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Series III: Pupin Cyclotron Laboratory
Series IV: Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory
Series V: Pegram Nuclear Physics Laboratory
Series VI: Physics Research
Series VII: Reprints

Department of Physics records, 1870-1983

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Series I: Department Records

This series consists of documents and materials of the Physics Department itself, as distinct from those of its associated research laboratories. Series I is divided into two sub-series.

Subseries I.1: Subject Files

This subseries consists of assorted correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and so on, organized alphabetically by subject. These records, all contained in record carton 1, are far from comprehensive. Folders 1.1–1.3 contain documents related to research done under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission (circa 1948–1953). Folder 1.6 contains records of graduate student fellowships awarded (university-wide) in the mid 1950s. Folders 1.7–1.15 contain John R. Dunning's records of research operations at the Cyclotron Laboratory and within the Division of War Research (circa 1940–1949). Folders 1.22–1.24 contain drafts of papers and theses submitted to Professor Chien-Shiung Wu in the early 1950s.

Atomic Energy Commission


Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence, Contracts, and Papers, 1948-1958

Box 1 Folder 2 Progress Reports, 1950-1954

Box 1 Folder 3 Security Requirements, 1951-1953

Budget and Appointments


Box 45 Folder 1 1940-1941

Box 45 Folder 2 1941-1942

Box 45 Folder 3 1942-1943

Box 45 Folder 4 1943-1944

Box 45 Folder 5 1944-1945

Box 45 Folder 6 1945-1946

Box 45 Folder 7 1946-1947

Box 45 Folder 8 1947-1948

Box 45 Folder 9 1948-1949

Budget - Summer Session

Box 45 Folder 10 1943

Box 45 Folder 11 1944

Box 45 Folder 12 1946

Box 45 Folder 13 1947

Box 45 Folder 14 1948

Box 45 Folder 15 1949

Box 45 Folder 16 1950


Box 1 Folder 4 Budget Worksheets, 1942-1948

Box 1 Folder 5 Columbia College - Correspondence, 1953-1956

Box 1 Folder 6 Committee on Instruction – Fellowships, 1953-1954

Cyclotron

Box 1 Folder 7-9 Accounts, 1943-1949, 3 folders

Box 1 Folder 10 Contracts, 1940-1949

Box 1 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1944-1949

Box 1 Folder 12 Financial Records, 1944-1949

Box 1 Folder 13 Photos, 1948-1949

Davis, Bergen - correspondence, papers, etc., 1919-1938

Division of War Research

Box 1 Folder 14 Record Book, 1943-1944

Box 1 Folder 15 Reports and Correspondence, 1942-1948

Box 1 Folder 16 Graduate Committee - Records, 1950-1953

Box 1 Folder 17 Joint Committee on Graduate Instruction, 1953-1954

Box 1 Folder 18 Institute for International Education - Correspondence, 1955

Box 1 Folder 19 Library Committee - Records, 1953

Box 1 Folder 20 Pliofilm Procurement - Correspondence, 1950-1951

Box 1 Folder 21 Storage Battery Research (Professor William Hallock), 1902-1910

Student Papers, Submitted to Wu

Box 1 Folder 22 Koerts, Leo, 1953-1955

Box 1 Folder 23 Shaknov, Irving, 1951

Box 1 Folder 24-25 University Council - Agendas and Minutes, 1953-1954, 2 folders

Subseries I.2: Instruction Files

Folders 2.1-10 contain classroom materials and records related to summer session classes offered mainly in the 1950s. Folders 2.11–3.9 contain sample deficiency exams, finals, master's exams, and Ph.D. qualifying exams, some dating as early as the 1920s. The most extensive portion of this sub-series, however, is the course materials within folders 3.10–7.3. Organized principally by academic year and course offered, these records provide a comprehensive view of the Physics Department's course offerings roughly from the late 1930s through the late 1950's. For each course there are syllabi, quizzes, lab assignments, exams, and so on; often there are grade distributions, and in some cases lecture notes. Included are some apparently complete lecture sets, as for example: folder 6.14: Jack Steinberger's lectures on "Meson Physics" (1957); or folder 6.1: Steven Weinberg's lectures on "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" (1958).

Summer Session


Box 2 Folder 1-3 General, 1948-1964, 3 folders

Box 2 Folder 4-6 Physics s5 (Sloan Grant), 1960-1967, 3 folders

Box 2 Folder 7-8 1961 Institute for High School Teachers, 1959-1962, 2 folders

Box 2 Folder 9-10 1962 Institute for High School Teachers, 1961-1963, 2 folders

Exam Samples

Box 2 Folder 11-13 Deficiency Exams, 1947-1957, 3 folders

Box 2 Folder 14-17 Final Course Exams, 1947-1962, 4 folders

Box 2 Folder 18-19 Masters Exams, 1921-1949, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 1 Masters Exams, 1950-1962

Box 3 Folder 2 Midterm Exams, 1954-1962

Box 3 Folder 3 Special Exams and Solution Sheets, 1958-1960

Box 3 Folder 4-9 PhD Qualifying Exams, 1926-1962, 6 folders


Box 43 Folder 21 Prof. Devon's Final Exams, 1961-1966

(Elementary Physics 2 / Physics C1002y)

Course Materials


Box 3 Folder 10 Lab Manual, undated

Box 3 Folder 11 Summer 1927, Summer 1934, Summer 1935, 1927-1935

Box 3 Folder 12-14 Spring/Summer, 1936-1939, 3 folders

Box 3 Folder 15 Summer/Fall, 1939

Box 3 Folder 16 Miscellaneous, 1940-1948

Box 3 Folder 17 Electromagnetics, 1948 Spring

(based on Lamb lectures)

Box 3 Folder 18-19 Academic Years, 1948-1950, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 1-13 Academic Years, 1949-1955, 13 folders

Box 4 Folder 14-15 Electromagnetics - based on Kroll lectures, 1955 Spring, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 1 Electromagnetics - notes and PhD qualifying exams, 1955 Spring

Box 5 Folder 2 Quantum Mechanics - based on Serber lectures, 1955-1956

Box 5 Folder 3 Quantum Mechanics - based on Pais lectures, 1955-1956

Box 5 Folder 4-7 Academic Year, 1955-1956, 4 folders

Box 5 Folder 8 Quantum Mechanics - based on Lee lectures, 1956 Fall

Box 5 Folder 9-16 Academic Years, 1956-1958, 8 folders


Box 6 Folder 1 Quantum Mechanics - based on Weinberg lectures, 1958 Fall

Box 6 Folder 2-5 Academic Years, 1958-1959, 4 folders

Box 6 Folder 6 Elementary Particles - based on Weinberg lectures, 1959 Spring

Box 6 Folder 7 Miscellaneous, 1959-1962

Box 6 Folder 8 Loose class notes, 1964-1966

Box 6 Folder 9 Rainwater on Optics (incomplete), undated

Steinberger Lectures

Box 6 Folder 10 Unknown topic (handwritten), 1939

Box 6 Folder 11-12 Electrodynamics (handwritten), 1939, 2 folders

Box 6 Folder 13 Unknown topic (handwritten), 1954

Box 6 Folder 14 Meson Physics, 1957

Box 6 Folder 15 Strange Particles, 1958

Box 6 Folder 16 Nuclear Models (handwritten), 1958

Box 6 Folder 17 Unknown topic (handwritten), 1964

Box 6 Folder 18 Experiments on Beta-decay, undated

Box 6 Folder 19 Low Energy Physics, undated

Box 6 Folder 20 Miscellaneous, 1959

Box 6 Folder 21 Fermt Lectures on Electrodynamics (handwritten), 1939

Box 6 Folder 22 Oppenheimer Notes on Electrodynamics, 1947

Box 6 Folder 23 Anderson Lectures on Meson Physics, 1953

Box 6 Folder 24 Lee Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, 1954


Box 7 Folder 1 Feld Lectures on Meson Physics, 1955

Box 7 Folder 2 Salam Lectures on Dispersion Theory, 1956

Box 7 Folder 3 Feld Lectures on Meson Physics, 1956

Laboratory Manuals


Box 41 Folder 1 Experiments in Physics for students, 1976 January

(Lab manuals for multiple courses)

Box 41 Folder 2 Physics C1004, F1004 and Pharmacy 22, undated

(Magnetic and electrical fields experiments)

Lecture Notes

Box 41 Folder 3 Lecture Series on Nuclear Physics, 1943-1944

(Dunning's set of lecture notes; LA report 24. includes lecture on Terminology (E.M. McMillan), Radioactivity (E. Segre, E. Teller, F. Bloch), Neutron Physics (J.H. Williams), etc.)


