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History Newsletter CENTER FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS&NIELS BOHR LIBRARY & ARCHIVES Vol. 47, No. 1 • Summer 2015

AIP Launches New Teaching Guides: The History of Women and African Americans in Physics By Greg Good, Director, Center for History of Physics

Imagine that you are a young student. You Sciences, teachers and students now maybe that boy or girl will be inspired have the bright idea that you would like have a place to begin to discover the to apply for science or engineering at a to find out how the physics or richly diverse heritage of science. They university. And maybe students generally you are learning was discovered, so you can explore the contributions of women will begin to change their preconceptions start searching for a book or a website and African Americans to the Manhattan about race, gender, and science. to help you out. Lots of sources discuss Project, , string theory, Einstein, Heisenberg, Shapley, At the very least, the goal of the or Feynman. A student might AIP History Programs in this conclude that no women, project is to reflect the wide no African Americans, and array of historical developments no Hispanic Americans in science in which women and contributed much to the under-represented minorities scientific enterprise. Of course, have participated. It is a corner that student might note more of history that needs to be generally that few people brought to light. Of course, whose ancestors came from there are already some sources outside of northern Europe to turn to: History Makers seem to be part of the exciting comes to mind as especially stories of modern science. well done. Our sources for and spectroscopy. They can discover the Teaching Guides are acknowledged If this student is African American or the critical roles played by women in and provide a means for the curious to female or from one of the other under- the development of computers and make the effort to go deeper. Our goal in represented minorities in science, he or their application to physics. They can this resource is to make these stories as she will not see role models in science develop a deeper understanding of the accessible as possible. with whom they can identify. role of women scientists in promoting opportunities in science, or of African- Both Teaching Guides include lesson With the opening of AIP’s Teaching American physicists in debates about plans and illustrations. Many of them Guides on the History of Women science education at the time of W.E.B. include supplementary materials of and African Americans in the Physical Dubois and Booker T. Washington. And (Continued on page 2)

In this issue...

AIP Launches New Teaching Guides: The History A Grant-in-Aid Recipient’s Letter of Thanks...... 7 of Women and African Americans in Physics...... 1 Physics Heritage & Promise: Spencer Weart Awarded 2015 Abraham Pais Prize: Special Initiatives Campaign...... 8 “Understanding the Impacts Documentation Preserved: New Collections...... 9 of Global Warming: a History”...... 3 Documentation Preserved: New Finding Aids...... 14 2014 Recent Additions to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives...... 3 Cover Image: Interns and graduate students worked on the 2014 Teaching Reimagining Einstein for Students and Teachers...... 4 Guides on African Americans in the Physical Sciences. Left Discovery in the Photo Archives: to right: SPS interns Simon Patane (Vassar College) and Jacob Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory...... 4 Salkind (Shippensburg University) with graduate students AIP Grant Helps to Preserve and Improve Access to the Sharina Haynes (University of South Carolina) and Serina O. W. Richardson Papers at the Harry Ransom Center... 5 Hwang Jensen (University of Maryland).

AIP Member Societies: Acoustical Society of America • American Association of Physicists in Medicine • American Association of Physics Teachers • American Astronomical Society • American Crystallographic Association • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing • The Optical Society • The Society of Rheology (“Teaching Guides”, continued from page 1) (Shippensburg University) and Simon sponsor a one-week workshop with different kinds: newspaper articles from Patane (Vassar College) joined graduate half-a-dozen teachers. The teachers will the time, reminiscences of scientists, students Sharina Haynes (University offer their insight into what works in the quotations from oral history interviews, of South Carolina) and Serina Hwang classroom, what works with students video clips, and more. Our goal is to Jensen (University of Maryland) to of different ages and backgrounds, and provide resources that teachers can produce the guide on African Americans potentially new units to be researched readily pick up and incorporate into their in the physical sciences. For ten weeks, and written. We are also exploring a classroom lessons. these teams worked hard to uncover web-means for teachers to easily upload important stories and imagine effective class activities such as role-playing and These Teachers Guides are the result of, ways to tell them. The result is over 40 hands-on units. Teachers who want to so far, two intensive summers of work by lesson plans. offer feedback in the meantime can interns and graduate research assistants. email me at [email protected]. In 2013, Fiona Muir (Society of Physics In summer 2015 another team of four Students Intern from Manchester UK) will join the History Center to test, During the months between summer and Emily Margolis (now in the Ph.D. revise, and extend the existing two teams, our in-house web designer will program in history of science at Johns guides. The Teaching Guides at this incorporate suggested changes and Hopkins University) researched and time are “beta” versions—trustworthy additions into the lesson plans. And in wrote the Teachers Guide on the History in their historical accuracy, but open the summer of 2016, we will turn toward of Women in the Physical Sciences. for feedback and improvement. In July telling the stories of Hispanics in the In 2014, SPS interns Jacob Salkind the Center for History of Physics will physical sciences. ■

