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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorBrown University. Department of Physics
Dates
unknown – present
Authorized Form of Name
Brown University. Department of Physics
Institutional History
Abstract
Physics has been a part of the Brown University curriculum since the 18th century and the Department of Physics has a distinguished history of research and teaching. Their current faculty includes a Nobel Prize winner and recipients of other prestigious awards. Research topics covered by faculty include astrophysics and cosmology, high energy, condensed matter and biological physics.
Important Dates
1891Opened Ladd Observatory under the direction of Winslow Upton, Providence (R.I.).
1925 – 1926H. Marston Morse was on faculty.
1928 – 1933Lars Onsager was on faculty.
1942Isadore Rudnick was on faculty.
1942 – 1943Leon Brillouin was on faculty.
1946 – 1948James Krumhansl was on faculty.
1958 – presentLeon Cooper has been on faculty.
1964 – 1971Manuel Cardona was on faculty.
1969 – 1978Leo Kadanoff was on faculty.
1970 – 1971Thomas Lubensky was on faculty.
1970 – 1979Walter Massey was on faculty.
1970 – 1993Phillip Stiles was on faculty.
1970 – 2010Phillip Stiles was on faculty.
1974 – 1976Sidney Nagel was on faculty.
1985 – 1986Nicholas Read was on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Professor of Physics.
Received MA in 1965. Associate Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics.
Cooper, Leon N. (Leon Neil), 1930-
Associate Professor to Professor, Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor, and Thomas J. Watson Senior Professor of Science.
University Professor and Professor of Physics.
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics.
Associate Professor and Professor of Physics.
Research Associate in Solid State Physics.
Research Fellow.
Research Physicist.
Professor of Physics and Department Chair.
L. Herbert Ballou University Professor and Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Physics.
Upton, Winslow, 1853-1914
First head of Ladd Observatory.
PhD Students
Received ScM in 1953 and PhD (Physics) in 1955.
Associates & Members
Cady, Walter G. (Walter Guyton), 1874-1974
Caswell, Alexis, 1799-1877
Clarke, Edward N.
Green, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1932-
Libby, Willard F.
Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-
Postdoctoral Fellow.
Mark, Carson
Park, Robert L.
Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Brown University
Ladd Observatory
Opened in 1891 under the direction of Winslow Upton.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Brown University faculty lecture notes, 1814-1961.
The John Hay Library. University Archives
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912, USA
Subject
Alexis Caswell papers, 1824-1877 (bulk 1860-1877).
The John Hay Library. University Archives
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912, USA
C. Truesdell papers, 1939-1989.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Oral history interview with Edward N. Clarke, 2010 September 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Carson Mark, 1976 June 8.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Bruce Lindsay, 1964 May 6 and July 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Green, 2000 August 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Park, 2001 March 4 and 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Walter Guyton Cady, 1963 August 28 and 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, 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
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert Bruce Lindsay Collection of annotated drafts of 6 articles written while at Yale University and Brown University, 1930-1961.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert Bruce Lindsay intellectual autobiography, 1962-1983, 1985.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert Bruce Lindsay On the atomic models of the alkali metals, 1924.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Mathematical theory of optics / by R.K. Luneberg ... Supplementary notes by M. Herzberger.