Von Hippel, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1898-
Arthur Von Hippel papers, 1919-1986.
The collection includes biographical materials on von Hippel, including two oral histories conducted by Z. Malek, and the Smithsonian Computer History Project. Also includes many of his publications, personal and professional correspondence, some materials from courses he taught at MIT, and research notebooks from the 1930s in German about his early work with semiconductors. There are also writings and materials used by von Hippel to research the behavior of electricity in cellular biology and in atmospheric systems, 1965-1986.
Completed his Ph.D. at the University of Gottingen in 1924, became assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT in 1936, professor of electrophysics in 1947, was appointed Institute Professor in 1962, and became emeritus in 1965. In 1939 he established the Laboratory for Insulation Research, which he directed until 1965. His work helped to establish the field of materials science and engineering.
Von Hippel, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1898- -- Archives.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Insulation Research.
Semiconductors -- Research.
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA