Ralph A. Sawyer papers, 1918-1978.

American Institute of Physics

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Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

University of Michigan. Department of Physics

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See the historical sketch for the Dept. of Physics (University of Michigan) Records. From the guide to the Dept. of Physics (University of Michigan) publications, 1915-ongoing, 1988-1998, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) The first course in physics at the University of Michigan, entitled "Natural Philosophy," was taught in the Fall of 1843 by George Palmer Williams, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics. A Professor of Physics and Ci...

Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980

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Charles Percy Snow was an English scientist, author, and statesman. Born in to a poor family, he chose to study science because financial aid was available for that discipline. After taking a Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford, he began publishing novels; despite early success, he entered government service, and had a long and distinguished career. Throughout his life, he balanced his interests in science, writing, and politics, making genuine contributions in all three arenas. As an author, he wrote ...

Fajans, Kasimir, 1887-1975

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Physical chemist, director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. From the description of Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1987. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80453897 From the description of Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1975. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422856 Major affiliations include: Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (1911-1917); Lu...

White, Albert Easton, 1884-1956.

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Director of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan. From the description of Albert Easton White papers, 1938-1956. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420869 ...

Penney, William George Penney, Baron, 1909-1991

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Hansen, Gerhard

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Dow, William G. (William Gould), 1895-1999

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Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan. From the description of William G. Dow papers, 1927-1986. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80226156 From the description of William G. Dow papers, 1927-1999. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778415 From the description of William G. Dow papers, 1927-1964. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422323 William Gould Dow was a member of the facu...

Keniston, Hayward, 1883-

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Barker, Ernest F. (Ernest Franklin), 1886-1970

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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan. From the description of Ernest F. Barker papers, ca. 1894-1934. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418301 ...

University of Michigan. Engineering Research Institute

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Bradbury, Norris, 1909-1997.

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Griffin, Clare E. (Clare Elmer), 1892-1979

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

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The National Academy of Sciences, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1863, grew out of a desire for a body of scientists to give advice on scientific matters to the federal government. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was a force behind its creation. From the description of National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1887 Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78403445 ...

Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla), 1922-1983

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Epithet: of Whipple Museum of the History of Science British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000214 ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978

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Professor of physics, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, director of the Phoenix Project, and Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, scientist and administrator for the U.S. Navy during World War II, technical director of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, officer of the American Institute of Physics and Optical Society of America. From the description of Ralph A. Sawyer papers, 1918-1978. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302...

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

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Physicist. On the physics faculty at University of Rochester, 1935-1937; research physicist, General Electric Company, 1937-1939; on the physics faculty at University of Pennsylvania, 1939-1942; Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1942-1949; and University of Illinois, 1949-1965; president, National Academy of Sciences, 1962-1969; president, Rockefeller University, 1968-1978. From the description of Summary of 1987 conference: The Origins of Solid State Physics in Italy: 1945-1960, 198...

Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan. From the description of David M. Dennison papers, ca. 1927-1976. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421604 Died 1976. From the description of Oral history interview with David Mathias Dennison, 1964 January 27 to 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81273636 From the description of Informal moments, Summer Symposia at the University of Michigan [motion picture] / taken by David Dennison ; 193...

Beselson, Bernard R., 1912-

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Astin, Allen Varley, 1904-1984

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Allen Varley Astin : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587023 Physicist and director, National Bureau of Standards. From the description of Allen Varley Astin papers, 1939-1973 (bulk 1950-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983150 From the description of Papers, 1939-1973 (bulk 1950-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34576578 ...

Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986

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Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project

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University of Michigan program concerned with study of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. From the description of Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project records, 1947-ongoing. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423439 See the historical sketch fo the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Records From the guide to the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project publications, 1949-ongoing, 1949-1961, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) ...

Struve, Otto, 1897-1963

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Astronomer (astrophysics of stars, spectroscopy, interstellar studies, origin of universe) and administrator. On the staff of Yerkes Observatory, 1921-1932, director, 1932-1950; editor, ASTROPHYSICS JOURNAL, 1932-1947; on the astrophysics faculty, department chair, and director, Leuschner Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1959; and director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1959. From the description of Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945. (Unk...

Abbitt, W. H.

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University of Michigan. Vice-President for Research.

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Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

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Van Vleck died in 1980. From the description of Nobel Prize and Lorentz Medal information, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78291608 From the description of The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83857765 Physicist. Died in 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1966 February 28 and 1973 January 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77805000 J. H. Van ...

Haber, William, 1899-1988

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University of Michigan teacher and administrator, economist, labor mediator, and member of boards of various universities, Jewish educational, social, and welfare agencies, and public official. From the description of William Haber papers, 1918-1988. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422000 Educator, economist. From the description of Reminiscences of William Haber : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record ...

Kelly, E. Lowell (Everett Lowell), 1905-1986

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Professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. From the description of Everett L. Kelly papers, 1926-1986. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422274 Everett Lowell Kelly, born November 15, 1905, came to the University of Michigan as a professor of psychology in 1946, already a distinguished member of his profession. He was an outstanding student at Purdue (B.A., 1926), Colorado State College of Education (M.A., 1928), and Stanford University...

Ackley, Gardner

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Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) worked for the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C. from 1941 to 1943 and 1944 to 1946, and he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1944. He was a member of the Presidents' Council of Economic Advisers from 1962 to 1968, and chairman from 1964 to 1968. Ackley also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1968 to 1969. From the description of Ackley, Gardner, 1915-1998 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administrati...

Paschen, F.

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Adams, James P. (James Pickwell), 1895-1969.

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United States. National Bureau of Standards.

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After World War II the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was charged with the task of following developments in computing. In response, NBS began to index and abstract books, journals, reports and other literature covering a broad range of computer-related topics beginning in the mid-1940s. Eventually the enormity of the task forced NBS to abandon this work in 1978. From the description of Computer Literature Collection, 1956-1978. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat re...

Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-1971

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President of University of Michigan, 1929-1951. From the description of Alexander Grant Ruthven papers, 1901-1961. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423262 Epithet: President University of Michigan Ann Arbor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00010a Alexander G. Ruthven was born April 1, 1882 in Hull, Iowa. He received his BS degree in 1903 from Morningside ...

Varney, Robert Nathan, 1910-

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Stratton, Thomas

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Vivian, Weston Edward, 1924-

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Democratic U.S. Congressman from the 2nd Michigan Congressional District, 1965-1967. From the description of Weston Edward Vivian papers, 1964-1968. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419143 Weston E. Vivian served as United States Congressman, 1965-1966, for the Second Congressional District of southeastern Michigan. A liberal Democrat aided by the 1964 landslide election of Lyndon Johnson, Vivian won a narrow victory in the traditionally Republica...

Meader, George, 1907-1994

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Ann Arbor, Michigan attorney, counsel to U.S. Congressional committees, and Republican Congressman, 1951-1965. From the description of George Meader papers, 1922-1990 (bulk 1943-1966). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423649 George Meader served as United States Congressman, 1951-1964, for the second congressional district of southeastern Michigan. In the 1950s, this district encompassed parts of Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw counties. A...

Taylor, William Randolph, 1895-

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Professor of botany at University of Michigan, curator of algae at the University Herbarium, and biologist with the atomic bomb test program in Marshall Islands in 1946. From the description of William Randolph Taylor papers, 1918-1990. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778116 From the description of William Randolph Taylor papers, 1918-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421614 William Randolph Taylor was born in Philade...

Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies

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For history, see the finding aid for Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies records. From the guide to the Announcements, Bulletins, Handbooks (Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies), 1883-ongoing, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) While the University of Michigan made its first provisions for graduate study in 1845, throughout most of the nineteenth century there were few graduate students to educate. Control of graduate programs...

Brode, Wallace R. (Wallace Reed), 1900-1974

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Chemist. From the description of Reminiscences of Wallace Reed Brode : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451475 Educator, scientist, and government official; died 1974. From the description of Papers of Wallace R. Brode, 1901-1974 (bulk 1928-1969). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071915 Biographical Note 1900, ...

Randall, Harrison M. (Harrison McAllister), 1870-

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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan. From the description of Harrison M. Randall papers, 1897-1956. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421512 Harrison E. Randall served in Company H, 100th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The 100th Infantry participated in the Atlanta Campaign. From the description of Papers, 1864. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 44036770 ...

Knowles, Hugh Shaler, 1904-

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Optical society of America

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The Optical Society was established in 1916 to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics in all its branches, pure and applied, to promote the mutual interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers, manufacturers, and users of optical instruments and apparatus of all kinds, and to encourage cooperation among them. It is a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. From the description of Programs, 1927-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80490136 ...

Harrison, George Russell, 1898-1979

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