Box 45 Folder 21 Devons, Samuel. Logarithmic Notation, undated


Box 41 Folder 4 Eden, R.J. - Introduction to the Structure Analysis of Collision Amplitudes, 1962 January

(Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)


Box 45 Folder 22 Luttinger, J.M. - Solid State / Many Body Theory, 1965-1966

(Lectures presented at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Notes by Gary A. Pearson.)


Box 41 Folder 5 Nordsieck, A. - Quantum Mechanics Lectures, 1945-1946

Box 41 Folder 6 Peierls, R.E. - Complex Eigenvalues in Scattering Theory, 1959 Winter

(Department of Mathematical Physics, University of Birmingham; Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, Columbia University, February to May 1959)

Von Karman, Theodore


Box 43 Folder 26 Aerothermodynamics lectures, 1947

(Notes prepared by William Perl. 12 lectures given at Columbia in the Spring Session 1947)


Box 44 Folder 1 Developments in the Statistical Theory of Turbulence, 1948

(Notes prepared by William Perl. 3 lectures given at Columbia in November-December 1948)


Box 41 Folder 7 Weinstein - Mathematical Foundations of Relativity, 1964 October

(Handwritten notes)

Box 41 Folder 8 Wentzel, Gregor - Strong Coupling Meson Theory, 1954 Spring

(Lecture notes compiled by B.F. Nigam and A.E. Woodruff)


Box 45 Folder 18 Yukawa, Hideki - Quantum Theory of Nonlocal Fields, 1949 October

Class Notes

Bernardini, Gilberto


Box 40 Folder 3 Physics R268 - Cosmic Rays, 1948-1949 Winter

Chiu, Hong-Yee

Box 40 Folder 4 Physics G8045x - Stellar Physics, undated

(Notes of the course in the Spring Term.)

Feinberg, Gerald


Box 44 Folder 3 Physics G8070 - Particle Physics, 1963 Spring

(Notes by Costa Tsipis)

Foley, H.M.

Box 44 Folder 4 Physics 119 - Mathematical Methods in Physics, undated

Box 44 Folder 7 Physics 120 - Mathematical Methods in Physics, undated

Fuller, Robert W.


Box 40 Folder 5 Physics G6019x - Mathematical Methods of Physics, 1961 Fall

(Formerly Physics 119. Certain sections of these notes are based on the 119 notes of Professor Feinberg, Foley and Lee.)


Box 44 Folder 5 Physics G6019x (formerly 119) - Mathematical Methods in Physics, 1961 Fall

Gell-Mann, Murray

Box 44 Folder 6 Physics 247 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1954-1955

(Notes by Gerald Feinberg and Leon F. Landovitz)

Greenberg, Daniel

Box 44 Folder 2 Physics G4013x - Heat and Thermodynamics, 1962 Fall

(Notes prepared by Professor Daniel Greenberg)

Lee, Tsung-Dao


Box 40 Folder 11 Physics 119 - Mathematical Methods in Physics, 1954 Winter (Revised 1958)

(Notes by Menasha J. Tausner. These notes have not been checked by Professor Lee.)


Box 42 Folder 1 Physics 120 - Mathematical Methods in Physics, 1959 Spring

(Bob Eisenstein and Uriel Nauenberg)


Box 43 Folder 23 Physics 236 - Statistical Mechanics, 1957 Spring

(Notes by Karl Eklund)


Box 42 Folder 2 Physics 236 - Statistical Mechanics, 1957-1958


Box 43 Folder 24 Physics 247 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1956 Fall

(Notes by Sigurd Larsen and Elihu Lubkin)

Kroll, N.M.


Box 40 Folder 6 Physics 192 - Electromagnetic Theory I, 1955 Spring

(Notes by Alfred Landman)

Box 40 Folder 7 Physics 194 - Electromagnetic Theory III, 1959 February

(Lecture notes prepared by Martin L. Teiger)

Box 40 Folder 8 Physics 249 - Quantum Electrodynamics, 1949-1950 Winter

Kusch, P. (Polykarp)

Box 40 Folder 9 A Course in Molecular Beams, undated

Lamb, Willis E.

Box 40 Folder 10 Physics 215-216 - Electromagnetic Theory, 1946-1947 Spring

(Physics 227 in Winter 1948)


Box 41 Folder 9 Physics 226 - Electromagnetic Theory, 1948 Spring

Luttinger, Joaquin M.


Box 45 Folder 23-24 Physics 6036 - Statistical Mechanics, undated, 2 folder

Nauenberg, Michael


Box 40 Folder 12 Physics 247 - Dispersion Relations, 1961 Winter

(Notes prepared by H.S. Mani and James Nearing)

Novick, R.


Box 41 Folder 10 Physics G4015x - Atomic Physics, 1964 Winter

(Notes prepared by Jack Hahn)

Pais, A.


Box 42 Folder 3 Physics 247 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Field Theory), 1955-1956

(Notes prepared by G. Feinberg and L. Landovitz)

Peaslee, D.C.

Box 42 Folder 4 Physics S135 - Atomic Physics, 1953 Summer

Quate, C.F.


Box 44 Folder 8 Physics s229 - Microwave Electronics, 1952 Summer

(Notes by Seymour Koenig)

Quimby, S.L.

Box 44 Folder 9 Physics 125 - Vector Analysis, 1949

Box 44 Folder 10 Physics 202 - Dynamics of Particles, 1957

Box 44 Folder 11 Physics 203 - Vibration Theory and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, 1958

Box 44 Folder 12 Physics R202 and R203 - Analytical Dynamics, 1960

Box 44 Folder 13 Physics R266 - The Theory of Solids, 1952

Rabi, I.I.

Box 44 Folder 14 Physics 235 - Statistical Mechanics, undated

Rainwater, James

Box 44 Folder 17 Physics 59-109 - Supplementary Notes on Optics, undated


Box 42 Folder 5 Physics 257-258 - Nuclear Physics, 1959


Box 44 Folder 16 Physics 257-258 - Nuclear Physics, 1959

Box 44 Folder 15 Physics 257-258 - Slow Neutron Scattering by Systems of Atoms, 1953


Box 42 Folder 6-7 Physics G4009 - Optics, 1969, 2 Volumes

(Part I: Introductory material and mainly geometric optics, chapters 1-7 (there is no chapter 8); Part II: chapters 9-15)

Ramsey, Norman Foster


Box 45 Folder 17 Physics 125 - Introduction to Theoretical Physics, 1946-1947

Serber, Robert


Box 43 Folder 25 Physics 238 - Quantum Mechanics, 1956

(Notes by L. Landovitz (Spring 1954) and Elliot Auerback (Spring 1955))


Box 45 Folder 20 Serber Says: About Mesotrons, undated

Thomas, Llewellyn


Box 42 Folder 8 Physics 240 - Special and General Theories of Relativity, undated

Townes, Charles H.


Box 43 Folder 22 Physics 252 - Notes on Microwave Physics, 1949


Box 42 Folder 9 Microwave Spectroscopy, undated

Weinberg, Steven


Box 41 Folder 11 Physics 260 - Elementary Particles: Weak Interactions, 1959 March

(Notes prepared by Hector Rubinstein and Arthur Bierman)

Box 41 Folder 12 Physics 257 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1958-1959

Wu, C.S. (Chien-Shiung)

Box 41 Folder 13 Physics 257-258 - The Neutrino: A Contribution to the Memorial Volume to Wolfgang Pauli, 1959 June

(Pupin Cyclotron Laboratory and George B. Pegram Laboratory, CU-197)

Box 41 Folder 14-15 Physics 234 - Theoretical Nuclear Physics, 1961-1962

(2 volumes; on spine "Dr. Wu's Course" ; on front page "A course given by Dr. H. A. Weidenmuller at Caltech during 1961-1962. Lecture notes by Fernando B. Morinigo and Yvon R. Cusson.")


Box 42 Folder 11 Physics 8057x - Advanced Nuclear Physics, 1964


Box 41 Folder 16 Physics 8057x - Advanced Nuclear Physics, undated

(Notes by Weidenmuller)


Box 42 Folder 10 Physics G4040 - Nuclear Physics, 1963

Physics F1001x - Concepts of Science


Box 40 Folder 1 The Concepts of Space and Time (Chapter 2), undated

(Metz)


Box 45 Folder 19 Newton's Law of Gravity (Chapter 7) and the Conservation of Angular Momentum (Chapter 8), undated


Box 40 Folder 2 Physics 135 - Atomic Physics, 1955-1956 Winter

(Book list, course outline, lecture notes)

Series II: Columbia Radiation Laboratory

This is by far the largest series in the collection, comprising more than half of the total. It is also the most comprehensive, in that it broadly covers many aspects of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory's operations. Series II is divided into five sub-series.

Subseries II.1: Subject Files

Folders 7.4–7.52 consists of a wide variety of publications, contractor bids, correspondence, news releases and various other general office records dating from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. For the most part, these documents relate only relatively mundane office minutiae, such as the procurement of a "Glass Annealing Oven" (folder 7.18). Of greater interest, perhaps, are folders 7.26–28, which cover the distribution of the lab's research results to a long list of U.S. Military officials under the "Joint Services Electronics Program" (JSEP).


Box 7 Folder 4 Air Force Research Proposal, 1960-1961

Box 7 Folder 5 Air Raids, 1954

Box 7 Folder 6 Alterations - 1106 Pupin, 1960

Box 7 Folder 7 Beryllium Poisoning 1957, 1957

Box 7 Folder 8 Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1952-1953

Box 7 Folder 9 Committee on Government Aided Research, 1958

Box 7 Folder 10 Classification of Documents in Safe, undated

Box 7 Folder 11 Computing Facilities, 1951-1958

Box 7 Folder 12 Draft Deferments, 1948-1951

Box 7 Folder 13 Employee Recognition, 1954

Box 7 Folder 14 Equipment Grants, 1958-1960

Box 7 Folder 15 Equipment Loans from Physics Department, 1950-1955

Box 7 Folder 16 Frequency Control Symposium, 1960-1961

Box 7 Folder 17 Glass Changeover, 1954

Box 7 Folder 18 Glass Annealing Oven, 1956

Box 7 Folder 19 Glass Lecture, by McCellan, 1959

Box 7 Folder 20 Graduate Student Employees, 1952-1958

Box 7 Folder 21 Instructions and Forms, 1943-1945

Box 7 Folder 22 Interdepartmental Work, 1950-1958

Box 7 Folder 23 Inventory of Air Reduction Sales Co., 1954

Box 7 Folder 24 International Radio Consultative Committee, 1959

Box 7 Folder 25 ISRP Proposals, 1973

JSEP

Box 7 Folder 26 Distribution Lists, 1969-1974

Box 7 Folder 27 Lab Directors' Meeting, 1974

Box 7 Folder 28 Proposals, 1969-1971

Box 7 Folder 29 MIT Radiation Lab, news release, 1945

Box 7 Folder 30 Modification 13, 1969-1974

Box 7 Folder 31 Molecular Beams, 1953

Box 7 Folder 32 National Bureau of Standards, 1957-1958

Box 7 Folder 33 Notices from Bulletin Board, 1947-1958

Box 7 Folder 34 Optical Maser Research, 1961

Box 7 Folder 35 Organization and Procedures, 1943-1954

Box 7 Folder 36 Personnel Directories, 1950-1960

Box 7 Folder 37 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 1954-1955

Box 7 Folder 38 Property on Loan, 1950-1961

Box 7 Folder 39 Publication, 1954-1958

Box 7 Folder 40 Pupin Facilities, 1950-1956

Box 7 Folder 41 Radiation and Health, 1955-1956

Box 7 Folder 42 Reprints, 1954-1960

Box 7 Folder 43 Researcher Classifications, 1957

Box 7 Folder 44 Signal Corps, research contract, 1960

Box 7 Folder 45 Signature Authorizations, 1952-1960

Box 7 Folder 46 Slide Rule Registration, 1945-1954

Box 7 Folder 47 Summer Work, 1959

Box 7 Folder 48 Travel Expenses, 1958-1960

Box 7 Folder 49 Tritium License, 1954-1958

Box 7 Folder 50 Tungsten Wire, from General Electric, 1959-1960

Box 7 Folder 51 V Belts, 1947

Box 7 Folder 52 Watson Labs, 1952-1958

Subseries II.2: Contracts and Grants

This subseries, now mostly in record cartons 8-10, was compiled from two originally separate, but substantively overlapping groups of materials. The records have been organized by contracting agency first, and document type second. For example, the materials in folders 7.53-8.13 all relate to a series of research contracts and grants from the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Within this group, folders 7.55-56 contain contract documents, folder 8.5 contains funding proposals submitted to the Air Force, folders 8.7-8.8 contain technical reports on the research done under the contracts, and so on. Nearly all the records in this sub-series were coded by a contract or grant number. For example, a code beginning "DA-ARO(D)-31-124-G___" refers to a grant from the Army Research Office; as the grant was renewed over the years, each iteration was assigned a unique I.D. (G170, G380, G477, etc.). These codes appear on nearly every piece of correspondence, every form, contractual document, every report, and so on. Taken as a whole, the documents in this sub-series comprehensively reflect the nature and extent of U.S. Military funding, through a wide variety of agencies, of research undertaken at the Radiation Laboratory from the early 1950s through the early 1970s.

Air Force Contracts

Box 7 Folder 53 Account and Financial Documents, 1958-1963

Box 7 Folder 54 Annual Reports, undated

Box 7 Folder 55-56 Contract Documents, 1957-1965, 2 folders


Box 8 Folder 1-4 Correspondence, 1952-1965, 4 folders

Box 8 Folder 5 Proposals, 1959-1965

Box 8 Folder 6 Publications, 1958-1964

Box 8 Folder 7-8 Technical Reports, 1956-1964, 2 folders

Air Force Grants

Box 8 Folder 9 Account and Financial Documents, 1961-1964

Box 8 Folder 10 Contract Documents, 1961-1963

Box 8 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1957-1967

Box 8 Folder 12 Proposals, 1961-1963

Box 8 Folder 13 Publications, 1963-1967

Box 8 Folder 14 Technical Reports, 1961-1966

Army Research Office Grants

Box 8 Folder 15 Account and Financial Documents, 1961-1966

Box 8 Folder 16 Contract Documents, 1961-1966

Box 8 Folder 17-18 Correspondence, 1957-1973, 2 folders

Box 8 Folder 19-20 Proposals, 1961-1970, 2 folders


Box 9 Folder 1 Publications, 1963-1969

Box 9 Folder 2-3 Technical Reports, 1962-1972, 2 folders

Army Signal Corp Contracts

Box 9 Folder 4 Account and Financial Documents, 1959-1963

Box 9 Folder 5 Approval Requests, 1959-1962

Box 9 Folder 6-8 Contract Documents, 1950-1964, 3 folders

Box 9 Folder 9-10 Correspondence, 1951-1964, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 11-16 Inventory Records, 1947-1959, 6 folders


Box 10 Folder 1 Inventory Records, 1959-1961

Box 10 Folder 2 Proposals, 1958-1961

Box 10 Folder 3 Publications, 1959-1963

NASA Grants

Box 10 Folder 4 Inventory Records, 1963-1968

Box 10 Folder 5 Proposals, 1961-1963

NSF Grants

Box 10 Folder 6 Account and Financial Documents, 1957-1966

Box 10 Folder 7 Contract Documents, 1960-1966

Box 10 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1960-1968

Box 10 Folder 9 Inventory Records, 1962-1965

Box 10 Folder 10-11 Proposals, 1960-1966, 2 folders

Box 10 Folder 12-13 Publications, 1962-1977, 2 folders

Box 10 Folder 14 Technical Reports, 1963-1969

Office of Naval Research Contract

Box 10 Folder 15 Account and Financial Documents, 1970-1974

Box 10 Folder 16-18 Approval Requests, 1969-1974, 3 folders

Box 10 Folder 19-20 Contract Documents, 1968-1974, 2 folders


Box 11 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1969-1975

Box 11 Folder 2 Proposals, 1971-1974

Box 11 Folder 3 Reprints, 1970-1974

Army Electronics Lab Contract

Box 11 Folder 4 Proposals, 1968

Box 11 Folder 5-6 Reprints, 1965-1971, 2 folders

Box 11 Folder 7 O.E.M. Contract - Inventory Records, 1946-1959

Subseries II.3: General

This subseries consists of the remaining materials related to the Radiation Laboratory located primarily in record cartons 11–13 and 27. These materials are something of a hodge-podge: for example, 11.9 contains three large envelops of photo prints and negatives; 11.10 contains two film reels, labeled 'Music A Laude' and 'Selby Narration' respectively; and so on. Three sizeable groups of records in this sub-series, however, are as follows: The first (folders 11.13–11.20) consists of various invention reports made to contracting or granting agencies from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. Sample "inventions" reported (from folder 11.13) include a "Coaxial Cathode Lead," "Coaxial Line to Wave Guide Coupler," and a "Rapidly Tunable K-band magnetron." A second large group (folders 12.5–14.0) constitute a nearly complete series of Quarterly Progress Reports of the Radiation Laboratory from 1946 through 1983. The third large group (folders 26.21–27.18) consists of carbon copies of all staff correspondence from 1959 through 1966.

Box 11 Folder 8 Inventory Procedure log, 1960-1961

Box 11 Folder 9 Photo prints and negatives, undated

Box 11 Folder 10 "Music A Laude" and "Selby Narration", undated, 2 film reels

Box 11 Folder 11 National Defense Research Committee - Interim Report, 1946

Box 11 Folder 12 Statistical Survey of Research Activity, R. Novick, 1965

Invention Reports

Box 11 Folder 13-14 Division of War Research, 1943-1950, 2 folders

Box 11 Folder 15 Naval Research Contract, 1969-1973

Box 11 Folder 16 Photon Echo Generator, 1964-1971

Box 11 Folder 17 Laser Homodyne Spectrometer, 1963-1965

Box 11 Folder 18 Matrix Detector, 1967-1968

Box 11 Folder 19 Off-Resonant Light Probe, 1967-1969

Box 11 Folder 20 Atomic Frequency Converter, 1968-1972

Box 11 Folder 21-22 Reports on Production, 1923-1947, 2 folders

Box 11 Folder 23 Notes on 'Rising Sun' Decision, 1944

Box 11 Folder 24 Centimeter Magnetrons Report, 1946


Box 12 Folder 1-2 Calibration and Operating Specs, 1942-1947, 2 folders

Box 12 Folder 3-4 Travel and Meeting Reports, 1942-1953, 2 folders

Quarterly Progress Reports

Box 12 Folder 5-17 1946-1960, 13 folders


Box 13 Folder 1-16 1960-1982, 16 folders


Box 14 Folder 1 1982-1983

Staff Correspondence


Box 26 Folder 21-25 General, 1960-1963, 5 folders


Box 27 Folder 1-6 General, 1964-1966, 6 folders

Box 27 Folder 7-11 Guy Castle, 1963-1966, 5 folders

Box 27 Folder 12 Thomas Fountain, 1966

Box 27 Folder 13-18 D.I. Harrow, 1959-1963, 6 folders


Box 43 Folder 1 Progress Report for OSRD Contract OEMsr-485 - Experiments on the Design of Magnetrons at 1.25 cm wavelenghts, 1943 January

(J.M.B. Kellogg)

Box 43 Folder 20 National Defense Research Committee Division 14: 22 to 38 Vane Rising Sun Magnetrons, 1946 May 10

(Rising Sun Magnetrons with large number of anode cavities for centimeter and milimeter wavelengths. OSRD Contract OEMsr-485. Report by A.V. Hollenberg, N. Kroll and S. Millman)

Subseries II.4: Laboratory Notes

This subseries, spanning record cartons 14–23, represents the single largest component of the entire physics collection, alone accounting for more than one-quarter of the total. There are two main groups of laboratory notes. The first group (mostly found in record cartons 14–17) is a set of "electron tube books," largely dating from 1943 to 1945. Each tube book consists of detailed records of experimental data found testing electron tubes under various conditions; little more than the raw data are recorded, without narrative details in explanation of what exactly was being done or why. Each folder in this group contains documents originally collected in a single three-ring binder; the ordering of documents in their original binders has been preserved in each corresponding folder, but the binder itself has been discarded to save space. Each of the binders was labeled. One set of binders (now folders 14.1–15.5) was simply numbered "Electron Tube Book no. 1" through "Electron Tube Book no. 24." A second set of binders (now folders 15.6–17.6) was labeled according to the type of tubes being experimented with: for example, "Electron Tube Book—A1 Tubes." A third set of binders (now folders 17.10–17.24) was labeled as belonging to Nobel laureate Polykarp Kusch, as for example, "Kusch Notebook no. 4—L3 Tubes." The second and larger main group of laboratory notes (mostly found in record cartons 18–23) is a set of paper-bound notebooks, in which Columbia researchers and students at the Radiation Laboratory recorded class notes, experimental data, formal math and physics problems, and so on. As in the case of the tube books, these are raw notes, lacking contextual narrative. Most are dated from the late 1950s through the 1960s. Each notebook, with a few exceptions, was labeled with the name of its owner. Most of the notebooks were stamped "Property of Columbia Radiation Laboratory" and given a reference number (e.g., "CRL#337"); the reference numbers are loosely chronological, and may represent the order in which the notebooks were either distributed or collected by the Laboratory. A few of the notebooks have additionally been given a topical title (e.g., "Maser Spectroscopy" or "Alkali Hyperfine Structure"). In some cases, photos, photo negatives, or blueprints were kept in the notebooks.

Electron Tube Book


Box 14 Folder 2-18 Nos. 1-19a, 1942-1945, 17 folders


Box 15 Folder 1-5 Nos. 20-24, 1944-1945, 5 folders

Box 15 Folder 6 A1 Tube (early types) Drawings, 1944

Box 15 Folder 7 A1GK Tube Drawings, 1944

Box 15 Folder 8-13 A1 Tubes, G214-G527, G536-G797, G802-G870, 1944-1945, 5 folders

Box 15 Folder 14 G6 Tubes, Dr. Hollemberg's, 1944-1945

Box 15 Folder 15 C Tubes, 1943


Box 16 Folder 1 Assorted Tube Life Tests 1943-1945

Box 16 Folder 2 Miscellaneous Tube Performance Charts 1943

Electron Tube Book

Box 16 Folder 3-6 E5 Tubes, G16-G343, Dr. Hollemberg's, 1943-1944, 4 folders

Box 16 Folder 7 Manufacturers' E5 tubes, 1944

Box 16 Folder 8 AX Tube Performance Chart, 1944

Box 16 Folder 9-10 K4 Tube Drawings, 1944-1945, 2 folders

Box 16 Folder 11 L Tubes, 1944

Box 16 Folder 12-14 RCA Tubes, nos. 1-3, 1944, 3 folders

Box 16 Folder 15 RA Tunables, 1944-1945

Box 16 Folder 16 Sylvania Tubes (CRL Test), 1945

Box 16 Folder 17 XV Tube Drawings, 1944

Box 16 Folder 18 Harmonic Generator and Magnetron, no. 3, undated


Box 17 Folder 1-4 Nos. 4-7, undated, 4 folders

Box 17 Folder 5 Loose notes, 1949

Box 17 Folder 6 Summaries, 1944

Box 17 Folder 7 AB Graphs, G545-G960 - J.M.B. Kellogg's Prints, 1944-1945

Box 17 Folder 8 J.M.B. Kellogg's "Susie-Q Notebook", 1945

Box 17 Folder 9 Spectra Notebook, undated

Kusch Notebook

Box 17 Folder 10 No. 1 - Cold Test Anodes and Output Loops, 1942-1943

Box 17 Folder 11-15 No. 2-6 - L1 Tubes-L7 Tubes, 1943, 5 folders

Box 17 Folder 16 No. 7 - Bell Telephone Lab Drawings, 1943

Box 17 Folder 17 No. 8 - L8 Design Data Drawings, 1943-1944

Box 17 Folder 18 No. 10 - L9 Tubes, 1943-1944

Box 17 Folder 19 No. 11 - "Related Experiments", 1944

Box 17 Folder 20 No. 12 - Magnetic Measurements, 1944

Box 17 Folder 21 Calculations and Notes, undated

Box 17 Folder 22 Bell Telephone Lab Drawings and Notes, 1944

Box 17 Folder 23 Westinghouse Magnetron, 1941-1942

Box 17 Folder 24 Blueprints, Sketches, Notes, 1944

Box 17 Folder 25-27 Abella, Isaac - Notebooks nos. 1-3 (CRL#379, CRL#402, CRL#440), 1959-1962, 3 folders


Box 18 Folder 1 Abella, Isaac, & Kurnit - Notebook no. 4 (CRL#467) "Optical Spin-Echoes", 1962-1963

Box 18 Folder 2 Bakhru, K. - Notebook (CRL#447), undated

Box 18 Folder 3 Barash, Lee - Notebook (CRL#388), 1959-1960

Box 18 Folder 4 Block, B. - Notebook (CRL#342), 1957

Box 18 Folder 5 Bonbright, Daniel - Notebook (CRL#419), 1961-1962

Box 18 Folder 6 Buenafe, Ofelia - Notebook, 1968

Box 18 Folder 7-10 Carter, David - Notebooks no. 1-4 (CRL#365, CRL#377, CRL#390, CRL#414), 1958-1961, 4 folders

Box 18 Folder 11 Chiu, L.Y. Chow - Notebook (CRL#410), 1961

Clark, Eleanor

Box 18 Folder 12-19 Binders nos. 1-5, 1963-1966, 8 folders


Box 19 Folder 1 Binder no. 5 continued, 1965-1966

Box 19 Folder 2 U.C. Index file, 1967

Box 19 Folder 3 Loose notes, 1968-1969

Box 19 Folder 4-6 Commins, Eugene - Notebooks nos. 1-3 (CRL#314, CRL#323, CRL#331), "He 3+ Hyperfine Structure", 1955-1957, 3 folders

Box 19 Folder 7-10 Notebooks nos. 4-7 ( CRL#356, CRL#370, CRL#375, CRL#396), 1958-1960, 4 folders

Box 19 Folder 11-14 Cummins, Herman - Notebooks nos. 1-4 (CRL#367, CRL#382, CRL#400, CRL#416), "I.R. Maser", 1958-1962, 4 folders

Box 19 Folder 15 Notebook no. 5 (CRL#464), "Debye-Sears", 1962

Box 19 Folder 16 Notebook no. 6 (CRL#481), "Light Scattering", 1962-1964

Box 19 Folder 17 Dakss, Mark - Notebook (CRL#453), "H. Cummins", 1962

Box 19 Folder 18 DeZafra, Robert - Notebook (CRL#436), 1961-1963

Box 19 Folder 19-20 Ehrenstein, Gerald - Notebooks nos. 1-2 (CRL#343, CRL#413), 1957-1962, 2 folders

Box 19 Folder 21 Eisenstadt - Notebook (CRL#295), 1954-1955

Faust, Walter

Box 19 Folder 22 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#374), "Xenon Expt. . . . ", 1959

Box 19 Folder 23 Notebook no. 2 (CRL#386), "Xe129, 131", 1959

Box 19 Folder 24 Notebook no. 3 (CRL#392), 1959-1961


Box 20 Folder 1 Notebook no. 4 (CRL#408) 1961

Box 20 Folder 2-6 Feldman, Henry - Notebooks nos. 1-5 (CRL#358, CRL#401, CRL#405, CRL#449, CRL#457), 1958-1963, 5 folders

Box 20 Folder 7 Feldman, Paul - Notebook (CRL#431), "Li+, Li Metastable", 1961-1963

Box 20 Folder 8 Ferguson, Robert - Notebook (CRL#363), 1958-1959

Box 20 Folder 9 Fleishman, Herman - Notebook (CRL#415), 1961-1962

Box 20 Folder 10 Gampel, Leonard - Notebook (CRL#462), "Debye-Sears", 1962-1964

Giordmaine, Joseph

Box 20 Folder 11 Notebook no. 2 (CRL#338), "Maser", 1956-1957

Box 20 Folder 12 Notebook no. 3 (CRL#350), "Maser Amplifier,", 1957-1958

Box 20 Folder 13 Notebook no. 4 (CRL#359), "Radio Astronomy . . .", 1958-1958

Box 20 Folder 14 Gold, Peter - Notebook (CRL#443), 1962-1965

Box 20 Folder 15 Golestane, A.A. - Notebook (CRL#417), "Super Conductivity Inv.", 1961

Box 20 Folder 16 Gordon, Linda - Notebook (CRL#428), 1961-1962

Goshen, Robert

Box 20 Folder 17-18 Notebooks nos. 1-2 (CRL#403, CRL#432), 1960-1962, 2 folders

Box 20 Folder 19 Notebook no. 3 (CRL#452), "Li Fine and Hyperfine Structure", 1962-1963

Box 20 Folder 20 Hayashi, Teru – Notebook on Instrumentation, Physiology, 1959-1961

Hessel, Merrill

Box 20 Folder 21 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#474), 1963-1964


Box 21 Folder 1-2 Notebooks nos. 2-3 (CRL#531), 1964-1966, 2 folders

Ho, William

Box 21 Folder 3 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#424), "High Pressure Absorption of Gases", 1961-1962

Box 21 Folder 4-5 Notebooks nos. 2-3 (CRL#473, CRL#488), "Models of Planetary Atmosphere", 1963-1964, 2 folders

Box 21 Folder 6-7 Notebooks nos. 4-5 (CRL#490, CRL#524), 1963-1965, 2 folders

Box 21 Folder 8-9 Isler, Ralph - Notebooks nos. 1-2 (CRL#517), 1963-1965, 2 folders

Javan, Ali

Box 21 Folder 10 Notebook no. 4 (CRL#300), 1954

Box 21 Folder 11 Notebook no. 6 (CRL#327), "Maser Calculations", undated

Box 21 Folder 12 Notebook no. 7 (CRL#333), undated

Box 21 Folder 13 Kahan, William - Notebook (CRL#353), 1957-1961

Box 21 Folder 14 Kahane, Joseph - Notebook (CRL#337), 1956-1957

Box 21 Folder 15 Korn, Abe - Notebook (#387), 1959-1960

Box 21 Folder 16 Landman, Alfred - Notebook (CRL#426), "Zinc Chromium", 1961-1962

Box 21 Folder 17-18 Lashinsky, Herbert - Notebooks nos. 2-3 (CRL#347, CRL#360), 1957-1961, 2 folders

Lecar, Harold

Box 21 Folder 19 Notebook no.1 (CRL#384), "Maser Spectroscopy", 1959-1962

Box 21 Folder 20 Notebook no. 2 (CRL#445), 1961-1962


Box 22 Folder 1 Lepworth, Edgar, Notebook (CRL#516), 1964-1965

McDermott, Mark

Box 22 Folder 2 Notebook no. 1, "Nitrogen + Hg", undated

Box 22 Folder 3-4 Notebooks nos. 2-3 (CRL#349, CRL#364), "Mercury #2, #3", 1957-1959, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 5 McNichols - Notebook (CRL#330), 1956

Miller, R.C.

Box 22 Folder 6 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#225), "Molecular Beam Velocity Selector", 1952-1953

Box 22 Folder 7-8 Notebooks nos. 2-3 (CRL#302, CRL#293), "Dimerization of Alkali Halides", 1953-1954, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 9 Morrone, Terry - Notebook (CRL#372), 1959

Box 22 Folder 10 Morzle, Robert - Notebook (CRL#469), 1964-1965

Nafe-Nelson, Zuger

Box 22 Folder 11-12 Notebooks nos. 1-2, 1947, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 13-14 Notebooks nos. 3-4, "Hydrogen and Deuterium", 1947, 2 folders

Box 22 Folder 15 Notebook no. 5, "Gj Hydrogen and Deuterium", 1947-1948

Box 22 Folder 16 Notebook no. 6, "H3", 1948

Box 22 Folder 17 Okaya, Akira - Notebook no. 1 (CRL#352), 1957-1960

Oselka, Janet

Box 22 Folder 18 Notebook no. 1, 1965-1966


Box 23 Folder 1 Notebook no. 2, 1966-1967

Box 23 Folder 2 Ozer, V - Notebook 1966

Box 23 Folder 3 Peiora, Robert - Notebook (CRL#510) 1964

Penzias, Arno

Box 23 Folder 4 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#335), 1956-1957

Box 23 Folder 5 Notebook no. 2 (CRL#362), "Maser", 1958

Box 23 Folder 6 Perry, Bradley - Notebook (CRL#435), 1962-1963

Box 23 Folder 7 Roach, Janet - Notebook (CRL#506), 1964

Box 23 Folder 8 Rustin, Randall - Notebook (CRL#368), 1958-1959

Box 23 Folder 9 Saloman, Edward - Notebook (CRL#475), 1963-1965

Box 23 Folder 10 Schoonmaker, Richard - Notebook (CRL#391), 1959

Box 23 Folder 11 Schultz, Sheldon - Notebook (CRL#336), 1956-1957

Sprott, G.F.

Box 23 Folder 12 Notebook no. 1 (CRL#541), "Alkali Hyperfine Structure", 1965-1967

Box 23 Folder 13 Notebook no. 2 (CRL#570), "R.Spectroscopy . . .", 1968-1969

Box 23 Folder 14-16 Strauss, Walter - Notebooks nos. 8-10 (CRL#329, CRL#344, CRL#361), 1956-1960, 3 folders

Box 23 Folder 17 Summers, Charles - Notebook (CRL#409), 1961

Box 23 Folder 18-20 Swagel, Michael Wayne - Notebooks nos. 1-3 (CRL#484, CRL#539, CRL#550), 1963-1967, 3 folders


Box 36 Folder 7 Tolk, Norman - Notebook (CRL#419), 1961

Box 36 Folder 8-10 Wing, Thomas - Notebooks, nos. 1-3 (CRL#525, CRL#547, CRL#563), 1964-1967, 3 folders

Box 36 Folder 11 Winsbert, Suzanne - Notebook (CRL#357), 1958-1959

Zacharias, L.

Box 36 Folder 12 Notebook no. 1, "Physics Lab", undated

Box 36 Folder 13 Notebook no. 2, "Organic Chemistry", undated

Box 36 Folder 14-16 Old Hyperfine Structure Data, vols. 1-3, 1953-1956, 3 folders

Box 36 Folder 17 Experiments with A Rb87 Maser, P. Davidovtis, undated

Subseries II.5: Blueprints

This subseries, found in record cartons 24–26, consists primarily of the blueprints of equipment either developed or employed at the Radiation Laboratory between 1941 and 1950. Most of the prints were drawn up by or for the Radiation Laboratory itself, but not all: others are from MIT's Radiation Laboratory, private research companies, and so on. The blueprints are organized in three main groups. The first and smallest group (folders 24.3–24.10) were originally identified as "classified prints." These are blueprints of various circuits, magnets, magnetrons, and so on. They were originally sorted into groups (A through E), and this ordering has been preserved. The second and largest group (folders 24.11–26.5) consists of "equipment prints" organized by an "equipment type" code. Although this original ordering by code has been kept, it basis or logic is by no means clear from the blueprints themselves. For example, a set of "LC Type" blueprints includes a blueprint titled "A-N Type Plug UG-154/U High Voltage Type for RG-18/U RF Cable." About half of these "equipment prints" were originally identified as "RG-Types;" these have been sorted into separate folders by equipment type. For example, folders 25.8–25.9 contain blueprints for "RG Types—Standing Wave Indicators." Finally, a third group of blueprints (folders 26.6–26.20) were simply organized alphabetically by the name of the equipment in question. Their generally later date than the previous group may explain the fact that they were not originally organized in the same manner. The blueprints are for cables, K-bands, waveguides, and so on.

External Prints


Box 24 Folder 1 Index, circa 1944

Box 24 Folder 2 Records, 1946

Classified Prints

Box 24 Folder 3-4 Circuits 1A-37A, 38A-46A, 1941-1948, 2 folders

Box 24 Folder 5 Magnets 1B-11B, 1942-1943

Box 24 Folder 6-8 Magnetrons 1C-31C, 1942-1945, 3 folders

Box 24 Folder 9 Plumbing 8D, 18D, 1944

Box 24 Folder 10 Miscellaneous 2E-13E, 1940-1945

Equipment Prints

Box 24 Folder 11 A Types, 1945-1947

Box 24 Folder 12-13 AN Types, 1942-1948, 2 folders

Box 24 Folder 14 BN Types, 1944-1948

Box 24 Folder 15-16 BNC Types, 1944-1949, 2 folders

Box 24 Folder 17 C Types, 1949

Box 24 Folder 18 HN Types, 1944-1948

Box 24 Folder 19-20 LC Types, 1944-1949, 2 folders

Box 24 Folder 21 LN Types, 1944-1949

Box 24 Folder 22-23 N Types, 1942-1948, 2 folders


Box 25 Folder 1-3 N Types, 1948-1950, 3 folders

RG Types

Box 25 Folder 4-5 Attenuators, 1942-1948, 2 folders

Box 25 Folder 6 Crystal Mounts and Holders, 1942-1950

Box 25 Folder 7 Plumbing, 1944

Box 25 Folder 8-10 Standing Wave Indicators, 1943-1950, 3 folders

Box 25 Folder 11 Waterload Parts, 1942-1947

Box 25 Folder 12-16 Waveguide Parts, 1942-1950, 5 folders

Box 25 Folder 17 Wavemeters, 1947-1948


Box 26 Folder 1 Wavemeters, 1948-1950

Box 26 Folder 2-5 Other, 1942-1950, 4 folders

Box 26 Folder 6 Cable Adaptors, 1944-1948

Box 26 Folder 7 Cable Assembly, 1944

Box 26 Folder 8 E5 and K-Band Tubes, 1943-1944

Box 26 Folder 9 Microwave Apparatus, 1944-1948

Box 26 Folder 10 Neher's K-Band, 1942

Box 26 Folder 11 Pulse Equipment, 1944-1946

Box 26 Folder 12 Quick Disconnect Plug and Jack, 1949

Box 26 Folder 13 Radio Frequency Cable, 1945-1949

Box 26 Folder 14 Shorting Cup, 1947

Box 26 Folder 15 Standing Wave Indicator, 1946

Box 26 Folder 16 Twinax Jack and Plug, 1942-1949

Box 26 Folder 17 UHF Binding Post-plug, 1949

Box 26 Folder 18 Waveguides, standards and characteristics, 1944-1950

Box 26 Folder 19 Wavemeter, 1947

Box 26 Folder 20 X6050 Instruction Sheet, 1943

Series III: Pupin Cyclotron Laboratory

This short series, contained in record carton 28, is organized alphabetically by subject. Most of these materials relate to infrastructural problems relating to the laboratory. For example, folder 28.26 relates contracting work done in the mid-1950s to supply the laboratory with sufficient electrical power; folder 28.31 relates efforts to procure a spectrometer for the lab around the same time. These subject files include correspondence, notes, blueprints, diagrams, and other office records.


Box 28 Folder 1 Air Conditioning, 1951-1955

Box 28 Folder 2 Alternating Current Supply, 1939-1953

Box 28 Folder 3 Chemistry Lab Floorplans, 1955

Box 28 Folder 4 Coils, new, 1940

Box 28 Folder 5 Console, 1948

Box 28 Folder 6 Control Room/Counting Room, 1955-1959

Box 28 Folder 7 Cranes, 2, 5, and 20 ton, 1954-1955

Box 28 Folder 8 Cryogenic Laboratory, 1937-1947

Box 28 Folder 9 Cyclotron Maintenance and Repair - Miscellaneous, 1939-1944

Box 28 Folder 10 Cylinder Record Book, 1947-1952

Box 28 Folder 11 Dees, Spinning, 1935-1955

Box 28 Folder 12 Diesel Connection MD, 1936-1937

Box 28 Folder 13 Gas Handling, 1953-1956

Box 28 Folder 14 Grout Plate, 1952-1954

Box 28 Folder 15 H. Lines, 1936

Box 28 Folder 16 Humidity Control, 1954-1955

Box 28 Folder 17 Inventory, of materials transferred to Dunning, 1945

Box 28 Folder 18 Lecture Room Shade Circuits, 1927-1940

Box 28 Folder 19 Magnets - Coils, Photostats, Carriage, 1927-1940

Box 28 Folder 20 Modification Program Correspondence (radiation safety), 1954-1955

Box 28 Folder 21 Motor Generator Set, 1939-1952

Box 28 Folder 22 One Hundred Channel PH Analyzer, 1955

Box 28 Folder 23 Oscillator, 1936

Box 28 Folder 24 Plates for Console, 1937

Box 28 Folder 25 Plumbing for Labs, 1926-1932

Box 28 Folder 26 Power, 1953-1955

Box 28 Folder 27 Pressure Piping, 1955

Box 28 Folder 28 Rectifiers, 1928-1936

Box 28 Folder 29 Rigging, for tank installation, 1953-1956

Box 28 Folder 30 Scheduling and Shipping, 1928-1955

Box 28 Folder 31 Spectrometer Procurement, 1954-1956

Box 28 Folder 32 Stockroom Reorganization, undated

Box 28 Folder 33 Water Barrier Tanks, 1939

Series IV: Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory

This short series, in record cartons 28–29, contains primarily of blueprints, photos, and photo negatives. These are organized in three groups. A first group, folders 28.34–29.11, consists of undated photos and photo negatives, organized by the physics researcher who ordered them. They are, for example, charts and diagrams prepared as figures in published research papers; in no case, however, is a record of their intended use preserved. A second group, folders 29.12–29.21, consists of blueprints organized by subject. Representative is a blueprint for "Plunger Assembly, H2 Bubble Chamber." The third group, folders 29.22–29.25, consists of blueprints, together with related correspondence, reports, and notes, related to the construction of a neutron velocity spectrometer at Nevis Laboratory, Irvington-on-Hudson, in the late 1950s.

Diagram Files

Box 28 Folder 34 Baliga, undated

Box 28 Folder 35 Des Jardins, undated

Box 28 Folder 36 Fischer, undated

Box 28 Folder 37 Gallagher, undated

Box 28 Folder 38 Havens/Safford/Melkonian, undated

Box 28 Folder 39 Kruse, undated

Box 28 Folder 40 Michell/Weinberg, 1964


Box 29 Folder 1 Namenson, undated

Box 29 Folder 2 Nessin/Engleke, undated

Box 29 Folder 3 Nikolic, undated

Box 29 Folder 4 Padawer, undated

Box 29 Folder 5 Rosen, undated

Box 29 Folder 6 Sayres, undated

Box 29 Folder 7 Smotrich/McDermott, undated

Box 29 Folder 8 Tatcher, undated

Box 29 Folder 9 Wu, Chien-Shiung, undated

Box 29 Folder 10 Wu, Mo Lee, undated

Box 29 Folder 11 Ying, Lee, 1963

Box 29 Folder 12 Chamber Drawings, 1957-1958

Box 29 Folder 13 Counters, 1953

Box 29 Folder 14 Electronics, undated

Box 29 Folder 15 Equipment Tags, 1964

Box 29 Folder 16 Double-Delay Line Amplifier, undated

Box 29 Folder 17 Meyer's Chamber, 1956-1958

Box 29 Folder 18 Miscellaneous Diagrams, undated

Box 29 Folder 19 Miscellaneous Spectra, 1953

Box 29 Folder 20 Neutron Choppers, 1953

Box 29 Folder 21 Ten Channel Pulse Height Analyzer, 1950

Neutron Velocity Spectrometer

Box 29 Folder 22 Architectural Plans, 1958-1959

Box 29 Folder 23 Architectural Specifications, 1958-1961

Box 29 Folder 24 Preliminary Planning, 1958

Box 29 Folder 25 Construction and Design, 1959

Contract Progress Reports

(Atomic Energy Commission contract AT(30-1)-1932 and Contract N6-ori-110-Task Order #1)


Box 43 Folder 2 Progress Reports Nos. 41-51, 1949 November-1950 September

Quarterly Progress Reports

Box 43 Folder 3 1950 December

Box 43 Folder 4 1951 September

(James Rainwater, Director)

Box 43 Folder 5 1951 December

(James Rainwater, Director)

Box 43 Folder 6 1953 July

(Under the joint program of the Office of Naval Research and Atomic Energy Commission. James Rainwater, Executive Director)

Box 43 Folder 7 1954 January

(E.T. Booth, Director)

Box 43 Folder 8 1955 April

(E.T. Booth, Director)

Box 43 Folder 9 1955 July

(James Rainwater, Director)

Box 43 Folder 10 1957 May

(James Rainwater, Director)

Box 43 Folder 11 1957 July

Box 43 Folder 12 1957 October

Box 43 Folder 13 1958 January

Box 43 Folder 14 1958 April

Box 43 Folder 15 1958 July

Box 43 Folder 16 1958 October

Box 43 Folder 17 1959 March

Box 43 Folder 18 1959 September

(Warren F. Goodell, Jr.)

Box 43 Folder 19 1960 March

(Warren F. Goodell, Jr.)

Series V: Pegram Nuclear Physics Laboratory

This short series, in record cartons 35–36 consists solely of a set of laboratory notebooks that recorded experimental results from research done at the Pegram Nuclear Physics Laboratory. All but one of the notebooks were identified by the researcher's name, the largest group being the four notebooks of Nickola Nickolic.


Box 35 Folder 9-10 Amoruso, Michael, nos. 1-2, 1961-1962, 2 folders

Box 35 Folder 11 Gaines, A., 1962

Box 35 Folder 12 Kruse and Bent, "Particle-gamma #1", 1957-1958

Box 35 Folder 13 Namenson, A., 1960-1962

Box 35 Folder 14-17 Nickolic, Nickola, nos. 1-4, 1958-1961, 4 folders


Box 36 Folder 1 Nissim-Sabet, Charles, "Fn Formation", 1960

Box 36 Folder 2 Sonnenberg, Mark Aaron, 1963

Box 36 Folder 3-4 Van de Graaff, nos. 1-2, 1956-1958, 2 folders

Box 36 Folder 5 Yoskiki and Nickolic, 1959-1960

Box 36 Folder 6 Unidentified, "Particle-y", 1958

Series VI: Physics Research

This series, spanning record cartons 29–35, collects together research materials from the Physics Department not connected to one of the affiliated research laboratories. Many of these materials seem to have been the research files of Professor Emerita Wu and her associates.

This series contains three main groups of files. The first main group (folders 29.26–30.36) consists of lose-leaf laboratory notes foldered by research subject and organized alphabetically. For example, folder 29.38, "Cu64 Research," contains notes, charts and tables of figures related to research on Cu64.

The second main group (folders 30.37–32.13) consists of paper and cloth bound lab notebooks similar to those described in sub-series II-c. The first nine of these (all cloth bound) belonged to Professor Wu herself, and date from 1944–1954. The next fourteen belonged to named associates of Wu, and are sorted alphabetically by the name of the owner. Some of these are additionally given topical titles, as for example "Beta Ray Spectroscopy." The remaining dozen were also owned by Wu associates, but were not labeled with the owner's name. Some of these are titled, as for example "He3, d Reaction," but some are not.

The third and largest group of folders in this series (folders 32.14–35.8) consists of a lengthy set of "diagram files." These "diagrams" are blueprints, tables, graphs, flow charts, electrical schematics, and so on. The diagrams are often labeled, but only sporadically dated. Each of diagram is stamped "Columbia University Nuclear Physics Research" and assigned a "DWG. NO." The diagrams number (with some gaps) from 1197 to 5581; the number order is only very loosely chronological. Representative diagrams (from folder 33.2) are "Graph-H. Brown," "Temp'y El. Storage Sys.," "Gas Handling Schematic Layout." There is no obvious connection between the diagrams (except that they were all presumably produced for the Physics Department), and there is no general index or other supporting material for the collection of diagrams.

Subject Files


Box 29 Folder 26 As 76 Research, 1948-1949

Box 29 Folder 27 Au 198 Research, 1953

Box 29 Folder 28 Baffle System, undated

Box 29 Folder 29 Beta Decay and Shell Structure, 1941

Box 29 Folder 30 BF 3 Counters, 1945

Box 29 Folder 31 By 80 Research, 1948-1949

Box 29 Folder 32 C 14 Research, 1948-1953

Box 29 Folder 33 Cb 95 Research, undated

Box 29 Folder 34 Coincidence Spectrum Layout, undated

Box 29 Folder 35 Computation Sheets, New Baffle, undated

Box 29 Folder 36 Cr 48 Research, 1954

Box 29 Folder 37 Cs 137 Research, 1944-1949

Box 29 Folder 38 Cu 64 Research, 1942-1954

Box 29 Folder 39 Efficiency and Absorption Connections, undated

Box 29 Folder 40 Grivet-B Spectrometer, undated

Box 29 Folder 41 HHE Research, undated

Box 29 Folder 42 K 42 Research, 1953-1955

Box 29 Folder 43 Light Pipe Experiment, 1954


Box 30 Folder 1 Master Sheet, 1950

Box 30 Folder 2 Na 22 Research, 1949-1959

Box 30 Folder 3 Neutron Cross Section Table, 1945

Box 30 Folder 4 Nuclear Data Collection, 1948-1952

Box 30 Folder 5 P 32 Research, 1950-1954

Box 30 Folder 6 PM Tubes, 1943-1954

Box 30 Folder 7 Pm 147 Research, 1949-1953

Box 30 Folder 8 Pr 143 Research, 1949

Box 30 Folder 9 Parameter File, undated

Box 30 Folder 10 Precision Baffle Curves, 1953

Box 30 Folder 11 Q Energies,, undated

Box 30 Folder 12 Ra DEF Operators, 1934

Box 30 Folder 13 Ra E Calculations, 1951-1952

Box 30 Folder 14 Re 186 Research, undated

Box 30 Folder 15 Re 188 Research, undated

Box 30 Folder 16 References, bibliographical, undated

Box 30 Folder 17 Resolution and Miscellaneous, 1954

Box 30 Folder 18 S 35 Research, 1948-1953

Box 30 Folder 19 Se 75 Research, undated

Box 30 Folder 20 Spectrometer and Associated Parts, 1947-1951

Box 30 Folder 21 Split Crystal Spectrometer Studies, undated

Box 30 Folder 22 Tc 99 Research, undated

Box 30 Folder 23 Thick Sources, 1949

Box 30 Folder 24 Tl 204 Research, 1951-1952

Box 30 Folder 25 XMSN Data, 1949

Box 30 Folder 26 Miscellaneous Research Notes, 1948-1954

Notebooks

Wu, Chien-Shiung

Box 30 Folder 27-33 Nos. 1-7, 1944-1951, 7 folders


Box 31 Folder 1-2 Nos. 8-9, 1950-1954, 2 folders

Box 31 Folder 3 Baiker, 1956

Box 31 Folder 4 Harihar, P. "cyclotron work", 1959-1960

Box 31 Folder 5 Katz, M.S., 1959

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 6-7 Kruse, T.H., 1957-1959, 2 folders

(associate of Wu)

Lidofsky, L.J., 1950

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 8 vacuum evaporator, 1950

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 9 beta ray spectroscopy, 1950

Box 31 Folder 10 Rainwater, James, 1948-1950

Box 31 Folder 11 Sheer, Charles, "neutron shattering", 1948

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 12 Sh___, J., 1958-1959

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 13 Shaknov, Irving, 1948-1949

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 14 Tacher, M., 1958

(associate of Wu)

Box 31 Folder 15 Weil, Adele, 1948-1949

(associate of Wu)


Box 32 Folder 1 Weindling, Fred, 1956

(associate of Wu)

Associate of Wu

Box 32 Folder 2 Beta Spectra Data, 1949-1950

Box 32 Folder 3 He 3, d Reaction, 1960

Box 32 Folder 4 Q Pole Magnet/Beam Focusing,, 1959

Box 32 Folder 5-7 Time of Flight I-III, 1957-1958, 3 folders

Box 32 Folder 8-13 Untitled, 1950-1954, 6 folders

Diagram Files

Box 32 Folder 14-15 Nos. 1197-2199, undated, 2 folders


Box 33 Folder 1-14 Nos. 2200-2289, 2383-2466, 2412-3085, 1954-1964, 14 folders


Box 34 Folder 1-13 Nos. 3086-4313, 4338-5007, 1958-1961, 13 folders


Box 35 Folder 1-8 Nos. 5008-5453, 5507-5509, 5565-5581, 1955-1962, 8 folders

Series VII: Reprints


Box 37 Reprints, some inscribed by author, circa 1870-1905


Box 38 Reprints, circa 1905-1965


Box 39 Reprints, E.K. Adams Fund Master File, circa 1930-1965