Kruger, P. Gerald, (Peter Gerald), 1902-
P. Gerald Kruger letters, 1926-1931, 2002.
Courtship letters from Kruger in Ithaca, N.Y. to Erica Wackenroder in Berlin. Also report book from the Friedrich-Willhelms Universitat; and biographical information, including We Flew With Our Own Wings: Memories, Letters and More, by his niece Nancy Kruger Olson, 2000.
Physicist (1902-1978). Cornell University Ph.D. 1929. From 1926-1927, he received a German-American Exchange Fellowship to the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin, where he studied with Max Planck and others. In 1929-1930, a second fellowship, from the National Research Council provided him with the opportunity to study at the Physikalische Technische Reichsanstalt. While in Germany, he met Erika Wackenroder whom he married on August 27, 1931. In 1931 he also returned to Cornell as a Heckscher Research Fellow. He then went to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, where he taught for the rest of his career and supervised the construction of their cyclotron.
Kruger, Erika Wackenroder.
Kruger, P. Gerald, (Peter Gerald), 1902-
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Courtship.
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Olson, Nancy Kruger. We flew with our own wings.
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Cornell University. Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA