Notebooks and papers from student and teaching years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison / Warren Weaver.

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Notebooks and papers from student and teaching years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison / Warren Weaver.

Includes note books, papers and reports from Weaver's time at the University of Wisconsin, both as a student and as a professor. Included is his thesis submitted for his degree in Civil Engineering. Also included are a group of unpublished papers loosely titled Weaver's Curves, on topics such as Earth return currents, Earth resistance near Madison, Wisconsin, Ground currents due to overhead wires, Livens' treatment of sphere problem, and others.

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Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978

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In his nearly three decades of leadership of the natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), Warren Weaver contributed substantially to the mid-century revolution in biology and agricultural science. Over a lifetime dedicated to building bridges across the sciences, he also contributed significantly to mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, and scientific associations. Warren Weaver was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin in 1894. He received his B.A. and Ph.D., as well as a Ce...