University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota Department of Physics history, 1870-1938.
Contains lists of faculty members and courses taught in the University of Minnesota Department of Physics from 1870 to 1938, as well as information about the construction of a new facility. Also includes a manuscript history written by Henry A. Erikson during his tenure as chairman of the department.
The department of physics began at the University of Minnesota in 1889 when Frederick S. Jones was hired as professor of physics. In 1956, the department of physics in the College of Science, Literature and the Arts was raised to the status of a school and transferred to the Institute of Technology. In 1963, the department of astronomy was combined with the School of Physics to become the School of Physics and Astronomy.
University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Physics. -- Faculty.
Institutional History
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Minnesota.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Manuscripts. aat
Erikson, Henry A. (Henry Anton), 1869-
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA