American Association of Physics Teachers.
American Association of Physics Teachers records of David Locke Webster, 1930-1958.
Correspondence; manuscripts; reprints; notes; programs. Contains correspondence and other materials documenting Webster's activities as Vice-president (1933-1934), president (1935-1936), and active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (1930-1958). Topics include the organization of the AAPT; the AAPT Executive Committee; the establishement of the AAPT journals, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS and THE PHYSICS TEACHER; endowed lectures; membership; annual meetings; and committees on award presentations, physics education, pre-medical physics education, engineering physics education, and the ideal liberal arts curriculum. Also includes reminiscences by Webster of the early history of the AAPT. Correspondents include: Thomas D. Cope, Homer L. Dodge, Paul Klopsteg, Harvey B. Lemon, Frederic Palmer, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Duane Roller, Richard M. Sutton, and Lloyd W. Taylor.
This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics.
Cope, Thomas D. (Thomas Darlington)
Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983
Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-
Lemon, Harvey Brace, 1885-
Palmer, Frďřic, 1878-1967.
Richtmyer, F. K., (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939.
Roller, Duane Emerson, 1894-
Sutton, Richard Manliffe, 1900-1966
Taylor, Lloyd William, 1893-1948.
American Association of Physics Teachers -- Administration.
Education -- Societies, etc.
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Medical physics -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Reminiscences. aat
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA