Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009

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Box 1 Folder 13 Letter from Columbia President George Rupp to Melvin Schwartz appointing him as I.I. Rabi Professor Emeritus, December 1, 2001

Box 1 Folder 23 Letter from Valetine Telegdi to Melvin Schwartz, 11/7/95

(On CERN letterhead, transmitting a reprint of an article, "Self-Energy and the Stability of the Classical Electron," by F. Rohrlich, American Journal of Physics 28, no. 639 (1960)

Box 1 Folder 26 Letter from Columbia President Michael Sovern to Melvin Schwartz enclosing photos of the 237th graduation event

Box 1 Folder 29 Letter from Christopher Gardner to Bronx Science Principal Valerie Reidy, September 27 2009

(Attaching a check for $5000 for a prize to be established in Melvin Schwartz's name)

Box 1 Folder 30 Letter from Dean Austin Quigley to Melvin Schwartz, June 4, 2001

(Noting the gift Melvin and Marilyn Schwartz gave to Columbia)

Box 1 Folder 67 Letters from V. Telegdi to L. Lederman, Feb 8 1993 and June 8 1993

(Critiquing Lederman's The God Particle. [explosive!] with cover notes to Melvin Schwartz)

Box 1 Folder 68 Letter from Heinz Filtuth to Melvin Schwartz and two papers concerning the sigma-lamdy parity, June 29 2004

(Includes two papers concerning the sigma-lamdy parity)

Box 1 Folder 69 Letter from Victoria Prince to Schwartz confirming terms of retirement from Columbia, Dec 1 1998

Box 1 Folder 72 Letter from Martha Rebay to Schwartz re bequest of shares in DPI to Columbia, December 29 1987

Box 1 Folder 73 Letter from John Grafton, Dover Publications, confirming the Dover edition of Principles of Electrodynamics, Feb 4 1986

(With follow up letters dated Feb 25, 1986, Feb 5 1987, and Nov 2 1987. Supplemental material from McGraw Hill and US government re: copyright)

Box 1 Folder 4 Classroom notebook – Physics 204 – Notes and Problems. "Outline of Lectures on Analytical Dynamics" by S.L. Quimby, 1950

(Mimeographed. With marginal notes by Melvin Schwartz)

Box 1 Folder 31 Class notebook of Melvin Schwartz, Physics 227

Box 1 Folder 34 Class notebook of Melvin Schwartz, Physics 219

Box 1 Folder 5 Chapter IV, "Interactions of Muon Neutrinos" Charles Baltay. Mimeographed ms.

(A review article to be published as Chapter IV of "Muon Physics:, edited by V. W. Hughes and C. S. Wu

Box 1 Folder 8 "Basic Principles of Classical Mechanics" – mimeographed class lectures with notes and marginalia by Melvin Schwartz. Undated, and no indication of class number or professor

Box 1 Folder 6 The Columbia Physics Department: A Brief History prepared by the Columbia Physics Department, compiled and edited by I. Tramm

Box 1 Folder 10 "Columbia Physics PhDs 1895 – 1988" Complete listing of all PhDs granted

(photocopy)

Box 1 Folder 16 "Columbia University Physics Faculty 1820 – 1988." Complete listing prepared by the Columbia Physics Department

(See folder 10 above)

Neutrino Experiment:

Box 1 Folder 14 Manila folder containing copies of the original proposals for the muon neutrino experiment, May 26, 1960 and September 22, 1960

Box 1 Folder 56 Manila folder: Neutrino Experiment

(Includes "The First High Energy Neutrino Experiment" from Reviews of Modern Physics. Vol. 61, No. 3, July 1989 and a contract for Principles of Electrodynamics, as well as copies of letters from Rodney L. Cool, 1960-1962 )

Box 1 Folder 60 Loose clippings on Neutrino Experiment from NYT and Life Magazine. Plus clipping from NYT re: genetic breakthrough re: adrenal hyperplasia

Box 1 Folder 64 Manila folder with various papers – RHIC paper by TD Lee, and presentation of neutrino experiment.

Box 1 Folder 65 "This Was the Particle Physics that Was: Particle Physics from C and P Violation to CP Violation." G. Feinberg

(Talk given at BNL-Columbia Celebration of the 1988 Nobel Prize Experiment. [NB: p 14 where Schwartz tells Feinberg that Schwartz's original pessimism about whether the experiment could be done was based on initial design specs of AGS.])

Box 1 Folder 17 "The Early History of High-Energy Neutrino Physics,' a talk by Melvin Schwartz

(No date, but Schwartz is listed as associated with Brookhaven National Laboratory, we can presume his term as director of nuclear and particle physics at the lab)

Box 1 Folder 18 "History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part V: Particle Hunters" by Robert Crease

(Photocopy, typed ms with annotation by Crease at top of first page)

Box 1 Folder 57 "The History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part One: The Graphite Reactor and the Cosmotron." By Robert P. Crease. Long Island Historical Journal vol 3 no 2 (photocopy)

Box 1 Folder 58 "The History of Brookhaven National Laboratory Part Two: The Haworth Years" by Robert P. Crease. Long Island Historical Journal Vol. 4 no. 2.

Box 1 Folder 63 Brookhaven Bulletin 43 no 6, February 1989

Box 1 Folder 70 The Scientists with front page story on Schwartz's return to Brookhaven, July 8 1991

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Box 3 1988 Nobel Prize medal in Physics awarded to Melvin Schwartz in a red leather case with M. Schwartz gold tooled on front cover of the case

Box 3 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics diploma in a MS monogrammed blue leather cover with a MS monogrammed clamshell box

Box 3 Official letter from the Nobel Prize Committee announcing the award for the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics to Melvin Schwartz, Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger, 26 October 1988

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Box 1 Folder 22 Photocopy of handwritten proposal nominating t'Hooft and Veltman for Nobel Prize

(Unknown author--not Mel Schwartz. Also contains Val Telegdi's nomination of Veltman for National Academy of Sciences, but I do not think the handwriting on the Nobel nomination matches that of Telegdi)

Box 1 Folder 61 Annual Report of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , 31 March 1989

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Box 2 Folder 1 Red folder containing material from 1988 Nobel Prize, 1991 Jubilee Nobel Ceremony, 1999 Centennial Nobel Prize, and Lindau Meetings

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Box 1 Folder 53 Preliminary Draft of essay for publication in Current Contents: "The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics: Melvin Schwartz, Leon Lederman, Jack Steinberger, and the Story of Two Neutrinos." By Eugene Garfield. FAX paper.

Box 1 Folder 1 "Nobel Lectures in Physics 1988" – reprint Reviews of Modern Physics 61, no. 3, July 1989

Box 1 Folder 2 "Understanding Wave Characteristics via Linear Superposition of Retarded Fields" by H.M. Lai, Y.P. Lau, and W.H. Wong – reprint American Journal of Physics 70, no 2, February 2002

(with compliments slip signed by H.M. Lai)

Box 1 Folder 9 "Ejection of Fragments in Supernova Explosions" – paper by A. Loeb, F.A. Rasio, and J. Shaham. Undated.

Box 1 Folder 11 "Leptonic Decays of Hadron" by L.-M. Chounet, J.-M Gaillard, and M.K. Gaillard. European Organization for Nuclear Reseach. Geneva, 1971

(photocopy)

Box 1 Folder 12 "Chapter 7 The CERN Neutrino Experiment" no author no date

(NB: This is a chapter from Martinius Veltman's book, "Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics."

Box 1 Folder 15 "Communication via One- and Two-Particle Operators on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States" by Charles H. Bennett and Stephen J. Wiesner, Physical Review Letters 69 no. 20, 16 November 1992

(Offprint, with envelope from Wiesner attached)

Box 1 Folder 19 "The Energy Levels of Pi-Muonium" by C.F. Cho. "Il Nuovo Cimento" 23A, no. 3, 1 Octobre 1974

(Offprint)

Box 1 Folder 20 Hunting the Quark Gluon Plasma: Results from the First 3 Years at RHIC. , April 18, 2005

Box 1 Folder 21 Note by Bogdan Maglich entitled "Aftermath of Ne'eman-Maglich Session at HADRONS 2001: Re-discovery of Fine Structure in Meson Spectrum and Emergence of Ultra-High Resoltuion Hadron Spectrometer", Feb 18, 2003

Box 1 Folder 25 Package of papers on quantum computing and cryptography from Steve Wiesner

Box 1 Folder 27 Manila folder containing papers related to "exotic atoms"

Box 1 Folder 28 Blue folder containing material relating to pi-mu atoms experiments

Box 1 Folder 32 "Bose-Einstein Correlations for Nixed Neutral Mesons" by Harry J. Lipkin, Physical Review Letters 69 no. 26, (Photocopy), 28 December 1992

Box 1 Folder 33 "Bose-Einstein Correlation Effect in a Boson-Anti-Boson System." By Gideon Alexander. Photocopy manuscript, January 18, 1994

Box 1 Folder 35 Papers by Lee and Yang (individually) relating to parity violation

Box 1 Folder 36 "Weak Interactions: Leptonic Modes – Experimental" M. Goldhaber, rapporteur, 30 June – 5 July 1958

(Reprinted from 1958 Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics at CERN)

Box 1 Folder 37 "The Intrinsic Parity of Elementary Particles" – by G.C. Wick, A.S. Wightman, and E.P. Wigner. Physical Review 88, no. 1, October 1, 1952

Box 1 Folder 38 "Einstein, Michelson, and the 'Crucial' Experiment" by Gerald Holton. Isis vol 60 part 2 no. 202. Reprint., 1969

Box 1 Folder 39 "Notes on Statistics for Physicists" by Jay Orear. UC Berkeley Rad Lab UCRL-8417. (Mimeographed)

Box 1 Folder 40 "Indication, from Pioneer 10/11, Galileo, and Ulysses Data, of an Apparent Anomalous Weak, Long-Range Acceleration." Bu John D. Anderson, Philip A. Laing, Eunice L. Lau, Anthony S. Liu, Michael Martin Nieto, and Slava G. Turyshev. Physical Review Letters 81 no 14 (Photocopy), October 5 1998

Box 1 Folder 41 "The Fundamental Physical Constants." By E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor. Physics Today (Clipping), August 1966

Box 1 Folder 42 "The Biology of Heavy Water" by Joseph J. Katz. Scientific American, 1960

Box 1 Folder 43 "Observaions of the Failure of Conservation of Parity and Charge Conjugation in Meson Decays: The Magnetic Moment of the Free Muon." By Richard L. Garwin, Leon M. Lederman, and Marcel Weinrich. Physics Review, Letters to the Editor, no date (received January 15 1957) (Photocopy incomplete)

Box 1 Folder 44 "Deuterated Organisms: Cultivation and Uses," Joseph J. Katz and Henry L. Crispi. Science, vol 151, (Photocopy), 11 March 1966

Box 1 Folder 45 "Blockage of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis by Deuterium Oxide" by Paul R. Gross and Clifford V. Harding, Science vol 137(?) (Photocopy), 14 April 1961

Box 1 Folder 46 "Quantitative Technique for Bio-Electrical Spectroscopy" by J. Jossinet, A. Lobel, C. Michaudet, and M. Schmitt. Journal of Biomedical Engineering Vol 7 (Photocopy), October 1985

Box 1 Folder 47 "Circadian Activity Rhythm of the Deer Mouse, Peromyscus: Effect of Deuterium Oxide" by Robert B. Suter and Kenneth S. Rawson, Science vol 160 (?) (Photocopy), 31 May 1968

Box 1 Folder 48 "Helicity of Neutrinos" by M. Goldhabet, L. Grodzins, and A.W. Sunyar. Physical Review 109, no. 3 . (Reprint), February 1 1958

Box 1 Folder 49 "The Nucleus as an Assembly of Quarks" by Shoji Magamiya. Nevis Laboraties, Columbia University. Presented in Tokyo, December 5-7 1990

Box 1 Folder 50 Unidentifable page from experimental presentation

Box 1 Folder 51 "Guide for Metric Practice." By Robert A. Nelson. Physics Today (Clipping), August 1966

Box 1 Folder 52 Manila folder of Physical Review articles (Photocopies)

Box 1 Folder 54 "Hardball Physics" by Luis W. Alvarez. Xerox ms. marked "For posthumous publication only." RL Garwin's copy

(NB: Of great historical interest)

Box 1 Folder 55 Draft chapters of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Melvin Schwartz

Box 1 Folder 59 "Mind Over Matter: The Intellectual Context of Experimental Physics" by V.L. Telegdi. Inscribed by the author to Melvin Schwartz. CERN, 2 November 1990

(Attached letter from Telegdi to schwartz dated Nov 12 1990, commenting on Jerome Friedman Nobel Prize and cryptic PS)

Box 1 Folder 62 Articles and offprints by Joseph A. Mazzeo

Box 1 Folder 66 "Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter – The Next Layer." By Haim Harari. Draft ms. for Scientific American, August 27 1982

Box 1 Folder 71 CERN Press Review, 31 October 1988

Box 1 Folder 3 The I.I. Rabi Memorial Room, 813 Pupin Hall, Columbia University – brochure prepared for the dedication of the room, December 13, 1996

Box 1 Folder 7 Alumni News Bronx High School of Science, January 1989

(With article about 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics)

Box 1 Folder 74 Richard L. Garwin "Memorial Tribute for Luis W. Alvarez", 1 May 1991

Box 1 Folder 24 Photograph (undated, damaged) of participants in 1962 muon neutrino experiment

Box 1 Folder 75 Photographs of Melvin Schwartz

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Box 3 Watercolor by Sven Ljunberg

Collection Overview

Collection Contents

Series I: Correspondence

Series II: Manuscripts

Series III: Columbia University Physics

Series IV: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Series V: Nobel Prize

Series VI: Physics Articles and Papers

Series VII: Brochures, Guides, and Memorials

Series VIII: Photographs & Artwork