Teaching Guides on Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences Women in Physics History African Americans in Physics History 1. Collaboration and Competition: 1. African American Physical Scientists and the Military Scientific Couples in Physics and Astronomy 2. African Americans in Astronomy and Astrophysics 2. The Journal of Williamina Paton Fleming 3. African Americans and the Manhattan Project 3. She is an : Experiences of 4. Bending Time and Space: Dr. Ronald Mallett Contemporary Women and his Quest to Build a Time Machine 4. Inge Lehmann: “The Only Danish Seismologist” 5. “The Black Scientific Renaissance of the 1970s–1990s:” The 5. Case Study of Women Astronomers: Legacy of African American Scientists at Bell Laboratories Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943– ), Radio Astronomer 6. Dr. Elmer Imes and Spectroscopy 6. ECHO Women in Science and Engineering Project 7. Dr. , Jr. and the Quest George Mason University to Discover How Works 7. Debates: Should These Women Have Won a Nobel Prize? 8. “Follow the Drinking Gourd:” Astronomy 8. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story and the Underground Railroad of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 9. Historical Detective: Edward Alexander Bouchet 9. Case Study of Women Astronomers: and the Washington–Du Bois Debate over Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (1907–2007), American Astronomer African-American Education 10. Case Studies of Women Physicists: 10. Meet Four Pioneering African American Astronauts Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian Nuclear Physicist 11. The National Society of Black Physicists 11. Women of NASA 12. The Night Sky by Another Name: 12. Almost Astronauts: The Story of the 13 , Osiris, and African Mythologies 13. Struggle for Employment: Anti-Nepotism 13. The Physical Sciences at Historically Rules in the Academy Black Colleges and Universities 14. Strategies and Compromises: Women in Astronomy 14. Physicist Activist: Dr. Elmer Imes and the at Harvard College Observatory Civil Rights Case of Juliette Derricotte 15. Subtle Discrimination 15. “The Physicist’s War:” Dr. Herman Branson and Scientific 16. L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Laureates 2013 Training of African Americans during World War II 17. Invisible Scientists: Women in Physics and Astronomy 16. “The Real McCoy”: African American Inventors in History 18. Outcasts and Opportunities: The Effects of World War II 17. The Tuskegee Weathermen: African-American on the Careers of Female Physicists Meteorologists during World War II 19. Something to Celebrate: The American Physical Society’s 18. Two Perspectives on African Americans “Woman Physicist of the Month” in Physics in the 1960s 20. Let’s Hear it for the Girls: L’Oreal UNESCO Laureates 19. “When Computers Wore Skirts:” Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and the “West Computers”

2 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs Spencer Weart Awarded 2015 Abraham Pais Prize: “Understanding the Impacts of Global Warming: a History” By R. Joseph Anderson, Director, Niels Bohr Library & Archives

of physics. Weart is being recognized pitched in to assess a variety of possible “For foundational contributions to consequences. It turned out to be the intellectual progress, institutional impossible to make solid predictions, underpinnings, and public impact of given the differences from one region the history of physics, from nuclear to another and the ways human society physics to condensed matter to climate itself might try to adapt to the changes. change.” He presented the Pais Prize In the 1990s, lengthy technical studies Lecture, “Understanding the Impacts abandoned specific predictions of of Global Warming: a History,” at the impacts to address “vulnerabilities” March APS meeting. The following is under different likely “scenarios.” an abstract of his talk: Researchers also began to explore the The idea that fossil fuel emissions risks and consequences of extreme might cause global warming was first weather events like droughts and floods. proposed around the end of the 19th By around 2000 the major likely impacts century, and for the following half were well understood. Now the task was century it sounded like a good thing. to pin down the specific risks in each of In the 1950s, confirmation that warming the many different regions, ecosystems, Spencer Weart presenting his Pais Prize lec- really might be coming led to more and human systems. Meanwhile actual ture. Credit: Photo courtesy of Steve Benka. varied speculations. