History Newsletter CENTER FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS&NIELS BOHR LIBRARY & ARCHIVES Vol. 43, No. 2 • Winter 2011–2012

Conference: The Next Generation of Historians of Physical Science

Early-career historians of the physical Amy’s committee members included and the development of the Geiger- sciences converged on the American Fábio Freitas (Brazil), Anna Holterhoff Müller counter to interactions of the Center for Physics at the end of July for and Christian Joas (Germany), Joe Martin medical and physics communities in the a four-day conference, sponsored by and Ann Robinson (US), Pierre Teissier early-20th century over control of X-ray AIP’s Center for History of Physics. The (France), and Xiaodong Yin (China). They diagnostics and treatments. There was conference theme was ‘Continuity and wrote the call for papers, selected the a session on instrumentation, one on Discontinuity in the Physical Sciences papers to be presented, and developed earth and space sciences, and another since the Enlightenment’. In the 1970s the program. The Center’s goal is to on theory and experiment. The topic and 80s, a grad student attracting the most conference was held attention was the history each year—the Joint of quantum mechanics, Atlantic Seminar in with papers on Louis de History of the Physical Broglie, quantum optics, Sciences (JASHoPS); it quantum measurement drew mainly from the in the 1960s, and more. eastern US. This meeting attracted speakers from Conference attendees around the world. Fifty- broke into small groups four participants came for tours provided by Joe from fifteen countries, Anderson and the staff including China, Japan, of the Niels Bohr Library Brazil, Mexico, Canada, & Archives. Although nine European countries, they had heard of NBLA’s and the US. collections before, many attendees did not realize The unique feature of the conference was reinvigorate the community of historians just how rich the collections are. Indeed, the way it was organized. This meeting of physics and to make this a broadly altogether 23 researchers worked in was by and for early-career historians of international community. NBLA before and after the conference. physics. The organizing committee was We hope that by introducing young chaired by 2010 CHP intern Amy Fisher, The presentations covered a wide range historians to NBLA in person, we will who recently defended her dissertation. of topics from physics in Latin America (Continued on page 2)

In this issue...

Conference: The Next Generation of Grants-in-Aid Help Young Scholars Connect...... 9 Historians of Physical Science...... 1 Documentation Preserved: New Collections...... 10 Joe Anderson Presents at Scientific Archives Conference...... 2 Please Help Us Contact...... 12

The National Archives Agrees to Accession Documentation Preserved: New Finding Aids...... 17 Personal Papers of Department of Energy Scientists...... 3 Online Access to Historical CERN An Almost New Journal in Council and Committee Documents...... 11 History of Physical Science...... 5 Recent Publications of Interest...... 20 Recent Additions to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives...... 7 Cover Photo: Niels Bohr Library & Archives Attendees of the Summer 2011 conference “Continuity and Discontinuity 2011 Book Donations...... 9 in the Physical Sciences since the Enlightenment.”

AIP Member Societies: The American Physical Society • The Optical Society of America • The Acoustical Society of America • The Society of Rheology • The American Association of Physics Teachers American Crystallographic Association • American Astronomical Society • American Association of Physicists in Medicine • AVS The Science and Technology Society • American Geophysical Union History of Physics and the NY Mets, proving that some also sponsored the things are even more mysterious to first in a new series the Brazilians and Europeans than Max of Science Heritage Planck’s feelings about the quantum. The Public Lectures. David conference closed with a round-table DeVorkin, senior discussion of publication of some of the curator of astronomy talks and with great hopes for more such and space science at the meetings in the future. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian After the conference closed, an Institution, gave a international soccer match started at lively talk on how the noon in the AIP oval and didn’t finish Cold War changed the until after 6pm! All our visitors went Smithsonian’s Astro- home with a warm remembrance of AIP. physical Observatory. Several said this was the best conference they had yet attended. The next one will Our thanks go out to be even better! ■ long-term supporters of CHP who accepted Joe Anderson Presents invitations to comment at Scientific Archives on papers presented: Conference Marta Jordi Taltavull of the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissen- schaftsgeschichte presents her talk “On the Border between Light Dieter Hoffman, Richard and Matter: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Staley, Alexei Kojevnikov, Joe Anderson, Director of the Niels Bohr Optical Dispersion” at the Summer 2011 conference for young Michel Janssen, Roger Library & Archives, gave the opening scholars. Credit: AIP Center for History of Physics. Launius, Christoph Lehner, presentation at the 5th Annual Scientific transform them into long-term users and Joan Bromberg. Their presence made Archives Conference in Rio de Janiero on and supporters of the library. this an intergenerational conference, too, September 27. and provided some extra continuity in Two keynote talks were given. Jaume scholarship. The conference, which is sponsored bi- Navarro (MPI for History of Science, annually by the Museu de Astronomia e Berlin) spoke on transformations in how The energy levels of the young historians Ciências Afins and Fundação Casa de Rui physics was taught in England in the were wonderful to witness. Discussions Barbosa, brings together Brazilian, Ameri- 19th century. Michel Janssen (University were lively and cheerful, both during and can, and European archivists to share in- of Minnesota) discussed ‘arcs and outside of sessions. Almost half of the formation and discuss solutions to com- scaffoldings’ in the history of relativity participants attended a baseball game mon problems. and quantum theory. The Center for between the Washington Nationals Anderson’s talk, “Pragmatic Appraisal, Col- lecting the Records of Science,” focused on determining the likely historical value of science records. Archivists are faced with the problem of identifying a small amount of the total universe of records— somewhere around 1 to 5% according to many authorities—that may reasonably be preserved and that represents a fair reflec- tion of the important aspects of the area being documented. Anderson discussed documentation strategy research, an ap- proach to appraisal that was developed at AIP and at the MIT Archives, and that has helped to create an international network of contributing repositories that works to David R. Crawford of Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh presents his talk document the history of physics and allied “Boltzmann and Fisher: The Role of Statistical Mechanical Theory in the Development of sciences. Contact [email protected] for Mathematical Population Genetics” at the Summer 2011 conference for young scholars. Credit: AIP Center for History of Physics. more inforamtion. ■

2 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history The National Archives Agrees to Accession Personal Papers of Department of Energy Scientists By John Stoner and Jean Deken

Thanks to the perseverance of con- tional Collaborations, both led by Joan sentative indicated that such collections tract laboratory records managers and Warnow-Blewett, and the new schedule were all secondary reference materials archivists,* the U.S. Department of was a major improvement over the ear- and that inclusion of such an item would Energy (DOE) has successfully revised lier version. The final schedule divided guarantee rejection of the schedule by its Records Retention and Disposition R&D records into four main types: case NARA. In the interest of expediting ap- Schedule for research and development files; individual records series; program proval, the item was not included in the records to allow the “private” records planning and management records; and final version of the schedule. of DOE laboratory scientists and medical research records. engineers to be preserved in the U.S. Implementation of the approved DOE National Archives. However, some members of the work- R&D schedule resulted in improved ing group thought that what was miss- management of LBNL’s scientific and Like the people who create them, the ing from the schedule was an item on technical records and the transfer of a records of highly skilled, multi-talented, individual scientists’ records collec- significant volume of R&D records to the variously occupied practitioners defy tions. Many scientists at national labo- Federal Records Center. However, after a easy categorization, and yet such re- ratories hold multiple positions during few years, it became apparent that sev- cords provide a fascinating glimpse into their careers, both within and outside eral gaps left by the exclusion of the item the inner workings of day-to-day sci- of DOE—as post-doctoral researchers, covering individual scientists’ records as ence. However, until now regulations principal investigators, research group well as other records series needed to be separated “federal” records—those cre- leaders, program and division heads and, closed. Therefore, in 2001 John Stoner, ated by DOE staff as government em- in some cases, laboratory directors. The Archivist and Records Manager at the ployees—from their overlapping “per- unifying principle of the records of such Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sonal” records created in their parallel individuals is their careers, not a single (LBNL), submitted a request for three careers as university faculty, members records series or project case file. To revisions to the records schedule. The of national commissions, and other (re-)organize their records based on the changes covered individual scientists’ similar activities. The former records, latter schemas would do damage to the records, internal publications, and com- if deemed of historical value, would original order and context of the records. mittee and conventions files. The second eventually go to the National Archives, When members of the working group and third revisions were approved, but while the latter were not eligible for proposed a schedule item for individual the proposed individual scientists’ col- the National Archives and were of- scientists’ collections, the NARA repre- (Continued on next page) ten scattered or lost. Over a period of many years, the DOE Records Manag- ers and Archivists have struggled to ap- propriately appraise and schedule the valuable and sometimes voluminous records created by these individual researchers.

The DOE achieved a major breakthrough in August 1998 when its new Records Retention and Disposition Schedule for R&D records (N1-434-96-9) was officially approved by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This culminated a multi-year effort by a work- ing group that included archivists and records managers from most if not all of the DOE national laboratories, as well as representatives from NARA. The work- ing group followed much of the thinking outlined in the reports of the AIP Study of DOE National Laboratories and also John Cockroft at the controls of Cockcroft Walton Accelerator in Cavendish Laboratory, 1934. of the 1998 AIP Study of Multi-Institu- Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Bainbridge Collection. www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 3 (Personal Papers, cont’d from previous page) “researchers” (rather than “scientists”) makes clear that “It is anticipated that lection schedule item was not approved. collections, so as to include the records very limited use will be made” of the in- In 2006 Lee Michael, the Records Manag- of prominent engineers and technicians. dividual researchers collection schedule er at the National Renewable Energy Lab- item and, thus far, that has indeed been oratory (NREL), contacted Stoner about As a result of the Working Group’s ef- the case. The revised R&D Schedule, this resurrecting the proposed revision, and forts, an “Individual Researchers Collec- time with the Individual Researchers Stoner agreed to send a revised recom- tions” item was included in a proposed Collection item included, was approved mendation for individual scientists’ files revised DOE R&D Schedule (N1-434- on May 30, 2008, just a few months shy to a recently established DOE Working 08-2) submitted to NARA for review on of 10 years after approval of the original Group on R&D Records if there were October 3, 2007 and NARA’s Rich Noble, schedule. Though the volume of such enough archivists and records managers was tasked with its review. Noble, other records remains small, their importance in the DOE complex who would support NARA staff, and Stoner made a site visit is quite high, and through this schedul- such a move. Michael and Jean Deken, to SLAC in February 2008, where Deken ing innovation, DOE and the national SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was able to provide unaccessioned ex- labs are succeeding in preserving the Archivist, volunteered to work with Ston- amples of individual researchers collec- integrity of the records of individual re- er to revise and update his original pro- tions for review, including the records of searchers whose efforts span multiple posal based on the input received from W. K. H. “Pief” Panofsky, Burton Richter roles, projects and experiments. ■ working group members. (SLAC’s first and second directors) and David Fryberger, physicist and long-time * John Stoner, Archivist and Records Man- The different missions and institutional head of SLAC’s Experimental Program ager at the Lawrence Berkeley National affiliations of the three labs ensured that Advisory Committee. Laboratory (LBNL), led the multi-year a wide range of viewpoints would be effort described here, assisted by Jean captured in the final product. The trio Satisfied as to the appropriateness of Deken, Archivist, SLAC National Acceler- researched issues about scientists who the proposed schedule item for such ator Laboratory and Lee Michael, Nation- are also university faculty, about having records, there remained a lingering al Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). the scientists (rather than the records concern at NARA that the item might managers) declare when records are no be overused, but Deken and others es- For additional information contact John longer needed for current research, and timated an annual accumulation of no Stoner at [email protected] or Jean De- changing the proposed new item title to more than 10 cubic feet. The schedule ken [email protected].

Dedication ceremonies for Scyllac, a major experiment in controlled thermonuclear research at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), 1974. Members of the news media and families of employees ringed the balcony. The ceremonies were held after the series of brief talks in the LASL auditorium. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection

4 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history An Almost New Journal in the History of Physical Science

A new journal for the history of phys- ics appeared in 2010—well, an almost new journal: European Physical Journal: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics—EPJ H for short. The fourth is- sue is now available and it shows that this is an important new venue for our community.

The journal is produced jointly by Springer Verlag, the Italian Physical Society, and EDPS (the publishing part of the French Physical Society).

This first volume is numbered 35, an indication that this is, in a sense, a con- tinuation of an earlier journal, Annales de Physique. So this new title continues a venerable tradition.

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory scientists during a 1945 party at Los Alamos, New Mexico. In these first years of renewal, the editor L–R: Julian K. Knipp, Nicholas Metropolis, Stanislaw Ulam, Raymond Herb. In foreground, has established a solid basis for publish- left to right, are Luis W. Alvarez and Edwin McMillan. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory, ing quality articles in history of physics. courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Fermi Film Collection, Physics Today Collection.

O. Darrigol, “James MacCullagh’s ether: Vol. 35, no. 4, April 2011 These first four issues contain 18 articles: An optical route to Maxwell’s equations?” P. Carlson and A. De Angelis, National- ism and internationalism in science: the Vol. 35, no. 1, 2010 S. Goldstein, J.L. Lebowitz, R. Tumulka, case of the discovery of cosmic rays P. Söding, “On the discovery of the gluon” and N. Zanghi, “Long-time behavior of macroscopic quantum systems: Com- H.G. Dosch and V.F. Müller, The facets of M. Eckert, “The troublesome birth of mentary accompanying the English relativistic quantum field theory hydrodynamic stability theory: Sommer- translation of John von Neumann’s 1929 feld and the turbulence problem” article on the quantum ergodic theorem” B. Schroer, Pasqual Jordan’s legacy and the ongoing research in quantum field B. Schroer, “Jorge A. Swieca’s contribu- J. von Neumann, “Proof of the ergodic theory tions to quantum field theory in the 60s theorem and the H-theorem in quantum and 70s and their relevance in present mechanics” These articles present a strong indica- research” tion that the history of physics is thriv- Vol. 35, no. 3, 2010 ing. The concentration is decidedly on V. Trimble, “The origins and abundances Klaus Fredenhagen, “Lille 1957: The birth mathematical and theoretical physics, of the chemical elements before 1957: of the concept of local algebras of ob- but the article on the history of cosmic from Prout’s hypothesis to Pasadena” servables” ray research indicates that this may re- flect the accident of submission and Vol. 35, no. 2, 2010 Rudolf Haag, Discussion of the ‘axioms’ that the journal editor accepts a broader O. Darrigol and S. Shatashvili, “Editorial: and the asymptotic properties of a local sense of the history of physics. Histori- In honour of James MacCullagh (1809– field theory with composite particles ans should consider this journal for their 1847)” work, without neglecting the existing Rudolf Haag, Local algebras: A look back journals whose scope includes history T.D. Spearman, “James MacCullagh at the early years and at some achieve- of physical science. ■ 1809–1847” ments and missed opportunities

J. Bennett, “MacCullough’s Ireland: the Rudolf Haag, Some people and some Visit our online catalogs at institutional and cultural space for ge- problems met in half a century of com- www.aip.org/history/icos ometry and physics” mitment to mathematical physics www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 5

Recent Additions to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Donations to the Library & Archives al- ter Ziin made while making the film ‘The Manuscript Collections low us to acquire historically relevant Day Tomorrow Began.’ Kameshwar Wali, As always, being the official repository and valuable materials. Since we are a previous donor, gave us several images of the American Institute of Physics mainly the collecting body of AIP and of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and (AIP) and its ten member societies, we its member societies, as new collections family via Physics Today magazine, who have continued in our effort this year are offered to us we work hard to find featured Chandrasekhar in their Decem- to preserve their records. We have re- an appropriate home for them. This of- ber 2010 issue. ceived large donations from the Ameri- ten means that they are not kept here, can Physical Society (APS), and smaller but at a repository with stronger ties The 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics, donations from the American Associa- to the subject of the records. Though Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, tion of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), some collections are sent away, we con- donated photos at our request. We also the AVS, and the Society of Rheology tinue to grow our archives and help give thank these generous donors for giving (SoR). In addition, we have worked to a home to records, photos, and books us their images: Donald D. Clayton, Mi- complete our collections of back is- that fit within our realm of collecting. chael Duncan, John C. Hardy, Randall sues of each member society’s and AIP Again this year we have collected at a G. Hulet, Maureen A. Rafferty, Veerab- division’s printed newsletters that are steady pace with many new and inter- hadran Ramanathan, Martin Walt, and part of our Miscellaneous Publications esting materials. Benjamin P. Weiss. collection. Each division or society has their own finding aid that can be found Audiovisual Collections Lastly, we thank the following AIP Mem- on our website (http://www.aip.org/ The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (ESVA) ber Society Presidents for sending us history/ead/browse.html), which will al- now makes over 22,500 images available their photos for our Gallery of Member low researchers easier access to these online at http://photos.aip.org. Society Presidents: Christopher Dainty, resources. From the Library & Archives, George V. Frisk, Thomas Koetzle, Angus we have added to our collection on the The American Geophysical Union (AGU) A. Rockett, J. Anthony Seibert, and David Center for the History of Physics’ (CHP) (Continued on next page) donated nearly 600 images which were R. Sokoloff. processed by a spring 2010 intern from the University of Maryland’s iSchool. Peter Armbruster of the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darm- stadt, Germany donated several pho- tos depicting his life and work. Lucien Baillaud donated a few photos of his grandfather, Benjamin Baillaud, the first President of the International Astronom- ical Union (IAU). Leo Beranek donated dozens of stereo slides taken before 1975 documenting employees of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. Hilmar W. Du- erbeck donated several photos featur- ing his wife, Waltraut Seitter, a German astronomer who taught at Smith College and Vanderbilt University in the U.S. as well as Bonn University and Muenster University in Germany. Jonothan Logan made a large donation of prints largely from the collections of Samuel Goud- smit and Brookhaven National Laborato- ry. George Tressel gave us several photos of physicist and composer Art Roberts at a recording session for music he com- posed for a film on the 1964 Atoms for Chinese physicists doing research at Harvard in nonlinear optics as part of a Chinese-American Peace Conference as well as images of program in atomic, molecular and condensed-matter physics sponsored by the American Physi- cal Society (APS). L–R: Guo-Zhen Yang, Ying-Hua Zhou, and Wen-Kui Wang, ca 1970’s. Credit: John Wheeler, Leslie Groves, and Wal- Photo by Joe Wrinn, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection. www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 7 ences, for example we received record- ings from the AAPT Winter meeting from Jacksonville, Florida and the APS March and April meetings. We also received audio reels from AAPT’s Women in Sci- ence series of interviews with women of physics and astronomy from the 1970s and 80s and a recording of the actor Clay Jenkinson’s portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

