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Cornell University. Department of Physics

 Organization

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Ernest George Merritt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-46
Abstract Collection includes material pertaining to Merritt's years at Cornell, including a student scrapbook of photographs, programs, and pamphlets; loose photographs of colleagues, laboratory equipment, and Cornell views; Merritt's notes on lectures concerning electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and theoretical mechanics; four volumes of notes taken by teaching assistant Ernest Blaker (Ph.D. 1901) at Merritt's lectures, as well as undated notes on advances in experimental physics; calculations...
Dates: 1887-1950.

Frederick Bedell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-2190
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, and drawings relating to hearing and devices for the deaf; files on the oscilloscope; files relating to his student work at Yale, his teaching career at Cornell, and his subsequent research at California Institute of Technology.

Dates: 1891-1984.

Garland Branch notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093395188]
Identifier: 14-22-3585
Scope and content

Lecture notes from courses given by Richard Feynman in mathematical physics, electrodynamics, and quantum mechanics.

Dates: 1947.

Geoffrey Chester papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-4202
Abstract

Includes correspondence and subject files pertaining to Chester's career at Cornell.

Dates: 1964-2014.

George S. Moler papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064932324]
Identifier: 14-22-408
Scope and content

Correspondence and legal documents pertaining to Moler's inventions and patents, especially concerning the lantern slide cabinet. Also includes six prints from a 1901 35mm film believed to be made by Professor Moler.

Dates: 1908-1913.

Hans Bethe papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-976
Abstract Papers of Hans Albrecht Bethe, physicist, Cornell University professor of physics, Nobel laureate. Materials relate to Bethe's work concerning nuclear physics, solar, stellar, and nuclear energy, radiation, conduction in metals, and quantum mechanics; also the administration of the Cornell University Physics Department, and Cornell courses. Collection includes material on arms and arms control, underwater explosion research, the nuclear test ban, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the...
Dates: [ca. 1931]-1995.

Harold F. Webster notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093396145]
Identifier: 14-22-3586
Scope and content

Notebooks from courses in physics and electrical engineering given by Richard Feynman, Herbert Newhall, Hans Bethe, and Henry Booker. Also copy of Ph.D. "A" examination with Professor Feynman.

Dates: 1945-1953.

Helen M. Lyons letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065264222]
Identifier: 14-22-m.609
Scope and content

Letters from faculty, students, alumni, and fellow employees paying tribute to Miss Lyons for the 57 years of service she devoted to the Physics Department.

Dates: 1957.

James Krumhansl papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-3364
Scope and content

Correspondence, articles, subject files, and course material documenting Krumhansl's career at Cornell University, including his work in electrical engineering, biophysics, solid state physics and on the Superconducting Super Collider

Dates: 1943-1990.

John DeWire papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-2886
Scope and content

Correspondence, manuals, minutes, and other papers concerning experimental physics, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, the 10-Gev Synchrotron Laboratory, and the Department of Physics.

Dates: 1945-1982

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Subject
Physics -- Study and teaching. 15
Physicists. 12
Nuclear physics -- Research 4
Photographs 4
Physics. 3
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Superconducting Super Collider. 3
Arms control. 2
Biophysics. 2
College teachers 2
Liquid helium. 2
Magnetism. 2
Nobel Prizes. 2
Nuclear nonproliferation 2
Nuclear physics 2
Particle accelerators -- Design and construction 2
Physics -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Quantum theory. 2
Scrapbooks 2
Universities and colleges -- Faculty 2
Anti-missile missiles. 1
Arms race -- History -- 20th century. 1
Astrophysics. 1
Bone conduction. 1
Charts. 1
Coeducation. 1
College teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Color slides. 1
Courtship. 1
Crystallography. 1
Diaries 1
Electric currents, Alternating. 1
Electric generators. 1
Electric measurements. 1
Electrical engineering -- Study and teaching. 1
Electrical engineering. 1
Electricity -- Experiments. 1
Electricity. 1
Electron paramagnetic resonance. 1
Electrons -- Capture 1
Electrons -- Capture. 1
Glass blowing and working. 1
Hearing aids. 1
Hearing. 1
Helium at low temperatures. 1
Lantern projection. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Letterpress copybooks 1
Love letters. 1
Luminescence. 1
Materials -- Research. 1
Materials -- Study and teaching. 1
Mechanics. 1
Metals. 1
National security -- United States. 1
Negatives. 1
Neutron scattering. 1
Neutrons. 1
Nobel Prize winners. 1
Notebooks 1
Nuclear energy. 1
Nuclear explosions. 1
Nuclear weapons -- Testing. 1
Nuclear weapons and disarmament. 1
Oscilloscopes. 1
Particle acceleration 1
Particle acceleration. 1
Physical instruments 1
Physical review. 1
Physics -- New York (State) -- History 1
Physics -- New York (State) -- History. 1
Physics -- Periodicals. 1
Physics -- Research 1
Physics -- Study and teaching 1
Physics -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Ithaca 1
Projectors 1
Quasicrystals. 1
Radiation. 1
Radioactive waste disposal. 1
Radioactive wastes -- Environmental aspects. 1
Radioactive wastes -- Management. 1
Radioactive wastes -- Safety regulations. 1
Reviews. 1
Science and state -- United States. 1
Scientific Apparatus and Instruments -- Calibration. 1
Scientists -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation) 1
Scientists -- Soviet Union 1
Solar energy -- Research. 1
Solid state physics. 1
Stenographers. 1
Strategic Defense Initiative. 1
Submarines (Ships) 1
Superconducting Super Collider 1
Superfluidity. 1
Supernovae. 1
Thermodynamics. 1
Videotapes. 1
Women college teachers. 1
Women physicists. 1
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