History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

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History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

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Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented: Sperry Eugene Darden, P. J. W. Debye, Arthur Louis Day, Lee De Forest, Russell Dewaard, Robert H. Dicke, Leroy Dickson, Nicholas Djeu, Gilbert Douglas, Harry Drickamer, Helen Dukas, Jesse Du Mond, Ora S. Duffendack, E. G. Ebbinghausen, Walter M. Elsasser, Richard M. Emberson, K.O. Emery, P. M. Endt, Richard W. Eppley, David Ernst, William Everitt, Viktor Evtuhov, Ugo Fano, Harrison Farnsworth, Hermon Waldo Farwell, Walter Faust, P. P. Feofilov, Walter Finnall Cross Ferguson, Carl E. Fichtel, R. W. Fink, Floyd A. Firestone, Irene Fischer, Harvey Fletcher, Paul A. Fleury, C. B. Ford, Kenneth W. Ford, Richard Gildart Fowler, Gerald Willis Fox, James Franck, Harry E. Franks, Joan Freeman, Naoshi Fukushima, Harold Q. Fuller, Fuson, Nelson, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Irvine Clifton Gardner, Richard L. Garwin, Andrew Gemant, Roger Gendrin, K. S. Gibson, George Glocker, Richard Glocker, Standord Goldman, Louis Craig Geeen, Lars Olai Grondahl, Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, Frederick Warren Grover, Enrique Gaviola, Janet Brown Guernsey, Piet Cornelis Gugelot, Ross Gunn, Robert Hall, Louis P. Hammett, Wilhelm Hanle, Clinton Richards Hanna, Alfred Olaf Hanson, Marshall Cathcart Harrington, Stephen C. Harris, Bernhard Haurwitz, Hermann A. Haus, Sherwood Kimball Haynes, Werner Heisenberg, John Helmer, Ernest M. Henley, Paul Herget, Donald R. Herriott, Abraham Hertzberg, Karl F. Herzfeld, Victor Hess, Clarence Wilson Hewlett, Francis J. Heyden, Benjamin F. Howell, Su-Shu Huang, Patrick M. Hurley.

63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

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Niels Bohr Library & Archives

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Franck, James, 1882-1964

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Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-1979

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Fano, Ugo.

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Haus, Hermann A.

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Haus was born in 1925. From the description of Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83030732 ...

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Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

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Ebbighausen, E. G. 1911-

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Duffendack, Ora S. (Ora Stanley), 1890-

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Fichtel, Carl E.

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Dukas, Helen.

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Fukushima, Naoshi, 1925-

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Geophysicist. Geophysical Institute, University of Tokyo, 1952-1964; Geophysics Research Laboratory, University of Tokyo, 1965-1985. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80781604 ...

Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-....

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Physicist (theoretical) and writer. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354822 ...

Hurley, Patrick M., 1912-

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Gibson, K. S. 1890-

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Fleury, Paul A.

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De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961

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Eppley, Richard W.

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Fink, R. W. 1928-

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Heyden, Francis J.

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Francis Joseph Heyden was born in 1907. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617796 ...

Fletcher, Harvey, 1884-1981

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Fletcher died in 1981. From the description of Autobiographical notes, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84131911 Engineer and acoustics researcher at Bell Laboratories. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, May 9, 1979 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861761 Died 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Harvey Fletcher, 1964 May 15. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Herget, Paul, 1908-

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Astronmer. Cincinnati Observatory, 1931-1940; Director, 1943-; Lick Observatory, 1935-1936; U. S. Naval Observatory, 1942-1946. From the description of Papers, 1935-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78261249 Astronomer. From the description of The first astronauts: Second Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize Lecture delivered before the American Astronomical Society at the University of Maryland, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84586814 Paul ...

Hanle, Wilhelm, 1901-....

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German with English translation. From the description of Transcript and translation of an interview with Wilhelm Hanle primarily about his reminiscences of Philipp Lenard, 1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82210860 ...

Goldman, Stanford.

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Goldman was born in 1907. From the description of Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82065612 ...

Hertzberg, Abraham

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Hertzberg was born in 1922. From the description of Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83949166 ...

Freeman, Joan, 1918-

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Huang, Su-Shu, 1915-....

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Su-Shu Huang was born in Chiangshu, Kiangshu Province, China, on April 26, 1915. He earned his B.S. degree in Physics at Chekiang University in 1937, his M.S. (Physics) at Tsing Hua University in 1943, and his Ph.D. (Astrophysics) at the University of Chicago in 1949. Huang lectured in physics at Tsing Hua University from 1943 to 1947. Between 1949 and 1951 he was an instructor at the University of Chicago. From 1951 to 1959 he served as an astronomer at the University o...

Fischer, Irene.

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Dicke, Robert H.

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Gunn, Ross, 1897-1966

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Haurwitz, Bernhard

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Fowler, Richard Gildart

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Emery, K. O. (Kenneth Orris), 1914-1998

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Ford, C. B. (Clinton B.)

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Ford was born in 1913. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78404586 ...

Howell, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1917-

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Debye, Peter J. W. 1884-1966.

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Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

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Died 1978. From the description of Oral history interview with Karl F. Herzfeld, 1978 May 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77898623 From the description of Oral history interview with Karl F. Herzfeld, 1962 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78112200 Dr. Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, 1892-1978, was a noted physicist, author, educator, and humanitarian. Born in Vienna, Austria, on February 24, 1892, he received his primary education from the Benedictines. He contin...

Gemant, Andrew, 1895-

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Gemant died in 1983. From the description of Autobiography, ca. 1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78440550 ...

Garwin, Richard L.

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American physicist. From the description of Papers, 1947-1996. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 38031202 Richard Lawrence Garwin was born in 1928. Physicist; received Ph.D. in 1949, University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi. On Fermi's invitation, Garwin went to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950. At this time appointed faculty position at University of Chicago. According to Edward Teller, was instrumental in creating the first hydrogen bomb. In ...

Fraser, John S.

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