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Physics -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
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Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin E. Salpeter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-2574
Scope and content

Correspondence and drafts pertaining to Salpeter and Hans Bethe's work in Handbuch der Physik XXXV; also, correspondence, announcements, reports, reprints, lecture notes, examinations and other material pertaining to Salpeter's involvement with the National Science Foundation and the National Science Board, especially concerning national science policy. Also, includes autobiography of Edwin's father, Jakob Salpeter and minutes of the Arecibo Technical Committee meetings.

Dates: 1949-1998.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edwin E. Salpeter papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ernest George Merritt papers

E.W. Clarke papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-3119
Scope and content

Student notebooks from courses in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and physics. Also correspondence, catalogs, drawings, and other records of the Cambria Steel Company.

Dates: 1901-1916.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / E.W. Clarke papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frederick Bedell papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Garland Branch notebooks

Geoffrey Chester papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-22-4202
Abstract

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

Dates: 1964-2014.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Geoffrey Chester papers

Guy Everett Grantham Papers.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-832
Scope and content Include Grantham's physics notes made as student and teacher, his diplomas and certificates of membership, and a testimonial dinner guestbook and letters received at his retirement (1955); an Aerial Photography School album of photographs of the Second Aviation Instruction Center of the American Expeditionary Force in France, at which Grantham was stationed; letters, one pamphlet, and a newspaper article concerning the collision of H.M.S. Otranto and H.M.S. Kashmir (1918), which Grantham...
Dates: 1909-1959.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Guy Everett Grantham Papers.

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hans Bethe papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Harold F. Webster notes

Harry Wheeler Powell student notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065223764]
Identifier: 37-5-191
Scope and content Notes of Harry Wheeler Powell, graduate student in mathematics, Physics, and Engineering, 1886-1888. Included are Powell's notes in Physics and Integral Calculus, reports on experiments in Physics, first and second examinations in Mechanics of Engineering, Fall. Also included in collection are Notes on the Graphical Statics of Mechanism by Irving Porter Church, 1888 and Instructions to Students Pursuing the Elementary Physical Laboratory Course at Cornell University by William Anthony,...
Dates: 1886-1888.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Harry Wheeler Powell student notes

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