Papers, ca. 1912-1989.

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Bloch, Felix, 1905-....

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Felix Bloch : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512732 Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1981 December 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80093456 From the description of Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1968 August 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81162102 From the description of Oral hi...

Gorter, C. J. (Cornelis Jacobus), 1907-

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Died 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with Cornelis Jacobus Gorter, 1962 November 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185799 Major affiliations include: Teyler's Foundation, Haarlem, Netherlands, 1931-1936; Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 1936-1940; and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1940-1946. From the description of Letter to John H. Van Vleck, 1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83225223 ...

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

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John Clarke Slater was a physicist. He graduated from Harvard (Ph. D. 1923) and continued his studies at Cambridge University. He also studied in Copenhagen for six months under Niels Bohr, with whom Slater worked again in 1929 on the quantum theory. He returned to the United States in 1930 to become head of the department of physics at M.I.T., where he worked with Karl Compton to transform the study of physics there. From the description of Papers, 1908-1976. (American Philosophical...

Rudberg, Erik

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Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of Physics, Columbia University, 1903-1939 (Columbia University A.M., 1900; Ph.D., 1901; D.D. Sc., 1929) From the guide to the Bergen Davis Papers, 1898-1960., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Professor of Physics, Columbia University, 1903-1939 (Columbia University A.M., 1900; Ph.D., 1901; D.D. Sc., 1929). From the description of Bergen Davis papers, 1898-1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). Wo...

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

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Pysicists (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet (1922-1923); Universität Hamburg (1923-1928); and Eidgenössische Ttechnische Hochschule Zürich (1928-1958); and visiting professor, Institute for Advanced Study (1935-1936, and from 1940). From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83030815 Physicist (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet, 1922-19...

Oseen, C. W. (Carl William), b.1879.

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Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

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Van Vleck died in 1980. From the description of Nobel Prize and Lorentz Medal information, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78291608 From the description of The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83857765 Physicist. Died in 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1966 February 28 and 1973 January 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77805000 J. H. Van ...

Bragg, William Lawrence, sir, 1890-1971

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Physicist (x-ray diffraction, crystallography). On physics faculty at the University of Manchester (1919-1937), and Cambridge University (1938-1953); director of Royal Institution, London (1954-1966); and Nobel Prize in Physics (1915). From the description of Selected reprints, 1920-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78933069 Sir William Lawrence Bragg. Education: St. Peter's College (Austrailia); B.S., Mathematics, Adelaide University (1908); Natural Sciences, Trinity Col...

Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996

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Salam (1926-1996). Founded the Dept. of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, professor from 1957-1993. Founded International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP at Trieste in 1964; directed Centre until 1994 when he became president. From the description of Oral history interview with Abdus Salam conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1977 November 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83716203 Salam (1926-1996). From the descri...

Kikuchi, Chihiro, 1914-

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Professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan; specialist in the field of solid-state physics, notably the ruby maser and electron spin resonance; and advocate of nuclear power. From the description of Chihiro Kikuchi papers, 1942-1988. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419698 Chihiro Kikuchi, professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan, was born on September 26, 1914, in Seattle, Washington. He studied at the Un...

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952

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Hylleraas, Egil A. (Egil Andersen), 1898-1965

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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

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Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Nobel prizewinning physicist, inventor of the cyclotron and the founder and first director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was born on August 8, 1901 in Canton, South Dakota. His parents Carl Gustavus and Gunda Jacobson Lawrence were the children of Norwegian immigrants. Ernest Lawrence attended St. Olaf College and later the University of South Dakota, where he received his A.B. degree in 1922. He had originally thought to become a medical doctor, ...

Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

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Lise Meitner was born in Austria on 7 November 1878, the daughter of the Viennese lawyer, Phillip Meitner. In 1901 she entered the University of Vienna, becoming Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. In the following year Meitner left Austria and went to Berlin [Germany] to study with the physicist Max Planck, becoming joint discoverer of Thorium-C in 1908. In 1912 Meitner moved on to work with Otto Hahn at the Chemical Institute, Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, in Göttingen. During the First World War ...

Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981

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Died in 1981. From the description of Papers, 1933-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83495534 Physicist. Died in 1981. Oral History Interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, and excerpts may be copied. From the description of Oral history interview with Hideki Yukawa, 1962 July 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83368083 ...

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

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Physicist (quantum theory, quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle, unified field theory) and administrator. On the physic faculty at Universität Göttingen (1923-1924, 1925-1926); Kovenhavens Universitet (1924-1925, 1926-1927); Universität Leipzig (1927-1941); director, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (1941-1945); director, Max-Planck Institut für Physik (1946-1958); and director, Max-Planck Institut für Physik und Astrophysik (1958-1970). From the description of Papers. (U...

Peierls Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995

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Theoretical physics (quantum theory of solids of electro-magnetic fields and of the solid nucleus; World War II work on atomic energy). Affiliations include: 1925, Berlin University as student of physics; 1926 transferred to University of Munich, Department of Theoretical Physics (A. Sommerfeld); 1928 transferred to Leipzig University, Department of Theoretical Physics (W. Heisenberg); and in 1929 to the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (W. Pauli). 1929, Ph.D., Leipzig. Fall 1929 to Fall ...

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...

Waller, Ivar, 1898-1991.

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Professor in theoretical physics at the University of Uppsala. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. From the description of Papers, ca. 1912-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82331290 ...

Born, Max, 1882-1970

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Physicist (solid state physics, quantum mechanics, lattice dynamics, wave functions, molecules). On the physics faculty at Universität Göttingen (1908-1914, 1921-1933); Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1914-1919); and University of Edinburgh (1936-1956). From the description of Lecture notebooks, 1905-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79287462 From the description of Papers, ca. 1945-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77749891 From the description of P...

Laue, Max ˜vonœ 1879-1960

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Major affiliations include: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1905-1909, 1919-1943; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 1909-1912; Universität Frankfurt-am-Main (later Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt), Frankkfurt-am-Main, Germany, 1914-1919; Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, 1951-1960. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122521272 Physicist. Major affi...

Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1923-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505991 Physicist (wave theory, quantum theory, x-ray diffraction) and administrator. On the physics faculty at Manchester University (1910-1914); on the mathematics faculty at University of Cambridge (1914-1922, 1936-1938); on the natural philosophy faculty at University of Edinburgh (1923-1936); director of the Na...