Papers, 1931-1984.

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Papers, 1931-1984.

Collection consists of W.D. Hershberger's laboratory notebooks pertaining to his predoctoral research at the US Signal Corps Laboratories, 1931-37. Also includes his resume, David Kite Allison's history of the origin of radar at the Naval Research Laboratories, and miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409810

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Engineering

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Hershberger, W. D. (William Delmar), 1903-

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William Delmar Hershberger was born on May 10, 1903 in Wellman, IA; AB in Mathematics, Goshen College, 1927; AM in Physics, George Washington Univ., 1930; Ph. D in electrical engineering, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1937; as a junior physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 1927-31, Hershberger worked on submarine detection using underwater sound; worked at US Signal Corps Laboratories in Fort Monmouth, NJ, 1931-37, where he applied pulsed microwaves to target detection; in 1936 he ...