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Brian Greene Lectures, 1997-2002
2.5 linear feetThis collection comprises 85 VHS tapes of the lectures of Brian Greene, Fall 1997-Spring 2002.
C.S. (Chien-Shiung) Wu Papers, 1945-1994, bulk 1960-1979
9.42 linear feetThe collection consists of speeches, reports, publications, research notes, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection relates to Wu's involvement in the American Physical Society as well as her research activities. The correspondence is chiefly professional, relating to C. S. Wu's physics research, professional commitments, appointments, meetings, conferences, and publications. Correspondence also includes letters from individuals around the world praising Wu for her accomplishments, asking advice, arranging speaking engagements, discussing administrative matters, and trading research notes, as well as information on publications and other topics. In addition, the collection contains information on Wu's involvement in the development of an affirmative action program at Columbia University in the 1970's.
Dana Paul Mitchell papers, 1925-1960
4 boxesProfessional and personal correspondence, administrative records, manuscript lecture notes, and some miscellaneous printed materials. The general correspondence file, 1927-1958, contains letters, both personal and professional, with colleagues, with and about his students, about laboratory equipment, about weapons for the Army and Navy, and with industry concerning his research. The subject file, 1926-1960, contains some additional professional and personal correspondence, a number of administrative records on property control of laboratory equipment, particularly for government research projects, other Columbia Physics Department matters, several typescripts on cyclotron coil designs, Mitchell's personal records relating to employment, and other miscellaneous personal files. There are handwritten lecture notes for Mitchell's courses, the most complete being those for Physics R6 and General Studies Physics 18.
Department of Physics Historical records, 1862-1997, bulk 1906-1957
2.29 linear feetDepartment of Physics records, 1870-1983
45 linear feetGeorge Braxton Pegram papers, 1903-1958
40.61 Linear FeetCorrespondence, manuscripts, and subject files on most aspects of Pegram's career. Also, a large quantity of research notes made by Lucy J. Hayner (1898-1971), Professor Emeritus of Physics at Columbia University, who was writing a history of Columbia's Physics Dept., 1905-1954, can be found in folders throughout the collection.
Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009
1.75 Linear FeetSamuel Devons papers, 1959-2004
66.5 linear feetShirley Leon Quimby papers, 1918-1974
21 boxesShirley Leon Quimby papers include correspondence, manuscripts of works by Quimby and others, notes on lectures, teaching materials, photographs of physicists, some instrument catalogs and other printed materials. Much of the material documents grant funded research directed by Quimby on CuAu. In his later years Quimby did research on the Mayan Calendar.