Dept. of Physics (University of Michigan) records 1873-ongoing

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....

University of Michigan. Department of Physics

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See the historical sketch for the Dept. of Physics (University of Michigan) Records. From the guide to the Dept. of Physics (University of Michigan) publications, 1915-ongoing, 1988-1998, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) The first course in physics at the University of Michigan, entitled "Natural Philosophy," was taught in the Fall of 1843 by George Palmer Williams, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics. A Professor of Physics and Ci...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Hodges, Fred Jenner, 1895-

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Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...

Stevens, W. LeConte (Walter LeConte), 1847-1927

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Sands, Richard H.

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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Nobel prizewinning physicist, inventor of the cyclotron and the founder and first director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was born on August 8, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota. His parents Carl Gustavus and Gunda Jacobson Lawrence were the children of Norwegian immigrants. Ernest Lawrence attended St. Olaf College and later the University of South Dakota, where he received his A.B. degree in 1922. He had originally thought to become a medical doctor, ...

Furstenberg, Albert Carl, 1890-1969.

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Guthe, Karl Eugen, 1866-1915

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Cork, James M. (James Murle), 1894-

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Randall, Harrison M. (Harrison McAllister), 1870-

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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan. From the description of Harrison M. Randall papers, 1897-1956. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421512 Harrison E. Randall served in Company H, 100th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The 100th Infantry participated in the Atlanta Campaign. From the description of Papers, 1864. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 44036770 ...

Crane, H. R. (Horace Richard), 1907-

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Horace Richard (Dick) Crane was born in 1907 in Turlock, California, the son of Horace Stephen and Mary Alice (Roselle) Crane. He received his BS from California Institute of Technology in 1930 and his PhD in 1934. He came to the Physics Department of the University of Michigan in 1935 and spent his career there. He married Florence Rohmer LeBaron, December 30, 1934. She was an Ann Arbor City Council member (1957-61) and is now deceased. They were the parents of three children, Caro...

Jones, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1925-

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A member of the University of Michigan Department of Physics faculty from 1952 to 1998, Jones' research interests spanned the range of particle accelerator design, detector developments, cosmic ray research, and proton accelerators. He was heavily involved in the international high energy physics experiment, L3, based in the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. Jones also led efforts to locate a superconducting super collider in Michigan in the 1980s. From the des...

Sinclair, Daniel B.

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Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

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Physicist, professor of physics at the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of George Eugène Uhlenbeck papers, 1918-1981 (bulk 1925-1970). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84045021 From the description of George Eugène Uhlenbeck papers, 1918-1981 (bulk 1925-1970). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420120 George Eugène Uhlenbeck was born on 6 December 1900, in Batavia, Jav...

Langley, John Williams, 1841-1918.

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Professor of chemistry at University of Michigan and Case Institute. From the description of John Williams Langley papers, 1871-1917. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419228 ...

Burton, Marion Le Roy, 1874-1925

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President of University of Michigan, 1920-1925. From the description of Marion LeRoy Burton papers, 1895-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80711269 From the description of Marion LeRoy Burton papers, 1901-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422205 M. L. Burton was president of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1920. From the description of M.L. Burton papers, 1917-1920. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). Wo...

Reichle, Lewis.

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Carhart, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1844-1920

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Professor of physics at University of Michigan. From the description of Henry S. Carhart papers, [ca. 1875-ca. 1920]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421446 ...

Reed, John Oren, 1856-1916

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