Records of George B. Pegram, 1926-1957.

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Records of George B. Pegram, 1926-1957.

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Correspondence and financial statements. The correspondence is primarily financial or administrative in nature. Topics include the establishment of REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS (1926-1929); the establishment and subsequent meetings of the regional sections of the American Physical Society (APS), New England Section (1932-1941), Metropolitan Section (1932-1942), and Southeastern Section (1935-1945); annual meetings of the APS (1936-1942); and general correspondence (1927-1943). Also included is correspondence concerning foreign membership, the 50th anniversary celebration of the APS, and journal subscriptions. Financial statements (1933-1934, 1956-1957), concern the APS Finance Committee and Publication Funds. Correspondents include: Raymond T. Birge, Karl T. Compton, Karl K. Darrow, William S. Gorton, Thomas C. Poulter, Willard L. Severinghaus, and John T. Tate.

2 linear ft. (3 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

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Physicist. From the description of K.T. Compton speeches, 1939-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83457426 Karl Taylor Compton (b. Sept. 14, 1887, Wooster, Ohio-d. June 22, 1954, New York City), prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948. From the description of Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570905 ...

American Physical Society. Finance Committee.

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American Physical Society. Metropolitan Section.

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American Physical Society. New England Section.

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Gorton, William Stuart

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Poulter, Thomas Charles, 1897-1978

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Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), b. 1887.

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Physicist (spectroscopy, statistics). On the physics faculty at Syracuse University, 1913-1918; University of California at Berkeley from 1918, department chair, 1933-1955; chairman of committee on physical constants, National Research Council, 1930-1937. From the description of Lectures by Niels Bohr and by R. T. Birge, 1922-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79125366 From the description of Comments on A. A. Michelson, 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82481619 ...

Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950

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Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958

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Nuclear physicist, professor of physics, and Dean of Graduate Faculties at Columbia University. Pegram, a prominent nuclear physicist, conducted a great deal of defense-related research and was responsible for the famous meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and American nuclear scientists prior to World War II that eventually led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. From the description of Papers, 1903-1958. (Columbia University In the City of ...

Severinghaus, Willard L. (Willard Lesly), 1882-1947

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Willard Leslie Severinghaus (Columbia Ph.D., 1914), professor of physics at Columbia, 1919-1941. Elected Secretary of the Physical Society in 1929. From the description of Papers, 1895-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529932 ...

American Physical Society. Office of the Treasurer.

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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. From the description of Records of George B. Pegram, 1926-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80710054 ...

American Physical Society. Southeastern Section

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First organized in 1935 in Decatur, Georgia as the Southeastern Association of Physicists, renamed the Southeastern Society of Physicists in 1936, the group affiliated with the American Physical Society (APS) as the Southeastern Section of the APS in 1937. Its objective is the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. From the description of Records of Ronald E. Mickens, 2000-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305351 First organized in 1935 in Decatur, GA a...

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-

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Physicist (science writer). Physicist, Western Electric Company, 1917-1924 and Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1925-1956; Secretary, American Physical Society, 1941-1966. Died 1982. From the description of Karl Kelchner Darrow Papers, 1872-1978, (bulk 1917-1972) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306668 Physicist (science writer). Physicist with Western Electric Company, 1917-1924 and Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1925-1956; Secretary, American Physical Society, 1941-1966. Died 1...