George Braxton Pegram papers, 1903-1958

Summary Information

Description

Summary

Correspondence, 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.

• Series I: Cataloged Correspondence

• Series II: Miscellaneous Correspondence

• Series III: Personal Correspondence, 1903-1923, 1949-1955

• Series IV: Personal Business, 1914-1916, 1924-1927

• Series V: General Correspondence, 1950-1954

• Series VI: Correspondence--World War I Research

• Series VII: Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Publications, and Bibliography of G.B. Pegram

• Series VIII: Subject Files: Columbia University

• Series IX: Subject File: General

• Series X: Organizations

• Series XI: Oak Ridge Institute

• Series XII: Notes on G.B. Pegram and the History of the Physics Department by Professor L.J. Hayner

• Series XIII: Course Materials and Student Records

• Series XIV: Biographical Materials

• Series XV: Recommendations and Applications for Employment and Requests for Information

• Series XVI: Printed Materials

• Series XVII: Photographs

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged remainder listed and arranged.

• Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
• Series II: Miscellaneous Correspondence
• Subseries II.1: Alphabetical
• Subseries II.2: Chronological, 1908-1951 undated, 1908-1951, undated
• Series III: Personal Correspondence, 1903-1923, 1949-1955
• Series IV: Personal Business, 1914-1916, 1924-1927
• Series V: General Correspondence, 1950-1954
• Series VI: Correspondence--World War I Research
• Series VII: Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Publications, and Bibliography of G.B. Pegram
• Series VIII: Subject Files: Columbia University
• Subseries VIII.1 Subject Files--A-Z (Original Accession)
• Subseries VIII.2: Subject Files--A-Z, 1905-1937 (1978 Addition), 1905-1937
• Subseries VIII.3: Subject Files--A-Z, 1925-1940 (1978 Addition), 1925-1940
• Subseries VIII.4: Advisory Committee on Educational Policy (2019 Addition), 1934-1945
• Series IX: Subject File: General
• Series X: Organizations
• Series XI: Oak Ridge Institute
• Series XII: Notes on G.B. Pegram and the History of the Physics Department by Professor L.J. Hayner
• Series XIII: Course Materials and Student Records
• Series XIV: Biographical Materials
• Series XV: Recommendations and Applications for Employment and Requests for Information
• Series XVI: Printed Materials
• Series XVII: Photographs

Using the Collection

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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George Braxton Pegram papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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 Department. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1972. Accession number--M-72.

Subseries VIII.4 was added in July 2019. The materials were originally accessioned in July 2005 (2005.0005), transferred by Joan Rouse, 313 Low Library.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89. Subseries VIII.4 was processed by Joanna Rios in July 2019.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2014-10-13 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

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

2019-07-29 Added Subseries VIII.4 from materials transferred from the University Archives (former BIBID 6953941, part of accession 2005.005)

Biographical / Historical

Nuclear physicist, professor of physics, and Dean of Graduate Faculties at Columbia University. Pegram, a prominent nuclear physicist, conducted a great deal of defense-related research and was responsible for the famous meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and American nuclear scientists prior to World War II that eventually led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.

Subject Headings

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