Lucy Julia Hayner papers, 1919-1966

Summary Information

Abstract

This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, manuscript notes, diagrams, correspondence and reprints of the physicist Lucy Julia Hayner (1898-1971).

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series.

• Series I. Papers (Original Accession), 1922-1937
• Series II. Papers (2000 Addition), 1919-1966

Description

Summary

These papers represent Lucy Hayner's work as a student, teaching assistant, research physicist at General Electric, and faculty member at Columbia. There is coursework, research notes, article drafts, offprints and correspondence (professional, personal and with students).

• 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.

• 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.

Using the Collection

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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lucy Julia Hayner papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Physics Library. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1981. Accession number--M-81.

2000 Addition: Two document boxes were transferred by Lalla Grimes, Department of Physics, to the University Archives in 2000. (Accession number 2001-019)

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

Series II was processed by Arenah Grace in June 2001.

Revision Description

2012-07-09 xml document created by Judith Zupnick.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2019-07-18 Added Series II. Papers (2000 Addition) (formerly UA#0025, BIBID 6943103)

Subject Headings

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

A specialist in atomic and electronic physics, Lucy Hayner graduated from Barnard College in 1919. Her teaching career at Columbia began in 1920 when she received her MA degree. She conducted research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK from 1924 to 1925 and completed her PhD in 1926. She then worked for three years in the research laboratory of General Electric Co. on problems of electron emission in vacuum tubes. After returning to Columbia in 1929, she taught in and later headed the Ernest Kempton Adams Laboratory. Hayner also designed and constructed a circular slide rule with Braille markings for blind students. A professor emerita of physics at Columbia University, Hayner died on 23 September 1971 at the age of 73.