Papers, 1859-1927.

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Papers, 1859-1927.

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Whiting's papers, which date from 1859 to 1927, consist of personal and business correspondence, letters from noted scientists, and letters from individuals invited to speak at Wellesley College, as well as Whiting's notes for speeches and addresses. The papers also include three scrapbooks, 1877-1888, compiled by Whiting containing newspaper clippings on scientific news or stories about Wellesley College, and a book of pencil drawings by Whiting. Correspondents include, among others: William Grylls Adams, William E. Ayrton, George F. Barker, Mary L. Bean, Agnes M. Clerke, Charles R. Cross, A. E. Dolber, J. R. Eastman, Lilian H. Farlow, Susan S. Fessenden, Charlotte N. Fiske, Eustace C. Fitz, Anna M. Fox, Edwin H. Hall, William Herbert Hobbs, Lady Margaret Huggins, Arthur Little, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir Oliver Lodge, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, J. Lovering, Emilie Hyacinthe Loyson, W. Ramsey, Lord Robert J. Rayleigh, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, and Silvanus Phillips Thompson.

2 boxes.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Whiting, Sarah Frances, 1847-1927

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Physicist, astronomer, and educator. From the description of Papers, 1859-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81640505 Physicist, astronomer and educator. Professor of physics, Wellesley College from 1879, director of Whitin Observatory from 1904. From the description of Letters to Sarah Frances Whiting concerning her tour of physics laboratories in England, the Netherlands, and Germany, 1883-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81574246 ...

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, baron, 1842-1919

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John William Strutt, the Third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist, was born in Terling, Essex, in 1842. He attended Cambridge University and in 1879 became professor of experimental physics there and director of its Cavendish Laboratory until 1884. He later was on the faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, became chancellor of Cambridge University, and was a founder of the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, England. Strutt, who with Lord William Ramsey, discovered the first...

Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916

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English physicist; author of works on electricity and magnetism, and on lives of scientists. Thompson had hoped to get enough subscriptions to print this work however it didn't materialize. There is a printed order form tipped in, saying the edition would be limited to 225 copies and printed by Ernest Enthoven at the Essex House Press. From the description of Albrecht Dürer's Geometry : manuscript translation of the 1538 edition of Underweysung der Mussung, ca. 1900. (Unknown). Worl...