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Princeton University. Department of Physics

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Dates

1832 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Princeton University. Department of Physics

Additional Forms of Names

Princeton University. Dept. of Physics

Institutional History

Abstract

The Princeton University Physics Department began as part of the Engineering School, but became an independent department in 1929 and 16 Nobel Laureates of Physics have had a connection to Princeton University.

Department Chairs

1908-29, William Magie.

1929-30, Karl Compton.

1930-34, Edwin Adams.

1935-49, Henry Smyth.

1949-60, Alan Shenstone.

1961-67, Walker Bleakney.

1967-70, Robert Dicke.

1971-1976, Marvin Goldberger.

1976-81, Val Fitch.

1981-87, Sam .

1987-91, David Wilkinson.

1991-98, Stewart Smith.

1998-2001, Curtis Callan.

2001-08, Daniel Marlow.

2008-11, Curtis Callan.

Important Dates

1832Joseph Henry began conducting courses in natural philosophy and engineering and performed a set of experiments in electromagnetic induction, Princeton (N.J.).

1906O. W. Richardson was brought from England to start an active research program in physics.

1909Dedication of the Palmer Laboratory for the use of the Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering.

1915 – 1930Karl Compton was on faculty.

1923 – 1924Merle Tuve was on faculty.

1924 – 1986Henry Smyth was on faculty.

1925 – 1980Allen Shenstone was on faculty.

1926 – 1927Robert Brode was on faculty.

1928 – 1937Edward Condon was on faculty.

1929Physics Department became an independent department from the Engineering School.

1929 – 1930Philip Morse was on faculty.

1929 – 1931Robert Van de Graaff was on faculty.

1930Department began an association with Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study.

1930 – 1931John von Neumann was on faculty.

1930 – 1992Walker Bleakney was on faculty.

1931 – 1936Eugene Wigner was on faculty.

1931 – 1947Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson was on faculty.

1934 – 1935Frederick Seitz was on faculty.

1935M. G. White arrived at Princeton and it was decided that Princeton would build a cyclotron.

1936Cyclotron is completed.

1938 – 1939Robert Hofstadter was on faculty.

1938 – 1976John Wheeler was on faculty.

1938 – 1995Eugene Wigner was on faculty.

1939 – 1942Edward Creutz was on faculty.

1940 – 1941Henry Barschall was on faculty.

1940 – 1946Robert R. Wilson was on faculty.

1941 – 1943Irving Segal was on faculty.

1941 – 1943Richard Feynman was on faculty.

1942 – 1943Elliott Montroll was on faculty.

1942 – 1945James Fletcher was on faculty.

1943 – 1944Chien-Shiung Wu was on faculty.

1945Herbert Callen was on faculty.

1945 – 1952Edward Frieman was on faculty.

1946 – 1949John Winckler was on faculty.

1946 – 1950Robert Hofstadter was on faculty.

1946 – 1951David Bohm was on faculty.

1946 – 1989Valentine Bargmann was on faculty.

1946 – 1997Robert Dicke was on faculty.

1949 – 1950Menahem Schiffer was on faculty.

1949 – 1950Richard Stein was on faculty.

1949 – 2013Arthur Wightman was on faculty.

1952 – 1999Sam Treiman was on faculty.

1954 – 1955Stephen Berko was on faculty.

1954 – 1960Val Fitch was on faculty.

1955 – 1958David Pines was on faculty.

1956 – 1963Charles Misner was on faculty.

1957 – 1978Marvin "Murph" Goldberger was on faculty.

1958 – 1961Ernest Warburton was on faculty.

1958 – 1971James Cronin was on faculty.

1962 – 1964Rainer Weiss was on faculty.

1963 – 2002David Wilkinson was on faculty.

1964 – 1966James Hartle was on faculty.

1964 – 1967Curtin Callan was on faculty.

1964 – 1968Gerald Brown was on faculty.

1964 – 1970Robert Pollock was on faculty.

1964 – 1980John Hopfield was on faculty.

1965 – 1966Kip Thorne was on faculty.

1966 – 1969George Bertsch was on faculty.

1966 – 1972John Schwarz was on faculty.

1966 – 1974Norman Christ was on faculty.

1968 – 1973James York was on faculty.

1969 – 1971Eric Adlberger was on faculty.

1969 – 1996David Gross was on faculty.

1972 – 1976Stuart Freedman was on faculty.

1972 – presentCurtis Callan has been on faculty.

1973 – 1981Michael Witherell was on faculty.

1974 – 1981Frank Wilczek was on faculty.

1975 – 1982Michael Aizenman was on faculty.

1975 – presentElliott Lieb is Professor of Mathematics and Physics.

1975 – presentPhilip Anderson has been on faculty.

1976 – 2015Val Fitch was on faculty.

1979 – presentRobert Austin has been on faculty.

1980 – 1987Edward Witten was on faculty.

1980 – 1991William Happer was on faculty.

1980 – presentJoseph Taylor, Jr. has been on faculty.

1986 – 1987Susan Coppersmith was on faculty.

1988 – 2005Paul Chaikin was on faculty.

1989 – presentAlexander Polyakov has been on faculty.

1990 – presentLyman Page has been on faculty.

1990 – presentMichael Aizenman has been on faculty.

1990 – presentF. Duncan M. Haldane has been on faculty.

1991 – 1994Albert Libchaber was on faculty.

1993 – presentWilliam Happer has been on faculty.

1994Victoria Kaspi was on faculty.

1996 – 2007Boris Altshuler was on faculty.

1998 – 2000Lisa Randall was on faculty.

1998 – presentPaul Steinhardt has been on faculty.

2001 – 2009William Brinkman was on faculty.

2001 – presentDavid Tank has been on faculty.

2001 – presentWilliam Bialek has been on faculty.

Places

Headquarters

Princeton (N.J.)

Subjects

Physics -- Study and teaching.

Relationships

People

Employees & Officers

Adams, Edwin P. (Edwin Plimpton), 1878-

Department chair.

Adelberger, Eric G.

Assistant Professor.

Adler, Stephen L.

Received Ph.D. in Physics (1964), and Visiting Professor.

Aizenman, Michael

Research Associate in Physics and Mathematics; Assistant Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics and Mathematics.

Al'tshuler, B. L.

Professor of Physics.

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

Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Austin, Robert H.

Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics.

Bahcall, John N.

Visiting Lecturer.

Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989

Visiting Lecturer, Associate Professor to Professor of Mathematical Physics, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics.

Barschall, H. H. (Henry Herman), 1915-1997

Received AM in 1939 and PhD in 1940 and Instructor in Physics.

Bertsch, George F.

Received PhD in 1965 and Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics.

Bialek, William S.

Professor of Physics; John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor of Physics; Visiting Lecturer in Physics; and Director, Programs in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Neuroscience and Biophysics.

Bleakney, Walker, 1901-1992

National Research Fellow; Instructor to Professor of Physics; Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; Class of 1909 Professor of Physics; and Class of 1909 Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Bohm, David, 1917-1992

Assistant Professor of Physics.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Senior Research Physicist.

Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-

Professor of Physics.

Callan, Curtis G.

Received (Physics) PhD in 1964. Research Fellow; Instructor in Physics; Professor of Physics; Eugene Higgins Professor; Chair, Department of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor.

Callen, Herbert B.

Researcher in Electronics.

Chaikin, Paul M.

Professor of Physics; Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics; and Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Emeritus.

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Visiting professor.

Christ, Norman

Instructor to Associate Professor.

Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

Received Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professorship; and Chair, Physics Department.

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Associate Professor of Physics.

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Visiting Lecturer.

Courant, Ernest D. (Ernest David), 1920-

Visiting Assistant Professor.

Creutz, E.

Instructor in Physics.

Cronin, James W., 1931-2016

Assistant Professor of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics, and Professor of Physics.

Dashen, Roger F.

Visiting Professor.

Dawson, J. M. (John Myrick), 1930-

Lecturer in Physics.

Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

Received AB; Assistant Professor to Professor; Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics, Albert Einstein Professor of Science, and Emeritus Albert Einstein Professor of Science.

Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-

Received BA, Member and Chair, Department of Physics Advisory Council.

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Received PhD (Theoretical Physics) in 1942 and Physicist, Isotrom Development Project.

Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015

Instructor to Professor of Physics; Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor; Chair, Department of Physics; James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics; James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics.

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

Instructor.

Freedman, Stuart J.

Instructor in Physics and Lecturer.

Frieman, E. A.

Instructor in Physics

Goldberger, Marvin L.

Higgins Visiting Associate Professor; Higgins Professor of Mathematical Physics; Chair of Department of Physics; and Joseph Henry Professor of Physics.

Gross, David J. (David Jonathan)

Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.

Haldane, F. Duncan M.

Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.

Happer, William, 1939-

Received PhD (Physics) in 1964; Professor of Physics; Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics; and Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics.

Hartle, J. B. (James B.)

Received AB and Instructor in Physics.

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878

First to conduct courses in natural philosophy and engineering and performed a set of experiments in electromagnetic induction.

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

Received MA; Received PhD (Physics) in 1938; Procter Fellow; and Assistant Professor of Physics.

Hopfield, John J.

Professor of Physics and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.

Jaffe, Arthur, 1937-

Received AB; Received PhD (Physics) in 1966; and Visiting Professor.

Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-

Received MA; Received PhD (Physics) in 1993; and Higgins Instructor in Physics.

Libchaber, Albert J.

Professor of Physics.

Lieb, Elliott H.

Professor of Physics and Visiting Professor.

Magie, William Francis, 1858-1943

Department chair.

Marlow, Daniel R., 1954-

Department chair.

Misner, Charles W.

Received MA (1954) and PhD (1957); Instructor in Physics; and Assistant Professor of Physics.

Montroll, E. W.

Instructor in Physics.

Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

Received MA (1927) and PhD (1929); Instructor in Physics.

Page, Lyman A.

Department chair; Instructor; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; and Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics.

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

Chair of Theoretical Physics.

Penzias, Arno A.

Lecturer in Astrophysical Science and Visiting Professor of Astrophysical Science.

Pines, David, 1924-2018

Received MA (1948) and PhD (1950); Assistant Professor.

Pollock, Robert Elwood, 1936-

Received MA (1959) and PhD (1963); Assistant Professor of Physics; and Research Physicist.

Polyakov, A. M.

Professor of Physics and Joseph Henry Professor of Physics.

Randall, Lisa

Professor of Physics.

Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959

Professor of Physics.

Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961

Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics and Professor of Mathematical Physics.

Robertson, R. G. Hamish, 1943-

Research Associate.

Robson, Donald

Visiting Professor.

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Higgins Visiting Professor.

Schiffer, John P.

Visiting Associate Professor.

Schwarz, John H.

Instructor, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor of Physics.

Segal, Irving Ezra

Received AB (1937); Research Associate.

Seiberg, Nathan

Visiting Lecturer.

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

Received PhD (1934); Proctor Fellow; and Member, Board of Trustees.

Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)

Received BS (1914), MA (1920), and PhD (1922). Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics; Class of 1909 Professor of Physics; Department Chair; and Class of 1909 Emeritus Professor of Physics and Senior Research Physicist.

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

Lecturer in Physics.

Smith, Stewart W.

Department chair.

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986

Received A.B. in 1918 and Ph.D. in 1921. Instructor, Assistant Professor of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Chair of Department of Physics, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, and Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Visiting Scientist; Professor of Physics; and Albert Einstein Professor of Science.

Tank, David William, 1953-

Professor of Physics.

Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton)

Professor of Physics; James S. McDonnell University Professor of Physics; and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics Emeritus.

Tomonaga, Shin'ichiro, 1906-1979

Visiting Professor.

Treiman, Sam B.

Department Chair; Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Eugene V. Higgins Professor of Physics; and Eugene V. Higgins Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

Instructor in Physics.

Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006

Research Associate.

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

Visiting professor.

Warburton, Ernest Keeling

Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics.

Weiss, Rainer

Research Associate in Physics.

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Director of Project Matterhorn; Joseph Henry Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.

Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013

Received PhD (1949). Instructor to Professor of Physics; Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics; and Professor Emeritus.

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

Half-time Research Professor, Visiting Professor, Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, and Thomas D. Jones Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics.

Wilczek, Frank

Received PhD (1974). Instructor; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; and Professor.

Wilkinson, David T.

Department chair and Instructor to Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Emeritus.

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Instructor, Assistant Professor of Physics, and Head of Isotron Development project.

Winckler, John R.

Received PhD (1946). Instructor in Physics, Palmer Laboratory.

Witherell, Michael S., 1949-

Instructor in Physics and Assistant Professor of Physics.

Witten, E.

Received MA (1974) and PhD (1976). Professor of Physics.

Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997

Instructor.

York, James W., Jr., 1939-

Research Associate in Physics; Lecturer; and Assistant Professor of Physics.

PhD Students

Aronson, Samuel, 1942-

Received PhD in 1968.

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

Received Ph.D. in 1929.

Bardeen, John

Received PhD in mathematical physics (1936).

Davidson, Ronald C.

Received PhD (Plasma Physics).

Duke, Charles B.

Received PhD in 1963 (Physics).

Geller, Margaret J.

Received MA and PhD (Physics).

Girvin, Steven M.

Received PhD (Physics) in 1977.

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Received Ph.D. in 1937.

Howard, Louis N.

Received MA and PhD in 1953 (Mathematical Physics).

Killian, T. J. (Thomas Joseph), 1905-

Received PhD (Physics) in 1929.

Lindl, John

Received MA and PhD (Astrophysics) in 1972.

Maldacena, Juan Martin, 1968-

Received PhD (Physics) in 1996.

McKeown, R. D.

Received PhD (1979).

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

Received Ph.D. in 1932.

Nagel, Sidney R.

Received MA (1971) and PhD (1974).

Nanos, G. Peter

Received PhD (1974).

Oddone, Piermaria J.

Received PhD (1970).

Shochet, Melvyn J.

Received MA (1972) and PhD (1972).

Stix, Thomas Howard

Received PhD (1953).

Sullivan, Jeremiah D.

Received PhD (1964).

Vafa, Cumrun

Received PhD (1985).

Wald, Robert M.

Received PhD (1972).

Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967

Received AB (1913), MA (1914), and PhD (1916).

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Received Ph.D. in 1957.

Associates & Members

Arnold, James, 1923-

Baker, William O. (William Oliver), 1915-2005

Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983

Received B.S., E.E., M.A., and Ph.D.

Berg, Moe, 1902-1972

Berko, Stephan

National Research Fellow.

Blewett, John P. (John Paul), 1910-

Blume, Martin, 1932-

Received AB in 1954.

Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986

National Research Fellow in Physics.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Received BA in 1974.

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

Received M.A. and Ph.D.

Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-

Crew, Henry, 1859-1953

Received AB in 1882.

Davis, M. (Marc)

Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958

Received Ph.D. in 1911.

Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

Received PhD (Physics) in 1925.

Everett, Hugh

Falcone, Roger W.

Received AB.

Feenberg, Eugene

Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-

Giordmaine, Joseph Anthony

Griffiths, R. B. (Robert Budington)

Received AB.

Harrington, Marshall Cathcart, 1904-

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-2021

Received BSE.

Hoffmann, Banesh, 1906-

Horowitz, Gary T., 1955-

Received BA.

Huth, John Edward

Received AB.

Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995

Jackson, John David, 1925-2016

Guggenheim Fellow.

Jin, Deborah S.

Received AB.

Kauzmann, Walter, 1916-

Ladenburg, Rudolf Walter, 1882-1952

Lange, Andrew

Received BA.

Lewis, H. W. (Harold Warren)

Libby, Willard F.

Livingood, John J. (John Jacob), 1903-

Marburger, John H., III (John Harmen), 1941-2011

Received AB.

Morgan, Stanley Owen, 1900-

Morrison, Philip

Mullet, Shawn

Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985

Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

Received A.B.

Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)

Plass, Gilbert N.

Roberts, Richard B. (Richard Brooke), 1910-

Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)

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

Smith, Lincoln Gilmore, 1912-

Stuhlman, Otto, 1884-1965

Taub, A. H., 1911-1999

Thorne, Kip S.

Received AM (1963) and PhD (1965), and National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow.

Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000

Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967

National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.

Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960

Waltz, Ronald E.

White, Milton Grandison, 1910-1979

Winch, Ralph P.

Winstein, Bruce

Guggenheim Fellow.

Institutions

Institutional Hierarchy

Princeton University

Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory

Collaborators

Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)

Geographically close to each other and collaborated on projects throughout their history.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

High Energy Physics Laboratory Colliding Beam Experiment records (CBX), 1958-1981.

National Accelerator Laboratory. Archives and History Office

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 97, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

Pages from catalogs listing faculty of Princeton University Department of Physics, 1921-1940.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Palmer Physical Laboratory Colloquia [sound recording], 1962 and 1966.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Princeton University Department of Physics records, 1909-1971.

Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Subject

"A Family Gathering": Letters to John A. Wheeler, 1977.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Abraham Taub's notes on the John von Neumann quantum electrodynamics lectures, 1933.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Allen Shenstone autobiography, 1962.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Biographical sketches of some members of the mathematics and physics faculty of Princeton University : typescript, circa 1950.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

C. Truesdell papers, 1939-1989.

Center for American History. University Archives

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78713, USA

Charles B. Duke career highlights [autobiographical materials], 1959-2006.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Department of Physics, Princeton University, 1918-1932, 1987.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Eugene Wigner theory of solid state lectures, 1948-1949.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, 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

Henry H. Barschall papers, 1942-1974.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Hugh Everett papers, 1953-1989.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

James Arnold papers, 1946-1998.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

John A. Wheeler letter, 1985, to Linus Pauling about Henry Augustus Rowland and the early work done in the combination principle of wavelength spectroscopy, and notes from lectures by Niels Bohr at Princeton, 1939.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

John Wheeler papers, 1938-1987.

