University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics Department reading files, 1925-2006.
The Physics Department reading files include outgoing correspondence of the department head concerning academic policy; admissions; affirmative action; appointments and promotion; budgets; building projects; colloquia and seminars; courses and curricula; department, school, and campus committees; professional societies and organizations; research grants; salaries; space allocation; and sabbaticals. Principal correspondents include department heads F. Wheeler Loomis (1929-1957); Frederick Seitz (1957-1963); Gerald Almy (1963-1970); Ralph O. Simmons (1970-1986); Ansel C. Anderson (1986-1992); David K. Campbell (1992-2000); Jeremiah D. Sullivan (2000-2006); acting head P. Gerald Kruger (1941-1946); interim head Miles V. Klein (1998-1999); assistant department head Ernest A. Lyman (1970-1974); associate department head James H. Smith (1972-1974); and chairman of the departmental committee on assistants and fellows George A. Russell (1962-1971). The P. Gerald Kruger reading file contains incoming letters, including an important letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer. This series also includes personal papers of F. Wheeler Loomis, P. Gerald Kruger, Frederick Seitz, Gerald Almy, and Ralph O. Simmons as well as the files of George A. Russell, chairman of the departmental committee on assistants and fellows; Ernest A. Lyman, assistant department head; and James H. Smith, associate department head.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois system. The university, then called the Illinois Industrial University, opened for classes on March 2, 1868, as a result of the 1862 Morrill Act. The name was officially changed to the University of Illinois in 1885, to reflect the broader scope of class offerings. The name of the Urbana location within the larger University of Illinois system was changed again in 1982, to The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The university department of physics is ranked among the top ten programs in the nation, and is the site of the Department of Energy's Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, programs in materials science and condensed matter physics research, the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and a national historic landmark astronomical observatory.
Almy, Gerald Marks, 1904-
Anderson, A. C. (Ansel Cochran), 1933-
Campbell, David K.
Klein, Miles V., 1933-
Kruger, P. Gerald (Peter Gerald), 1902-
Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008
Smith, James H. (James Hopkins), 1909-1982.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics
Physics -- History -- 20th century.
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