J. H. Van Vleck

Biography

Abstract

Received Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. On the faculty of University of Minnesota, 1923-1928; University of Wisconsin, 1928-1934; and Harvard University physics department, 1934-1951, department chair, 1945-1949, dean of engineering and applied physics, 1951-1957, and emeritus professor and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, 1969-1980; head of theory group, Radio Research Laboratory, 1943-1945. Died in 1980.

Important Dates

March 13, 1899Birth, Middletown (Conn.).

1920Obtained A.B., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Wis.).

1921Obtained A.M., Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).

1922Obtained Ph.D. (physics), Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).

1922 – 1923Instructor in Physics, Harvard University.

1923 – 1928Assistant Professor (1923-26), Associate Professor (1926-27), and Professor of Physics (1927-28), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minn.).

1927Visiting Professor, Stanford University.

1928 – 1934Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison (Wis.).

1933Visiting Professor, University of Michigan.

1934Visiting Professor, Stanford University.

1934Visiting Professor, Columbia University.

1934 – 1980Professor of Physics (1934-51); Head of Theory Group, Radio Research Laboratory (1943-45); Chair, Department of Physics (1945-49); Dean, Engineering and Applied Physics (1951-57); Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1951-69); and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1969-80), Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).

1935Elected member, National Academy of Sciences.

1937Visiting Professor, Princeton University.

1941Visiting Professor, Stanford University.

1941Member, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research, National Academy of Sciences.

1952 – 1953President, American Physical Society (APS).

1960Lorentz Guest Professor, University of Leiden.

1961 – 1962Eastman Professor, Oxford University.

1963Received the Albert A. Michelson Award, Case Institute of Technology.

1965Awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (APS).

1966Received the National Medal of Science.

1974Received the Lorentz Medal, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1977Received the Nobel Prize in Physics with Philip Warren Anderson and Sir Nevill Francis Mott for "their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.".

October 27, 1980Death, Cambridge (Mass.).

Occupation

Solid state physicist.

Places

Birth

Middletown (Conn.)

Undergraduate Education

Madison (Wis.)

Graduate Education

Cambridge (Mass.)

Employment

Minneapolis (Minn.)

Madison (Wis.)

Cambridge (Mass.)

Death

Cambridge (Mass.)

Subjects

Atomic theory.

Electricity.

Ferromagnetism.

Magnetism.

Nuclear physics.

Quantum theory.

Solid state physics.

Relationships

People

Family

Pearson, Abigail June

Wife. Married in 1927.

Van Vleck, Edward Burr, 1863-1943

Father.

Van Vleck, Hester Laurence

Mother.

Advisors & Collaborators

Aller, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hugh), 1913-2003

Co-wrote an article.

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University and won 1977 Nobel Prize together.

Bardeen, John

Co-wrote an article and both employed at Harvard University.

Bersohn, Richard, 1925-2003

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University.

Blinder, S. M., 1932-

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University.

Bloch, Felix, 1905-

Co-wrote an article.

Bozorth, R. M. (Richard M.)

Co-wrote an article.

Brooks, Harvey

Advised by Van Vleck in diamagnetism and ferromagnetism at Harvard University. Both employed at Harvard University.

Cole, R. H. (Robert Hugh), 1914-

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University.

Cross, Paul C.

Co-wrote multiple articles.

Frank, Amelia

Co-wrote multiple articles.

Gordon, Roy Gerald

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University in intermolecular forces and molecular spectroscopy.

Hamermesh, M. (Morton), 1915-2003

Co-wrote an article.

Hebb, Malcolm Hayden

Co-wrote an article.

Hill, Edward Lee, 1904-1974

Advised by Van Vleck at University of Minnesota, "Quantum Mechanics of the Rotational Distortion of Spin Multiplets in Molecular Spectra," and Co-wrote an article.

Hutchisson, Elmer, 1902-

Advised by Van Vleck at University of Minnesota.

Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-

Ph.D. advisor at Harvard University in using classical mechanics to compute the energy of a model of the helium atom and both employed at Harvard University.

King, Gilbert William, 1914-

Co-wrote multiple articles.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

Co-wrote an article.

Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997

Co-wrote an article.

Middleton, David, 1920-

Co-wrote an article.

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-1996

Received 1977 Nobel Prize along with P. W. Anderson for "their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."

O'Brien, M. C. M.

Worked together on antiferromagnetism in chromium alums while O'Brien completed a Henry Fellowship.

Penney, William George Penney, Baron, 1909-1991

Co-wrote an article.

Serber, R. (Robert)

Advised by Van Vleck at University of Wisconsin on the optical properties of molecules.

Slichter, Charles P.

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University.

Stanley, H. Eugene (Harry Eugene), 1941-

Advised by Van Vleck at Harvard University.

Townes, Charles H.

Co-wrote an article.

Ufford, Charles Wilbur, 1900-

Co-wrote an article.

Van Kranendonk, J., 1924-

Co-wrote an article.

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Co-wrote an article.

Colleagues

Adler, Stephen L.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Armstrong, J. A. (John A.)

Both employed at Harvard University.

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

Both employed at Harvard University.

Benedek, George Bernard, 1928-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Bienenstock, Arthur

Both employed at Harvard University.

Bloembergen, N.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Bode, Hendrik W. (Hendrik Wade), 1905-1982

Both employed at Harvard University.

Branscomb, Lewis M., 1926-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Both employed at University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Brewer, Richard G.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961

Both employed at Harvard University.

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969

Both employed at Harvard University.

Callan, Curtis G.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Carrier, George F.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Clark, N. A. (Noel Anthony), 1940-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007

Both employed at Harvard University.

Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

Both employed at Harvard University.

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Both employed at Princeton University.

Cormack, Allan MacLeod, 1924-1998

Both employed at Harvard University.

Deser, S. (Stanley)

Both employed at Harvard University.

Emmons, H. W. (Howard W.)

Both employed at Harvard University.

Feenberg, Eugene

Both employed at Harvard University.

Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981

Both employed at Harvard University.

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Gallagher, Thomas F., 1944-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Gates, S. James

Both employed at Harvard University.

Georgi, Howard

Both employed at Harvard University.

Glashow, Sheldon L.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Glauber, Roy J., 1925-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Griggs, David, 1911-1974

Both employed at Harvard University.

Gross, David J. (David Jonathan)

Both employed at Harvard University.

Halperin, Bertrand I.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Haworth, Leland J. (Leland John), 1904-

Both employed at University of Wisconsin.

Hooft, G. 't

Both employed at Harvard University.

Jackiw, Roman W.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Jaffe, Arthur, 1937-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Jeffries, C. D., 1922-

Both employed at Harvard University, Radio Research Laboratory.

Kastner, Marc A.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Kleppner, Daniel

Both employed at Harvard University.

Kohn, Walter, 1923-2016

Both employed at Harvard University.

Leggett, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Both employed at Harvard University.

Lyman, Theodore, 1874-1954

Both employed at Harvard University.

Mackey, George W. (George Whitelaw), 1916-2006

Both employed at Harvard University.

Martin, Paul Cecil, 1931-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Meyer, Robert B.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Both employed at Harvard University.

Nelson, David R., 1951-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Nier, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto), 1911-1994

Both employed at Harvard University.

Oldenberg, Otto, 1888-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Pierce, George Washington, 1872-1956

Both employed at Harvard University.

Pound, Robert V.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Purcell, Edward M.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Quinn, Helen R.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Both employed at Harvard University.

Raney, William P.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Saunders, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1875-1963

Both employed at Harvard University.

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Both employed at Harvard University.

Starr, Chauncey

Both employed at Harvard University.

Strauch, Karl, 1922-2000

Both employed at Harvard University.

Street, Jabez Curry, 1906-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950

Worked together on the Physical Review and both employed at the University of Minnesota.

Tinkham, Michael

Both employed at Harvard University.

Tousey, Richard

Both employed at Harvard University.

Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976

Both employed at Stanford University.

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Both employed at Harvard University.

Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013

Both employed at Harvard University.

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Both employed at Harvard University.

Witten, E.

Both employed at Harvard University.

Wu, Tai Tsun

Both employed at Harvard University.

Additional

Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), 1887-

Bleaney, B. (Brebis)

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Born, Max, 1882-1970

Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987

Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-1978

Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000

Compton, Margaret Hutchinson

Corngold, Noel Robert David, 1929-

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-

Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

Dieke, Gerhard Heinrich, 1901-1965

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976

Foote, Paul D. (Paul Darwin), 1888-1971

Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1994

Gorter, C. J. (Cornelis Jacobus), 1907-

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Grover, Frederick W. (Frederick Warren), 1876-1973

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Herb, R. G. (Raymond George), 1908-1996

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Holden, Alan

Holton, Gerald James

Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952

Kronig, R. (Ralph), 1904-

Landé, Alfred, 1888-

Lin, Chun C.

Löwdin, Per-Olov, 1916-2000

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

Mooney-Slater, Rose Camille LeDieu, 1902-1981

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

Phillips, Melba, 1907-2004

Piore, Emanuel Ruben, 1908-2000

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988

Reiche, F. (Fritz), 1883-1969

Roe, Anne, 1904-1991

Rozental, S. (Stefan)

Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-

Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961

Shankland, Robert S., 1908-

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

Long time friend.

Smoluchowski, Roman

Sproull, Wayne T. (Wayne Treber), 1906-1992

Waller, Ivar, 1898-1991

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Whitney, Robert Byron, 1905-

Winch, Ralph P.

Institutions

Major Positions

Columbia University. Department of Physics

Visiting Professor.

Harvard University. Department of Physics

Obtained AM and PhD in Physics. Instructor, Professor of Physics, Department Chair, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Dean.

Harvard University. Radio Research Laboratory

Head of Theory Group.

Princeton University. Department of Physics

Visiting Professor.

Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden

Lorentz Professor.

Stanford University. Department of Physics

Visiting Professor.

University of Michigan. Department of Physics

Visiting Professor.

University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy

Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; and Professor of Physics.

University of Oxford

Eastman Professor.

University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Physics

Obtained AB (1920). Professor of Physics.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Philosophical Society

American Physical Society

President.

Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Member, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research.

National Research Council (U.S.)

Member, Committee on ionization and potential.

Optical Society of America

Phi Beta Kappa

Society of the Sigma Xi

United States. National Bureau of Standards

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

75th anniversary session of the American Physical Society [sound recording], 1974 April 22.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

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Ceremonial session [sound recording], 1965 March 26.

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American Institute of Physics

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Dedication of Tate Laboratory of Physics [sound recording], 1966.

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American Institute of Physics

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J. H. Van Vleck biographical information, 1963.

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American Institute of Physics

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J. H. Van Vleck papers, 1853-1981 (1920-1980).

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American Institute of Physics

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J. H. Van Vleck papers, 1923-1959.

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

J. H. Van Vleck selected correspondence and notes [microform], 1923-1959, (bulk 1923-1938).

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John Van Vleck, Nobel Prize and Lorentz Medal information, 1980.

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Memorial session for John C. Slater [sound recording], 1977 February 7.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2.

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Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1963 October 2 and 4.

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Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1966 February 28 and 1973 January 19.

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Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.

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Oral history interview with John Van Vleck, 1977 January 28.

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Selected papers [sound recording],

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Some reminescences and critical comments on the early days of quantum mechanics [sound recording] / 1972 October 2.

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Symposium at the 50th anniversary of quantum mechanics [sound recording] / 1976 April 26.

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Symposium honoring the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics recipients [sound recording].

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The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, circa 1979.

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University of Wisconsin--Madison Archives. Oral History Project: Selected Interviews with Physics and Astronomy Staff and Students.

University Archives

University of Wisconsin -- Madison

Steenbock Library, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Subject

Alfred Landé papers, 1915-1970.

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American Physical Society Division of Solid State Physics records of Roman Smoluchowski, 1943-1947.

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Anne Roe papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).

Library

American Philosophical Society

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Edwin C. Kemble papers [microform], 1919-1937.

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H. B. G. Casimir papers, 1929-2000.

Rijksarchief in Noord-Holland

Kleine Houtweg 18, Haarlem, Netherlands

Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics records, 1846-

Archives. Pusey Library

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)

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I. I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

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Informal moments, Summer Symposia at the University of Michigan [motion picture] / taken by David Dennison ; 1933-1937.

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Ivar Waller papers, circa 1912-1989.

Centrum för Vetenskapshistoria

Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien

Stockholm, Sweden

J. H. Van Vleck: quantum theory and magnetism [sound recording], 2011 March 22.

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American Institute of Physics

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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 Bardeen papers, 1910-1991.

University Archives

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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John Clarke Slater correspondence and autobiographical account of the history of writing of the Bohr-Kramer-Slater paper in 1924, 1968.

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John Clarke Slater papers, 1908-1976.

Library

American Philosophical Society

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Karl K. Darrow papers, 1872-1978 (bulk 1917-1972).

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Letter to John H. Van Vleck from wife of Karl T. Compton thanking him for the pages from John Slater's Solid-State and Molecular Theory: A Scientific Biography.

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Letter to John H. Van Vleck, 1971.

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On being a student of Norman Ramsey, 2017.

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Oral history interview with Alan Holden, 1974 July 30 and 1976 June 21.

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Oral history interview with Brebis Bleaney, 1982 January 15.

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Oral history interview with Charles P. Slichter, 1977 April 29.

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Oral history interview with Chun C. Lin, 2008 October 14.

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Oral history interview with Edward M. Purcell, 1976 November 23.

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Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

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Oral history interview with Elmer Hutchisson, 1970 October 22.

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Oral history interview with Emanuel Ruben Piore, 1977 March 7.

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Oral history interview with Ernst Pascual Jordan, 1963 June 17, 18, 19 and 20.

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Oral history interview with Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

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Oral history interview with Frederick Warren Grover, 1964 March 23.

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Oral history interview with Gerald Holton, 1977 January 11.

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Oral history interview with I. I. Rabi, 1963 December 8.

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Oral history interview with John Allan Armstrong, 2004 March 2 and 3.

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Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1967 April 5.

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Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.

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Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

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 Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.

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Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.

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Oral history interview with Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1983 June 27.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral history interview with Noel R. Corngold, 2002 October 11 and 16.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

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Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1983 July 12.

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Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson [videorecording] : 1999-2002.

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Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson, 1988 May 10.

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Oral history interview with Paul Buck, 1977 March 2.

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Oral history interview with Per Olov Löwdin, 1975 January 27.

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Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999 March 30, May 30, November 23 and June 29, 2000.

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Oral history interview with Raymond George Herb, 1976 April.

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Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.

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Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1983 December 19.

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Oral history interview with Robert V. Pound, 2006 September 23, November 4, 18, 2007 February 19 and April 22.

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Oral history interview with Stefan Rozental, 1971 August 27.

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Oral history interview with Walter H. Brattain, 1964 January and 28 May 1974.

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Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1962 November 30, 1963 February 7, 11, 13, 15, 19, 22, 25, 27, 28 and 1963 July 5, 12.

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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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Ralph Kronig correspondence, 1925-1977?.

Handschriftenabteilung

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Zurich, Switzerland

Ralph Kronig Incoming letters [microform], 1924-1930.

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American Institute of Physics

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Ralph P. Winch autobiographical notes and comments, 1964.

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Ralph P. Winch student notebooks, 1927-1931.

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Robert Whitney lecture notes [photocopies], 1927-1928.

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Rose C. L. Mooney-Slater papers, 1917-1981.

Library

American Philosophical Society

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Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1921-1979.

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Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1928-1932.

Library

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The return of Robert Mulliken to Chicago in 1928, circa 1978.

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Published Resources

Author

Quantum principles and line spectra / [by] J.H. Van Vleck.

Quantum principles and line spectra [microform] / [by] J.H. Van Vleck.

Quelques aspects de la théorie du magnétisme.

The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities [microform] / by J.H. Van Vleck …

The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities, by J.H. Van Vleck …

The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities, by J.H. Van Vleck …

Subject

J.H. Van Vleck : the early life and work of a mathematical physicist / by Frederick Hugh Fellows.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Physics Today obituary