George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975)

Brakhage, Stan

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Avant-garde filmmaker; full name James Stanley Brakhage; b. 1933. From the description of Stan Brakhage papers, 1953-1966. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415992 ...

Hooker, Edward Niles

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College president, of Farmington (Hartford Co.), Conn. From the description of Letters, 1806-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793361 From the description of Letters, 1806-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270666 ...

Herman, Robert, 1914-....

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Friedman, William F. (William Frederick), 1891-1969

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William F. Friedman was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. Trained as a plant geneticist, he worked as a cryptologist in the private sector before joining the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, U.S. War Dept., in December 1919 as chief cryptanalyst. From the description of Cryptography translations : typescripts, 1924-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629190 ...

Critchfield, Charles Louis, 1910-

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Mathematical physicist. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles L. Critchfield, 1987 May 29. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63288472 ...

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

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George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator. From the description of George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981157 Russian-born American physicist, early advocate of the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe. Professor of Physics at George Washington University, 1934-1956. While a student at the Institute of Theoretical Ph...

James, Frances Theiss

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Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

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Physicist. Cockcroft died in 1967. From the description of Private office papers, 1939-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80180932 ...

Alpher, Ralph

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Ralph Alpher, 1921- ; Robert Herman, 1914-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82797962 ...

Friedlander, Bernard Z.

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Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980

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Hynek, J. Allen (Joseph Allen), 1910-1986

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Astronomer J. Allen Hynek led Northwestern’s Astronomy Department into the Space Age and became the nation’s foremost expert on unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He oversaw the significant expansion of Northwestern’s Astronomy Department and made important contributions to his field, most notably by successfully incorporating television technology into telescopes for the first time. However, he was best known for his work on UFOs. First as an Air Force investigator and then as a l...

Hooker, Edward Niles

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Hooker was born on Aug. 26, 1902 in Albany, NY; AB, Union College, 1923; MA, Syracuse Univ., 1925; Ph. D, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1932; instructor, Syracuse Univ., 1923-8; instructor, Hope College; James Buchanan Johnston Fellow (1932-4); instructor in English (1934-6), Johns Hopkins Univ.; became instructor in 1936 and later professor of English, UCLA; produced an annotated two-volume edition of the works of John Dennis (1939, 1943), and with Prof. H.T. Swedenberg, was engaged in editing the CA ed...

Martin, John, 1865-1947

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American children's author born in Brooklyn, New York. Well-known for his magazine for children, John Martin's book. From the description of Papers, 1894-1947. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 26533290 ...

Covici, Pascal, 1885-1964

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American editor and publisher. From the description of Correspondence, 1924-1966 (bulk 1938-1964). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122494228 ...

Holden, Raymond P. (Raymond Peckham), 1894-1972

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Raymond Holden was born on April 7, 1894 in New York City. He graduated form Princeton University in 1915 and served in the National Guard from 1916-1917. From there, Holden became involved in publishing. During his career he worked for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, Fortune, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest . Holden was also a writer in his own right, producing a number of books, short stories, and poetry. Later in life he moved to New England, where he became involved in bot...

Szent-Györgyi, Albert, 1893-1986

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Biologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147561 Hungarian-born biochemist. Winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for the isolation and synthesis of vitamin C. Emigrated to the United States in 1947. From the description of Albert Szent-Györgyi papers, 1908-1986 (bulk 1947-1986). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981945 ...

Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959

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American educator; broadcaster, United States Office of War Information, 1942-1945. From the description of Albert Léon Guérard papers, 1942-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868930 Albert Léon Guérard, born in Paris in 1880, came to the United States in 1906 to teach at Williams College. He taught at Stanford from 1907 until 1946 when he retired, except for 12 years between 1913 and 1925 when he was at Rice University and served in the war. He died in Palo Alto, N...

Broughton, James, 1913-1999

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James Richard Broughton was raised in California and graduated from Stanford University in 1936. After studying playwriting and directing in New York, Broughton returned to California and began making experimental films, including The Pleasure Garden, which won a special jury prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. During this time, Broughton wrote and published poetry as one of San Francisco's "Renaissance Poets," which included Helen Adam, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Eve Triem. From 1958 t...

James, Garner

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Dirac, P.A.M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

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Physicist (quantum mechanics, positron, antimatter). On the physics faculty at University of Cambridge, 1932-1969; member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1934-1935, 1946, 1947-1948, 1958-1959; and on the physics faculty at Florida State University, 1971-1984. Died 1984. From the description of P. Dirac and I. E. Tamm correspondence. 1928-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80927792 From the description of Lectures on quantum electrodynamics: student notes on Dirac...

Lord, Eda

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000196 ...

Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell

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Evelyn Gentry was born on Sept. 2, 1907 in North Platte, NE, and grew up near Sterling, CO; awarded bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Univ. of CO; Ph. D in psychology, Johns Hopkins Univ.; joined psychology faculty at UCLA University Extension in 1939; after her marriage to Donn Caldwell, she married UCLA English professor Edward Niles Hooker in 1951; in 1954 she received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for a comparative study of the pathology of homo...

Morehouse, Marion, 1906-1969

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

Yčas, Martynas, 1917-

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Mansbridge, Ronald

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Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-

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Died in 1996. From the description of Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1981 January 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798893 From the description of Physics Department Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80225685 From the description of Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1963 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81418105 Major affiliations include: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK, 1930-1933, 195...

Norman, Charles, 1904-....

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Artist, poet, and author born in Russia. From the description of Charles Norman manuscript concerning John Masefield's "King Cole" [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648004569 ...

Gamow, Barbara, 1905-1976

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Biographical Note George Gamow 1904, Mar. 4 Born Georgii Antonovic Gamov, Odessa, Russia 1928 Ph.D., physical science, University of Leningrad, Leningrad, USSR 1928 1929 ...

Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006

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German born English writer and journalist. From the description of Sybille Bedford Papers, 1914-2001 (bulk 1940s-1980s). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481640 Sybille Bedford was born in 1911 at Charlottenburg, Germany, to Maximilian von Schoenebeck and Elizabeth Bernard. Her parents divorced in 1918 and her mother moved to Italy, but Bedford remained with her father in the southern German v...

Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011

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Brakhage, Stan

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Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO, and adopted by Ludwig (a shoe salesman) and Clara (Dubberstein) Brakhage . He attended Dartmouth College for two months. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado . Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe . He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema ....