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Physics -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
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Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

A 70th birthday celebration in honor of Prof. Al Sievers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-3383
Scope and content

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).

Dates: 2003.

Albert Einstein letters to Ernest J. Sternglass, 1950-1951.

 Collection — Manuscript box 72 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924092810872]
Identifier: 6842m
Scope and content

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).

Dates: 1950 - 1951; Undated

A.P. Mussi papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2129
Scope and content

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."

Dates: 1904-1907.

Applications of quantum mechanics

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078878372]
Identifier: 14-22-3022
Scope and content

Notebook containing Physics 486 class notes, Professor Hans Bethe, Spring 1949.

Dates: 1949.

Barbara Hope Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-3072
Abstract

Includes research and teaching materials of Barbara Hope Cooper, a Cornell University physics professor.

Dates: 1969-1999.

Benjamin Siegel papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-2699
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1950-1990.

C. Raine Pettyjohn papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4175
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1914-1918.

Cornell University Department of Physics records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-693
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1876-1994.

D. H. Tomboulian papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-850
Scope and content Correspondence, memoranda, and reports concerning the subjects and financing of his research, the publication of his scientific papers, professional meetings, and a course in physics for engineers; lecture notes and notebooks with research data; memoranda and lists pertaining to graduate student assistants, distribution of grades, schedules, and the content of courses taught by Professor Tomboulian; notebooks of his students; manuscripts and printers proofs for Electric and Magnetic Fields...
Dates: 1922-1964.

Edward Leamington Nichols miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 19 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306346]
Identifier: 14-22-m.729
Scope and content

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).

Dates: 1875-1876, 1930.