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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as SubjectUniversity of Virginia. Department of Physics
Dates
unknown – present
Authorized Form of Name
University of Virginia. Department of Physics
Additional Forms of Names
University of Virginia. Dept. of Physics
University of Virginia. Physics Department
Institutional History
Abstract
The Department of Physics at the University of Virginia conducts research in topics such as atomic, molecular, and optical physics, condensed matter physics, mathematical physics, biological and medical physics, high energy physics, and nuclear and particle physics.
Important Dates
1925 – 1926Jesse Beams was on faculty.
1928 – 1977Jesse Beams was on faculty.
1946 – 1947Edward Ney was on faculty.
1947 – 1958Clinton Davisson was on faculty.
1955 – 1961Stephan Berko was on faculty.
1984 – presentThomas Gallagher has been on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977
Received PhD (1925). National Research Council (NRC) Fellow in Physics; Associate Professor to Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; Francis H. Smith Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Received BA (1950) and PhD (1954). Assistant Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Physics.
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
Professor of Physics.
Professor of Physics and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics.
Received PhD (1946). Assistant Professor to Associate Professor.
PhD Students
Received BA (1951), MS (1952), and PhD (1954).
Received MS (1956) and PhD (1958).
Received MS (1930) and PhD (1931).
Associates & Members
Allison, Fred, 1882-1974
Brown, Frederick Lyons, 1890-
Received BS (1968).
Cranberg, Lawrence, 1917-
Doering, Robert, 1946-
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985
Gugelot, Piet Cornelis, 1918-
Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-
Hereford, Frank L. (Frank Loucks), 1923-2004
Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell)
Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882
Rose, Morris Edgar, 1911-
Snoddy, Leland Bradley
Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), 1871-
Sparrow, Carroll Mason
Received BSc (1981).
Trefil, James S., 1938-
Williams, Dudley, 1912-
Zink, Alexander J.
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
University of Virginia
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
University of Virginia Department of Physics Physics Accelerator Building photographs, 1966.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
University of Virginia Department of Physics reports, 1932-1940.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Subject
A brief history of the physics department of the University of Virginia, 1922-1961.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Carroll Mason Sparrow papers, circa 1918-1940.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Clinton Joseph Davisson papers, 1916-1957 (bulk 1917-1946).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Dudley Williams, Fifty years of physics: Some personal memories, circa 1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Frank L. Hereford papers, 1960-1976.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Fred Allison autobiographical sketches, 1965.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fred Allison papers, 1830-1977.
Ralph B. Draughon Library, Department of Archives
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Frederick L. Brown intellectual autobiography, 1961.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Frederick L. Brown notebooks, 1912-1954.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Frederick L. Brown papers, circa 1922-1955.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
James P. C. Southall papers, circa 1889-1945.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
James S. Trefil papers, 1965-2009.
Special Collections & Archives
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, USA
L. B. Snoddy papers, circa 1886-1950.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Lawrence Cranberg papers, 1962-2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Morris E. Rose papers, 1959-1964.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Oral History interview with Edward P. Ney, 1984 February 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frederick L. Brown, 1975 November 19.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Doering, 2008 December 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Piet Cornelis Gugelot response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert M. Patterson correspondence, 1834-1847.
Alderman Library. Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Robert M. Patterson papers, 1775-1853.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
William B. Rogers papers, 1804-1911.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Working for scientists and higher education: my experiences working for the University of Virginia, 1995.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Subject
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.