Badash, Lawrence.
Lawrence Badash papers, circa 1921-1987.
The collection primarily contains auction, company, dealer, and exhibit catalogs relating to scientific instruments, publications, and the history of science. These generally are arranged by name of company or repository. There also are some items pertaining to Badash's interest in astrolabes, clocks, scientific instruments, Sumerian clay tablets, sundials, and telescopes.
Lawrence Badash (1934-2010) was a University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Professor of History and author of several works on the history of science in the nuclear age, including Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity (1969), The Rutherford Correspondence Catalog (1974), Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decayof a Science (1979), Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 (1980), Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin (1985), Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939 (1985), and Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963 (1995).
Badash, Lawrence.
Astrolabes.
Instruments.
Telescopes.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA