Alois Francis Kovarik papers 1902-1951

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Rubey, William Walden, 1898-1974

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Rubey worked as a scientific liaison to the U.S. Army for the U.S. Geological Survey during World War II. Later he would serve as president of the Geological Society of America, chairman of the National Research Council for the National Academy of Sciences, and board member on the National Science Board for the National Science Foundation. Rubey was a professor of geology and geophysics at UCLA. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_234_pid_E...

Tate, John Torrence, 1925-....

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Woodruff, Lorande Loss, 1879-1947

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National Research Council. Committee on Standards of Radioactivity..

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Kovarik, Alois Francis, 1880-1965.

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Physicist; professor of Physics at Yale University, 1915-1948; member of the Manhattan Project during World War II. From the description of Alois Francis Kovarik papers, 1902-1951 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165632 Physicist; professor of Physics at Yale University, 1915-1948; member of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Degrees and positions held by Professor Kovarik include: University of Minnesota, B.A. 1904, M.A. 1907, ...

Steadman, Luville Taylor.

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Lane, Alfred C. (Alfred Church), 1863-

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Ladenburg, Rudolf Walter, 1882-1952

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Died 1952. From the description of Correspondence, manuscripts, reprints, clippings, and a typescript statement on the 25th anniversary of quantum theory, 1910-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84042887 ...

Wilkins, Thomas Russell, 1891-1940.

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Failla, Gioacchino, 1891-1961

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Yale University. Dept. of Physics.

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National Research Council. Committee on the Measurement of Geological Time.

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Easton, William H. (William Heyden), 1916-1996

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Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 1870-1927

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Ph.D. from Yale 1897; opened a private laboratory in New Haven with Joseph Hyde Pratt and acted as consultant to industry, 1900-1906; began work on radioactivity in 1904; Yale professor of physics in 1906, professor of radiochemistry, 1910-1927. From the description of Bertram Borden Boltwood papers 1890-1932 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165927 Ph.D. from Yale 1897; opened a private laboratory in New Haven with Joseph Hyde Pratt and acted as co...

Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-....

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Evans died in 1995. From the description of MIT Radioactivity Center, 1934-1945, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81567148 ...

Yale University. Faculty.

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Exner, Frank M.

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MacKee, George M. (George Miller), 1878-

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Lang, W. B.

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Pollard, Ernest Church, 1906-

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McKeehan, Louis Williams, 1887-

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Kurie, Franz Newell Devereux.

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Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-....

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Physicist (civil engineering). Chief, physics division research laboratory, Gulf Oil Corporation, 1930; professor of physics, University of Pittsburgh, 1930-1934; head physics department, University of North Carolina, 1934-1944; research positions at Johns Hopkins University, 1946-52; assistant and senior associate director of research, Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1969. Died 1979. From the description of Lecture notes and manuscript on theory of relativity ca. 1951. (Unknown). Wor...

Roberts, Douglas J.

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Ellis, C. D. (Charles Drummond), 1895-1980

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