Slater, John C, (John Clarke), 1900-1976.
John Clarke Slater correspondence and autobiographical account of the history of writing of the Bohr-Kramer-Slater paper in 1924, 1968.
Manuscript and correspondence. A 50-page manuscript (1968) contains reminiscences of his experiences as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow at Cambridge University, England, and Copenhagen (1923-1924), particularly his involvement at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen in the writing of the Bohr-Kramers-Slater paper, with transcriptions of selections from letters to his parents and his papers. Also, some correspondence (1968) on the distribution of these excerpts and the use of his oral history interview with Thomas Kuhn. Correspondents include Leon Rosenfeld and J. H. Van Vleck.
Physicist (solid state physics). On the physics faculty at Harvard University, 1924-1930; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: faculty and department chair, 1930-1966; staff member of the Radiation Laboratory, 1940-1945; on the physics and chemistry faculty at the University of Florida from 1964.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952.
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Niels Bohr institutet.
Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen, Denmark).
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA