Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title Archive for the History of Quantum Physics Creator
American Philosophical Society
Creator
American Physical Society
Collection Number ASP.1987.01 Extent
301 microfilm_reels
Date 1890-1967 Abstract From 1900 through the 1920s physicists such as Planck, Einstein, Zeeman, Bohr, Pauli, Ehrenfest, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, de Broglie, and others began experimenting and theorizing a new model of light and subatomic particles which described the world as built of discrete parts (quanta), the atom as a body with a central nucleus surrounded by electrons, and increasingly treated light and matter in terms of waves. This microfilm collection of manuscripts which was assembled in the 1960s by Thomas Kuhn and John Heilbron documents this revolution in physics. Language
English
, German
, Dutch; Flemish
, French
, Danish
, Polish
. Author Jason M. Rampelt Publisher ULS Archives & Special Collections Address University of Pittsburgh Library Systemhttp://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Acquisition Information
The microfilm collection was purchased in 1987 from the American Philosophical Society. A more comprehensive search of scientist names in this collection may be performed by consulting the American Philosophical Society Finding Aid for this collection where all named correspondents and creators are listed. https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml;query=archive%20for%20the%20history%20of%20quantum%20physics;brand=default To search names, select "Detailed Inventory" in the menu and perform a CTRL-F search of your desired name or text string on the webpage. Reel numbers in this list are the same as those in our finding aid.
History
The Archive for the History of Quantum Physics microfilm collection was produced in 1961-1964 by a joint committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century with funding support from the National Science Foundation. Historian of science Thomas S. Kuhn served as Director and historian of science John L. Heilbron as Assistant Director. In addition to gathering together the correspondence and papers of numerous leading physicists in the field of quantum physics which emerged in the first three decades of the twentieth century, oral histories were also recorded and then transcribed.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in ten series:
I. Main Series
II. Bohr, Niels - Scientific Manuscripts
III. Bohr, Niels - Scientific Correspondence
IV. Ehrenfest, Paul
V. Lorentz, Conrad
VI. Oral History Interview Transcriptions
VII. Richardson, O. W.
VIII. Rutherford, Ernest
IX. Pauli, Wolfgang
X. Zeeman, Pieter
Scope and Contents This collection contains microfilms of letters, papers, and transcripts of interviews of scientists who contributed to the development of the field of quantum physics. The names of contributors are visible in the titles of series, sub-series, and files, but additional individuals are included as correspondents with those named, yet are not visible in this finding aid. So, researchers are advised to also consult other more comprehensive indices of the contents of these films to narrow their search and then select a microfilm reel for review.
Kuhn, Thomas S.; Heilbron, John L.; Forman, Paul; and Allen, Lini; eds. Sources for History of Quantum Physics (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967) was produced by the original project team. Hard copies are available in the ULS. An online version is available at https://www.amphilsoc.org/guides/ahqp/ . Information on the scope and methods employed in collecting materials are described in this book. Since the completion of the initial phase of the project, significant additional content has been added (and is part of the ULS holdings). The online index at the American Philosophical Society is more comprehensive in including these latter additions, as well as naming other individuals who are correspondents, but do not have their own series or sub-series.
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Subjects Personal Names Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933 Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928 Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959 Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943 Genres Correspondence Manuscripts (Documents) Personal papers Transcripts Oral histories (Literary genre) Other Subjects Quantum theory -- History Physics -- History Physicists Container List Series I. Main Series , 1890-1964 Einstein-Ehrenfest Correspondence , 1915-1933 Containers box 1 , reel 1 Language German.
Born Lectures on Kinetic Theory , 1928 Containers box 1 , reel 2 Language German.
N. Bohr Gottingen Lectures , June 1922 Containers box 1 , reel 3 Language German, English.
Lande Correspondence, 1 , 1918-1927 Containers box 1 , reel 4 Language German, English.
L. H. Thomas Notes on Cambridge Courses , 1922-1925 Containers box 1 , reel 5 Language English.
Lande Correspondence, 2 , 1921-1927 Containers box 1 , reel 6 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Hilbert Lectures , 1916-1927 Containers box 1 , reel 7 Language German.
Kramers Correspondence, I - Sections 1-7 , 1916-1926 Containers box 2 , reel 8 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, II - Sections 8-12 , 1916-1926 Containers box 2 , reel 8a Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, A-F , 1926-1939 Containers box 2 , reel 9 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, G-Z , 1926-1939 Containers box 2 , reel 10 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, A-D , 1940-1952 Containers box 2 , reel 11 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, E-L , 1940-1952 Containers box 2 , reel 12 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, M-R , 1940-1952 Containers box 2 , reel 13 Language German, English.
Kramers Correspondence, S-Z , 1940-1952 Containers box 3 , reel 14 Language German, English.
Kramers H. Hoek Manuscripts , Aug 1916 - Dec 23, 1940 Containers box 3 , reel 15 Language German, English.
Kronig Correspondence , 1924-1930 Containers box 3 , reel 16 Language German, English.
Rubinowicz Correspondence , 1915-1946 Containers box 3 , reel 17 Language English, Polish.
Jordan Correspondence , 1923-1930 Containers box 3 , reel 18 Language German, English.
Gerlach Correspondence , 1916-1937 Containers box 3 , reel 19 Language German, English.
Register volume for Münchener physikalisches Mittwochscolloqium, December 1908 to May 1939 , Dec 1908 - May 1939 Containers box 3 , reel 20 Language German.
Sommerfeld Lectures and Seminars, I , 1906-1908 Containers box 4 , reel 21 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Lectures and Seminars, II , 1909-1935 Containers box 4 , reel 22 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Unpublished Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Papers , 1890-1944 Containers box 4 , reel 23 Language German, English.
Debye Lectures on Quantum Theory , 1914-1918 Containers box 4 , reel 24 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Kramers Notebooks, I , 1914-1925 Containers box 4 , reel 25 Language German, English.
Kramers Notebooks, II , 1926-1952 Containers box 4 , reel 26 Language German, English.
Kramers Notes and Memoranda , 1916-1925 Containers box 4 , reel 27 Language German, English.
Kramers Notes and Drafts , 1926-1952 Containers box 5 , reel 28 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, A-B , 1898-1947 Containers box 5 , reel 29 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, C-F , 1896-1949 Containers box 5 , reel 30 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, G-K , 1899-1949 Containers box 5 , reel 31 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, L-O , 1898-1950 Containers box 5 , reel 32 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, P-Schm , 1899-1950 Containers box 5 , reel 33 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld Correspondence, Sco-Z , 1898-1950 Containers box 5 , reel 34 Language German, English.
Copenhagen Registers and Minute Books , 1908-1946 Containers box 6 , reel 35 Language German, English.
Darwin Papers and Dirac Papers , 1912-1934 Containers box 6 , reel 36 Language English.
Schrödinger Correspondence , post 1930 Containers box 6 , reel 37 Language German, English.
Cambridge Minute Books , 1900-1958 Containers box 6 , reel 38 Language English.
Schrödinger Papers , to c. 1920 Containers box 6 , reel 39 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Papers , to c. 1924 to mid 1926 Containers box 6 , reel 40 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Papers and Letters , mid 1926 to c. 1928 Containers box 6 , reel 41 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Scientific Papers , post 1928 Containers box 7 , reel 42 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Scientific and Personal Papers , post 1927 Containers box 7 , reel 43 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Popular writings , 1933-1960 Containers box 7 , reel 44 Language German, English.
Heisenberg Correspondence and Manuscripts , 1924-1958 Containers box 7 , reel 45 Language German, English.
Schrödinger Papers at Dublin Institute , 1926-1942 Containers box 7 , reel 46 Language German, English.
Klein Papers , 1922-1926 Containers box 7 , reel 47 Language German, English.
Catalog of the Bohr Scientific Correspondence , 1916-1960 Containers box 7 , reel 48 Language German.
Van Vleck Correspondence and Notes , 1923-1959 Containers box 8 , reel 49 Language German, English.
Kemble-Birge Correspondence , 1923-1932 Containers box 8 , reel 50 Language English.
Kemble Correspondence, A-L , 1921-1930 Containers box 8 , reel 51 Language English.
Kemble Correspondence, M-Z , 1921-1930 Containers box 8 , reel 52 Language English.
Kemble Correspondence, A-J , 1931-1937 Containers box 8 , reel 53 Language English.
Kemble Correspondence, K-Z , 1931-1937 Containers box 8 , reel 54 Language English.
