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Archival as SubjectPublished as AuthorCarnegie-Mellon University. Physics Department
Dates
1967 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Carnegie-Mellon University. Physics Department
Additional Forms of Names
Carnegie-Mellon University. Physics Dept.
Institutional History
Abstract
Created in 1967 after the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research merged to form Carnegie-Mellon University. The department has grown into an outstanding research department with research being done in various areas including surface physics, biophysics, nanophysics, astrophysics, and cosmology.
Important Dates
1964 – 1982James Langer was on faculty.
1967Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute of Industrial Research merged to form Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (Pa.).
1967 – 1969Otto Stern was on faculty.
1967 – 2015Lincoln Wolfenstein was on faculty.
1967 – presentRobert Griffiths has been on faculty.
1968 – 1993Clarence Zener was on faculty.
1993 – presentRobert White has been on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Griffiths, R. B. (Robert Budington)
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; and Otto Stern University Professor of Physics.
Assistant Professor to Professor and Associate Dean, Mellon Institute of Science.
Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Professor of Physics; University Professor of Physics; and University Professor of Physics Emeritus.
Associates & Members
Anthony, Thomas Richard, 1941-
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
University Professor of Physics.
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Carnegie Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
In 1967 merged with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie-Mellon University.
Carnegie-Mellon University
Associates
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics
Participated in the study of multi-institutional collaborations.
Resources
Archival Resources
Subject
Oral history interview with Clarence Melvin Zener, 1981 April 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, 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 Frederick Seitz, 1982 October 6 and 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Thomas Richard Anthony, 2007 July 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Valentine Bargmann, 1984 April 12.
Seeley G. Mudd Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Oral history interviews. Geophysics and Oceanography: Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP), 1992-1994.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Probes: CESR-CLEO: The CLEO Experiment at CESR, 1991.
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
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
Sir John A. Pople papers, 1930-2004 (bulk 1965-2000).
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History.
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702, USA