Selected papers, 1933-1947.

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Selected papers, 1933-1947.

Copies of letters; notes; clippings; photographs; bibliographies. Documents assembled by Karl Hufbauer concerning the ten conferences include a bibliography of primary and secondary materials, letters, and information on locations of other related records. Also included are notes on attendees, photographs, clippings, and annual summaries of the conference programs published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book. Collection includes selected letters from: Hans A. Bethe, Gergory Breit, John A. Fleming, George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Merle A. Tuve.

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Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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15 January 1908 Born, Budapest, Hungary 1926 1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929 1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931 1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi ...

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

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Physicist. From the description of Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories, 1966-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935483 Alsatian-born American physicist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for physics. From the description of Typed letter signed : Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to Samuel Goudsmit, 1936 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270953107 Unpublished document written as chapter 13 of the Smyth Report. Letters about it ...

Hufbauer, Karl

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Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics.

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The conferences were held under the joint auspices of George Washington University and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington beginning in 1935. These invitational conferences were organized by George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Merle Tuve to promote thinking and discussion of unsolved problems in theoretical physics. The topics were nuclear physics, molecular physics, elementary particles, stellar energy, low temperature, interior of the earth, stellar e...

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

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Died in 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Gregory Breit, 1975 December 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865399 Physicist (quantum theory, nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics). National Research Council Fellow, University of Leiden (1921-1922), and at Harvard University (1922-1923); on the physics faculty at University of Minnesota (1923-1924); on the staff of Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution (1924-1929); on the physics facu...

Fleming, J. A. (John Adam), 1877-1956

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Fleming was born in 1877; died in 1956. From the description of Origin and development of the American Geophysical Union, 1919-1952, 1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83717847 ...

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

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George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator. From the description of George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981157 Russian-born American physicist, early advocate of the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe. Professor of Physics at George Washington University, 1934-1956. While a student at the Institute of Theoretical Ph...

Conference on Theoretical Physics (Washington, D.C.).

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Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

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Physicist. From the description of Merle Antony Tuve papers, 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979847 Biographical Note 1901, June 27 Born, Canton, South Dakota 1922 B.S., University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, Minn. ...

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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