Kemble Manuscripts , 1919-1928 Containers box 8 , reel 55 Language English.
Kemble Lectures , 1919-1925 Containers box 9 , reel 56 Language English.
Kemble Lectures , 1927-1930 Containers box 9 , reel 57 Language English.
Miscellaneous Catalogs of Institutions and Collections , 1962-1964 Containers box 9 , reel 58 Language English.
Correspondence of Dennison, Dirac, The Spectroscopic Notation Committee, and Møller , 1924-1932 Containers box 9 , reel 59 Language English, German.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1921-1926 Containers box 9 , reel 60 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1927 Containers box 9 , reel 61 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1928 Containers box 9 , reel 62 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1929 Containers box 10 , reel 63 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1930 Containers box 10 , reel 64 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Goudsmit Correspondence , 1931-1933 Containers box 10 , reel 65 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Miscellaneous Documents Not Otherwise Microfilmed , 1920-1957 Containers box 10 , reel 66 Language English.
Langevin Lectures, I , 1925-1926 Containers box 10 , reel 67 Language French.
Langevin Lectures, II , 1916-1927 Containers box 10 , reel 68 Language French.
Fermi Notebooks, I , 1926-1930-11 Containers box 10 , reel 69 Language Italian, English.
Fermi Notebooks, II , 1931-04-1932-11 Containers box 11 , reel 70 Language Italian, English.
Fermi Notebooks, III , 1933-1937 Containers box 11 , reel 71 Language Italian, English.
Fermi Notebooks, IV , 1934-1938 Containers box 11 , reel 72 Language Italian, English.
Pauling Manuscripts, I , 1923-1929 Containers box 11 , reel 73 Language English.
Pauling Manuscripts, II , 1926-1927 Containers box 11 , reel 74 Language English.
Ehrenfest Correspondence and Lectures , 1914-1932 Containers box 11 , reel 75 Language German, English.
Pauling Manuscripts, III , 1920-1929 Containers box 11 , reel 76 Language English.
Paul Dirac - Thesis , 1926 Containers box 12 , reel 77 Language English.
Rutherford, Hevesy, Thomson Lectures , 1911-1962 Containers box 12 , reel 78 Language English.
Catalog of Microfilm in AHQP, in alphabetical order , 1907-1952 Containers box 12 , reel 79 Language English.
Pauli Letters from Heisenberg , 1928-1950 Containers box 12 , reel 80 Language German, English.
Stark Correspondence , 1904-1927 Containers box 12 , reel 81 Language German, English.
Paul - Correspondence and Manuscripts , 1954-1958 Containers box 12 , reel 82 Language German, English.
Sommerfeld - Letters to Sommerfeld , 1906-1932 Containers box 12 , reel 83-84 Language German, English.
de Broglie Notes on Langevin Seminars , 1919-1927 Containers box 13 , reel 85 Language French, English.
Einstein - Letters from Lorentz and Correspondence with Kamerlingh-Onnes , 1901-1926 Containers box 13 , reel 86 Language German, English.
Selected Letters to Ritz, Runge, Rydberg, and Voigt and Selected Letters from Runge , 1902-1949 Containers box 13 , reel 87 Language German, English.
Inventory of Reels AHQP 1-72, in numerical order , 1900-1964 Containers box 13 , reel 88 Language English.
Biographies and Bibliographies: Allison to Kramers , 1908-1960 Containers box 13 , reel 89 Language English, Dutch; Flemish.
Biographies and Bibliographies: Kronig to Zwicky , 1904-1962 Containers box 13 , reel 90 Language German, English.
Various Universities: 1) Students 2) Faculty and Courses , 1900-1935 Containers box 13 , reel 91 Language English.
Schrödinger Selected Correspondence and Papers , 1908-1960 Containers box 14 , reel 92 Language German, English.
Series II. Niels Bohr Correspondence , 1911-1962 Biography Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962)
Niels Bohr was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen and completed his thesis at the university there in 1911. After a brief time in Cambridge, he went to Manchester to work in Ernest Rutherford's lab in 1912. While there, Bohr laid out a model of an atom with its mass concentrated in a nucleus of positive charge and lighter electrons of negative charge which he compared to a planetary system. Transformations of such an atom could occur with alpha and beta decay. He also reasoned during this time that the atomic electrons had resonances on the order of Planck's h , departing from a classical theory to a quantum one. Bohr returned to Copenhagen for a teaching post at the university later in 1912. In 1913, Bohr connected the observed spectral lines of hydrogen to a model of quantized radiation and later to spectra more broadly. After returning to Manchester for two years he finally settled in Copenhagen in a dedicated lab, the Institute for Theoretical Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute) and was appointed professor in 1916. Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his work on the structure of atoms. During WWII he stayed in Sweden, England, and the USA, working at Los Alamos. After the war he advocated peaceful use of atomic energy.
[Sources: DSB 2.239-254; 19.326-328; nobelprize.org; Bohr, Nobel Lecture (1922)]
Subseries 1. Bohr Scientific Correspondence , 1911-1922 Bohr Scientific Correspondence, A-D , 1911-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-1 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, E-G , 1913-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-2 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, H-J , 1913-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-3 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, K-L , 1913-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-4 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, M-P , 1911-1912 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-5 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, R , 1912-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-6 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, S , 1913-1922 Containers box 15 , reel BSC-7 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, T-Z , 1914-1922 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-8 Language German, English.
Subseries 2. Bohr Scientific Correspondence , 1923-1929 Bohr Scientific Correspondence, A-D , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-9 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, E-F , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-10 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, G-He , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-11 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Hi-J , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-12 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, K-L , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-13 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, M-P , 1923-1929 Containers box 16 , reel BSC-14 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, R , 1923-1929 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-15 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, S-Z , 1923-1929 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-16 Language German, English.
Subseries 3. Bohr Scientific Correspondence , 1930-1945 Bohr Scientific Correspondence, A-Bri , 1930-1945 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-17 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Bro-Ehr , 1930-1945 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-18 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Ehr-Gam , 1930-1945 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-19 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Gei-Hev , 1930-1945 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-20 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Hol-Kem , 1930-1945 Containers box 17 , reel BSC-21 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Kle-Kud , 1930-1945 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-22 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Kuh-Neu , 1930-1945 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-23 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Nis-Rose , 1930-1945 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-24 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Ross-Tel , 1930-1945 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-25 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Thi-Z , 1930-1945 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-26 Language German, English.
Subseries 4. Bohr Scientific Correspondence , 1945-1946 Bohr Scientific Correspondence, A-Cha , 1946-1962 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-27 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Coc-Hei , 1946-1962 Containers box 18 , reel BSC-28 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Hev-Mil , 1946-1962 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-29 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Mot-Pau , 1946-1962 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-30 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Pei-Rose , 1946-1962 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-31 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, Ross-T , 1946-1962 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-32 Language German, English.
Bohr Scientific Correspondence, U-Z , 1946-1962 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-33 Language German, English.
Subseries 5. Niels Bohr Private Correspondence , 1909-1916 Language German, English.
Niels Bohr Private Correspondence , 1909-1916 Containers box 19 , reel BSC-34 Language German, English.
Series III. Niels Bohr Manuscripts , 1910-1962 Bohr Manuscripts , through 1910 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-1 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1911 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-2 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1911-1912 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-3 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1912-1914 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-4 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1914-1916 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-5 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1916-1917 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-6 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1917-1919 Containers box 20 , reel BMSS-7 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1919 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-8 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1920-1921 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-9 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1921-1922 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-10 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts and Papers - Card Index , through 1922 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-10a SUPPL Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1923-1928 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-11 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1929-1931 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-12 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1932-1934 Containers box 21 , reel BMSS-13 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1935-1937 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-14 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1938-1939 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-15 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1939-1945 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-16 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1946-1948 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-17 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1948-1949 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-18 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1949-1951 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-19 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1952-1954 Containers box 22 , reel BMSS-20 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1954-1955 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-21 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1956-1958 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-22 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1958-1959 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-23 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1960 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-24 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1959-1961 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-25 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts , 1961-1962 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-26 Language Danish, English.
Bohr Manuscripts - Index , 1910-1962 Containers box 23 , reel BMSS-27 Language Danish, English.
Series IV. Paul Ehrenfest , 1898-1933 Biography Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933)
Paul Ehrenfest was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, studied in Göttingen for a year in 1902, and completed his doctoral thesis in 1904 in Vienna under Ludwig Boltzmann. His wife, Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanassjewa, a Russian, was a student of mathematics and they collaborated on topics in statistical mechanics. Paul Ehrenfest moved to St. Petersburg in 1907 and followed H. A. Lorentz in 1912 as the chair of theoretical physics in Leiden. Ehrenfest committed suicide in 1933.
