Papers, ca. 1920-1968.

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Papers, ca. 1920-1968.

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Documents Houston's career beginning with his university education at Ohio State and Chicago until 1925, his studies in Munich and Leipzig, 1927-1928, and his work at the California Institute of Technology from 1928 until he accepted the presidency of Rice University in 1946 with the proviso that he could continue both teaching and research in physics. He retired as President of the University in 1961 and was president of The American Physical Society in 1962. Houston's major research interests were in the fields of spectroscopy, theory of solid state, quantum mechanics and superconductivity.

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