More information is now available about the Niels Bohr Institute and the APS’s collected papers relating to their for- mation of the division of nuclear phys- ics in our institutional histories collec- tion. In our manuscript biographies, we have received memoirs, autobiog- Earl Shaw (left), who worked at Bell Labs before joining Rutgers University, with an unidentified raphies or unpublished biographies student, ca 1990’s Credit: Rutgers University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of about Henry Paul, Raymond McAllister, Dr. Shaw. Donald B. Keck, David K. C. Cooper, Project on the History of Recent Phys- often offer new points of views on his- Morris Berg, Sidney C. Abrahams, Vesto ics records and the administrative ma- torical events and people important to Melvin Slipher and Jack Eddy. Finally, in terials and interviews from the History the physical sciences. our miscellaneous physics collection, of Physicists in Industry project are also we received more course notes from a available. This year our audio visual donations ranged from speeches for awards giv- nuclear physics class taught by Julian Schwinger that were compiled by Martin Along with these collections from en by member societies, such as B. C. J. Klein and from a neutron physics course AIP and its member societies we have Wang’s acceptance of the Patterson at Los Alamos University taught by Enrico received the Lillian Hoddeson papers, Award, Frank Herbstein’s acceptance Fermi that were written by Isaac Halpern; which include transcripts from some of the Fankuchen Award, and Angelo and a report from the first workshop of of the oral history interviews she con- Gavezzoti’s acceptance of the Trueblood the National Resource for Computation ducted throughout her career and much award for the American Crystallographic in Chemistry from Lawrence Berkeley of her research material and from the Association (ACA); to presentations that Laboratory. ■ grant funded projects she worked on, are history focused from large confer- especially those she did in conjunc- tion with CHP. This collection has been processed and a finding aid is available online (http://www.aip.org/history/ead/ 20110335.html). Furthermore, we were sent an addition to the Samuel Goud- smit papers, the records of William C. “Bill” Kelly from his time at the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) along with a roll of microfilm on AAPT’s Committee on Apparatus for Educational Institutions lecture demonstrations, and a set of Edson Wolcott’s diplomas.

In addition to our larger manuscript col- lections, we collect audio visual record- ings, institutional histories, unpublished manuscript biographies and single or few item collections of “miscellaneous Herbert York and Petr Kapitsa in Moscow with faked San Diego Daily Transcript newspaper physics.” These types of materials make headline, ‘Kapitsa Wins Bet, York Humiliated.’ 1975. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, up a majority of our collection and Physics Today Collection.

8 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history Niels Bohr Library & Archives 2011 Book Donations

The Niels Bohr Library & Archives great- year, a donation strong in the areas of exterior francesa a l’Espanya de Franco: ly benefited from the generosity of its physics and especially acoustics. el cas dels físics Catalans (Institute donors this year, receiving over 500 d’Estudis Catalans, 2010) books in 2011. Two of our biggest dona- In addition to the major donations, we tions included 180 books from Kenneth received several generous donations William Fickinger Miller’s Waves: An W. Ford and 108 books from the library from Charles J. Peterson, Sally Boskin, Informal Scientific Biography (Case of the late Norriss S. Hetherington, do- Dr. and Mrs. Michael G. Ruby, Dr. Western Reserve University, 2011) nated to the library by his wife, Edith. Charles E. Atchley, Warren Hein, Alexei Kenneth Ford’s donation included many Kojevnikov, Peter Broughton, and for- Kenneth W. Ford 101 Quantum Ques- textbooks, biographies, and techni- mer History Center director Spencer tions: What you Need to Know About cal monographs. We were also grateful Weart. the World You Can’t See (Harvard UP, to receive so many well selected titles 2011) from the library of the late Norriss S. Individual titles donated by their Hetherington in the areas of physics, authors and editors this year included: George Greenstein The Quantum Chal- astronomy, and in both the history and lenge: Modern Research on the Founda- philosophy of science. John T. Blackmore and Setsuko Tanaka tions of Quantum Mechanics (Jones and Ernst Mach’s Graz, 1864–1897 (Enfield, Bartlett, 1996 and 2007) Other large donations included over 80 2010) monographs from David Berns; a large David J. Lockwood Light scattering number of books in geology, geophysics John T. Blackmore and Setsuko Tanaka in magnetic solids (co-authored with and the history of science from our His- Ernst Mach’s Prague 1867–1895 As a Michael G. Cottam; Wiley, 1986) tory Center director, Gregory A. Good; a Human Adventure (Enfield, 2010) number of conference proceedings and David J. Lockwood (Ed.) P.L. Kapitsa— monographs from Armen Jermakian; Benjamin Bederson and Henry H. Stroke Letters to Mother: The Early Cambridge and a dozen theoretical physics mono- History of the NYU Physics Department, Period (NRCC, 1989) graphs from Randolph Reeder. We also 1831–2000 (BookMasters, 2010) received a large donation last year from Karl von Meyenn (Ed.) Eine Entdeckung Elizabeth Ivey which we processed this Alfons Carpio Rovira Ciència i política (Continued on page 19)

Grants-in-Aid Help Young Scholars Connect

Alexander Blum of the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte writes about how a Grant-in-Aid from the Center for History of Physics helped him attend the Summer 2011 conference for young scholars in College Park, MD.

The Grant-in-Aid of the I got to present my own work, after Friends of the Center I switched from physics to history of for History of Physics physics after my PhD last year. allowed me to attend this summer’s young The costs of traveling to the United scholars conference States from Europe are often prohibitive on ‘Continuity and for young scholars, but it is extremely Discontinuity in the Physi- important for us to keep contact with cal Sciences since the En- the vibrant history of science commu- lightenment’ and present a nity in the U.S. In fact, from the discus- paper on the history of the sions I had at the conference, there concept of vacuum polar- emerged a collaborative project with a ization. PhD student from Pittsburgh, which he and I are currently working on. ■ This was an important mile- stone for me, since it was For more information on the Grants-in- the first conference in the Aid and Grants to Archives programs, history of physics at which visit www.aip.org/history/grants.html.

www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 9 Documentation Preserved Research Center staff member must re- Compiled by Melanie Brown view the collection for restricted mate- rial before any researchers may use the Our report of new collections or new finding aids is based on our regular survey of collection. Consult a staff member for archives and other repositories. Many of the collections are new accessions, which may not be processed, and we also include previously reported collections that now assistance. have an online finding aid available. Oral history interview with Lewis W. To learn more about any of the collections listed below, use the International Catalog Webb, Jr. Collection Date: 1975 Septem- of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences at www.aip.org/history/icos. ber 3. Size: Transcript: 53 pages. Audio You can search in a variety of ways including by author or by repository. recording: 80 minutes.

Please contact the repository mentioned for information on restrictions and access to the collections. Columbia University. Oral History Research Office. Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, NEW COLLECTIONS Eastmond and O. Norman Geertson. USA Collection dates: 1961 Size: 28 centime- National Archives of Australia. ters (187 pages). Oral history interview with Michael Late Queen Victoria Terrace, PARKES ACT Benedum. Collection Date: 1951. Size: 2600, GPO Box 7425, CANBERRA BC Richard Wayne Hales lecture notes. Col- Transcript: 144 leaves. Audio recording: ACT 2610, Australia lection dates: circa 1936-1961. Size: 3 lin- 1 tape reel. ear feet (3 cartons). George Hector Munro papers. Collec- Oral history interview with Charles Stark tion dates: circa 1941-1976. Size: approxi- Wayne B. Hales records. Collection Draper. Collection Date: 1983. Size: Tran- mately 1 linear foot. dates: 1944-1945. Size: 27 items. script: 146 leaves. Audio recording: 5 cassettes. Restrictions: This collection American Museum of Natural His- is closed for research. Contact the Oral Clark University. Goddard Library. tory. Library. Special Collections. History Research Office for more infor- Archives and Special Collections. Central Park West at 79th Street, New mation. York, NY 10024 USA Worcester, MA 01610-11477, USA Oral history interview with Dennis Fla- The Peruvian Eclipse Expedition [video- Joseph George Coffin collected papers. nagan. Collection Date: 1986. Size: Tran- recording]. Collection dates: 1937. Size: Collection dates: 1900-1935. Size: 3 vol- script: 69 pages. 1 videocassette. Restrictions: Not avail- umes. able through interlibrary loan. Contact Oral history interview with Neil Tyson. AMNH Library Special Collections for J. E. Ives collected papers. Collection Collection dates: 2001 December 12, 2003 terms of access. dates: 1888-1913. Size: 1 volume. March 12, and 2005 June 23. Size: Tran- script: 124 pages. Audio recording: 2 cas- settes (163 minutes). Video recording: 2 Brigham Young University. Harold College of William and Mary. Earl DVDs (118 minutes). B. Lee Library. Special Collections Gregg Swem Library. Special Col- Division. P.O. Box 26835, Provo, UT lections Research Center. Williams- 84602-6835, USA burg, VA 23185, USA Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Butler Library, Oral history interview with Carl Joseph Oral history interview with Robert T. 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, Christensen. Collection Date: 1985 Feb- Siegel. Collection Date: 1976 August 11. USA ruary 10. Size: Transcript: 55 pages. Audio Size: Transcript: 37 pages. Audio record- recording: 3 cassettes. ing: 82 minutes. Columbia University Department of Astronomy records. Collection dates: Willard Gardner biography. Collection Hans C. von Baeyer papers. Collection 1880-1917. Size: 5 linear feet (4 record Date: 1978. Size: 1 volume (60 pages). dates: 1979-1984. Size: 5 cubic feet. Re- storage cartons, 2 document boxes). Re- strictions: This collection contains ma- strictions: This collection is located off- History of the Department of Physics and terial which may be restricted related site. You will need to request this mate- Astronomy, Brigham Young University, to personnel matters, student records, rial at least 24 hours in advance to use compiled by Richard W. Hales, E. John or other reasons. A Special Collections the collection in the Columbia Univer-

10 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history sity Library’s Rare Book and Manuscript dates: 1956-1973. Size: 32 containers. plosion in the experimental hall of the Library reading room. Restrictions: Access may be restricted. Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Collec- Details available at the repository. tion dates: undated. Restrictions: Unpro- Mariia Vladimirovna Volkonskaia pa- cessed collection. pers. Collection dates: 1858-1959. Size: Cambridge Electron Accelerator mo- 14 boxes. tion picture films. Collection dates: circa Julian Calvert Eisenstein autobiography 1962-1967. Size: 0.45 cubic foot (1 contain- and scrapbooks. Collection dates: 1937- er, 3 film reels). Restrictions: Access may 1948. Size: 0.5 cubic feet (1 typed manu- Georgia Institute of Technology. be restricted. Details available at reposi- script, 3 volumes in 2 flat boxes). Library and Information Center, tory. Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0900, USA Leo Goldberg photograph albums. Col- Cambridge Electron Accelerator records lection dates: 1960-1975. Size: 3 volumes. Helen E. Grenga papers. Collection of Sixth International conference on dates: 1963-1994 (bulk 1972-1983). Size: High Energy Accelerators. Collection Harvard College Observatory Agas- 2.4 linear feet. dates: 1967. Size: 2 boxes. Restrictions: siz Station records. Collection dates: Access may be restricted. Details avail- 1938-1953. Size: 1 container. Restrictions: able at the repository. Access may be restricted. Details avail- Hagley Museum and Library. Manu- able at the repository. scripts and Archives Department. Cambridge Electron Accelerator records of staff meetings. Collection dates: 1957- 298 Buck Road East, Greenville, DE Harvard College Observatory Boyden 1973. Size: 2 containers. Restrictions: 19807, USA Station miscellaneous items. Collec- Access may be restricted. Details avail- tion dates: 1887-1951. Size: 4 containers. able at the repository. Restrictions: Access may be restricted. Harvard University Archives. Pusey Details available at the repository. Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Cambridge Electron Accelerator records of various committees. Collection dates: Harvard College Observatory Boyden 1959-1973. Size: 9 containers. Restric- Associates of Physical Science of Harvard Station records. Collection dates: 1889- tions: Access may be restricted. Details University records. Collection dates: 1958. Size: 38 containers. Restrictions: available at the repository. 1937-1941, undated. Size: 1 container. Access may be restricted. Details avail- able at the repository. Cambridge Electron Accelerator records: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory re- photographs of bubble chamber ex- (Continued on next page) cords. Collection dates: 1884-1960. Size: 126 containers.

Lewis McAdory Branscomb papers. Col- lection dates: 1950-2004. Size: 37 cubic feet. Restrictions: Restrictions may apply. Consult reference staff for details.

Helen L. Brooks papers. Collection dates: 1958-1982.

Cambridge Electron Accelerator accident investigation records. Collection dates: 1965. Size: 3 boxes.

Cambridge Electron Accelerator draw- ings of apparatus. Collection dates: 1968- 1973. Size: 5 containers. Restrictions: Ac- cess may be restricted. Details available at the repository. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory scientists hiking during 1945 in the rugged area of Frijoles Cambridge Electron Accelerator log- National Park near Los Alamos, New Mexico. L–R: Joseph McKibben, Richard Feynman, Edwin McMillan, Bengt Carlson, Theodore Jorgensen, Jr., Emilio Segrè (with hat and glasses), David books, manuals, reports, registration Inglis, and Mrs. Jorgensen. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè cards, and shift summaries. Collection Visual Archives, Fermi Film Collection, Physics Today Collection. www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 11 (New Collections, cont’d from previous page) Size: 8 containers. Restrictions: Access dates: undated. Size: 1 folder. Restric- may be restricted. Details available at tions: Access may be restricted. Details Harvard College Observatory Commit- repository. available at repository. tee minutes. Collection dates: 1958-1967. Size: 0.2 cubic foot (1 container). Restric- Harvard College Observatory astro- Harvard College Observatory general re- tions: Access may be restricted. Details nomical and meteorological scrap- cords. Collection dates: 1970-1993. Size: available at repository. books. Collection dates: 1843-1867. Size: 2.7 cubic feet (8 containers). Restrictions: 2 containers. Restrictions: Access may be Access may be restricted. Details avail- Harvard College Observatory Oak Ridge restricted. Details available at repository. able at repository. Station records. Collection dates: 1932- 1938. Size: 2 containers. Restrictions: Harvard College Observatory chrono- Harvard College Observatory history Access may be restricted. Details avail- metric expedition records. Collection and book of facts. Collection dates: able at the repository. dates: 1849-1855. Size: 15 boxes. Restric- 1839-circa 1900. Size: 1 container. Restric- tions: Access may be restricted. Details tions: Access may be restricted. Details Harvard College Observatory Russian available at repository. available at repository. Observatory records. Collection dates: circa 1899. Size: 1 folder. Restrictions: Harvard College Observatory computa- Harvard College Observatory journal of Access may be restricted. Details avail- tions by Robert Treat Paine. Collection observations made with 12” horizontal able at the repository. dates: 1852-circa 1861. Size: 0.01 cubic telescope. Collection dates: 1888-1889. foot (1 container). Size: 1 volume. Restrictions: Access may Harvard College Observatory Sacra- be restricted. Details available at reposi- mento Peak Station records. Collection Harvard College Observatory correspon- tory. dates: undated. Size: 1 container. Restric- dence and tabulations on meteor shower tions: Access may be restricted. Details of 1898. Collection dates: circa 1898. Size: Harvard College Observatory photo- available at the repository. 2 containers. Restrictions: Access may be graphs of the construction of Agassiz restricted. Details available at repository. Station. Collection dates: 1961. Size: 0.4 Harvard College Observatory and Har- cubic feet. Restrictions: Access may be vard Observatory Safety Council forms Harvard College Observatory finding restricted. Details available at repository. and notices. Collection dates: undated. charts: Magellanic clouds. Collection

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Agnew, Duncan Carr Cross, Lee A. Levi, Hilda Bell,Leon Fumi, Fausto Meyers, C. J. Black, James Findley Geballe, Ronald Pederson, Johannes Bleuler, Konrad Green, Robert Teichman, Raymond Brakel, Henry Louis Haworth, Leland J. Tian Yu Cao Bromley, D. Allan Hill, David Lawrence Uehling, Edwin Buck, Paul H. Hinz, Karl Vila, Fernando Burns, Fred Paul Huggins, Maurice Wiegand, Clyde Case, Stephen Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles Wilson, James G.

