Records of Van Zandt Williams and Ralph Sawyer, 1964-1966.

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Records of Van Zandt Williams and Ralph Sawyer, 1964-1966.

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Primarily correspondence on topics including education-related matters such as the teaching of college and pre-college physics, the regional counselors program and career placement; the development of an information system for physics literature; and correspondence, minutes, and reports of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Advisory Committee on Physics Abstracts. Other topics include public relations, the seminars for science writers, and the establishment of the Center for History of Physics as a division of the AIP. Also contains biographical material, obituaries, and letters of condolence on Williams. Correspondents include: Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, Dwight E. Gray, Elmer Hutchisson, William C. Kelly, Eugene H. Kone, Vincent E. Parker, and Hugh C. Wolfe.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director.

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The responsibility of this office is the general management of the American Institute of Physics. Sawyer was acting director of the American Institute of Physics from the retirement of Elmer Hutchisson in October 1964 until the appointment of Williams in April 1965. Williams died in office in May 1966 at which point Sawyer resumed the duties of acting director until the appointment of H. William Koch at the end of 1966. From the description of Records of Van Zandt Williams and Ralph ...

Williams, Van Zandt

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Parker, Vincent Eveland.

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Gray, Dwight E., 1903-....

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Kelly, William Clark, 1922-

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American Institute of Physics. Advisory Committee on Physics Abstracts.

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Wolfe, Hugh C.

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Hutchisson, Elmer, 1902-

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Physicist (atomic physics). On the physics faculty at University of Pittsburgh, 1926-1944; on faculty of Case Institute of Technology: dean of faculty, 1944-1950, dean of the Graduate School and director of Research Division, 1952-1957; director of the American Institute of Physics, 1957-1964. From the description of Papers, 1919-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78375203 Physicist (atomic physics). On the physics faculty at University of Pittsburgh, 1926-1944; on the fac...

Kone, Eugene H

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Brickwedde, F. G. 1903-

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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...

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics)

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...