Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964.
Oral history interview with Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1964 June 3.
Early education and family; early aptitude for mathematics; to Harvard University at sixteen (B. L. Peirce, William F. Osgood, Sabin), B.A. 1899; mathematical physics; Yale University, Ph.D., 1901; to cole normale supřieur as postgraduate (Henri Poincar,̌ Picard); Willard Gibbs; understanding quantum theory (Max Planck, Lord Kelvin). Teaches in Yale Mathematics Department, 1903-1907; to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907; teaches courses in special relativity (G. N. Lewis) and aeronautics (Hansecher), 1912; becomes head of Physics Department (Dorothy Weeks, Mildred Allen), 1917; writing textbook on advanced calculus. To Harvard School of Public Health as professor of vital statistics, 1922; comparison of administration of Harvard and MIT (James Conant, Lowell); discussion of mathematicians and physicists (Whittaker, R. A. Fisher, Poincar,̌ Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz); philosophy of teaching; George K. Ziph. Consultant to Office of Naval Research after retirement in 1945.
Professor of mathemataics, School of Public Health, Harvard University 1922-1945; Consultant with Office of Naval Research from 1948.
Allen, Mildred, 1894-1990
Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Fisher, R. A.
Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.
Hansecher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907.
Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946.
Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928.
Lowell
Osgood, William F. (William Fogg), 1864-1943.
Peirce, B. O. (Benjamin Osgood), 1854-1914
Picard, Emile, 1856-1941.
Planck, Max, 1858-1947.
Poincar,̌ Henri, 1854-1912.
Weeks, Dorothy Walcott
Whittaker
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964.
Ziph, George K.
cole normale supřieure (France)
Harvard School of Public Health. Faculty.
Harvard University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
United States. Office of Naval Research
Yale University.
Yale University. Dept. of Mathematics.
Aeronautics.
Calculus.
Mathematical physics -- Study and teaching.
Quantum theory.
Special relativity (Physics).
Statistics -- Study and teaching.
Teaching -- Philosophy.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Transcripts. aat
Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900- interviewer.
King, W. James. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA