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Physics.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Donald Holcomb papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-3426
Abstract

Correspondence, lab notebooks, research and subject files on electron paramagnetic resonance, and experimental data pertaining to Holcomb's work at Cornell in the Dept. of Physics and in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.

Dates: 1952-2004.

Douglas Fitchen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-3691
Abstract

Subject files, reprints, course material, and correspondence relating to Fitchen's work in the Physics Dept.

Dates: 1962-2008.

Hans Bethe reprint collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4706
Scope and content

Reprints collected by Hans Bethe pertaining to physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, quantum theory, supernovae, and solar energy. Authors include Niels Bohr, Alfred Einstein, Paul Peter Ewald, Enrico Fermi, Richard P. Feynman, William A. Fowler, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Irving Langmuir, Edwin M. McMillan, Carleton C. Murdock, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Rudolf E. Peierls.

Dates: 1900-1980.

Henry Phelps Gage papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1874
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, notes on the life of Simon Henry Gage.

Dates: 1886-1955.

Niels Bohr reprint collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4725
Scope and content A collection of reprints of articles by Bohr and his students, primarily on physics, with a few on chemistry. Authors include Bohr, R.H. Fowler, Werner Heisenberg (one article), Georg von Hevesy, J. Holtsmark, Erich Hückel, J.C. Jacobsen, H.A. Kramers, Werner Kuhn, and others. Topics include radioactive decay, quantum mechanics, optics, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, and others. Included is a small collection of reprints on biochemical aspects of dentistry, collected by Aksel Tovborg...
Dates: 1909-1964.

Raymond Bowers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-1860
Scope and content Includes articles and publications by Bowers and others; correspondence; notebooks; drafts and reports; lantern slides of charts and equipment; records of inventions; files on research associates; research proposals, contracts; material on impact of federal financing on higher education; material on social responsibility of scientists; files on students; grade lists, lecture notes, problem sets, and student evaluations from physics courses taught by Bowers; research notes, charts, and data;...
Dates: [ca. 1950]-1979.

Robert R. Wilson papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder ? (unprocessed)
Identifier: 14-22-3093
Abstract Memorabilia documenting the development of atomic energy research and high energy physics in the United States, Europe , and Asia. Dr. Wilson was a renowned expert on designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as consultant on projects around the world. Included in his professional papers are drawings, designs and photographs of some of the buildings, accelerators and equipment he helped design, as well as some of his sculptures. Among the personal papers in the...
Dates: 1936-2000.

Vinay Ambegaokar papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-4461
Abstract Biographical files, correspondence, research subject files and notes, scientific papers, presentations, lectures, handwritten lecture notebooks and other course-related material, publications, reviews, drafts, reprints, administrative files, photographs, slides, DVDs, CDs, transparencies, and flash drives of the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University, Vinay Ambegaokar (1934- ), document his research, teaching, and administrative activities, dating from...
Dates: 1942-2018

William Littlewood papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2820
Scope and content Includes correspondence and other personal papers; business correspondence, mostly regarding aviation and automotive engineering; speeches and talks (including sound recordings); Cornell University course books, Trustee papers, and other material; scrapbooks of clippings, letters, and photographs; photgraphs of people, airplanes, and engines; mimeographs and printed material from the Committee of the SST-Sonic Boom of the National Academy of Sciences; pamphlets and other data on various...
Dates: [1917-1967?].