunch, Geometrodynamics; the hydrogen bomb project; the J. Robert Oppenheimer affair. Much of the discussion is based on correspondence. The origins of JASON are discussed in session three; "Project 137;" importance and place of defense work in science; contacts between JASON members and policy-makers; impact of JASON on physics and national security policy; criticism during Vietnam War; Wheeler's affiliation with the Batelle Memorial Institute; establishment of the Joint Committee on the History of Theoretical Physics in the 20th Century (Thomas Kuhn). Also mentioned at length are: Hermann Bondi, Gregory Breit, Nicholas Christofilos, P.A.M. Dirac, Freeman Dyson, Otto Frisch, James Killian, Hilde Levi, Kenneth Mansfield, Oscar Morgenstern, Philip Morris, Donald Price, Ernest Rutherford, Marvin Stern, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes, Oswald Veblen, and Herbert York.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81714457 View

Møller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980. Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1963 July 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1963 July 29.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Ehrenfest, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Davidovich Landau, Wolfgang Pauli, Léon Rosenfeld, Erwin Schrödinger; and Niels Bohr Institutet.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 22 pages.Audiotape: 1 session, 1 7-inch reel, 1.5 hours.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306409 View

Levi, Hilde. Oral history interview with Hilde Levi, 1971 October 28.

Title: Oral history interview with Hilde Levi, 1971 October 28.

Graduate studies in Berlin in the early 1930s with Beutler; Ph.D. in molecular spectroscopy, 1934. Contacts in Denmark lead to stay at Niels Bohr Institutet as James Franck's assistant working on photo-synthesis, 1934-1935. Levi changes fields after Franck leaves and Otto Frisch and Georg von Hevesy arrive: she builds Geiger counters with Frisch, then works with Hevesy on induced radiation experiments. Lengthy discussion of how Hevesy's active work style and inspiring attitude engaged people at many different institutions, including herself. Collaborations among Bohr's Institute and other groups, e.g. Enrico Fermi's Institute in Rome, August Krogh Institute, and the Finsen Institute. Anecdotes about Bohr and Hevesy; an account of the beryllium sources handmade by Frisch and Levi. Levi's work in Sweden at the Wenner-Gren Center Foundation during World War II. Discussion of Bohr, Krogh, and Paul Bergst as leaders.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hrs.)Transcript: 86 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81192718 View

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Bohr general correspondence, 1910-1962.

Title: Bohr general correspondence, 1910-1962.

Bohr's administrative correspondence and his correspondence with the general public. This collection includes all correspondence that has not been clasified as scientific or private, and thus contains a broad range of material: from recommendations of workers at the Institute to begging letters from unknown people, from honorary memberships of learned societies to travel itineraries for foreign journeys. Most of the collection is arranged alphabetically according to people and institutions; the rest is arranged according to subject - for example, Foundations, Journeys, Conferences, Learned Societies, Correspondence with Press and Publishers. Scientific proposals regarded as unserious are filed separately.

ArchivalResource: 106 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83088432 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, T-Z, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, T-Z, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

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American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Title: Records of Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966, (bulk 1957-1964)

Correspondence; reports; printed matter; memoranda; grant proposals; drafts of articles; speeches; minutes of meetings. The records of Hutchisson, director of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (1957-1964) are primarily from his tenure as director, a period of enormous growth at the AIP with the initiation of the Education Department, the history of physics project, the Documentation Research Project, and a major increase in journal publication, particularly Soviet translation journals. The collection focuses on the areas of Hutchisson's particular interests: science education including various projects to improve physics teaching at all levels and increase the public understanding of physics; physics history including the creation of the Niels Bohr Library; journal publication including internal examination of publishing procedures at AIP, and an evaluation of SCIENCE ABSTRACTS. The largest series reflects Hutchisson's activities in the scientific community at large with correspondence discussing educational and scientific legislation and funding, and international cooperation on scientific matters. Other material concerns AIP awards, organizational structure and operations with coverage of the revision of the constitution and bylaws to create associate member society status and of the physical expansion at the new headquarters; public relations activities with press releases and files on seminars for science writers; the development of citation indexing; and the placement of physics graduates. Files of the Member Societies: Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America, and Society of Rheology, are mostly informational copies, although the APS and AAPT files contain some substantive correspondence. Also contains speeches, reprints, personal correspondence, and correspondence concerning Hutchisson's involvement with the AIP in capacities other than director. Correspondents include: Henry A. Barton, W. Kenneth Brasher. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, Karl K. Darrow, John Henry Dillon, George F. Gainsborough, Grant O. Gale, Conyers Herring, William C. Kelly, W. James King, Robert E. Maizell, Thomas Harris Osgood, Shirley Leon Quimby, Norman Foster Ramsey, Raymond John Seeger, Frederick Seitz, Wallace Waterfall, Robert T. Webber, and Hugh Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft. (31 boxes)

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Bohr, Margrethe. Oral history interview with Margrethe Bohr, 1971 August 11.

Title: Oral history interview with Margrethe Bohr, 1971 August 11.

Carlsberg Breweries income creation of the Carlsberg Foundation; Johannes Pedersen chairman for the five member board; meetings on progress and smaller/larger grants to museums and to individuals; limits to size of grants; grant procedures. The establishment of Niels Bohr's institute (to reestablish international scientific collaboration); relationship between Harald & Niels Bohr and Martin Knudsen (their views on German inclusion in international scientific unions); United States visits 1923, 1933; life at Bohr's institute and at Carlsberg.

ArchivalResource: 1 session.Transcript: 14 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80052435 View