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Fred Terry Rogers papers

1929-1956

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00135/00135-P.html

The Fred Terry Rogers papers are a record of Fred and Marguerite Rogers' distinguished careers in academia and physics from 1931 to 1956 and consists primarily of correspondence, research and lecture notes and published works. Subjects include Beta-particle decay, the fractureof metals, the U.S. Naval Ordinance Test Station, convection currents in porous media, ballistics penetration and university research and course work.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Rogers, Fred Terry, 1914-1956

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Fred Terry Rogers (1914-1956) was a notable geophysicist, astrophysicist, mathematician and university professor during the 1930s through the 1950s. He was born in Henderson, Kentucky but was raised in Dallas, Texas from the age of seven. Rogers attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas from 1931 to 1939 where he received both his undergraduate and graduate training in physics and mathematics. His professional career started at the Rice Institute as a research assistant and continued at a nu...

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Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)

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Rogers, Marguerite Moilliet, 1915-1989

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Marguerite Moilliet was born on November 6, 1915, in Minatitlán, Veracruz, and raised in Texas. She did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at Rice University, and taught for two years at the University of Houston before joining the Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis in 1943, becoming head of optics research there. After the end of World War II, she was briefly a researcher at the University of North Carolina before becoming a weapons researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory a...