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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectUniversity of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dates
1850 – present
Authorized Form of Name
University of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Additional Forms of Names
University of Rochester. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Institutional History
Abstract
The research interests of the University of Rochester Department of Physics and Astronomy are diverse and range from subatomic particles to galaxy clusters. It is internationally recognized in almost all major subfields of physics and astronomy and include astrophysics, quantum optics, biological physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and laser physics.
Important Dates
1850University of Rochester was founded, Rochester (N.Y.).
1929 – 1961Institute of Applied Optics was founded and was then made part of the College of Engineering.
1934 – 1946Lee Dubridge was on faculty.
1935Department awarded its first three PhD degrees.
1935 – 1937Frederick Seitz was on faculty.
1937 – 1945Victor Weisskopf was on faculty.
1939 – 1970Robert Marshak was on faculty.
1942 – 1943Herbert York was on faculty.
1948The new 130" cyclotron began operation.
1950Held the first Annual Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics.
1950 – 1951Kenneth Case was on faculty.
1952 – 1954D. Allan Bromley was on faculty.
1954The cyclotron was rebuilt as the world's first variable-energy cyclotron.
1957The Physics Department became the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
1964 – 2001Leonard Mandel was on faculty.
1966 – 1981Elliott Montroll was on faculty.
1998 – 2014Esther Conwell was on faculty.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Citations
Historical information from Fulbright, Harry Wilks. History of the [University of Rochester] Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1979. Niels Bohr Library & Archives.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Bromley, D. Allan (David Allan), 1926-2005
Received MS (1951) and PhD in Nuclear Physics (1952). Instructor in Physics and Assistant Professor of Physics.
Research Associate.
Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marley), 1922-2014
Received MS (1945). Adjunct Professor and Research Professor of Physics.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Professor of Physics and Chair, Department of Physics.
Adjunct Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics (Research).
Professor of Physics; Lee DuBridge Professor of Physics and Optics; and Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics.
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Instructor to Professor of Physics; Harris Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; and Distinguished University Professor.
Einstein Professor of Physics and Director, Institute of Fundamental Studies.
Staff, Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Professor, Optical Institute.
Visiting Professor.
Instructor in Physics and Assistant Professor in Physics.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Instructor in Physics and Assistant Professor of Physics.
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)
Received AB (1942) and Assistant in Physics.
PhD Students
Received AB (1937) and PhD (1941).
Courant, Ernest D. (Ernest David), 1920-
Received MS (1942) and PhD (1943).
Received PhD in Physics (1955).
Greene, J. M. (John M.), 1928-
Received PhD in Physics (1956).
Received PhD in Physics (1973).
Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-
Received PhDin Physics (1978).
Received PhD in Physics (1955). Awarded 2000 Distinguised Scholar Award.
Received PhD in Physics specializing in Optics (1989).
Associates & Members
Received BS in Physics (1970).
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Obtained PhD in Physics (1941).
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-
Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984
Eberly, J. H., 1935-
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Fink, R. W. (Richard Walter), 1928-
Gisin, N. (Nicolas)
Goldberg, Joshua N.
Hoffmann, Banesh, 1906-
Huizenga, John R. (John Robert), 1921-2014
Jacobs, Stephen D.
Knight, Peter (Peter L.)
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
Maurer, Robert Joseph, 1913-
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Received BS (1965).
Rohrlich, F.
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Received AB (1920).
Soures, John M., 1943-
Sproull, Robert L.
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
University of Rochester
Associates
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics
Participated in the study of multi-institutional collaborations.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Symposium honoring Lee Alvin DuBridge [sound recording], 1984 September 21-22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
University of Rochester Department of Physics records, 1929-1946.
Rush Rhees Library. Dept. of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Archives
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, 14627, USA
Subject
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
Fritz Rohrlich collection on the Seventh Annual Conference on High Enegry Nuclear Physics, 1957.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
History of the [University of Rochester] Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1979.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
John R. Huizenga response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lee A. DuBridge papers, 1932-1986.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, 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
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 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 Esther Conwell, 2007 January 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Esther M. Conwell, 1983 March 22.
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 Herbert F. York, 1975 September 9 and 1976 May 13.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with J. H. Eberly and Sir Peter Knight, 2009 June 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with John Soures, 2003 December 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joshua Goldberg, 2011 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1987 March 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Masatoshi Koshiba, 1997 August 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Nicolas Gisin, 2013 December 7.
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, 1985 June 18.
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
Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Sproull, 2004 February 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
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 Stephen Jacobs, 2003 December 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Theodore Dunham, 1977 April 30 and 14 April 1978.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1966 September 21 and December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Probes: CESR-CLEO: The CLEO Experiment at CESR, 1991.
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
Papers relating to the CLEO Experiment and the Origins of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).
In the possession of Richard Kass at Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Papers relating to the CLEO Experiment and the Origins of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).
In the possession of Kagan Harris at Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
R. W. Fink response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert H. Dicke response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
High energy nuclear physics (1955)
Subject
Five decades of research in nuclear science / John R. Huizenga.