Papers of Edwin Crawford Kemble, 1913-1983

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Papers of Edwin Crawford Kemble, 1913-1983

The Papers of Edwin Crawford Kemble (1889-1984) document the professional activities of Kemble, an American physicist and professor at Harvard University.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385528

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Academic Year Institute.

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Harvard University. Dept. of Physics

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The study of physics has been part of the Harvard College curriculum since 1642, when the text was by Aristotle and physics was found in a branch of the humanities called "natural philosophy." However, development came quickly, and the 17th century saw Harvard's curriculum embrace the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, and Descartes through the selection of a new text, Charles Morton's Compendium Physicae and through the gift to Harvard of its first piece of physics appara...

Underwater Sound Laboratory (U.S.)

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Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-

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Physicist (band spectra, quantum theory, statistical mechanics). On the physics faculty at Harvard University from 1919, department chair, 1940-1945; chair of the physics section, National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1948. From the description of Manuscripts, 1917-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81818829 Edwin Crawford Kemble (1889-1984), an American physicist, made contributions in several areas including band spectra, atomic structure, mathematics of quantum theory, sta...

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