Papers, 1891-1968.

Roff, Merrill, 1909-1986

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Davis, Harold T. (Harold Thayer), 1892-1974

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Colorado College graduate, Class of 1915; Professor of Mathematics, University of Indiana, Northwestern and Trinity Universities; founding member of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. From the description of Harold Thayer Davis papers, Pt. 2, 1924-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51176134 Davis earned his Harvard AM in 1919. From the description of The construction of tables, with special reference to tables of elliptic integrals, submitted Apri...

Lillie, Ralph S. (Ralph Stayner), 1875-

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Physiologist. B.A., University of Toronto, 1896. Graduate work at University of Michigan. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1901. Instructor and research assistant, Carnegie Institute, Johns Hopkins, and other schools, 1902-1924. Professor of General Physiology, University of Chicago, 1924-1940. Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, 1940-1952. From the description of Papers, 1907-1951. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248701 From the description of Pa...

Ogden, C.K. (Charles Kay), 1889-1957

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The library of C.K. Odgen, Great Britain, was purchased for the University of California in 1957. The approximately 74,000 volumes were distributed to various UC campuses, with 6,213 to UC Berkeley. These were distributed in the General Library, including the Moffitt Undergraduate Library and the Rare Books and Special Collections Dept. Some titles determined to be UCB duplicates were transferred subsequently to other UC campuses. From the description of Charles Kay Ogden collection....

Pronko, N. H. (Nicholas Henry), 1908-

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Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880-1947

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Philosopher. Graduated from the College of the City of New York, 1900. Ph. D., Harvard, 1906. Instructor in mathematics at the City College of New York, then taught in its Department of Philosophy, 1912-1938. Professor of philosophy, University of Chicago, 1938-1942. From the description of Papers, 1898-1981. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248106 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Morris R. Cohen and his wife, Mary Cohen. From the descri...

Kaufmann, Felix, 1895-1949

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Nagel, Ernest, 1901-1985

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Educator, philosopher; interviewee d. 1985. From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Nagel : oral history, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741480 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Ernest Nagel (1901-1985), philosopher and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. Nagel received a B.S. (1923) from City College, and a M.A. (1925) and Ph.D. (1930) from Columbia. First appointed to Columbia's faculty in 1930, Nagel became John Dewey...

Dodd, Stuart Carter, 1900-1975.

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Hapgood, William Powers

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Bentley, Arthur Fisher, 1870-1957

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Philosopher and author. From the description of Papers, 1891-1968. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56083119 From the description of Papers, 1890-1965. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56083042 Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1870-1957, was a philosopher and author. Bentley received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1895. He wrote for the Chicago Times-Herald (later the Record-Herald ) until 1910, when he retired to work and write at his orchard in...

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Taylor, Richard W. (Richard Wirth), 1923-

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Born in 1923, Richard W. Taylor received his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. During the 1950s and 1960s he taught Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Lehigh University, Coe College, the University of Iowa and Northwestern University. Taylor came to Kent State University in 1967 and served as the chairman of the Graduate Studies in Political Science program. Taylor continued to teach at Kent State University through the late 1980s. From the guide to...

Williams, Kenneth P. (Kenneth Powers), 1887-1958

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Mathematics professor. From the description of Papers, 1820-1958. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49695479 Career: born, August 25, 1887, Urbana, Ohio; son of John H. and Eva Augusta (Powers) Williams; A.B., Indiana University, 1908, A.M., 1909; PhD., Princeton University, 1913; married Mrs. Ellen (Laughlin) Scott, August 20, 1920; member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, 1909-1958; first lieutenant, Indiana National Guard, Mexica...

Eldridge, Seba, 1885-

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Ratner, Joseph, 1901-

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Joseph Ratner was born in London in 1901. His family left England in 1904 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at City College of New York in 1922 and his M.A. at Columbia University in 1923, he was granted a Moral Science Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge University (1924-1925). In 1926, he returned to the United States and served as a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. In 1930, he received his Ph. D. from Columbia; at...

Bridgman, P.W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961

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Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), was a physicist.  His contributions to the field concern the effects of high pressures on materials and their thermodynamic behavior, contributions that would not have been possible without the equipment, particularly a seal, that he invented himself.  He also contributed to crystallography, electrical conduction in metals, and the philosophy of modern physics.  He was a Nobel laureate in physics (1946) and recipient of many other honors.  He earned his Harva...

Lundberg, George Andrew, 1895-1966

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Sociologist George A. Lundberg, born at Fairdale, North Dakota in 1895, attended the University of North Dakota (B.A., 1920), the University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1922) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1925). Although he served as an instructor in sociology at the University of Washington between 1925 and 1927, it was not until 1945 that Lundberg returned to Washington as Professor of Sociology and Head of his department, replacing Jesse F. Steiner. In the interveni...

Bentley, Imogene Shaw, 1876-1969

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Gross, Bertram M., 1912-1997

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Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950

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Korzybski was born in Poland and later emigrated to the United States. He was the founder of the theory of general semantics, the study of the relations between language, thought, and behavior. From the description of Essays, 1923 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612750797 Polish-American philosopher and scientist. Alfred Habdank Korzybski is widely known for his system of "general semantics." From the description of...

Hall, Jerome, 1901-1992

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Jerome Hall was born in Chicago Illinois in 1901. He attended the University of Chicago where he recieved a Ph. B. in 1922 and his J.D. in 1923. After a few years in private practice he began teaching at the University of South Dakota (1929-1932). He was Professor of Law at the University of Indiana from 1939 until 1970. In 1970 he joined the Sixty-five Club Faculty of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and taught until his retirement in 1989. Professor Hall was a scholar ...