Papers, [ca. 1900]-1962.

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Papers, [ca. 1900]-1962.

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This collection includes correspondence on research, business, and professional matters, particularly as director of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute. There is personal correspondence relating to his studies, teaching, travels, lectures, and music (as cellist nad conductor of the Swarthmore, Pa., Symphony Orchestra). There are 56 notebooks, work books, books of lectures, 5 scrapbooks, diplomas and certificates, manuscripts of the books "Electrodynamics" (unpublished) and "The Architecture of the Universe" (1934). There are about 600 articles on atmospheric electricity, acceleration of particles, atomic bomb defense, atomic energy, cosmic rays and energy, electrets, electrodymanics, magnetism, music, physics, quantum theory, radiation, relativity and Einstein, science and civilization, stratospheric flights (by balloon and airplane), thermodynamics, and wave mechanics. There is also a Kodachrome film, "Hunting cosmic rays in a B-29" (1947, 1 reel), and a film of the stratospheic balloon flight of Jean Picard (1 reel).

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Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962

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William Francis Gray Swann was a physicist. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900]-1962. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473994 Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received his A.B. (1903) and Ph.D. (1915) from the University of Pennsylvania; he became an instructor and later professor there from 1906-1952. He also studied at the University of Berlin (1912-1913) under Max Planck. From the guide to the Tho...

Picard, Jean

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa

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