Records of David Locke Webster, 1930-1958.

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Records of David Locke Webster, 1930-1958.

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Correspondence; manuscripts; reprints; notes; programs. Contains correspondence and other materials documenting Webster's activities as Vice-president (1933-1934), president (1935-1936), and active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (1930-1958). Topics include the organization of the AAPT; the AAPT Executive Committee; the establishement of the AAPT journals, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS and THE PHYSICS TEACHER; endowed lectures; membership; annual meetings; and committees on award presentations, physics education, pre-medical physics education, engineering physics education, and the ideal liberal arts curriculum. Also includes reminiscences by Webster of the early history of the AAPT. Correspondents include: Thomas D. Cope, Homer L. Dodge, Paul Klopsteg, Harvey B. Lemon, Frederic Palmer, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Duane Roller, Richard M. Sutton, and Lloyd W. Taylor.

3.25 linear ft. (6 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American association of physics teachers

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This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. From the description of American Journal of Physics editor's reports, 1982-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78113826 From the description of Records of early history, 192...

Lemon, Harvey Brace, 1885-

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Taylor, Lloyd William, 1893-1948

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Lloyd William Taylor (1893-1948), noted physicist, married WCTU crusader Esther Elenora Bliss (1890-1980) in 1917. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1922. In 1924 Taylor was appointed chairman of the Oberlin College Physics Department. He authored several books including "Physics: The Pioneer Science" (1941); "College Manual of Optics" (1924); and co-authored "General Physics for the Laboratory" (1926) with Carl Ellis Howe. His writings include articles about inventor Elisha...

Palmer, Frederic, 1878-1967.

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Physicist (spectroscopy). On physics faculty at Haverford College from 1904; physicist, Franklin Institute, 1945-1958; and president, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1933-1935. From the description of Lecture notebooks, 1940-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80630260 Full name: Frederic Palmer Jr. From the description of Autobiography, ca. 1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77698916 ...

Richtmyer, F. K., 1881-1939.

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Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.

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Webster was professor of physics at Stanford University, 1920-1954, and emeritus professor, 1954-1976. From the description of David Locke Webster correspondence concerning Dr. William Duane, 1954-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703840593 David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman of the Physics Department at Stanford (1920-1942), was born in Boston, November 6, 1888. He received his B.A. (1910) and Ph.D (1913) from Harvard U...

Cope, Thomas D. (Thomas Darlington)

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Physicist Thomas D. Cope, also a historian of science, collected the Transit of Venus material. From the guide to the Material on the transit of Venus in 1760, [1760-1761], 1760-1761, (American Philosophical Society) Thomas Darlington Cope was a physicist and a historian of science. From the guide to the Thomas Darlington Cope papers, 1945-1957, 1945-1957, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received...

Roller, Duane E. (Duane Emerson), 1894-1965

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Sutton, Richard Manliffe, 1900-1966

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Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-

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Physicist, research consultant. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Ernest Klopsteg : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513658 Died 1991. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul E. Klopsteg, 1970 March 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82445932 ...

Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Homer Levi Dodge : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147496 Physicist (electrical measurements) and educator. On faculty of the University of Oklahoma: head of physics department, 1919-1942, dean of graduate school, 1926-1944, and organizer and director of Oklahoma Research Institute, 1941-1944; a founder, first president, and member of Governing Board of the American A...