12 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history Harvard College Observatory project Harvard College and staff files. Collection dates: 1971- Observatory re- 1976. Size: 5 containers. Restrictions: cords relating to Access may be restricted. Details avail- the National Radio able at repository. Astronomy Obser- vatory. Collection Harvard College Observatory records dates: 1971-1991. from scientific conferences and meet- Size: 1.4 cubic feet ings. Collection dates: 1910-1975. Size: 10 (4 containers). Re- containers. Restrictions: Access may be strictions: Access restricted. Details available at repository. may be restricted. Details available at Harvard College Observatory records of repository. E. S. King. Collection dates: 1913-1931. Size: 1 container. Restrictions: Access Harvard College Ob- may be restricted. Details available at the servatory reports to repository. visiting committees. Collection dates: Harvard College Observatory records of 1846-1874. Size: 3 Northeast Radio Observatory Corpora- containers. Restric- tion and Cambridge Radio Observatory tions: Access may be The dedication of the nation’s largest solar heating and cooling sys- Committee. Collection dates: 1964-1972. restricted. Details tem then in operation took place November 26, 1975, at the George Size: 10 containers. Restrictions: Access available at reposi- A. Towns Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Solar collector panels may be restricted. Details available at tory. mounted on the roof are pictured during construction. It was expected that the system would supply more than 60 percent of the year-round repository. heating and cooling for the 32,000 square-foot building. A convention- Harvard College Ob- al gas-fired boiler supplements the solar system. Credit: ERDA Photo Harvard College Observatory records servatory research by Frank Hoffman, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection. of W. P. Gerrish. Collection dates: 1887- proposals. Collec- 1939. Size: 5 containers. Restrictions: tion dates: 1953-1956. restricted. Details available at repository. Access may be restricted. Details avail- Size: 2 containers. Restrictions: Access able at the repository. may be restricted. Details available. Harvard College Observatory Office of the Director records of Donald H. Harvard College Observatory records of History of the Harvard College Obser- Menzel. Collection dates: 1952-1969. Willard J. Fisher. Collection dates: 1925- vatory’s Bruce photographic telescope. Size: 73 containers. Restrictions: Access 1934. Size: 11 containers. Restrictions: Collection dates: 1888-1894. Size: 1 vol- may be restricted. Details available at Access may be restricted. Details avail- ume. Restrictions: Access may be restrict- the repository. able at the repository. ed. Details available at repository. Harvard College Observatory Office of Harvard College Observatory records Harvard College Observatory Adminis- the Director records of Edward C. Pick- of astronomical work. Collection dates: trative Officer correspondence. Collec- ering. Collection dates: 1864-1926. Size: 1912-1919. Size: 1 container. Restrictions: tion dates: 1959-1983. Size: 1 cubic foot 168 containers. Restrictions: Access may Access may be restricted. Details avail- (2 containers). Restrictions: Access may be restricted. Details available at the able at repository. be restricted. Details available at the repository. repository. Harvard College Observatory records of Harvard College Observatory Office the Associate Director, Bart J. Bok. Col- Harvard College Observatory Adminis- of the Director records of George B. lection dates: 1913-1957. Size: 5 contain- trative Officer correspondence. Collec- Field. Collection dates: 1972-1983. Size: ers. Restrictions: Access may be restrict- tion dates: 1953-1985. Size: 12 contaners. 2 containers. Restrictions: Access may ed. Details available at the repository. Restrictions: Access may be restricted. be restricted. Details available at the Details available at the repository. repository. Harvard College Observatory records relating to Harvard Observatory series. Harvard College Observatory Office of Harvard College Observatory Office of Collection dates: 1940. Size: 2 containers. the Director correspondence. Collection the Director records of Harlow Shapley. Restrictions: Access may be restricted. dates: 1926-1975. Size: 0.7 cubic foot (2 Collection dates: 1921-1956. Size: 100 con- Details available at repository. containers). Restrictions: Access may be tainers. Restrictions: Access may be re- (Continued on next page) www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 13 (New Collections, cont’d from previous page) Harvard University records regarding 1954 at Harvard College Observatory. the appointment of a director for the Collection dates: 1954 Size: 28 centime- stricted. Details available at the repository. Harvard College Observatory. Collec- ters (19 leaves). tion dates: 1865. Size: 1 container. Restric- Harvard College Observatory Office tions: Access may be restricted. Details Don C. Wiley papers. Collection dates: of the Director records of Joseph Win- available at repository. 1965-2000, 2002. Size: 59.21 cubic feet (59 lock. Collection dates: 1866-1875. Size: record cartons, 1 document box). Re- 8 containers. Restrictions: Access may Harvard University Committee on Higher strictions: Restrictions may apply. be restricted. Details available at the Degrees in Biophysics student records. repository. Collection dates: (1962-1998). Size: 6 cu- bic feet (17 containers). Restrictions: Ac- Henry E. Huntington Library. 1151 Harvard College Observatory Office of cess may be restricted. Details avalable at Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, the Director records of Leo Goldberg. repository. USA Collection dates: 1960-1970. Size: 10 containers. Restrictions: Access may be Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop restricted. Details available at the reposi- Harvard University Corporation Panel on papers. Collection dates: 1903-1938. Size: tory. Physics and Engineering memoranda, re- ports, and other items. Collection dates: 931 items. Harvard College Observatory Office of 1944-1945. Size: 1 container. Mount Wilson Observatory legal papers. the Director records of W. C. Bond and Collection dates: 1903-1938. Size: 84 items G. P. Bond. Collection dates: 1845-1865. Harvard University Department of (1 box). Size: 26 containers. Restrictions: Access Astronomy student and departmental may be restricted. Details available at the records. Collection dates: 1933-1983. Seth Barnes Nicholson papers. Collec- Size: 0.6 cubic foot (2 containers). Restric- repository. tion dates: 1914-1963. Size: 445 items (3 tions: Access may be restricted. Details boxes). Harvard College Observatory Office of available in repository. the Director records. Collection dates: Alexander Pogo papers. Collection Harvard University Department of Phys- 1863-1958. Size: 118 containers. Restric- dates: 1952-1959. Size: 936 items. tions: Access may be restricted. Details ics teaching material. Collection dates: 1939-1974. Size: 2 boxes. available at the repository. John Wesley Powell collection [micro- form]. Collection dates: undated Size: 1 Harvard University Division of Engineer- Harvard College Observatory Office of 35 mm microfilm reel. the Director records. Collection dates: ing and Applied Physics records of pro- fessor Allan R. Robinson relating to the 1964-1991. Size: 8.7 cubic feet (25 contain- Henrietta Hill Swope papers. Collection Geophysics Study Committee. Collection ers). Restrictions: Access may be restrict- dates: 1923-1979. Size: 2,400 items (12 dates: 1970-1977. Size: 0.7 cubic foot (2 ed. Details available at repository. boxes). containers). Restrictions: Access may be restricted. Details available at repository. Harvard College Observatory Office Frederic Eugene Wright papers. Collec- of the Director subject files. Collec- tion dates: 1924-1961. Size: 865 items (6 tion dates: 1960-1978. Size: 5 containers. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro- boxes, 3 oversize folders). Restrictions: Access may be restricted. physics Office of the Director correspon- Details available at the repository. dence. Collection dates: 1960-1990. Johns Hopkins University. Special Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory records. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro- Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Collection dates: 1930-2002, undated. Re- physics Office of the Director records Library. 3400 N. Charles St., Balti- strictions: Unprocessed accessions, un- of Irwin Shapiro. Collection dates: 1964- more, MD 21218, USA available for use. 1986. R. Bowling Barnes papers. Collection Publications by and about Harvard Proj- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro- dates: circa 1930-1970. Size: 11.25 linear ect Physics. Collection dates: 1962-1973. physics records of the May 11, 2001 Don- feet (9 records boxes). Restrictions: Access may be restricted. ald H. Menzel Centennial Symposium. Details available at repository. Collection dates: undated. Size: 1 pro- gram, 9 VHS cassettes, 9 audio cassettes. Massachusetts Institute of Technol- Harvard University general information ogy. Institute Archives and Special files. Collection dates: 1839-, undated. Donald H. Menzel notes of a course on Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. Details available at the repository. astronomical geophysics presented in 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

14 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history Norman C. Rasmussen papers. Collec- Francis J. Norton papers. Collection Size: 0.2 linear feet. Restrictions: The re- tion dates: 1956-1995. Size: 15 cubic feet dates: 1930-1986. Size: 3.6 linear feet. cords are open without restriction. (15 records boxes). Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Access University of Michigan Detroit Observa- to box 15 is restricted as it contains stu- University of California, San Diego. tory records. Collection dates: 1800-2004 dent work. The collection is not yet fully Mandeville Special Collections Li- (bulk 1994-2001). Size: 26 linear feet and 1 processed. brary. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA flat file drawer. Restrictions: The records 92093, USA are open without restriction.

