Cornell University. Department of Physics
Cornell University Department of Physics records [microform], 1876-1948.
Biographical and bibliographical materials. Newspaper and journal article clippings with accompanying correspondence and notes concerning some of the earliest members of Cornell's Physics Department. Faculty members included are: William A. Anthony, Frederick Bedell, Ernest G. Merritt, George S. Moler, Edward L. Nichols, and Floyd K. Richtmyer. Materials touch on such varied topics as: early physics at Cornell, the Anthony-Moler Gramme-ring dynamo, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's visit to Cornell, and Robert A. Millikan's Messinger lectures.
Cornell University, founded in 1865, named Eli Blake as its first Physics chair in 1867. In 1884 the department moved into Franklin Hall and the great tangent galvanometer was constructed. E. L. Nichols was named as chair in 1887 and in 1892-93 he founded the Physical Review at Cornell. In 1933 the decision was made by the department to go into nuclear physics and in 1934 construction of the cyclotron began. The Laboratory of Nuclear Studies was established in 1945; the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics in 1959.
Bedell, Frederick, 1868-
Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928
Merritt, Ernest, 1865-1948
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937
Richtmyer, F. K., (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939.
Gramme dynamos.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Anthony, William Arnold.
Moler, G. S. (George Sylvanus)
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA