Ralph S. Halford papers, 1936-1975 [bulk dates: 1940-1959]

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Series I: Ralph S. Halford papers, 1936-1975 (Bulk: 1940-1959)



Box 1 American Physical Meeting- Boston - Division of Chemical Physics, 1959 March


Box 1 Androsterone Drawings, undated


Box 1 Atomic Bomb Photo, 1945 July 16

Photograph taken by Jack Aeby at the test site of the Atomic bomb. Alamogordo, NM, 16 July 1945. Not signed or inscribed. Gift of Mrs. Ralph S. Halford, 27 June 1980.


Box 1 Biographical Data, 1940 October 24

Letter to Local Draft Board, Albany, California regarding his change in residence to Cambridge, MA.


Box 1 Chemistry Notebook, 1930s

Notes from when he was a student at University of California, Berkeley.


Box 1 Chicago Alumni Trip, 1959 April-May


Box 1 Conference on Microspectrophotometry of Cells at M.I.T., 1951 September 28-29


Box 1 A Development of Thermodynamics, 1950


Box 1 Entopy of Vaporization and Restricted Molecular Rotation in Liquids, 1939

Written at University of California, Berkeley.


Box 1 Enumerability and the Exclusion Principle, 1947-1948


Box 1 Graduate Curriculum in Chemistry (Analysis and Criticism), undated


Box 1 Grating as Substitute for Littrow Mirror, undated


Box 1 Growth of Crystals, undated


Box 1 The Infrared Sepctra of Some Liquid Mixtures, 1956-1958


Box 1 Insulin Symposium, 1949 May 16-17

Held at the Lilly Research Laboratories Assembly Room, Bldg. 14, Indianapolis, Indiana.


Box 1 A Lower Limit for the Veolocities of Formation of Trichalide Ions in Aqueos Solutions, 1940


Box 1 NH4 NO3, 1946-1947


Box 1 Notes on "Population Explosion and Interstellar Expansion" by Sebastian von Horner, 1975



Box 2 Publications by Ralph S. Halford, 1936-1956


Box 2 Quarterly Reports on Crystal Chemical Physics, 1955-1957, 4 folders

Reports for contract work done for the Signal Corps, Department of the Army. Report nos. 1-7.


Box 2 Speculations: re Non-Specific I.R. Absorption in Moelcular Liquids and Quantized Levels for Van der Waals Interactions, 1953 August 30


Box 2 Spectrometers - Patent for Recording Spectrometers (with A. Savitzky), 1950-1951


Box 2 Spectrometers - Photographs of R.S. Halford's Spectrometers, 1950s


Box 2 Symposium on Instruction in Physical Chemistty (ACS - Atlantic City), 1959