Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983
Homer L. Dodge addition to papers, 1905-1994.
This addition to the Homer L. Dodge papers is comprised of correspondence, biographical and family records, information regarding Dodge's canoeing experience, and some professional documentation. Items include recollections about Dodge and an obituary written by friends and colleagues; correspondence with family members and friends; travel notes and correspondence from Dodge's canoe trips, including a trip at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; yearbook from Colgate University; copy of World War I draft and registration forms; article reprint; gravitational wave data readings from various equipment; films and home videos; family photographs; includes six items/instruments donated by Alice Dodge Wallace in 2013.
Physicist (electrical measurements) and educator. Faculty, University of Oklahoma, including head of physics department (1919-1942), dean of graduate school (1926-1944), and organizer and director of Oklahoma Research Institute (1941-1944). Dodge was also a founder, first president, and member of Governing Board of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (1933-1939), director of the Office of Scientific Personnel, National Research Council (1942-1944), and president of Norwich University (1944-1950).
Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983
Colgate University
Camping.
Canoes and canoeing.
World War, 1914-1918.
Gravitational waves. phys-t.
Gravitational waves -- Measurement.
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Amateur films
Travelogs. aat
Biography. aat
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA