Rice UniversityPresidential Inaugural Committee Records: President William Vermillion Houston 1947

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Rice UniversityPresidential Inaugural Committee Records: President William Vermillion Houston 1947

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Invitations, programs,correspondence, testimonials and general information related to theinauguration of Rice University's second president, William Vermillion Houston,on April 10, 1947. This material was created and maintained by the PresidentialInaugural Committee.

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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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Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-

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Physicist William Vermillion (1900-1968) was named the second president of the Rice Institute in 1946, and served as both President and a professor of physics. He greatly expanded graduate study and research throughout the Institute and established the residential college system. Houston made pioneering efforts in the fields of atomic spectroscopy and solid state theory. He was the author of two books: Principles of Mathematical Physics (1934) and Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1951). He retir...

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Rice University's Office or Research and Graduate Studies oversees research and graduate programs. From the guide to the Research and Graduate Studies office records UA 130., 1996-2001, (Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University) William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research uni...