| 2 | Creator: | Friends of Benjamin Franklin House. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Friends of Benjamin Franklin House papers, 1976-1983
| | | | Dates: | 1976-1983 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters between Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Lady Mary Bessborough, and others, concerning the legal formation to the Friends, preservation of the Craven Street house in London, and articles of incorporation and meeting agenda. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85.fri | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Bessborough, Mary, -- Lady. | Doonan, Nancy Locke | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Historic sites -- England -- London. | London (England) -- Buildings. | London (England) -- Description and travel. | |
| 3 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Archives
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.
The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology. | | | | Call #: | APS.Archives | | | | Extent: | 192.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture--West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Astronomy--18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Bartram, Moses, d. 1791 | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Kentucky | Indians of North America--Mississippi | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--West Virginia | Institutional Records | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Lingelbach , William E., (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-1945 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural History | Natural History--18th century | Natural History--19th century | Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807 | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | United States History. | Valltravers, Johann Rodolph | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John W. Tukey Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1937-2000 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Brown University, he joined the faculty at Princeton; in 1945, he also began work at Bell Laboratories. Equally committed to both Princeton and Bell Labs, Tukey chose to work concurrently at both institutions. He was also a consultant for many companies, such as Merck and Company, Xerox Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service, and was a frequent advisor to the government for such programs as the US Census. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC’s election night projections. Among other projects Tukey analyzed Alfred Kinsey's research and examined data on ozone depletion. Tukey made many important contributions to the field of statistics, such as work in time series analysis, exploratory data analysis, and multiple comparisons. Through his work, Tukey developed statistical applications including the Box-and-Whisker Plot, the Stem-and-Leaf Diagram, Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transforms, Tukey’s Paired Comparisons and citation and permutated indices. Tukey's influence extends beyond statistics to everyday language: he was the first to use the word "software" in print and coined words such as "bit" and "linear programming." A prolific writer, John W. Tukey penned more than 500 technical papers and reports and published, among numerous other works. His collected papers amount to eight volumes of work.
The Tukey Papers provides a comprehensive perspective into Tukey’s professional activities from his days as a graduate student until his death in 2002. Among the material is his correspondence and his published and unpublished works. There is abundant material from Tukey’s long careers at Bell Laboratories and Princeton University, including extensive lecture notes and syllabi. Also included are copious materials relating to his professional activities with such agencies as the National Research Council, the Army Records Office, Xerox PARC, Merck and Company, the President’s Science Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.117 | | | | Extent: | 169.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abelson, Robert P. | Academy of Sciences of the USSR | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association of Scientific Workers | American Chemical Society | American College Testing Program | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | American Institute of Physics | American Mathematical Society | American Medical Association | American Petroleum Institute | American Philosophical Society | American Psychological Association | American Society for Information Science | American Society for Quality Control | American Statistical Association | American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Anderson, Edgar, 1897- | Archibald, Raymond Clare, 1875-1957 | Basford, Kaye E., 1952- | Batson, Herbert Clifford | Beale, E. M. L. (Evelyn Martin Landsdowne) | Beaton, Albert E. | Bechhofer, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1919- | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Belsley, David A. | Beniger, James R. (James Ralph), 1946- | Bennett, Carl A. (Carl Allen), 1921- | Blackman, R. B. (Ralph Beebe), 1904- | Bliss, Chester Ittner, 1899- | Bloomfield, Peter, 1946- | Boas, Ralph Philip | Bode, Hendrik W. (Hendrik Wade), 1905- | Bolt, Bruce A., 1930- | Bowker, Albert Hosmer, 1919- | Braun, Henry I., 1949- | Brown University | California Institute of Technology | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, Calif.) | Chlorofluoromethanes-Environmental concerns | Cochran, William G., (William Gemmell), 1909-1980 | Cressie, Noel A. C. | Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900- | Dempster, Arthur Pentland, 1929- | Disarmament. | Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915- | Dodge, Harold French, 1893- | Educational Testing Service | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Flood, Merrill Meeks, 1908- | Fourier transformations | Gnanadesikan, Ramanathan, 1932- | Halocarbons | Hamming, R. W. (Richard Wesley), 1915- | History of computing | Hoaglin, David C. (David Caster), 1944- | Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Kruskal, William, 1919-2005 | Logarithms | Massachusettes Institute of Technology | Mathematics - Tables | Meyerhoff, Howard A., (Howard Augustus), 1899- | Mike, Valerie, 1934- | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Moments method (Statistics) | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916- | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916-2006 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Assessment of Educational Progess (Project) | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Nuclear Weapons - Testing | Parzen, Emanuel, 1929- | Pearson, E. S., (Egon Sharpe), 1895-1980 | Press, Harry | Princeton University | Princeton University. | Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920- | Rousseeuw, Peter J. | Scheffé, Henry, 1907- | Security clearances - United States | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Statistics--Study and teaching | Suppes, Patrick, 1922- | Time-series analysis | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Tukey, Paul | U.S. Census Bureau | United States. Army Research Office | Velleman, Paul F.,1949- | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Wilks, S. S., (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Xerox Corporation | Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center | |
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