[Source: DSB 4.292-294]
Subseries 1. Ehrenfest Notebooks , 1898-1933 Ehrenfest Notebooks, I , c. 1902-1908 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-1 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, II , c. 1909-1912 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-2 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, III , c. 1912-1924 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-3 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, IV , c. 1916-1917 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-4 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, V , c. 1924 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-5 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, VI , c. 1903-1906 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-6 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, VII , c. 1898-1933 Containers box 24 , reel EHR-7 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, VIII , c. 1898-1933 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-8 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, IX , c. 1898-1933 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-9 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, X , c. 1924-1926 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-10 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, XI , c. 1912 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-11 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks, XII , c. 1912-1913 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-12 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks XIII , c. 1930-1931 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-13 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks XIV , c. 1914-1932 Containers box 25 , reel EHR-14 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks XV , c. 1922-1931 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-15 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Notebooks XVI , c. 1911-1921 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-16 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Subseries 2. Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence , 1903-1933 Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-33, I , 1903-1933 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-17 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, II , 1903-1933 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-18 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, III , 1903-1933 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-19 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, IV , 1903-1933 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-20 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, V , 1903-1933 Containers box 26 , reel EHR-21 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, VII , 1903-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-22 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, VII , 1903-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-23 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, VIII , 1903-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-24 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, IX , 1903-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-25 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific Correspondence, 1903-1933, X , 1903-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-26 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Subseries 3. Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence , 1912-1933 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence, I , 1912-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-27 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence, II , 1912-1933 Containers box 27 , reel EHR-28 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence, III , 1912-1933 Containers box 28 , reel EHR-29 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence, IV , 1912-1933 Containers box 28 , reel EHR-30 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Personal Correspondence, V , 1912-1933 Containers box 28 , reel EHR-31 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Ehrenfest Scientific and Personal Correspondence, found after the Main Series was microfilmed , 1912-1933 Containers box 28 , reel EHR-32 Language Dutch; Flemish, German.
Series V. Hendrik A. Lorentz , 1898-1928 Biography Hendrik A. Lorentz (1853-1928)
Lorentz was born in the Netherlands and studied in Leiden. He was largely self-taught through books and finished his doctorate in 1875 on optics. He was offered the chair of mathematics in Utrecht in 1877, but accepted an alternative offer in Leiden for a chair of theoretical physics. Lorentz attended the Solvay Congress on Physics in Brussels from 1911 to 1927. He also worked for the Dutch government on educational reform, renovations to the dikes, and promoted international collegiality among scientists. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman in 1902.
[Source: DSB 8:487-500]
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1898-1900 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-1 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1894-1900 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-2 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1904-1910 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-3 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1907-1913 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-4 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1914-1916 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-5 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1917-1919 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-6 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1920-1922 Containers box 29 , reel LTZ-7 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1923-1925 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-8 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1908-1918 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-9 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1923-1926 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-10 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1902-1915 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-11 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1911-1928 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-12 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1911-1928 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-13 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1918-1923 Containers box 30 , reel LTZ-14 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1921-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-15 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , 1921-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-16 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1900-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-17 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1900-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-18 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1900-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-19 Language French, German.
Lorentz, Hendrik A. , c. 1900-1928 Containers box 31 , reel LTZ-20 Language French, German.
Series VI. Oral History Interviews , 1962-1964 Oral History Interview Transcripts: Allard to Dennison , 1962-1964 Containers box 32 , reel OHI-1 Language English.
Oral History Interview Transcripts: Dennison to Heisenberg , 1962-1964 Containers box 32 , reel OHI-2 Language English.
Oral History Interview Transcripts: Heisenberg to Von Laue , 1962-1964 Containers box 32 , reel OHI-3 Language English.
Oral History Interview Transcripts: Lenard to Rubinowicz , 1962-1964 Containers box 32 , reel OHI-4 Language English.
Oral History Interview Transcripts: Rubinowicz to Zwicky , 1962-1964 Containers box 32 , reel OHI-5 Language English.