Center for American History. University Archives

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78713, USA

Joseph Henry selected papers [microfilm], 1827-1833.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Kenneth William Ford narrative, 1965.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Lincoln Gilmore Smith collection, 1950-1966.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Marshall Cathcart Harrington response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Michael Witherell papers, 1999-2005.

Milton G. White History of Accelerators Room (WH-3SE) and Archives (WH-16NE)

Fermilab

PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 90510, USA

My brother Morris Berg: The real Moe, 1976.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

My Life in Physics: John Schiffer's autobiography.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Niels Bohr material collected elsewhere, 1912-1962.

Niels Bohr Archive

Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark

Notes on lectures at Princeton by Henry Norris Russell and others, on such topics as astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and Dirac theory, and Laue lectures, circa 1930.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview P. J. E. Peebles, 1984 September 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Abraham Pais, 1974 August 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Allen Goodrich Shenstone, 1979 March 20.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 October 13.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Oral history interview with Betty Compton, 1968 April 11 and 15.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, 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 B. Duke, 2007 January 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Charles Misner, 1989 April 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Bohm, 1981 May 8.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Pines, 1981 April 13 and 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Rittenhouse Inglis, 1977 May 9 and 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with E. A. Frieman, 1986 June 26.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward A. Frieman, 2006 December 4 and 5.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward Creutz, 2006 January 9 and 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward Uhler Condon, 1967 October 17, 18, 1968 April 27, 1973 September 11 and 12.

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 Eugene Feenberg, 1973 April 13 and 14.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1963 November 21 and December 3, 4.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1966 November 30.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1981 January 24.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 April 12.

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 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 Gilbert Plass, 1996 March 14.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Harold Warren Lewis, 1986 July 6.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Henry A. Barton, 1970 March 3 and 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with James Peebles, 1988 January 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

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

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Bardeen, 1984 May 29.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John J. Livingood, 1977 May 16.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with John P. Blewett, 1979 March 22 and May 11.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Joseph Giordmaine, 2007 October 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Joseph H. Heller, 2010 May 5.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997 November 15 and 22.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Marc Davis, 1988 October 14.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 March 30.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1982 January 13 and February 5.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Milton Grandison White, 1972 May 11 to 1975 February 28.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Otto Stuhlman, Jr., 1962 June 8.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

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

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Dicke, 1988 January 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Henry Dicke, 1983 May 2.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Henry Dicke, 1985 June 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1985 May 28.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Wilson, 1978 May 8 through 1981 January 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Ronald E. Waltz, 2006 May 22.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Sam Schweber, 1998 October 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Sidney D. Drell, 1986 July 1.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Stanley Owen Morgan, 1975 July 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with V. Bargmann, 1984 April 12.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

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

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with William F. Brinkman, 2006 March 7 and April 26.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Selected Experiments: BNL-E-791: Study of Very Rare K-Long Decays, 1990-1991.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Selected Experiments: SLAC-SP-024: A Proposal for a Large Solid Angle Neutral Detector for SPEAR 2 (The Crystal Ball), 1990-1991.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interviews. Materials science: Hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductors (HOIS), 1996-1997.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

Phillip M. Morse autobiographical data, circa 1962.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Political Science: the red scare as the hidden variable in the Bohmian interpretation of quantum theory / by Shawn Mullet, 1999.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Princeton physics--a remarkable history, 1991.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Princeton, David Bohm and the Cold War: A study in McCarthyism, 1990.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Ralph P. Winch autobiographical notes and comments, 1964.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Reminiscences of the Beginnings of Shock Wave Work at Princeton University: an address by Walker Bleakney; Early Development of the Shock Tube and its Role in Current Research: an address by Raymond J. Emrich of Lehigh University; and a symposium program, 1965.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Richard Brooke Roberts (1910-1979) autobiography, 1979.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Richard Feynman papers, 1933-1965.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Robert Hofstadter papers, 1938-1990.

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Rudolf Ladenburg correspondence, manuscripts, reprints, clippings, and a typescript statement on the 25th anniversary of quantum theory, 1910-1952.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Rudolf Ladenburg selected manuscripts, 1889-1953 (bulk 1935-1952).

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Walker Bleakney papers, 1920s-1961.

Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Walter Kauzmann papers, 1940-1993.

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Princeton University

65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

William Francis Magie papers, 1875-1945 (1875-1920 bulk).

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

William O. Baker papers, 1912-2008 (bulk 1960-1985).

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Wolfgang Panofsky papers, 1934-2007.

National Accelerator Laboratory. Archives and History Office

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 97, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA