History of the M.I.T. Physics Department, 1930-1948.

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History of the M.I.T. Physics Department, 1930-1948.

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Manuscript and bibliography. A97-page manuscript of the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department, 1930-1948, with a bibliography of papers written by members of the department during the pre-war period.

130 pp. (1 folder).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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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...