Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics.
Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics records, 1935-1946.
Copies of letters; notes; clippings; photographs; bibliographies. Documents assembled by Karl Hufbauer concerning the ten conferences include a bibliography of primary and secondary materials, letters, and information on locations of other related records. Also included are notes on attendees, photographs, clippings, and annual summaries of the conference programs published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book. Collection includes selected letters from: Hans A. Bethe, Gergory Breit, John A. Fleming, George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Merle A. Tuve.
The conferences were held under the joint auspices of George Washington University and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington beginning in 1935. These invitational conferences were organized by George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Merle Tuve to promote thinking and discussion of unsolved problems in theoretical physics. The topics were nuclear physics, molecular physics, elementary particles, stellar energy, low temperature, interior of the earth, stellar evolution and cosmology, physics of living matter, and gravitation and electromagnetism. The conferences were interrupted by World War II and renewed only briefly after the war; the last Washington Conference was held in 1947.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981-
Fleming, J. A. (John Adam), 1877-1956.
Gamow, George, 1904-1968
Hufbauer, Karl.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Conference on Theoretical Physics (Washington, D.C.).
Physics -- Congresses.
Photographic prints. aat aat
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA