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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectCalifornia Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Dates
1917 – present
Authorized Form of Name
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Additional Forms of Names
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy
California Institute of Technology. Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy
California Institute of Technology. PM&A
California Institute of Technology. PMA Division
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Institutional History
Abstract
One of six primary academic divisions at the California Institute of Technology. The Division is home to internationally recognized academic and research programs and studies cover a wide range of fields and topics.
Department chairs
1949-62, Robert Bacher.
1962-70, Carl Anderson.
2008-09, Andrew Lange.
Important Dates
1917New funds were designated for physics research and Robert A. Millikan began working several months a year as Director of Physical Research, Pasadena (Calif.).
1917 – 1946Harry Bateman was on faculty.
1921 – 1966Paul Epstein was on faculty.
1922 – 1948Richard Tolman was on faculty.
1925 – 1927Carl Eckart was on faculty.
1925 – 1946William Houston was on faculty.
1926 – 1928Lee DuBridge was on faculty.
1927 – 1929Oscar Rice was on faculty.
1927 – 1931Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson was on faculty.
1927 – 1947J. Robert Oppenheimer was on faculty.
1928 – 1930Francis Bitter was on faculty.
1928 – 1930Theodore von Karman was on faculty.
1928 – 1966Clark Millikan was on faculty.
1929 – 1976Jesse DuMond was on faculty.
1930 – 1931Robert Bacher was on faculty.
1930 – 1931Louis Slichter was on faculty.
1930 – 1968Charles Lauritsen was on faculty.
1930 – 1991Carl Anderson was on faculty.
1932 – 1934Wendell Furry was on faculty.
1934 – 1935H. Richard Crane was on faculty.
1934 – 1936Tom Bonner was on faculty.
1935 – 1941Seth Neddermeyer was on faculty.
1936 – 1995William A. Fower was on faculty.
1937 – 1938Leonard Schiff was on faculty.
1937 – 1941William Sears was on faculty.
1939 – 2009Hans Liepmann was on faculty.
1941 – 1942Walter Gordy was on faculty.
1942 – 1945Wolfgang Panofsky was on faculty.
1942 – 1973Thomas Lauritsen was on faculty.
1945 – 1953Robert Millikan was on faculty.
1946 – 2012Robert Christy was on faculty.
1947 – 1961Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson was on faculty.
1947 – 1997Robert Leighton was on faculty.
1948Dedication of a new 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain.
1949 – 2004Robert Bacher was on faculty.
1950 – 1977Alvin Tollestrup was on faculty.
1951 – 1952Roy Glauber was on faculty.
1951 – 1963Julian Cole was on faculty.
1951 – 1988Richard Feynman was on faculty.
1952 – presentAnatol Roshko has been on faculty.
1953 – 1958Frank Spitzer was on faculty.
1953 – presentFelix Boehm has been on faculty.
1954 – 1958William Willmarth was on faculty.
1955 – 1956George Trilling was on faculty.
1955 – 1970Robert Hellwarth was on faculty.
1955 – 1993Murray Gell-Mann was on faculty.
1960 – 1961Sheldon Glashow was on faculty.
1960 – 1974Roy Gould was on faculty.
1962 – 1963Robert W. Wilson was on faculty.
1962 – 1970John Bahcall was on faculty.
1963 – presentBarry Barish has been on faculty.
1964 – 1969Roger Dashen was on faculty.
1964 – 1983George Zweig was on faculty.
1965James Bardeen was on faculty.
1966 – 1973Chang Tsuei was on faculty.
1966 – 1982Frank Sciulli was on faculty.
1966 – presentKip Thorne has been on faculty.
1967 – 1968Eric Adelberger was on faculty.
1967 – 1968J. David Bowman was on faculty.
1969 – 1971Mark Kryder was on faculty.
1969 – 1972Piermaria Oddone was on faculty.
1970 – 1971Christopher McKee was on faculty.
1971 – 1972Clifford Will was on faculty.
1972 – 1973John Holdren was on faculty.
1972 – presentJohn Schwarz was on faculty.
1973 – 1974Saul Teukolsky was on faculty.
1975 – 2004Steven Koonin was on faculty.
1976 – presentH. David Politzer has been on faculty.
1977 – 1978Stephen Pope was on faculty.
1977 – 1978Daniel Freedman was on faculty.
1980 – 1982S. James Gates was on faculty.
1980 – presentRobert McKeown has been on faculty.
1984 – presentMark Wise has been on faculty.
1989 – presentH. Jeffrey Kimble has been on faculty.
1993 – 2010Andrew Lange was on faculty.
1994 – 1996Victoria Kaspi was on faculty.
1996 – presentJames Eisenstein has been on faculty.
1997 – 1999Jun Ye was on faculty.
1997 – presentThomas Everhart has been on faculty.
2005 – presentStanley Deser has been on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Received BS in Physics (1960) and PhD in Physics (1967) and Research Fellow.
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Received BS in 1927 and PhD in Physics in 1930; Research Fellow; Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
National Research Fellow in Physics; Professor of Physics; Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Research Fellow in Physics; Senior Research Fellow in Physics; and Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Received PhD in Physics (1965); Research Fellow; and Fairchild Distinguished Scholar.
Barish, B. C. (Barry Clark), 1936-
Research Fellow; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Linde Professor of Physics; and Linde Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Aeronautics.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Visiting Professor.
National Research Fellow.
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar.
Research Fellow in Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; William L. Valentine Professor of Physics; and William L. Valentine Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Bonner, Tom Wilkerson, 1910-1961
National Research Fellow.
Received BS in 1961 and PhD in 1967 (Physics and Mathematics) and Research Fellow, Nuclear and Solid State Physics.
Assistant Professor to Professor and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Received PhD in (Physics) 1967. Research Associate.
Received PhD (Aeronautics and Math) in 1949. Assistant Professor to Professor of Aeronautics.
Received Ph.D. (Physics) in 1964. Research Associate in Theoretical Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics.
Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976
Guggenheim Fellow.
Visiting Scientist.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Received BS and PhD in 1929 (Physics); Research Fellow in Physics; Research Associate; Associate Professor; Professor; and Emeritus Professor.
Visiting Professor.
Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)
Professor of Physics and Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics.
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Professor of Mathematical Physics and Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Tolman Professor of Physics.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1936; Research Fellow in Nuclear Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Scientific Director, Project Vista; Institute Professor of Physics; and Institute Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Visiting Associate, Department of Physics.
Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Robert A. Millikan Professor, Lauritsen Laboratory for High Energy Physics; and Robert A. Millikan Professor Emeritus.
Research Fellow in Physics.
Lecturer in Theoretical Physics.
National Research Fellow in Physics.
Gould, Roy W. (Roy Walter), 1927-
Received PhD (Physics) in 1956 and Professor of Physics.
Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-2021
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow.
Senior Research Fellow.
Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-
National Research Fellow; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics.
Visiting Professor.
Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-
Visiting Associate in Astronomy.
Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-
William L. Valentine Professor and Professor of Physics.
Received BS; Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics; Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics; and Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Received MS and PhD (Electrical Engineering and Physics) and National Science Foundation Research Fellow.
Visiting Associate; Professor of Physics; Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics; and Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy.
Visiting Professor.
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968
Received PhD (1929) in Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Received BS and PhD (Physics); Research Associate; Senior Fellow; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; and Professor.
Received BS, MS, and PhD (Physics) in 1947; Researcher; Research Fellow; Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics; William L. Valentine Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Research Fellow in Astrophysics.
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Professor of Physics.
McLean, William B. (William Burdette), 1914-1976
Received BS (1935), MS (1937), and PhD (1939).
Millikan, Clark Blanchard, 1903-1966
Received PhD in Physics and Mathematics (1928); Assistant Professor of Aeronautics; Associate Professor of Aeronautics; and Professor of Aeronautics.
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Began working in 1917 for several months a year as Director of Physical Research; Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Visiting Professor.
Mössbauer, Rudolf L. (Rudolf Ludwig), 1929-
Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Physics.
Neddermeyer, Seth H. (Seth Henry), 1907-1988
Received PhD (1935) and Research Fellow in Physics.
Research Fellow in Physics.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; and Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Visiting Professor and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Received Ph.D. (1942) and Director, Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) research project.
Visiting Associate; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Theoretical Physics; Executive Officer; and Richard Chase Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Research Fellow in Aeronautics.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Received PhD (1925); Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Assistant Professor of Mathematical Physics; and Professor of Mathematical Physics.
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
Research Associate; Senior Research Associate; Professor of Theoretical Physics; and Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Research Fellow; Assistant Professor to Associate Professor; and Professor of Physics.
Received BSc (1932) and Visiting Professor.
Slichter, Louis B. (Louis Byrne), 1896-1978
Research Associate.
Instructor in Mathematics and Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Visiting Associate.
Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Professor.
Teukolsky, Saul A. (Saul Arno), 1947-
Received PhD (1973). Research Associate in Physics.
Received BS (1962); Research Fellow in Physics; Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics; Professor of Theoretical Physics; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Theoretical Physics; Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics; and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus.
Received PhD in Physics (1950). Research Fellow in Physics and Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics.
Tolman, Richard C. (Richard Chace), 1881-1948
Professor of Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics.
Received Ph.D. in physics in 1939. Member, Advisory Committee.
Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow.
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963
Research Associate and Professor Emeritus.
Received PhD (1971). Research Fellow and Instructor in Physics.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1962 and Research Associate.
Visiting Associate and Lecturer.
Assistant Professor to Professor and John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics.
Visiting Professor.
Fairchild Visiting Scholar.
R. A. Millikan Postdoctoral Fellow.
Received PhD in Physics (1963). Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics.
PhD Students
Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986
Received PhD (Physics) in 1924.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1950.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1962.
Crane, H. R. (Horace Richard), 1907-2007
Received BS in 1930 and PhD (Physics) in 1934. Research Fellow in Physics.
Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991
Received PhD (Physics) in 1958.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1982.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1950.
Received PhD (Physics) in 1964.
Parker, E. N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-
Received PhD in Physics (1951).
Received PhD in Physics (1966).
Received MS (1947) and PhD (1951).
Received PhD in Physics (1971).
Received PhD in Physics (1941).
Received BS in 1951 and PhD (Physics) in 1955 and Research Fellow in Physics.
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013
Received PhD in Physics (1961).
Received PhD (1970).
Associates & Members
Abell, George O. (George Ogden), 1927-1983
Agnew, Duncan Carr
Arp, Halton C.
Babcock, Horace W.
Baum, William A.
Bedell, Frederick, 1868-
Bennett, Ralph D.
Biermann, Ludwig, 1907-1986
Blewett, John P. (John Paul), 1910-
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973
Burbidge, Geoffrey R.
Cameron, A. G. W. (Alastair Graham Walter), 1925-
Casperson, Lee W. (Lee Wendel), 1944-
Caughlan, Georgeanne Robertson, 1916-1994
Received BS (Physics) in 1966.
Clauser, John F. (John Francis), 1942-
Received (Physics) B.S. in 1964.
Dennison, Edwin W.
Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984
Dunitz, Jack D.
Duntley, Seibert Q.
National Research Fellow.
Ellis, Emory L., 1906-2003
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Flatte, Stanley M.
Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-
National Research Fellow.
Garmire, Elsa M., 1939-
Research Fellow.
Greene, J. M. (John M.), 1928-
Obtained BS.
Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002
Gunn, J. E. (James Edward), 1938-
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Haynes, Sherwood Kimball, 1910-1990
Herb, R. G. (Raymond George), 1908-1996
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
Attended for one year of graduate studies.
Hibbs, Albert R.
Holbrow, Charles H.
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar.
Huchra, John P.
Received MS.
Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949
Received AB (Throop Polytechnic Institute).
Kidder, R. E. (Ray E.)
Knopoff, Leon, 1925-
Krause, Ernst Henry, 1913-
Kron, Gerald Edward, 1913-
Low, Frank James
Received BS.
Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-1993
Received BS (1963).
McCrea, William Hunter
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Received B.S. and M.S.
Michel, F. Curtis
Münch, Guido, 1921-
Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Noyes, Robert W., 1934-
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Received BS in 1967.
Page, Don N.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004
Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002
Received BA (1975).
Porter, Russell Williams, 1871-1949
Pritchard, David E. (David Edward), 1941-
Received BS (1962).
Rainwater, L. James (Leo James), 1917-1986
Received BS in 1939.
Randers, Gunnar, 1914-
Richter, Charles, 1900-1985
Routly, Paul McRae
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)
Sargent, Wallace Leslie William, 1935-
Schmidt, Maarten, 1929-
Schubauer, Galen B. (Galen Brandt), 1904-
Received MS (1929).
Sharp, D. H. (David Howland), 1938-
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Spinrad, Hyron, 1934-
Stanley, Gordon J.
Received BS in Physics (1974).
Stewart, Homer J.
Received BS (1948).
Tombrello, Thomas A.
Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000
Turner, Edwin Lewis
Received BS (1971).
Wagner, William G.
Wagoner, Robert V.
Walker, R. L. (Robert Lee), 1919-2005
Werner, Michael W.
Westphal, J. A. (James Adolph), 1930-2004
Wilson, Olin C., 1909-1994
Wise, W. Howard
Woodyard, John R., 1904-1981
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
California Institute of Technology
Associates
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics
Participated in the study of multi-institutional collaborations.
Kanpur Indo-American Program
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Caltech Astrophysics Archive records, 1928-1954.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Caltech Department of Astronomy records, 1929-1949.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
CalTech Department of Astrophysics records, 1935-1948.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Physics Bone books, 1926-1969.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Subject
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
A. G. W. Cameron response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Albert R. Hibbs papers, 1884-2009 (bulk 1931-1999).
Henry E. Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA
C. Truesdell papers, 1939-1989.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Charles Holbrow's lecture notes from Quantum Mechanics course, 1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Clark B. Millikan papers, 1922-1965.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Early radio astronomy courses: radio astronomy, by Kevin C. Westfold, 1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Edwin Dennison papers, undated.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Emory L. Ellis papers, 1925-1993.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
F. Curtis Michel Scientist-Astronaut papers, 1951-1981 (bulk 1963-1974).
Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center.
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA
Frederick Bedell papers, 1891-1984.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Frederick Seitz biographical notes for London meeting, 1979.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1937.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1938.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
George Ellery Hale papers, circa 1889-1950.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Georgeanne Caughlan response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gordon J. Stanley papers, 1942-1994.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Howard W. Wise lecture notes, 1926.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Jack Dunitz papers, 1927-2009.
Libraries. Special Collections
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Jesse L. Greenstein papers, 1923-1992.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Jesse W. M. DuMond papers, 1912-1976.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
John R. Pierce papers, 1933-2002 (bulk 1960-2002).
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Kanpur Indo-American Program (KIAP) records, [dates unknown].
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Lee W. Casperson response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ludwig Biermann biography, [undated].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Olin C. Wilson papers, 1930-1990.
Henry E. Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA
Oral history interview with Alastair G. W. Cameron, 2003 February 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Allan Sandage, 1974 May 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Allan Sandage, 1977 February 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Allan Sandage, 1989 January 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Barry C. Barish, 1998 May-June.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1966 June 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1979 January 9 -February 8.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Henry Eckart, 1962 May 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles F. Richter, 1978 February 15-September 1.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1979 June 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1987 May 20 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1991-1992.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with D. H. Sharp, 1993 July 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Schramm, 1988 March 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Don Page, 1988 May 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Donald A. Glaser, 2003 November 18 - 2 March 2004.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Duncan Carr Agnew, 1995 August 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin M. McMillan, 1972 June 1, 2, and October 30, 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Turner, 1988 February 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Elsa Meints Garmire, 1985 February 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Ernst H. Krause, 1983 July 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank J. Low, 2000 January 25 and May 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1984 November 16.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26, 27, March 24 and 1982 March 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Geoffrey Burbidge, 1977 October 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George H. Trilling, 2006 March 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George Ogden Abell, 1977 November 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Gerald Edward Kron, 1978 May 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Gunnar Randers, 1986 August 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with H. R. Crane, 1973 March 28 and 1974 June 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Halton Christian Arp, 1975 July 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Homer J. Stewart, 1982 October to November and 1993 November 3.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Horace W. Babcock, 1975 June 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Horace W. Babcock, 1977 July 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hyron Spinrad, 1977 July 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ira Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 1969 August 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with J. E. Gunn, 1988 January 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with James Edward Gunn, 1975 February 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with James Westphal, 1982 August 9 and 12 and September 14.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1974 July 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1977 April 7, July 21, 26 and 1978 May 19.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1982 February 25, and March 16 and 23.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John Huchra, 1987 December 7.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John P. Blewett, 1979 March 22 and May 11.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with John R. Woodyard, 1974 October 18 and 1975 December 17.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Joseph Polchinski, 2009 March 18.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1986 February 14.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1987 March 6.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Leon Knopoff, 1990 April 27.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Linus Pauling : 1987 April 6.
The Beckman Center for History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Oral history interview with Linus Pauling, 1984 May 10.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1975 June 9 and 1977 October 24.
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Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1975 March 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1989 March 28.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Matthew L. Sands, 1987 May 4 and 5.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Michael Werner, 2008 July 25.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1997 July 17 and 18.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1976 June 3.
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Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1977 February 13.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Olin C. Wilson, 1978 July 11.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Paul Routly, 1990 September 25.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Paul Sophus Epstein, 1962 May 25, 26 and June 2.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Ray E. Kidder, 2008 April 29.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Raymond George Herb, 1976 April.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Benjamin Leighton, 1977 July 29 and August 5.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1986 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert W. Noyes, 2007 December 5.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Wagoner, 1988 October 14.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1985 May 28.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Seth H. Neddermeyer, 1984 May 7.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Seth Neddermeyer, 1972 May 30 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Stanley Martin Flatté, 1986 July 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Thomas Tombrello, 1998 December 2.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Thomas Tombrello, 2010 December 26-31.
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California Institute of Technology
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Oral history interview with Wallace L. W. Sargent, 2003 February 12 and 13.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Walter H. Munk, 1986 June 30.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1986 March 12.
Archives
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Oral History interview with William A. Baum, 1983 January 12.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William A. Fowler, 1983 May 3 - May 31, 1984.
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California Institute of Technology
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 2000 August 5.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interviews. Ground-based astronomy: Sagittarius-A, 1996-1997.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Probes: CESR-CLEO: The CLEO Experiment at CESR, 1991.
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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
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interviews. Space Science: International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE), 1992-1994.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interviews. Space Science: International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), 1992-1994.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interviews. Space Science: Voyager, 1992-1994.
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American Institute of Physics
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Paul S. Epstein papers, 1898-1966.
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Press releases and photographs relating to the 200-inch telescope, 1938.
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Richard Feynman papers, 1933-1965.
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Richard Feynman papers, 1933-1988.
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Robert Andrews Millikan papers [microform], 1847-1953 (bulk 1921-1953).
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Robert F. Bacher papers, 1924-1994.
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California Institute of Technology
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Robert L. Walker papers, 1937-1994.
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Russell W. Porter drawings, 1928-1945.
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California Institute of Technology
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Scientific apparatus collection.
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California Institute of Technology
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Scientific experience of Ralph D. Bennett, 1963.
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Seibert Duntley papers, 1940-1980.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
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Sherwood K. Haynes papers, 1932-1982.
University Archives and Historical Collections
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Text of speech presented to the students of the California Institute of Technology on the value of applied science, February 16, 1931.
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Theodore Dunham papers, 1926-1977 (bulk 1926-1955).
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Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927.
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Wallace L. M. Sargent papers, undated.
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William A. Fowler papers, 1917-1995.
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William G. Wagner lecture notes, 1958-1962.
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William H. Pickering papers, 1941-1970.
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William V. Houston intellectual autobiography, 1962.
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Wolfgang Panofsky papers, 1934-2007.
National Accelerator Laboratory. Archives and History Office
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Published Resources
Author
Six not-so-easy pieces [sound recording] / Richard P. Feynman.