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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectJohns Hopkins University. Department of Physics
Dates
1876 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Johns Hopkins University. Department of Physics
Additional Forms of Names
Johns Hopkins University. Department of Physics & Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University. Dept. of Physics
Institutional History
Abstract
The Department of Physics has existed since the University was founded in 1876. In 1984 its name was changed to the Department of Physics & Astronomy. The Department's areas of focus include condensed matter physics, particle physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and plasma physics.
Important Dates
1876Department of Physics founded at same time as Johns Hopkins University's founding, Baltimore (Md.).
1887 – 1888Henry Crew was on faculty.
1901 – 1955Robert Wood was on faculty.
1926 – 1936Karl Herzfeld was on faculty.
1930 – 1939Maria Goeppert Mayer was on faculty.
1933James Franck was on faculty.
1935 – 1938James Franck was on faculty.
1948 – 1951Thomas Donahue was on faculty.
1964 – 1971Herman Cummins was on faculty.
1966 – 1967Noah Hershkowitz was on faculty.
1968 – 1971Harry Swinney was on faculty.
1984Department changed name to Department of Physics & Astronomy.
1996 – 1998Andrew Millis was on faculty.
1998 – presentRiccardo Giacconi has been on faculty.
2005 – presentCharles Bennett has been on faculty.
2006 – presentAdam Riess has been on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Bennett, Charles L. (Charles Leonard), 1956-
Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Received PhD in 1887. Assistant in Physics.
Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics.
Received PhD in 1947 (Physics); Research Associate; and Assistant Professor of Physics.
Speyer Professor and Professor.
Professor of Physics and Research Professor.
Adjunct Professor.
Received PhD in 1966 (Physics) and Instructor in Physics.
Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-
Speyer Visiting Professor and Professor of Physics.
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972
Assistant in Physics; Associate in Physics; and Research Associate.
Associate Professor to Professor of Physics.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Visiting Professor.
Received PhD (1968). Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor.
Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955
Professor of Experimental Physics; Research Professor; and Emeritus Research Professor.
PhD Students
Received AB in 1918, AM in 1920, and PhD in 1921.
Briggs, Lyman J. (Lyman James), 1874-1963
Received PhD in 1901.
Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965
Received AB, AM, and PhD in 1919 (Physics).
Received PhD (Physics) in 1940.
Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953
Received PhD (Physics) in 1908.
Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966
Received PhD (1917).
Received PhD (1939).
Saunders, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1875-1963
Received PhD (1899).
Schubauer, Galen B. (Galen Brandt), 1904-
Received PhD (1934).
Received PhD (1926).
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Received PhD in 1933.
Associates & Members
Adel, Arthur, 1908-1994
Allison, Fred, 1882-1974
Received BA in 1970.
Bell, James F.
Berlin, Theodore H., 1917-1962
Feather, N. (Norman)
Took graduate physics and mathematics courses.
Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995
Klick, Clifford C., 1918-
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Otting, William Joseph, 1919-
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
Plass, Gilbert N.
Plyler, Earle Keith, 1897-1976
Squier, George Owen
Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000
Vinal, George Wood, 1882-1969
Wilson, Lucy, 1888-
Witten, Louis
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Johns Hopkins University
Associates
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics
Participated in the study of multi-institutional collaborations.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Project files, circa 1980-1989.
Archives Division
Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum
MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA
Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics records, 1887-1988 (bulk 1949-1969).
Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Johns Hopkins University oral history collection, 1999-[ongoing].
Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Pages from catalogs listing faculty of Johns Hopkins University Physics Department, 1930-1940.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Arthur Adel response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
C. Truesdell papers, 1939-1989.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Charles S. Peirce notebook, 1880.
Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Conversations with David Inglis [videorecording], Feb.-May 1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fred Allison autobiographical sketches, 1965.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
George Owen Squier papers, 1883-1934.
Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA
Henry Crew at Northwestern University: A memoir, 1975.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
James F. Bell papers, circa 1937-1995.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Arthur Adel, 1987 August 13.
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 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 Earle Plyler, 1964 April 7.
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 George Wood Vinal, 1964 March 20.
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 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 Karl F. Herzfeld, 1978 May 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Louis Witten, 2011 March 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lucy Wilson, 1978 October 4 and December 6.
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 Norman Feather, 1971 February 25 and 5 November.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Ground-based astronomy: Astrophysical Research Consortium, 1996-1997.
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
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Materials science: Smart Materials Consortium (SMC), 1996-1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Space Science: International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), 1992-1994.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Space Science: Voyager, 1992-1994.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Riccardo Giacconi videohistory interviews, 2004.
Smithsonian Institution. Archives.
Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA
Robert G. Sachs letters concerning Merle Tuve's and Raymond Herb's physics research at Johns Hopkins University and the Univerity of Wisconsin, 1983-1984.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Theodore Berlin papers, 1944-1962.
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA
Thomas M. Donahue papers, 1939-2002 (bulk 1980-1998).
Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA
Vannevar Bush papers, 1901-1974.
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
William Joseph Otting response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Subject
An American saga : the story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner / by James Thomas Flexner.