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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorCarnegie Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Dates
1900 – 1967
Authorized Form of Name
Carnegie Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Additional Forms of Names
Carnegie Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics
Institutional History
Abstract
Founded in 1900, by steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie; well-known for its engineering and science programs. Merged with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1967, changing the name to Carnegie-Mellon University.
Department heads
1912-41, H. S. Hower.
1942-46, Frederick Seitz.
1948-55, Edward Creutz.
Important Dates
1900Established with a gift of $1,000,000 from Andrew Carnegie.
1906First class of students entered, numbering 120, Pittsburgh (Pa.).
1911 – 1913Edwin Kemble was on faculty.
1911 – 1917Clinton Davisson was on faculty.
1912Began granting four-year degree programs.
1912 – 1914William Meggers was on faculty.
1924Establishment of a laboratory to study applications of physics and chemistry to the production of metals.
1933 – 1967Otto Stern was on faculty.
1942 – 1949Frederick Seitz was on faculty.
1946 – 1955Edward Creutz was on faculty.
1947 – 1949Bernard Cohen was on faculty.
1948 – 1953Norman Wolfenstein was on faculty.
1948 – 1967Lincoln Wolfenstein was on faculty.
1950 – 1960Walter Kohn was on faculty.
1951 – 1957Gian Wick was on faculty.
1958 – 1967James Langer was on faculty.
1964 – 1967Robert Griffiths was on faculty.
1966 – 1967Howard Brenner was on faculty.
1967Merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University..
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Citations
Historical information from Carnegie Mellon University Physics Department, History of the Carnegie Mellon Physics Department webpage.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Assistant.
Head, Department of Physics; Director, Nuclear Research Center; Associate Professor of Physics; and Professor of Physics.
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Griffiths, R. B. (Robert Budington)
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics.
Hower, H. S. (Harry S.)
Head, Department of Physics.
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Assistant Instructor in Physics and Instructor in Physics.
Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics.
Obtained BS; Instructor in Physics; and Assistant Professor to Professor.
Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966
Instructor in Physics.
Received PhD (1950) and Research Physicist.
Professor of Physics; Head, Department of Physics.
Research Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Professor of Physics.
Instructor to Professor of Physics.
PhD Students
Received BS, MS and PhD (Physics) in 1961.
Associates & Members
Aigrain, P. (Pierre)
Estermann, I. (Immanuel), 1900-1973
Fumi, F.
Received B.S.
Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002
Klick, Clifford C., 1918-
Koehler, James S. (James Stark), 1914-2006
Maurer, Robert Joseph, 1913-
Received B.S.
Received BS (1945) and MS (1945).
Parr, Robert G., 1921-
Pirani, F. A. E. (Felix Arnold Edward), 1928-2015
Pugh, Emerson M.
Schild, Alfred
Received B.S.
Received BS (1960).
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Carnegie-Mellon University. Physics Department
Created in 1967 after the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Official guide: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1915.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Alfred Schild papers, 1915-1982.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Clifford Glenwood Shull collection, 1937-1997.
Hunt Library. University Archives.
Carnegie Mellon University.
4909 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Emerson M. Pugh papers, 1906-1975.
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Emerson M. Pugh papers, 1932-1976.
Hunt Library. University Archives.
Carnegie Mellon University.
4909 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 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
Oral history interview with Clifford C. Klick, 1982 April 2.
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 Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Fausto Gherardo Fumi, 1982 November 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Felix Pirani, 2011 June 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Immanuel Estermann, 1962 December 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Stark Koehler, 1981 March 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1982 February 25, and March 16 and 23.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Lincoln Wolfenstein, 1997 April 19.
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 Pierre Raoul Aigrain, 1981 May 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Joseph Maurer, 1981 March 10 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert G. Parr addition to papers, 1935-2001 (bulk 1950-1995).
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History.
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702, USA
Wyoming scientist: Horses to space ships (with Ruth Edgin), 1977.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA