Stanford University, Dept. of Physics, records, 1966-1985 (inclusive), 1971-1985 (bulk).

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Stanford University, Dept. of Physics, records, 1966-1985 (inclusive), 1971-1985 (bulk).

Research grant files containing abstracts, proposals, correspondence, and budget memoranda; faculty members represented include William Fairbank, Melvin Schwartz, John Dirk Walecka, Robert Hofstadter, and Felix Bloch.

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Fairbank, William M., 1917-1989.

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Professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University. Fairbank earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1948; he taught at Amherst College and Duke University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1959. His research interests included superconductivity, gravity waves, individual quarks and monopoles. From the description of William M. Fairbank papers, 1961-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122560906 Biographical/Historical Sketch ...

Bloch, Felix, 1905-....

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Felix Bloch : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512732 Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1981 December 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80093456 From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1968 August 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81162102 From the description of Oral hi...

Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.

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Walecka, John Dirk, 1932-....

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Walecka, a.b. Harvard 1954 and Ph.D. MIT 1958, joined the Stanford faculty in 1960; he was chair of the Physics Department from 1977 to 1982. He left Stanford in 1987 to be the scientific director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in Newport News, VA. From the description of John Dirk Walecka notebooks and papers, 1960-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 497929061 Biographical/Historical Sketch ...

Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006

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Melvin Schwartz shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. He was a professor at Columbia andStanford University. In 1991, he became Associate Director of High Energy and Nuclear Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He rejoined the Columbia faculty as the I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics in 1994....

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

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Physicist, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert L. Hofstadter : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684312 Hofstadter died in 1990. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81639533 Robert (Rubvin) Hofstadter was born in New York City, on February 5, 1915. He attended the City College of New York (CCNY) a...