| 1 | Creator: | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco
| | | | Dates: | 1918-1926 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters and postcards on scientific and personal matters, with a long letter (1958) about Fermi's career from Adolfo Amidei to Emilio Segrè. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.L56.p1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Amidei, Adolfo | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Perisco, Enrico | Physicists. | Physics. | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1894-2008
| | | | Dates: | 1894-2008 | | | | Abstract: | There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. Herzfeld's student at Johns Hopkins, he studied nuclear fission with Bohr. The twenty-eight volumes of notebooks, which are his daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. They cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity (18 vols. total). The correspondence contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. There are also two boxes of council and committee records (1964-1966) of the American Physical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W564 | | | | Extent: | 125.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Barschall, H. H. , (Henry Herman), 1915- | Braginskiĭ, V. B., (Vladimir Borisovich) | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Buchdahl, H. A., (Hans Adolph), 1919- | Cethovic, Dragoljub Savo | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Feshbach, Herman | Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988 | Gingerich, Owen | Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 | Johns Hopkins University. Students. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -- Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel. | Notebooks. | Nuclear physics. | Particles (Nuclear physics) | Photographs | Photographs. | Physics. | Quantum electrodynamics. | Recordings. | Relativity (Physics) | Reports. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Ulam, Stanislaw M. (Stanislaw Marcin), 1909-1985 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1916-1984 | | | | Abstract: | A gifted mathematician, Polish-born Stanislaw Ulam made contributions to set theory, topology, mathematical logic, and number theory, but is most widely remembered for his work in fostering the technical development of thermonuclear weapons. He was associated with Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories for most of the years between 1943 and 1965, and thereafter with the University of Colorado. These papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts of both published and unpublished works, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.54 | | | | Extent: | 36.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Atomic bomb | Audiotapes | Banach, Stefan, 1892-1945 | Bradbury, Norris | Chess | Computers | Everett, C. J. (Cornelius Joseph), 1914- | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Feynman, Richard P., (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988 | Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979 | Gamow, George, 1904-1968 | Godel, Kurt | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. | Hydrogen bomb | Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900- | Kuratowski, Kazimierz, 1896- | Logic, Symbolic and mathematical | Lomnicki, Zbigniew A. | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Mandelbrot, Benoit B. | Manhattan Project (U.S.) | Mathematical physics | Mathematics | Mathematics--Study and teaching | Mazur, Stanislaw | Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915- | Mycielski, Jan, 1932 | Number theory | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 | Pasta, John | Photographs | Physics | Poles--United States | Princeton University. | Rabi, I. I., (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988 | Schrandt, Robert | Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912- | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | Set theory | Sierpinski, Waclaw, 1882-1969 | Stein, Myron | Stein, Paul | Steinhaus, Hugo, 1887-1972 | Stone, Marshall H., (Marshall Harvey), 1903-1989 | Tarski, Alfred | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 | Topology | Ulam, Stanislaw M. (Stanislaw Marcin), 1909-1985 | University of Colorado | University of Wisconsin. | Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963 | Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 | Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002 | World War, 1939-1945 | Zygmun, Antoni | |
| 4 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | | American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society. | | | | | American Physical Society. | | | | Title: | Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk)
| | | | Dates: | 1898-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.530.1.Ar2 | | | | Extent: | 300.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abraham, Max, 1875-1922 | Amaldi, Edoardo, 1908-1989 | Andrade, E. N. da C., (Edward Neville da Costa), 1887-1971 | Atomic theory. | Back, Ernst, 1881-1959 | Bauer, Edmond, 1880-1963 | Becquerel, Jean, 1878-1953 | Benedicks, Carl Axel Fredrik, 1875-1953 | Berliner, Arnold, 1862-1942 | Birge, Raymond T., (Raymond Thayer), 1887-1980 | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Born, Max, 1882-1970 | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987 | Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967 | Complementarity (Physics) | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Coster, Dirk, 1889-1950 | Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962 | Debye, Peter J. W., (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966 | Dieke, Gerhard Heinrich, 1901-1965 | Dirac, P. A. M., (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 | Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 | Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Fokker, A. D., (Adriaan Daniel), 1887-1972 | Fowler, A., (Alfred), 1868-1940 | Franck, James, 1882-1964 | Gerlach, Walther, 1889-1979 | Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham, 1902-1978 | Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 | Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 | Hartree, Douglas R., (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958 | Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 | Hilbert, David, 1862-1943 | Joliot-Curie, Frédéric | Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980 | Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike, 1853-1926 | Kapitsa, P. L., (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984 | Kayser, H., (Heinrich), 1853-1940 | Kemble, Edwin C., (Edwin Crawford), 1889-1984 | Klein, Oskar, 1894-1977 | Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952 | Ladenburg, Rudolf Walter, 1882-1952 | Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946 | Laue, Max von, 1879-1960 | London, Fritz, 1900-1954 | London, Fritz, 1900-1954 | McLennan, J. C., (John Cunningham), 1867-1935 | Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 | Memoirs. | Mie, Gustav, 1868-1957 | Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 | Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 | Nishina, Yoshio, 1890-1951 | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 | Oral histories | Oseen, C. W., (Carl Wilhelm), 1879-1944 | Paschen, F., (Friedrich), 1865-1947 | Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958 | Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958 | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Photoprints. | Physicists. | Physics -- History. | Planck, Max, 1858-1947 | Quantum theory -- History. | Relativity (Physics) | Rosenfeld, L., (Leon), 1904-1974 | Rosseland, Svein, 1894-1985 | Rubens, Heinrich, 1865-1922 | Runge, Carl, 1856-1927 | Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 | Scheel, Karl, 1866-1936 | Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961 | Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961 | Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951 | Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957 | Thomson, J. J., Sir, (Joseph John), 1856-1940 | Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988 | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960 | Voigt, Woldemar, 1850-1919 | Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 | Warburg, Emil Gabriel, 1846-1931 | Wave mechanics. | Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002 | Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Clarke Slater Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1908-1976 | | | | Abstract: | After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1923, the physicist John Clarke Slater did postgraduate work at Cambridge University and on the continent working n quantum theory with both Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Slater was appointed to the head of the department of physics at MIT in 1930, which he and Karl Compton worked effectively to transform into one of international stature. His own work on the electromagnetic theory of microwaves was fundamental to the development of radar systems. During the Second World War, he was affiliated with the radiation laboratory and after he helped found the solid state and molecular theory group, the interdisciplinary Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science. After his retirement from MIT in 1966, Slater moved to the University of Florida, remaining active until his death in 1976.
The Slater Papers contains a wealth of information on the development of physics at MIT, as well as Slater's post-1966 work at the University of Florida. There are about 133 (7 linear ft.) research notebooks, 1944-1976, and a long series (30 linear ft.) of folders, containing lectures, scientific notes, drafts of manuscripts and papers, correspondence during his collaboration with the Los Alamos Labs, 1966-1970, and extensive correspondence relating to the National Academy of Science. Information about American-Swedish exchange in quantum science is located in the correspondence with Per-Olov Löwdin. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.SL2p | | | | Extent: | 81.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Allen, Leland C. | Ballard, Stanley S. | Barnett, Michael P. | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Boring, A. Michael | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Cambridge University | Clark, W. Mansfield (William Mansfield), 1884-1964 | Clementi, Enrico | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Connolly, John W. D. | Coulson, C. A., (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 | Darrow, Karl K., (Karl Kelchner), 1891-1982 | Debye, Peter J. W., (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Frank, Nathaniel Herman, 1903-1984 | Grimaldi, Francois | Harrison, George Russell, 1898-1979 | Hartree, Douglas R., (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958 | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. | Herman, Frank | Hove, L. van (Leon) | Howarth, D. J. | Jaeger, Zeev | Johnson, Keith H. | Koster, George F. | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. | Loucks, T. L. (Terry L.) | Löwdin, Per Olov, 1916-2000 | Manning, Millard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | Mattheiss, Leonard F. | Morse, Philip M., (Philip McCord), 1903-1985 | Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | Nesbit, Robert K. | Norton, C. L. | Nottingham, Wayne B. (Wayne Buckles), 1899- | Parr, Robert G., 1921- | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Pegram, George B. | Pepinsky, Ray, 1912- | Physics--20th century | Physics--Study and teaching--20th century | Quantum theory | Ransil, Bernard J., (Bernard Jerome), 1929- | Roothaan, C. C. J. | Segall, Benjamin | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Shockley, William, 1910- | Slater, John C., (John Clarke), 1900-1976 | Slater, John Rothwell, b. 1872 | Smith, Darwin W. | Smith, Robert Allan | Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901- | Stratton, Samuel Wesley, 1861-1931 | Swann, W. F. G., (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962 | Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 1893-1986 | Tate, John Torrence, 1925- | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 | Ufford, Charles Wilbur, 1900- | University of Florida. Department of Physics | Vallarta, Manuel Sandoval | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Waals, J. D. van der (Johannes Diderik), 1837-1923 | Waber, James T. (James Thomas), 1920- | Waerden, B. L. van der, (Bartel Leendert), 1903-1996 | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | Zacharias, Zerrod R. | |
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