Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, circa 1979.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck discusses Slater's educational career at Harvard University, where they were both students in the 1920s, and the first few years following Slater's Ph.D. The account is anecdotal and describes: the classes Slater and Van Vleck took under Percy Bridgman and Edwin Kemble in quantum theory, life in the physics department at Harvard, Slater's Ph.D. thesis on alkali halides, his post-doctoral work in Europe (at the University of Cambridge and in Copenhagen, where he worked with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers), Slater's position on the Harvard faculty after his return from Europe, his early publications and research, and the development of quantum theory and Slater's role in it.
Van Vleck died in 1980.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Slater, John Clarke, 1900-1976 -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Slater, John Clarke, 1900-1976 -- Friends and associates.
Harvard University -- Students.
Harvard University. Dept. of Physics -- Faculty.
Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik (Copenhagen) -- Research.
University of Cambridge -- Research.
Alkali metal halides -- Research.
Group work in physics
Physicists -- Biography.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Quantum theory -- Research -- History.
Science.
Physicists. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA