Typescript of "A Physicist of the Lucky Generation," by John C. Slater

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Typescript of "A Physicist of the Lucky Generation," by John C. Slater

1975

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/723

This collection consists of a typescript copy of John Clarke Slater's autobiographical manuscript, "A Physicist of the Lucky Generation," a detailed account of his family history and early professional life up to 1920, and his association with Harvard and decision to take a faculty and administrative position at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology in 1930.

0.3 cubic feet; (1 manuscript box)

eng, Latn

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6358261

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries

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Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

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John Clarke Slater was a physicist. He graduated from Harvard (Ph. D. 1923) and continued his studies at Cambridge University. He also studied in Copenhagen for six months under Niels Bohr, with whom Slater worked again in 1929 on the quantum theory. He returned to the United States in 1930 to become head of the department of physics at M.I.T., where he worked with Karl Compton to transform the study of physics there. From the description of Papers, 1908-1976. (American Philosophical...