National Radio Astronomy Observa- Geoffrey Burbidge papers. Collection University of Minnesota. University tory. Archives. 520 Edgemont Road, dates: 1955-2008. Size: 52.4 linear feet. Archives. Andersen Library, Minne- Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA apolis, MN, USA Helen S. Hawkins collection. Collection Marshall H. Cohen papers. Collection dates: 1974-1987. Size: 5.1 linear feet (11 Oral history interview with Russell K. dates: 1957-2002. Size: 4 linear feet. Re- archives boxes). Hobbie. Collection dates: 1994 Septem- strictions: No restrictions. ber 29. Size: Transcript: 28 pages.

University of Michigan. Bentley His- David S. Heeschen papers. Collection Roger H. Stuewer papers. Collection dates: 1945-1998. Size: 7.5 linear feet. Re- torical Library. Ann Arbor, Michigan dates: 1921-1970s. Size: 1 cubic foot (1 strictions: No restrictions. 48109-2113, USA box). Restrictions: Items in this collec- tion do not circulate and may be used S. P. Langley papers. Collection dates: in-house only. Northwestern University. Library. 1866-1926. Size: 0.2 linear feet. University Archives. Evanston, IL 60201, USA Harry E. Moses student notebooks. Col- University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Lied lection dates: 1943-1947. Size: 8 volumes Library Special Collections.. 4505 Su-Shu Huang papers. Collection dates: (in 1 box). Maryland Parkway Box 457001, Las 1944-1980. Size: 15 boxes. Vegas, NV 89154-7001, USA University of Michigan Department of At- J. Allen Hynek papers. Collection dates: mospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Cliff Olses papers. Collection dates: 1925-1988. Size: 14 boxes. publications. Collection dates: 1956-2004. 1958-2002. Size: 6 boxes.

Dearborn Observatory Organ Mountain Station logbooks. Collection dates: 1961- 1965. Size: 4 notebooks.

University of Virginia. Alderman Library. Special Collections. Charlot- tesville, VA 22903, USA

Oral history interview with Frederick L. Brown. Collection dates: 1975 November 19. Size: 3 items.

Schenectady Museum. Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA

Albert W. Hull papers. Collection dates: 1920-1964. Size: 0.3 linear feet.

L–R: John Graham, Paul Foster, and John McCone, the United States delegation to the General Irving Langmuir papers. Collection dates: Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. September 20, 1911-1959. Size: 0.5 linear feet. 1960. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection. www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 15 (New Collections, cont’d from previous page) are stored offsite, and a minimum of 24 hours is needed to retrieve these items hours is needed to retrieve these items for use. Researchers interested in con- University of Pennsylvania Universi- for use. Researchers interested in con- sulting any of the collections are advised ty Archives and Records Center Phil- sulting any of the collections are advised to contact Special Collections. adelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6320. to contact Special Collections. Harry D. Youmans Jr. papers. Collection Britton Chance papers. Collection dates: Herbert L. Mette physics textbooks and dates: 1952-1987 May 13. Size: 1.5 linear 1940-1995. Size: 17 cubic feet. Restric- studienbuch. Collection dates: 1913-1951. feet. Restrictions: Collections are stored tions: Access to collection is granted in Size: 0.3 linear feet. Restrictions: Collec- offsite, and a minimum of 24 hours is accordance with the Protocols for the tions are stored offsite, and a minimum needed to retrieve these items for use. University Archives and Records Center; of 24 hours is needed to retrieve these Researchers interested in consulting any the collection includes a large quantity items for use. Researchers interested in of the collections are advised to contact of personal, employment, and person- consulting any of the collections are ad- Special Collections. nel material, which, according to the vised to contact Special Collections. Protocol of the University Archives, will be closed for seventy-five years after its Karl Z. Morgan addition to papers. Col- University of Utah. Marriott Library. generation. lection dates: 1946-1996 (bulk 1970-1991). Special Collections. Salt Lake City, Size: 2.75 linear feet. Restrictions: Collec- UT 84112, USA Oral history interviews with Arsene N. tions are stored offsite, and a minimum Lucian. Collection dates: 1969-1971. Size: of 24 hours is needed to retrieve these National Cold Fusion Institute records. 0.3 cubic feet. items for use. Researchers interested in Collection dates: 1988-1991. Size: 7 linear feet. Restrictions: Materials must be used Horace Clark Richards collection. Col- consulting any of the collections are ad- on-site; advance notice suggested. Access lection dates: 1871-1944. Size: 0.5 cubic vised to contact Special Collections. to parts of this collection may be restrict- feet. Restrictions: Access to collection is ed under provisions of state or federal law. granted in accordance with the Protocols Alvin Nielsen collection. Collection for the University Archives and Records dates: 1910-1994. Size: 1.0 linear feet. Re- University of Utah Seismograph Stations Center. strictions: Collections are stored offsite, and a minimum of 24 hours is needed to records. Collection dates: 1971-1980. retrieve these items for use. Researchers Size: 1.0 linear feet. Restrictions: Materi- University of Pittsburgh. University interested in consulting any of the col- als must be used on-site; advance notice Archives. 7500 Thomas Boulevard, lections are advised to contact Special suggested. Access to parts of this collec- Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA Collections. tion may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Abner Shimony papers. Collection Warren Sinclair papers. Collection dates: dates: 1947-2009. Size: 6 linear feet (7 1960-1972. Size: 12 linear feet. Restric- document cases). tions: Manuscript collections are stored University of Virginia. Alderman Li- offsite, and a minimum of 24 hours is brary. Special Collections. Charlot- needed to retrieve these items for re- tesville, VA 22903, USA University of Rochester. Rush Rhees search use. Readers interested in con- Library. Dept. of Rare Books, Manu- sulting any of the collections are advised University of Virginia Department of scripts and Archives. Rochester, New to contact Special Collections. Physics Physics Accelerator Building York 14627. photographs. Collection dates: 1966. Joshua Tabatchnik scientific papers. Col- Size: 35 photographs. Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake papers. Col- lection dates: 1938-1967 (bulk 1962-1967). lection dates: 1903-2003. Size: 27 boxes. Size: 0.1 linear feet. Restrictions: Collec- tions are stored offsite, and a minimum University of Wisconsin-Madison. of 24 hours is needed to retrieve these University Archives. Steenbock Li- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. items for use. Researchers interested in brary, Madison, WI 53706, USA Special Collections Library. James D. consulting any of the collections are ad- Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN 37996, vised to contact Special Collections. Theodore Edwin Houck Royal Obser- USA vatory logbook. Collection dates: 1953. University of Tennesee Space Institute Size: 1 volume (22 centimeters). Alexander Hollaender addition to pa- self-study. Collection dates: 1970. Size: pers. Collection dates: 1951-1972. Size: 9.1 linear feet. Restrictions: Collections University of Wisconsin Department of 3 linear feet. Restrictions: Collections are stored offsite, and a minimum of 24 Astronomy records. Collection dates:

16 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history 1867-1986. Size: 11 cubic feet (30 archives Carle W. Highberg papers. Collection bic feet (1671 containers). Restrictions: boxes, 1 record carton) plus, unpro- dates: 1940s-1980s. Size: 3 boxes. Access may be restricted. Details at the cessed accession of 13.5 cubic feet and repository. 11 volumes. Harold Osterberg papers. Size: 1 box. John Winthrop papers. Collection dates: University of Wisconsin Department of Richard T. Whitcomb collection. Collec- 1728-1789 (inclusive). Size: circa 2 linear Astronomy High Speed Photometer re- tion dates: 1954-1980. Size: 7 boxes and 1 feet. Restrictions: Access may be restrict- cords. Size: 8 cubic feet. cabinet drawer. ed. Details at the repository.

University of Wisconsin Department of Astronomy Project Gemini records. Col- Johns Hopkins University. Special NEW FINDING AIDS lection dates: 1989-1995. Size: 2 cubic feet Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Li- (2 record cartons). College of Charleston. Library. De- brary. 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, partment of Archives and Manu- MD 21218, USA University of Wisconsin Department of scripts. Charleston, SC 29424, USA Joseph Sweetman Ames papers. Astronomy blueprints. Size: 170 blue- Collec- tion dates: 1888-1968. Size: 0.5 linear feet prints. Frank R. Fisher papers. Collection dates: 1869-1902. Size: 1 volume. (0.25 linear (1 document box). feet). University of Wisconsin Department of W. J. A. Bliss papers. Collection dates: Astronomy records. Collection dates: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers. Collection 1892-1927. Size: 1 linear foot (2 document 1877-2007. Size: 18 cubic feet. dates: 1834-1898. Size: 7 boxes (4.5 linear boxes). feet). University of Wisconsin Department of Walter M. Elsasser papers. Collection Astronomy orbiting astrophysical obser- dates: 1927-1987. Size: 4 linear feet (10 vatory records. Collection dates: 1959- Columbia University. Rare Book and boxes). 1973. Size: 4 cubic feet. Manuscript Library. Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, Gustav A. Liebig collection. Collection University of Wisconsin Space Astrono- USA dates: 1886-1887. Size: 5 items. my Laboratory addition to records. Col- lection dates: 1972-1978. Size: 0.5 cubic Henry J. Anderson copies of letters. Col- Jan Michael Minkowski papers. Collec- feet. lection dates: 1823-1900. Size: 0.5 linear tion dates: 1946-1987. Size: 6.7 linear feet feet (1 box). (4 document boxes, 4 records boxes). Washburn Observatory observation books. Collection dates: 1867-1958. Size: Clarisse Doris Hellman papers. Collec- David Sterrett Pindell notebook. Collec- 6 record cartons. tion dates: [circa 1925]-1973. Size: 30 lin- tion dates: 1895-1933. Size: 1.25 linear feet ear feet (61 boxes). (1 records box). A. E. Whitford observation books. Col- lection dates: 1934-1956. Size: 3 volumes. Jan Schilt papers. Collection dates: 1931- Henry Augustus Rowland papers. Col- 1963. Size: 23.5 linear feet (circa 13,500 lection dates: 1793-1970. Size: 30 linear items in 27 boxes). feet (52 document boxes, 56 volumes). Vanderbilt University. Special Col- lections and University Archives. Robert Williams Wood papers. Collec- Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Earlham College. Archives. Lilly Li- tion dates: 1927-1942. Size: 0.4 linear feet 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN brary, Richmond, IN 47374. USA (1 document box). 37203, USA Clifford C. Crump papers. Collection Newton Underwood papers. Collection dates: 1920-1969. Size: 4 feet. Princeton University. Seeley G. dates: 1938-1941. Size: 3 items. Mudd Manuscript Library. 65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Harvard University Archives. Pusey Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Ar- Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA G. Edward Pendray papers. Collection chives. George C. Gordon Library. dates: 1829-1891. Size: 68.35 linear feet (99 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA Harlow Shapley papers. Collection boxes). 01609 dates: 1906-1966 (inclusive). Size: 53 cu- (Continued on next page) www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 17 (Finding Aids, cont’d from previous page) University of Michigan. Bentley His- Yale University Library. Beinecke Schenectady Museum. Nott Terrace torical Library. Ann Arbor, Michigan Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA 48109-2113, USA Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Charles Steinmetz papers. Collection Association of Universities for Research Rachel Carson papers. Collection dates: dates: 1895-2001. Size: 2.5 linear feet. in Astronomy records. Collection dates: 1953-1974. Size: 16 linear feet. 1921-1989. Size: 53.5 linear feet (117 boxes).

Smithsonian Institution Archives. William G. Dow papers. Collection dates: Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 1927-1964. Size: 6 linear feet. Yale University Library. Manuscripts 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washing- and Archives. Box 208240, New Ha- ton, DC 20024-2520, USA Kasimir Fajans papers. Collection dates: ven, CT 06520, USA 1912-1975. Size: 13 linear feet. Bertram Borden Boltwood papers. Col- National Museum of American History lection dates: 1890-1932. Size: 3 linear feet Department of the History of Science William P. Favorite papers. Collection (8 boxes and 1 folio). and Technology records. Collection dates: 1918-1977. Size: 9 linear inches. dates: circa 1925-1937, 1954-1985. Size: 2.9 George Jarvis Brush family papers. Col- linear meters. Restrictions: Use of this lection dates: 1834-1960. Size: 4 linear feet record unit requires prior arrangement University of Puget Sound. Library/ (10 boxes, 1 folio). with the Archives staff. Archives. Tacoma, WA 98416, USA Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- National Museum of History and Tech- B. A. Gould papers. Collection dates: ences records. Collection dates: 1799- nology Division of Physical Sciences re- 1874-1918. Size: 1.0 linear foot (1 box). 1987. Size: 8.5 linear feet (21 boxes). cords. Collection dates: 1956-1976. Size: 0.9 linear meter. Dana family papers. Collection dates: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1805-1961. Size: 7.25 linear feet (20 boxes, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa- Special Collections Library. James D. 5 folios). tory Office of the Director records of the Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN 37996, George Field and Irwin Shapiro. Collec- USA Jean André DeLuc papers. Collection tion dates: 1971-1987. Size: 12.3 linear feet. dates: 1746-1847. Size: 17 linear feet (42 Radiation Biology Photograph collec- boxes, 1 folio). tion. Size: 1.5 feet (79 items). Southern Illinois University at Car- Armand H. L. Fizeau papers. Collection bondale. Morris Library. Special Col- Farrington Daniels Jr. addition to pa- dates: 1870-1879. Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 box). lections. Carbondale, IL 62901, USA pers. Collection dates: 1960-1997. Size: 0.1 linear foot. Restrictions: Collections Edward Claudius Herrick papers. Collec- Open Court Publishing Company re- tion dates: 1797-1862. Size: 8 linear feet are stored offsite, and a minimum of 24 cords. Collection dates: 1887-1920. Size: (15 boxes). hours is needed to retrieve these items 408 cubic feet. Restrictions: Open for re- for use. Researchers interested in con- search. Elias Loomis family papers. Collection sulting any of the collections are advised dates: 1727-1947. Size: 14 linear feet (30 to contact Special Collections. Otis B. Young photograph collection. boxes). Collection dates: 1936-1964. Size: 1 box. Othniel Charles Marsh papers. Collec- University of Utah. Marriott Library. tion dates: 1817-1899. Size: 29.5 linear feet University of Michigan. Bentley His- Special Collections. Salt Lake City, (59 boxes, 1 folio). torical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan UT 84112, USA 48109-2113, USA Horace Dwight Taft papers. Collection Franklin Stewart Harris Jr. papers. Col- dates: 1888-1983. Size: 34.5 linear feet (85 Ralph Belknap Baldwin papers. Collec- lection dates: 1920s-1997. Size: 3.25 linear boxes). tion dates: 1949-1992. Size: 7 linear feet. feet. Restrictions: Twenty-four hours ad- vance notice encouraged. Access to parts Todd-Bingham picture collection. Col- K. M. Siegel papers. Collection dates: of this collection may be restricted under lection dates: 1837-1966. Size: 49.5 linear 1957-1973. Size: 1 linear foot. provisions of state or federal law. feet (93 boxes, 33 folios, 2 volumes). William Weldon Watson papers. Collec- Online Access to Historical CERN tion dates: 1924-1983. Size: 3 linear feet (8 Council and Committee Documents boxes). Historical records of CERN’s governing cess restrictions apply (there is a 5-year Yale University Department of Molecu- body, the CERN Council, are now more closure period for non-confidential Coun- easily available thanks to a digitisation cil records and a 30-year period for the lar Biophysics and Biochemistry records. and cataloguing project carried out by rest); however, new rules approved by Collection dates: 1948-1969. Size: 0.75 lin- the CERN Archive team. Over 12,000 of- Council in March 2009 now make many ear feet (2 boxes). ficial documents of the CERN Council, more documents publicly available imme- Committee of Council, Finance Com- diately after the Council Sessions (see the John Zeleny papers. Collection dates: mittee and Scientific Policy Committee Council web pages http://council.web. 1897-1951. Size: 3 linear feet (2 boxes). ■ are now available here: http://cdsweb. cern.ch/council/en/Welcome.html). cern.ch/collection/Council-related%20 Did you know? Committees?ln=en. They date from be- This project has absorbed the bulk of the fore CERN’s creation in 1954, and most are CERN Archive’s resources for the last two available in both English and French. years; we hope you are pleased with the The American Physical Society (APS) result. Now we are working hard to catch maintains a Physics Timeline at Optical character recognition means that up with other tasks, such as tackling the http://timeline.aps.org. the full texts, as well as the cataloguing cataloguing backlog and processing information, are searchable; just place the some interesting new accessions, in- The Center for History of Physics prefix “fulltext:” before your search term cluding correspondence and other files offers grants-in-aid for research in in the database, e.g. “fulltext:Austria”. Vari- of Georges Charpak (mostly dating from the history of modern physics and ous combinations of metadata and full- after 1992, when he was awarded the allied sciences. Visit http://www. text searching are possible to make your Nobel Prize in Physics “for his invention aip.org/history/grants.html for more search as precise as you wish; for more and development of particle detectors, information. details see the CDS Search Guide (http:// in particular the multiwire proportional cdsweb.cern.ch/help/search-guide). Ac- chamber”. ■

(Book Donations, continued from page 9) von ganz ausserordentlicher Tragweite: Schrödingers Briefwechsel zur Wellen- mechanik und zum Katzenparadoxon. Band 1–2 (Springer-Verlag, 2011)

Neil C. Schoen and Kim Schoen 74 Steps (Paperchase Press, 2011)

We also received publications from in- stitutions including the NASA History Program, the Department of Physics at the University of Arkansas, and the Mu- seu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins.

We are grateful to all of our donors this year who have helped to strengthen and fill in the gaps in our collection with these contributions. ■

For information on donating books, contact Kim Hukill, Librarian, at 301- 209-3182 or [email protected].

Search 30,000+ images online at photos.aip.org Right to left: Chr. Schmelzer, J. B. Adams, X, C.J. Bakker, L. Kowarski, P. Preiswerk. The meeting took place in the old “Batiment electoral” in Geneva. Credit: CERN. www.aip.org/history Winter 2011–2012 | History Newsletter 19 Recent Publications of Interest Physics in Perspective Vol. 13, No. 2: John G. Jenkin, “Atomic Compiled by Alex Wellerstein Energy is ‘Moonshine’: What did This is our usual compilation of some (by no means all) recently published articles Rutherford Really Mean?”; Ezno F. on the history of modern physics, astronomy, geophysics, and allied fields. Note Haussecker and Alexander W. Chao, that these bibliographies have been posted on our website since 1994, and you can “The Influence of Accelerator Science search the full text of all of them (along with our annual book bibliography, recent on Physics Research”; B. Cameron Reed, Catalog of Sources entries, exhibit materials, etc.) by using the “Search” icon on our “Liquid Thermal Diffusion during the site index: www.aip.org/history/s-index.htm. Manhattan Project”; Ursula Pavlish, “Gerson Goldhaber: A Life in Science.” To restrict your search to the bibliographies, enter in the box: [your search term(s)] and “recent publications” Vol. 13, No. 3: Benjamin Bederson and H. Henry Stroke, “History of the New Notes and Records of the Royal Vol. 44, No. 3: Victor D. Boantza and York University Physics Department”; Society Ofer Gal, “The ‘absolute existence’ of Stefania Jha, “Wigner’s ‘Polanyian’ Vol. 65, No. 4: David B. Wilson, “William phlogiston: the losing party’s point Epistemology and the Measurement Whewell, Galileo, and reconceptualizing of view”; Gildo Magalhães Santos, “A Problem: The Wigner–Polanyi Dialog on the history of science and religion”; debate on magnetic current: the troubled Tacit Knowledge.” William Van der Kloot, “Mirrors and smoke: Einstein–Ehrenhaft correspondence.” A. V. Hill, his Brigands, and the science of Vol. 13, No. 4: Christopher M. Graney, anti-aircraft gunnery in World War I.” Historical Studies in the Natural “Contra Galileo: Riccioli’s ‘Coriolis- Sciences Force’ Argument on the Earth’s Diurnal British Journal for the History of Vol. 41, No. 3: Júlia Gaspar and Ana Rotation”; Stephan Schwarz, “Science, Science Simões, “Physics on the Periphery: A Technology, and the Niels Bohr Institute Vol. 44, No. 2: Falk Müller, “Johann Research School at the University of in Occupied Denmark”; David K. C. Wilhelm Hittorf and the material culture Lisbon under Salazar’s Dictatorship.” Cooper, “Edward Gerjuoy: From Physics of nineteenth-century gas discharge to Law and Back Again.” research.”

Physics Today Vol. 64, No. 7: Sigfried Hecker, “Adventures in scientific nuclear diplomacy.”

Vol. 64, No. 8: Steven Weinberg, “Particle physics, from Rutherford to the LHC.”

Vol. 64, No. 9: Bruce Parker, “The tide predictions for D-Day”; Owen Gingerich, “The great Martian catastrophe and how Kepler fixed it.”

Vol. 64, No. 10: Steven Sherwood, “Science controversies past and present.”

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Vol. 41, No. 4: Peter Hayes, “Popper’s response to Dingle on special relativity and the problem of the observer.”

Isis Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri’s chemistry lecture/College for Kids, University of Wisconsin-Madi- Vol. 102, No. 2: William R. Newman, son, 1983. Credit: Photo by Norman Lenburg, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Madison “What Have We Learned from the Recent Archives, Image ID Number 8306-118-4, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection. Historiography of Alchemy?”

20 History Newsletter | Winter 2011–2012 www.aip.org/history Vol. 102, No. 3: Eileen Reeves, “The Ingenious Gentleman Galileo Galilei” [essay review].

Centaurus Vol. 52, No. 4: John Krige, “Building the Arsenal of Knowledge”; Naomi Oreskes, “Science, Technology, and Free Enterprise”; Ronald E. Doel, “Does Scientific Intelligence Matter?”; Peter J. Westwick, “The International History of the Strategic Defense Initiative: American Influence and Economic Competition in the Late Cold War”;

Vol. 53, No. 1: Stefano Bordoni, “Beyond Electromagnetic and Mechanical World- views: J. Larmor’s Models of Matter and Energy in the Early 1890s.” James O’Brien, American Geophysical Union’s Oceanography Section President 1980-1982, seated at equipment, while students look on. Credit: American Geophysical Union (AGU), cour- Vol. 53, No. 2: Gregory A. Good, tesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. “Measuring the Inaccessible Earth: Geomagnetism, In situ Measurements, Vol. 65, No. 6: Sandro Petruccioli, Vol. 68, No. 2: A. E. Hui, “Instruments Remote Sensing, and Proxy Data.” “Complementarity before uncertainty”; of Music, Instruments of Science: Giulio Peruzzi and Matteo Realdi, “The Hermann von Helmholtz’s Musical Vol. 53, No. 3: Martin Clutton-Brock quest for the size of the universe in early Practices, his Classicism, and his and David Topper, “The Plausibility of relativistic cosmology (1917–1930).” Beethoven Sonata”; Robert Deltete, Galileo’s Tidal Theory”; “How Relativity Got Accepted and Annals of Science How Einstein Came to be Regarded Archive for History Vol. 68, No. 1: David Philip Miller, “The as its Author” [essay review]; Alberto of Exact Sciences Political Economy of Discovery Stories: A. Martínez, “The Myriad Pieces of Vol. 65, No. 4: Chen-Pang Yeang, “Tubes, The Case of Dr Irving Langmuir and Einstein’s Remains” [essay review]. randomness, and Brownian motions: or, General Electric”; Terje Brundtland, how engineers learned to start worrying “After Boyle and the Leviathan: the Vol. 68, No. 3: Chen-Pang Yeang, about electronic noise.” Second Generation of British Air Pumps.” “Engineering Entanglement, Concept- ualizing Quantum Information”; Maria Rentetzi, “Packaging Radium, Selling Science: Boxes, Bottles and Other Mundane Things in the World of Science.”

Journal for the History of Astronomy Vol. 42, No. 2: Owen Gingerich and Albert Van Helden, “How Galileo Constructed the Moons of Jupiter.”

CERN Courier Vol. 51, No. 5: “Simon van der Meer: a quiet giant of engineering and physics.”

Vol. 51, No. 6: “Hildred Blewett: a life with particle accelerators.” ■

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