Harvard Science Center Film Collection, ca. 1933-1998 : Guide.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

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...

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

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...

Ted Lowry

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Catherine Cromwell

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Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.

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Philip Dauber

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Michael Crosfield

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Michael Clarke

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Associated Electrical Industries.

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Michael Bober

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Berman, Richard L.

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The Physical Science Committee

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WGBH Boston

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Springer Pictures

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American Educational Films

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Walter Bartky

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Robert Gardner

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Lennart Nilsson

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Time Life

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Bray Studios

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Project Physics

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Lewis Hall

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Smith, F. Graham

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Paul Vaughn

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Bell Labs Innovations.

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BBC Television

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Lemon, Harvey Brace, 1885-

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Erikson, Bo G.

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U.S. Navy

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Educational Services Incorporated

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Quentin Brown

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McGraw-Hill Text-Films

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Sinden, Frank W.

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American association of physics teachers

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This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. From the description of American Journal of Physics editor's reports, 1982-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78113826 From the description of Records of early history, 192...

Seth Shostak

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Jacob Bronowski

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Perry, William G., Jr., 1913-1998

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Director of Harvard University's Bureau of Study Counsel. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1955-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585588 ...

Adrian Malone

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Norton Bloom

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University of Toronto, Canada

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Gordon Burwash

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Dudley Moore

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Dick Gilling

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Else, John H. (John Hubert), 1907-1968

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John Hubert Else (1907-1968) graduated from the University of Kansas Law School in 1932, and began working as an lawyer thereafter. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945. In early 1946 he went to Washington, D.C., and began serving as administrative assistant to Senator Harry Darby (Republican, Kansas). Senator Reed's successor. He later worked briefly Senator Frank Carlson's staff (Republican, Kansas). In 1951, Else became National Affairs Counsel o...

Audio Productions, Inc.

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Roy Heckler

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Peter Watkins

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Peter Jones

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Bruce Cromwell

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Carpenter center for the visual arts

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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts opened in 1963 in a building designed by Le Corbusier. The Center offers a concentration on visual and environmental studies. From the description of Records of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1958- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972705 The Carpenter Center is located between the Faculty Club and the Fogg Art Museum on Quincy Street. Construction was financed by Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05 and by the Program ...

The Senses Bureau

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Enrico Fermi

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Pyramid Films, inc.

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Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986

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Harper & Row, Publishers

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New York publishing company. From the description of Harper & Row, Publishers records, 1935-1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 460880020 BIOGHIST REQUIRED New York publishing company. From the guide to the Harper & Row, Publishers Records, 1935-1973, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Published Sellin's book Capital punishment. From the description of Correspondence with Joh...

Charles Eames

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Bebe Nixon

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Project Physics, Inc.

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Houghton Mifflin

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Peter Baker

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John Hubley

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Time-Life Films

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Alfred Bork

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.

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Richard Leacock

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Clayton Edwards

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Patterson Hume

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Eric Martin

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Donald Ivey

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George Mavko

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Löfman, Carl O.

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Ray Eames

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M. L. Meeks

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British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Time Life Media

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Stephen White

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Gerald Holton

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Eames Office

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Michael Butler

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National Film Board of Canada

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Libby, William F.

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Alan Holden

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Alec Nisbitt

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Lester Germer

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John Kemeny

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Education Research Center, M.I.T.

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International Film Bureau, Inc.

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Charles P. Whitlock

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Herman I. Schlesinger

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Kevin Smith

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Barry Ferguson

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

John R. Friedman

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.

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Mick Jackson

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Alfred Leitner

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Rensselear Polytechnic Institute

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Albert V. Baez

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