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Dates
March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974
Authorized Form of Name
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Additional Forms of Names
Condon, E. U. (Edward Uhler), 1902-1974
Condon, Edward
Condon, Edward Uhler
Ph.D. physics, University of California (1926). Professional experience includes: assistant profesor, associate professor, Princeton University; associate director, Westinghouse Research Laboratory; director, National Bureau of Standards; director of research and development, consulting physicist, Corning Glass Works; professor, Washington University; professor, fellow of the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), director of UFO Project, professor emeritus, University of Colorado. Research interests: quantum mechanics, development of radar use and nuclear weapons during World War II.
March 2, 1902Birth, Alamogordo (N.M.).
1924Obtained A.B., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1926Obtained Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1926 – 1927International Education Board Fellow, University of Gottingen and University of Munich.
1927 – 1928Position in public relations, Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1928Lecturer, Columbia University.
1929 – 1930Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minn.).
1930 – 1937Associate Professor of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1937 – 1945Associate Director, Research Laboratories, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh (Pa.).
1940 – 1942Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1941 – 1942Member, Section on Uranium, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
1942 – 1943Chosen by Oppenheimer to help organize Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, but returned to Westinghouse.
1944Elected member, National Academy of Sciences.
1945 – 1946Science Advisor, Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, United States Congress.
1945 – 1951Director, National Bureau of Standards, Washington (D.C.).
1946President, American Physical Society (APS).
1952Accused by Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, head of the House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) of being "one of the weakest links in our atomic security.".
1952 – 1954Head of Reseach, Corning Glass Works, Corning (N.Y.).
1953President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
1954 – 1956Professor, Oberlin College.
1956 – 1963Wayman Crow Professor of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, St. Louis (Mo.).
1957 – 1968Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics.
1963 – 1970Professor and Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder (Colo.).
1964President, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).
1968 – 1969President, Society for Social Responsibility in Science.
1970 – 1974Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder (Colo.).
1970 – 1974Chair, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.
March 26, 1974Death, Boulder (Colo.).
Theoretical nuclear physicist.
Physical laboratories -- Administration.
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Honzik, Emilie
Wife.
Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), 1887-
Ph.D. advisor at University of California, Berkeley on the theory of intensity distribution in band systems.
First described proton-proton dispersion together.
Ph.D. advisor at University of California, Berkeley and collaborated on the Franck-Condon principle.
Gurney, Ronald W. (Ronald Wilfrid)
Collaborated on the development of the barrier leakage picture of alpha-particle radioactivity and quantum mechanical tunneling.
PhD advisor at Princeton University, "Infrared Absorption by Light and Heavy Formic and Acetic Acids." Note that Hofstadter completed significant portions of PhD without advisor due to Dr. Condon departing Princeton.
Kauzmann, Walter, 1916-
Advised by Condon at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Co-wrote multiple articles.
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Advised by Condon at Princeton University on deflection of a beam of hydrogen-chloride molecules in a non-homogenous electric field.
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Co-wrote book "Quantum Mechanics" and both employed at Princeton University.
Odishaw, Hugh
Co-edited book "Handbook of physics, prepared by a staff of specialists."
Shortley, George, 1910-
Co-wrote book "The Theory of Atomic Spectra."
Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965
Both employed at the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Worked under him during his National Research Council fellowship at University of Gottingen.
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards and University of Colorado, Boulder.
Briggs, Lyman J. (Lyman James), 1874-1963
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Coblentz, William W. (William Weber), 1873-1962
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Both employed at Princeton University.
Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Dunn, G. H. (Gordon H.), 1932-
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA).
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler, 1876-1965
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at University of Minnesota.
Holstein, Theodore David, 1915-1985
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Both employed at National Bureau of Standards.
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
McLean, William B. (William Burdette), 1914-1976
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
McMahon, Brien, 1903-1952
Served as science advisor to Senator McMahon.
Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Chosen by Oppenheimer to help organize Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Both employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and Washington University, St. Louis.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), Condon brought her to run the Academic Year Institute program.
Primakoff, H. (Henry), 1914-1983
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Schubauer, Galen B. (Galen Brandt), 1904-
Both employed at the National Bureau of Standards.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951
Worked under him during his National Research Council fellowship at University of Munich.
Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950
Both employed at the University of Minnesota.
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967
Both employed at Princeton University.
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA).
Bartlett, Albert A.
Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Blewett, John P. (John Paul), 1910-
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Frenkel', IA. I. (IAkov Il'ich), 1894-1952
Fry, Thornton C. (Thornton Carle), 1892-
Goetz, Alexander, 1897-1970
Golovin, Nicholas E. (Nicholas Erasmus), 1912-1969
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster), 1909-1949
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
Hoffmann, Banesh, 1906-
Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995
Koch, Herman William, 1920-
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Löwdin, Per-Olov, 1916-2000
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958
Peters, B. (Bernard), 1910-
Plyler, Earle Keith, 1897-1976
Took summer courses at the University of Michigan from Condon.
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Roberts, Walter Orr
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Taylor, Lauriston S. (Lauriston Sale), 1902-2004
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Lecturer.
Corning Glass Works
Head of Research.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
Fellow.
Oberlin College. Department of Physics
Professor.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Associate Professor of Physics.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Director and Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA).
University of Colorado Boulder. Department of Physics
Professor and Professor Emeritus.
University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Department of Physics
Wayman Crow Professor of Physics.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Associate Director, Research Laboratories.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
President.
American Association of Physics Teachers
President.
President and editor of "Reviews of Modern Physics."
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.).
Chair.
Society for Social Responsibility in Science.
President.
United States. Congress
Science Advisor, Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Member, Section on Uranium.
Universität Göttingen
Universität München
University of California, Berkeley. Bancroft Library.
Obtained A.B. and Ph.D.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Dedication of Tate Laboratory of Physics [sound recording], 1966.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Edward Condon address: presented at the 25th anniversary of the atomic time-keeper at Boulder laboratory, Colorado [video recording] 1974 February 22.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Edward Condon papers, 1960s.
Libraries. Western Historical Collections
University of Colorado
Campus Box 184, Boulder, CO 80302-0184, USA
Edward Condon papers, circa 1920-1974.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Edward Uhler Condon collection on UFOs, circa 1947-1969.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Invited papers on physics today [sound recording], 1951 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Public relations file on Condon, mostly pertaining to the attack on his loyalty by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948-1974.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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What next? The story of one American physicist, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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AIP Office of the Director records of Henry A. Barton, 1931-1964.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Albert A. Bartlett papers, 1928-2002.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Albert Einstein collection, 1913-1975 (bulk 1930-1955).
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University
1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Alexander Goetz papers, 1919-1976 (bulk 1930-1976).
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Arnold Sommerfeld letters to Edward Uhler Condon, 1929-1949.
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American Institute of Physics
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Bernard Peters papers, 1947-1992.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conversations with David Inglis [videorecording], Feb.-May 1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Donald H. Menzel papers concerning UFOs, 1952-1976.
Library
American Philosophical Society
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Earle Keith Plyler Intellectual autobiography, 1962.
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American Institute of Physics
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Ed Condon and the NBS Radiation Physics Laboratory, 2002.
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American Institute of Physics
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Elmer Hutchisson papers, 1919-1982.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists records, 1946-1951.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Francis Bitter papers, 1925-1967.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Frederick Seitz correspondence with Edward U. Condon, 1932-1945.
Library
American Philosophical Society
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H. P. Robertson papers, 1922-1980 (bulk 1936-1966).
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
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Henry De Wolf Smyth papers, 1885-1987.
Library
American Philosophical Society
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History of atomic energy collection, 1896-1991.
Libraries. Special Collections
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
I. I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Iakov Il'ich Frenkel' papers, 1905-1952.
St. Petersburg Branch. Archive
Russian Academy of Sciences
Universitetskaia hab., 1, Korp. 2, St. Petersburg 199034
John A. Wheeler papers, 1894-2008.
Library
American Philosophical Society
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John Clarke Slater papers, 1908-1976.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan [microfilm], 1907-1991.
Archives and Records Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1907-1991.
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Letter to Edward Uhler Condon concerning Condon's article, Food and the theory of probablilty.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Letters to NBS staff on "Atomic Energy Levels," 1949-1971.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Nicholas E. Golovin papers, 1943-1970 (bulk 1958-1969).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 October 13.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Princeton University
65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Edwin M. McMillan, 1972 June 1, 2, and October 30, 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Edwin McMillan, 1972 June 1 and October 30.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1966 November 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 April 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26, 27, March 24 and 1982 March 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Harlow Shapley, 1966 June 8 and August 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Herman William Koch, 1986 September 16 to 11 October 1987.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John P. Blewett, 1979 March 22 and May 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Lauriston Taylor, 1990 April 10 by Elio Passaglia.
NIST Research Library and NIST Archives
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information Services Division. 100 Bureau Drive, MS 2500, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Oral history interview with Leonard B. Loeb, 1962 August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Lewis Branscomb, 1988 July 11-13.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Oral history interview with Lincoln Wolfenstein, 1997 April 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Melba Phillips, 1997 December 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Per Olov Löwdin, 1975 January 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Philip Morse papers, 1927-1980.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Phillip M. Morse autobiographical data, circa 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Remembering Edward Condon: oral history interview with Churchill Eisenhart, Reeves Tilley, Robert Huntoon, Jacob Rabinow, Lauriston Taylor, Walter Hamer, 1986 June 20.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Reviews of Modern Physics correspondence of John Torrence Tate, 1928.
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Robert Hofstadter response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985-1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Walter Orr Roberts papers, 1940-1990.
Libraries. Western Historical Collections
University of Colorado
Campus Box 184, Boulder, CO 80302-0184, USA
William W. Hansen papers, 1925-1974.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Final report of the scientific study of unidentified flying objects
Handbook of physics, prepared by a staff of specialists. Edited by E. U. Condon and Hugh Odishaw.
Selected popular writings of E.U. Condon
Edward Uhler Condon Physics Today obituary