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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

Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009

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Series III: Columbia University Physics


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.])