Series VII. O. W. Richardson , 1900-1950 Biography Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959)
O. W. Richardson entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1897, studied at the Cavendish lab with J. J. Thomason, and received his bachelor's degree in 1900. He continued in the lab, working on the radiant energy of heated metals in a vacuum and was made a fellow at Trinity in 1902. In 1906, he became a professor of physics at Princeton. He turned to Britain in 1913, became a professor of physics at King's College, London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, serving as their foreign secretary. Richardson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionics (a term he coined), but received the prize the following year. Richardson's Law or the Richardson-Dushman equation describes the emission of electrons from a heated metal as a function of temperature and the work function of the metal. He was knighted in 1939. During WWII he devoted his time to military scientific projects.
[Sources: DSB 11.419-423; nobelprize.org]
Subseries 1. O. W. Richardson Outgoing Letters , 1905-1951 Catalog to the Richardson Collection , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-1 Language English.
Richardson Outgoing Letters, I , 1905-1948 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-2 Language English.
Richardson Outgoing Letters, II , 1919-1939 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-3 Language English.
Richardson Outgoing Letters, III , 1916-1935 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-4 Language English.
Richardson Outgoing Letters, IV , 1917-1951 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-5 Language English.
Subseries 2. Richardson Incoming Letters , 1905-1947 Richardson Incoming Letters, I , 1908-1947 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-6 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, II , 1921-1947 Containers box 33 , reel RDN-7 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, III , 1905-1945 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-8 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, IV , 1921-1944 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-9 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, V , 1911-1956 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-10 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, VI , 1912-1945 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-11 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, VII , 1916-1941 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-12 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, VIII , 1915-1943 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-13 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, IX , 1913-1941 Containers box 34 , reel RDN-14 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, X , 1914-1956 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-15 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, XI , 1916-1943 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-16 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, XII , 1923-1944 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-17 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, XIII , 1905-1946 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-18 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, XIV , 1910-1951 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-19 Language English.
Richardson Incoming Letters, XV , 1912-1941 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-20 Language English.
Subseries 3. O. W. Richardson Works , 1900-1950 Richardson Works, I , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 35 , reel RDN-21 Language English.
Richardson Works, II , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-22 Language English.
Richardson Works, III , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-23 Language English.
Richardson Works, IV , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-24 Language English.
Richardson Works, V , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-25 Language English.
Richardson Works, VI , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-26 Language English.
Richardson Works, VII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-27 Language English.
Richardson Works, VIII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 36 , reel RDN-28 Language English.
Richardson Works, IX , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-29 Language English.
Richardson Works, X , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-30 Language English.
Richardson Works, XI , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-31 Language English.
Richardson Works, XII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-32 Language English.
Richardson Works, XIII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-33 Language English.
Richardson Works, XIV , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-34 Language English.
Richardson Works, XV , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 37 , reel RDN-35 Language English.
Richardson Works, XVI , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-36 Language English.
Richardson Works, XVII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-37 Language English.
Richardson Works, XVIII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-38 Language English.
Richardson Works, XIX , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-39 Language English.
Richardson Works, XX , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-40 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXI , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-41 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 38 , reel RDN-42 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXIII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-43 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXIV , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-44 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXV , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-45 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXVI , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-46 Language English.
Richardson Works, XXVII , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-47 Language English.
Subseries 4. O. W. Richardson Miscellaneous , 1900-1950 Richardson Miscellaneous, I , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-48 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, II , c. 1917-1944 Containers box 39 , reel RDN-49 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, III , c. 1916-1930 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-50 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, IV , c. 1906-1938 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-51 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, V , c. 1909-1935 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-52 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, VI , c. 1903-1941 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-53 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, VII , c. 1927-1939 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-54 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, VIII , c. 1921-1931 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-55 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, IX , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 40 , reel RDN-56 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, X , c. 1929-1944 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-57 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XI , c. 1929-1937 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-58 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XII , c. 1915-1933 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-59 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XIII , c. 1919-1936 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-60 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XIV , c. 1915-1949 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-61 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XV , c. 1931-1951 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-62 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XVI , c. 1916-1941 Containers box 41 , reel RDN-63 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XVII , c. 1915-1951 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-64 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XVIII , c. 1910-1948 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-65 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XIX , c. 1916-1936 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-66 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XX , c. 1900-1950 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-67 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXI , c. 1931-1951 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-68 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXII , c. 1926-1951 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-69 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXIII , c. 1926-1951 Containers box 42 , reel RDN-70 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXIV , c. 1903-1947 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-71 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXV , c. 1903-1947 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-72 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXVI , c. 1909-1947 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-73 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXVII , c. 1904-1939 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-74 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXVIII , c. 1924-1939 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-75 Language English.
