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Lightman, Alan Paige, 1948-. Interviews conducted for the Cosmology Interview Project, 1987-1989

Title: Interviews conducted for the Cosmology Interview Project, 1987-1989

Consists of audio tapes and transcripts of twenty seven interviews, on topics in cosmology, with Marc Davis, Gérard De Vaucouleurs, Robert Dicke, Sandra Faber, Margaret Geller, James Gunn, Alan Guth, Stephen Hawking, Fred Hoyle, John Huchra, Andrei Linde, Charles Misner, Jeremiah Ostriker, Donald Page, James Peebles, Roger Penrose, Martin Rees, Vera Rubin, Allan Sandage, Wallace Sargent, Maarten Schmidt, David Schramm, Dennis Sciama, Joseph Silk, Edwin Turner, Robert Wagoner, and Steven Weinberg.

ArchivalResource: Audio cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83767246 View

John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008

Title: John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 1880-2008

There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. A student of Karl Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University, John Archibald Wheeler studied nuclear fission with Neils Bohr. The numerous volumes of research notebooks in the collection, Wheeler's daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. Among other subjects, they cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity. The correspondence in the collection contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.

ArchivalResource: 150.0 Linear feet, Ca. 17,000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W564-ead.xml View

John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008

Title: John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 1880-2008

There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. A student of Karl Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University, John Archibald Wheeler studied nuclear fission with Neils Bohr. The numerous volumes of research notebooks in the collection, Wheeler's daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. Among other subjects, they cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity. The correspondence in the collection contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.

ArchivalResource: 150.0 Linear feet, Ca. 17,000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W564-ead.xml View

Misner, Charles W. Lecture notes on general relativity, ca. 1955.

Title: Lecture notes on general relativity, ca. 1955.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (139 pp.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78630784 View

Charles W. Misner papers

Title: Charles W. Misner papers

The collection spans from 1960 to 1973 and primarily contains correspondence and two manuscript rough drafts for the 1973 textbook, Gravitation, co-authored by Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. Also included are Misner's lecture notes, assignments, and exams for physics courses taught in 1966 and 1968. Major topics in the papers encompass gravitational theory, relativity, geometrodynamics, and space-time.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/24679 View