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.
Creator
- Webster, Harold Frank, 1919- (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Physicist. Harold Webster worked at the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory during World War II on the development of microwave wave guide mixers for radar systems. He then came to the Cornell Physics Department as a teaching assistant, majoring in experimental physics and minoring in theoretical physics and electrical engineering with Richard Feynman and Herbert Newhall. He later worked at the General Electric Research Lab in Schenectady until his retirement in 1985. Cornell University Ph.D. 1953.
Extent
16 volumes.
1 folders.
Language of Materials
English
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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