Quimby, Shirley L.
Shirley L. Quimby papers, 1918-1974.
Correspondence, manuscripts of works by Columbia University physicist Shirley Quimby, notes on lectures, teaching materials, photographs of physicists, some instrument catalogs and other printed materials. Much of the material documents grant funded research directed by Quimby on Cu-Au (copper and gold). In his later years Quimby did research on the Mayan Calendar.
Physicist (Columbia Ph.D., 1925), Columbia faculty member, 1919-1962, fellow of the American Physical Society and treasurer of that organization from 1957 to 1970. His research topics included ferromagnetism, solid state physics, magnetism, and elasticity and internal friction solids.
Quimby, Shirley L.
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Calendar, Mayan.
Copper.
Gold.
Lecture notes. aat
Photographic prints. aat
Physicists. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA.