Lucy Julia Hayner papers, 1919-1966

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Series I. Papers (Original Accession), 1922-1937

Manuscripts, typescripts, manuscript notes, diagrams, letters, and reprints of Hayner. These papers represent her early work while a graduate student and a teaching assistant at Columbia, 1920-1925, as a research physicist at General Electric, 1925-1928, and while a professor at Columbia, 1929-1937. The papers deal with research on the "shot effect" of electron emissions in vacuum tubes. There are notes on "arc" research, 1924-1925, notes and drafts of her 1925 Columbia Ph.D. dissertation: THE PERSISTENCE OF THE RADIATION EXCITED IN MERCURY VAPOR, files of notes on "secondary emissions" 1922-1928, and notes and manuscript and typescript drafts of her two articles "Shot Effect of Secondary Electron Currents" (PHYSICS VI, Oct. 1935) and "Shot Effect of Secondary Electrons from Nickel and Beryllium" (THE PHYSICAL REVIEW, LII, Nov. 1, 1937). The second article was co-authored by her husband, Bernhard Kurrelmeyer and there are also notes and drafts by him. Also, manuscripts and notes for his article "The Photoelectric Conductivity of Sulphur" (1927); and a few letters from other physicists relating to the publication of these articles.



Box 1 Secondary Emissions Research, 1922-1928



Box 2 Arc Research, 1924-1925


Box 2 Columbia Dissertation, 1925



Box 3 Shot Effect Articles, 1935-1937


Box 3 Bernhard Kurrelmeyer Article, 1927

Series II. Papers (2000 Addition), 1919-1966

This series contains the materials transferred to the University Archives in 2000. They include Hayner's lab reports as a graduate student, notes, correspondence, and offprints.



Box 4 Student papers, 1919

(Experiment reports #2-11 for Prof. Harold W. Webb, fall semester 1919.)


Box 4 Student papers, 1920

(Experiment reports #12-20 for Prof. Harold W. Webb, spring semester 1920.)


Box 4 Schottky's shot effect offprints, 1919-1925

(Offprints of journal articles in English and German.)


Box 4 Shottky's shot effect notes and correspondence, 1924-1927


Box 4 Laboratory notebook, 1923-1927

(Includes observations, notes, numbers, diagrams, graphs, etc.)


Correspondence - Professional, 1931-1961


Box 4 A-B, 1931-1957


Box 4 C-D, 1935-1957


Box 4 E-G, 1935-1956


Box 4 I-L, 1936-1959


Box 4 M-P, 1936-1957



Box 5 R-S, 1938-1961


Box 5 T-Y, 1932-1961


Box 5 Correspondence - Students, 1944-1961


Box 5 Correspondence - Student Reports, 1954-1966


Box 5 Correspondence - Personal (Columbia), 1937-1963


Box 5 Offprints, 1927-1937

(Articles by Hayner and by Hayner and Kurrelmeyer.)