Records (Subgroup I), 1899-1987.

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Records (Subgroup I), 1899-1987.

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Records of the American Physical Society (APS) include the council minutes of both General Sessions and Executive Council meetings of the Society (1899-1988), with some summaries; of particular interest are lists of nominations, newly elected members, elected honorary members, resignatins, and deaths of members . Also includes early copies of the Bulletin of the American Physical Society (1899-1902) programs of meetings, membership lists, and some published proceedings. Also includes selected ledgers (seven items, 1919-1956); seven scrapbooks (1916-1962, 1967-1969) containing program announcements, ballots, and membership forms; audiovisual material from the 1978 annual meeting; and photocopies of published presidential addresses from 1899. Correspondents include W. W. Havens (executive secretary), S. A. Goudsmit (editor-in-chief), and J. A. Burton (treasurer). Also material from many APS committees including: the character of APS Meetings (1960s), awards, education, (1970s), minorities (1970s and 1980s), nominations (1958-1985), professional concerns (1970s), program (1960s-1980s), publications (1960s and 1970s), Congressional Fellowship (1970s), and women in physics (1970s). Subjects covered in files include: Soviet physicists, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) (1971-1985), Committee of Scientific Society Presidents (1975-1983), National Research Council (1966-1986), Visiting Physicists Program (1974-1980), and the American Institute of Physics (1958-1982).

8.5 linear ft. 22 boxes.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

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Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902-1978). Physicist. From the description of The development of physics in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s [sound recording] / 1974 April 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84276317 From the description of Address [sound recording] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830635 Physicist (atomic physics) and editor. On the physics faculty at University of Michigan, 1927-1946; on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1948-1970, and chai...

Burton, Joseph Ashby, 1914-1986.

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Physicist (solid state physics). From the description of Notebooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79752318 ...

American physical society

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This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Study was commissioned by the American Physical Society on November 20, 1983 to evaluate the status of the science and technology of DEW. A study group was formed by Novembe...