Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Physics
Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics records of professor Allan R. Robinson relating to the Geophysics Study Committee, 1970-1977.
Collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and committee records relating to Allan R. Robinson, Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, and the Geophysics Study Committee of the Geophysics Research Board. The Geophysics Research Board operated under the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Also includes syllabi, problem sets, and examinations for Earth and Planetary Physics 201 and Physics of Atmospheres and Oceans 102, which Robinson taught.
The Harvard Engineering School was established with its own faculty in 1918, offering both graduate and undergraduate instruction. The Graduate and Undergraduate Schools of Engineering were created in 1932 although after 1935 undergraduate engineering students were registered in Harvard College. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences maintained a department or division of engineering sciences, apparently continuously from the time such divisions first were introduced into the Faculty in the 1890s. In 1946, this became the Division of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics and was involved in both undergraduate and graduate instruction. The Graduate School of Engineering merged with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1949; the Division of Engineering Sciences was created, comprising the Department of Engineering and the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics. The Division of Engineering Sciences became the Division of Applied Science in 1951 and the two departments were dissolved. In 1955 it was renamed the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, and in 1977 became the Division of Applied Sciences.
Robinson, Allan R.
Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Physics
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
National Research Council (U.S.). Geophysics Research Board
National Research Council (U.S.). Geophysics Study Committee
Robinson, Allan R.
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.