Ralph S. Halford papers, 1940-1959.

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Ralph S. Halford papers, 1940-1959.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, conference papers, scientific drawings, photographs, and printed material. This collection consists chiefly of Halford's manuscripts and typescripts of his writings for scientific journals and papers presented at various conferences and symposiums with related correspondence of colleagues. Also included are files on the teaching of chemistry with reference to practices at Columbia, photographs of his spectrometers, a copy of his patent for Recording Spectrometers, and a file relating to his participation in a 1959 panel discussion on the future of education sponsored by the Barnard College and Columbia Alumni Clubs of Chicago. The printed material includes reprints and accompanying bibliography of Halford's writings. Also, a photograph taken by Jack Aeby at the test site of the atomic bomb, Alamogordo, N.M., 16 July 1945.

1 linear ft. ( 2 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Columbia University Alumni Club of Chicago.

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Barnard College Alumni Club of Chicago.

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Halford, Ralph S., 1914-1978.

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Chemist. Halford was professor of chemistry, 1941-1977, at Columbia University, and Dean of the Graduate Faculties, 1961-1967. From the description of Ralph S. Halford papers, 1940-1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 460879881 ...