Selected records, including letters, reports, and notebooks by Arthur Holly Compton, Saul Dushman, Irving Langmuir, Frederic Saunders, and Willis R. Whitney.

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Selected records, including letters, reports, and notebooks by Arthur Holly Compton, Saul Dushman, Irving Langmuir, Frederic Saunders, and Willis R. Whitney.

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Topics include: Niels Bohr, atomic structure, industrial research, Solvay Congress, and x-ray crystallography. Correspondence among Whitney, E. P. Adams, and Compton regarding industrial research, 1914. Selections from laboratory notebook of Dushman regarding his speculations about the structure of atoms, 1917. Report on early x-ray crystallography work at G. E. Research Lab, reported by Langmuir to T. W. Richards, 1920. Letter from Langmuir to Saunders giving an evaluation of Bohr's work, 1922. Letter from Langmuir to Whitney, 1927, describing the Solvay Congress of that year and other aspects of European physics.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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