Richardson Miscellaneous, XXVIX , c. 1905-1938 Containers box 43 , reel RDN-76 Language English.
Series VIII. Ernest Rutherford , 1905-1967 Biography Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
Ernest Rutherford completed his B. A. in mathematics at Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1892 and an M. A. a year later. He continued there for another year, earning a B. Sc. In 1894. During this time, he studied the magnetization of iron by means of oscillating electric currents and the detection of wireless signals at a distance. In 1895, he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge under J. J. Thomson. His study of the radiation of uranium was the beginning of his lifetime research project. He accepted an offer to run a lab at McGill University, Quebec in 1898. Many more radioactive elements were discovered and the half-life was identified as a distinguishing property. In 1902, Rutherford suggested that radiation resulted in a transmutation of the decaying element. Working in London with Sir Willam Ramsay, they showed that the alpha particle from radioactive elements was the positive ion of helium being released in the process of radium decay. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. In Manchester, he established a lab of his own. Rutherford developed techniques to detect alpha particles, with J. S. E. Townsend using a vacuum tube with a charged wire, and with Geiger "scintillation" counting where particles illuminated a zinc-sulfide screen. Geiger and Ernest Marsden studied the wide-angle deflections in Rutherford's famous gold foil experiment which he interpreted as the result of a central dense nucleus in the atom. In 1919, he discovered that alpha particles bombarding the nuclei of smaller elements could break them apart. With Thomson's move to Master of Trinity College, Rutherford took over the Cavendish lab where experiments on "disintegrations" continued. Experiments in 1934 with deuterium performed in collaboration with Marcus Oliphant and Paul Harteck produced the first instance of nuclear fusion. As president of the Academic Assistance Council in 1933, he helped Jews in Europe find other academic work. He was knighted in 1914, received the Order of Merit in 1925, and was made a peer in 1931.
[Source: DSB 12:25-36]
Rutherford Correspondence, A-C , c. 1910-1937 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-1 Language English.
Rutherford Correspondence, D-G , c. 1900--1933 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-2 Language English.
Rutherford Correspondence, H-K , c. 1906-1935 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-3 Language English.
Rutherford Correspondence, L-M , c. 1908-1937 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-4 Language English.
Rutherford Correspondence, N-S , c. 1904-1934 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-5 Language English.
Rutherford Correspondence, T-Z , c. 1903-1937 Containers box 44 , reel RTD-6 Language English.
Series IX. Working Papers of AHQP , 1967 Working Papers of the Project, 1 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-1 Language German, English.
Working Papers of the Project, 2 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-2 Language German, English.
Working Papers of the Project, 3 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-3 Language German, English.
Working Papers of the Project, 4 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-4 Language German, English.
Working Papers of the Project, 5 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-5 Language German, English.
Working Papers of the Project, 6 , 1967 Containers box 45 , reel WP-6 Language German, English.
Series X. Pieter Zeeman , 1898-1908 Biography Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943)
Pieter Zeeman entered the University of Leiden in 1885 and became Lorentz's lab assistant in 1890. He was awarded a doctorate in 1893 for his measurements of the Kerr effect. After a brief stay in Strasburg, he returned to Leiden as privatdozent. He became a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam in 1897, then professor of physics in 1900. Zeeman observed that the spectral lines of various substances were broadened in the presence of a magnetic field and polarized at their edges, the "Zeeman effect". Zeeman shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with H. A. Lorentz in 1902. He studied the speed of light in different media and published those results in 1915 and 1916. In 1923, with a new lab, he was able to resume exact measurements of the Zeeman effect. He married Johanna Elisabeth Lebret in 1895.
[Source: DSB 14:597-599]
Zeeman Manuscripts, I , 1898-1908 Containers box 46 , reel ZMN-1 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
Zeeman Manuscripts, II , 1898-1908 Containers box 46 , reel ZMN-2 Language Dutch; Flemish, English.
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