Physics -- Study and teaching.
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
A 70th birthday celebration in honor of Prof. Al Sievers
CD with the slide shows and technical presentations, as well as photos taken at the event and a group photo with a key to the participants. Most of the slides have captions identifying the individuals, as well as the approximate time period (if not recent).
Albert Einstein letters to Ernest J. Sternglass, 1950-1951.
Two letters (typed, signed) from Albert Einstein, one discussing Sternglass's overemphasis on Kant and the importance of terminology in dictating thought. The second related to the voltage necessary to create a neutron from an electron. Also, some newspaper clippings mentioning Einstein and a copy of a letter from Louis de Broglie to an unknown individual (found amongst the Einstein letters).
A.P. Mussi papers
Two class notebooks on physics and astronomy and drawings, for a student project, of a proposed trolley line: "Profile of Portion of Ithaca and Owego Electric RR Between Ithaca and Brookton, 1907."
Applications of quantum mechanics
Notebook containing Physics 486 class notes, Professor Hans Bethe, Spring 1949.
Barbara Hope Cooper papers
Includes research and teaching materials of Barbara Hope Cooper, a Cornell University physics professor.
Benjamin Siegel papers
Correspondence, notes, journals, publications, drafts of articles and books, certificates, slides, and other material pertaining to Siegel's work in physics and ultramicroscopy, his work on his book "Modern Developments in Electron Microscopy," and with Jewish philanthropies.
C. Raine Pettyjohn papers
Charles Raine Pettyjohn (November 11, 1896-March 25, 1982) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. The collection contains bound volumes of lecture notes and lab notes for courses in engineering and physics at Cornell dating 1914-1918 and other items documenting life at Cornell and Phi Delta Theta.
Cornell University Department of Physics records
Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, glass slides and other items pertaining to the Cornell University Department of Physics, primarily from the 1880s through the 1950s, along with some later memoirs and histories of the Department and those associated with it.
D. H. Tomboulian papers
Edward Leamington Nichols miscellany
Nichols' University of Leipzig Collegien-Buch, with names of physics lectures attended, professors' signatures, and other information. Also, a bibliography of Nichols' publications from 1878 to 1930 (21 pp. typescript carbon).