Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Robert Marshak papers, 1947-1992.
Papers consist of Marshak's files on the Shelter Island Conference (1947-1949); and his administrative and correspondence files on the Rochester Conferences on High-Energy Physics (1950-1957), which he founded. After 1957 the conferences were held under the sponsorship of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and Marshak's files from the conferences from 1958 to 1970 are also included. The collection also includes correspondence files on IUPAP (1953-1973) and on the Commission on High-Energy Physics (1958-1963); photographs (1950-1970); and a photocopy of an oral history interview done by Charles Weiner (1970).
Second accession consists of correspondence, including the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and City College of New York. It also includes photocopies of articles, magazines, and newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, invitations, awards and prizes, books, pamphlets, bound reports, speeches, proposals, and posters. Topics include high-energy physics, theoretical physics, mathematics, and nuclear diffusion. Also includes copy of oral history interview with Marshak.
Physicist (sub-atomic particles) and educator. A. B., Columbia University (1936); Ph. D., Cornell University (1939); instructor and Professor of physics, University of Rochester (1939-1970); President of City College, City University of New York (1970-1979); University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1979-1986); Chairman, Federation of American Scientists (1947-1948); president, American Physical Society (1983-1984). Recipient of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1982) for his work on nuclear forces and of the Clark Kerr Award (1987) for contributions to the advancement of higher education.
Marshak, Robert Eugene, 1916- -- Interviews.
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics -- Congresses.
Commission on High Energy Physics.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
American Institute of Physics.
American Physical Society.
City University of New York. City College
Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics.
Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1947: Shelter Island, N. Y.)
Theoretical physics
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses. aip
Oral histories. aat aat
Photographs. aat
Scrapbooks. aat
Proposals. aat
Pamphlets. aat
Newspaper columns. aat
Reports. aat
Oral histories. aat
Books. aat
Speeches. aat
Awards. aat
Photographs. aat
Invitations. aat
Physicists -- United States.
Weiner, Charles interviewer of Robert Eugene Marshak.
AIP-ICOS
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Carol M. Newman Library. Special Collections Department. P. O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001, USA