Shackelford, Benjamin. Papers 1913-1915

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Shackelford, Benjamin. Papers 1913-1915

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Benjamin Shackelford, student. The Benjamin Shackelford papers consist of lecture notes taken while Shackelford was a graduate student in Physics at the University of Chicago (1915-1917). The collection includes notes from classes given by Frederick Lindemann, Albert Abraham Michelson, Robert Andrews Millikan, Arthur Lunn, and Gilbert Bliss.

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Shackelford, Benjamin Estill

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Benjamin Estill Shackelford was born in Richmond, Montana. He received his A.B. from the University of Montana in 1912. Shackelford went on to study mathematics and physics at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. In 1916 under the direction of Robert Milliken. Shackelford's thesis was titled, "Temperature and Blackening Effects in Helical Tungsten Filaments." From the guide to the Shackelford, Benjamin. Papers, 1913-1915, (Special Collections Research Center University of C...

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931

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Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was also the founder and the first head of the physics department of the University of Chicago....

Lunn, Arthur C. (Arthur Constant), 1877-1949

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Bliss, Gilbert Ames, 1876-1951

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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...

Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957

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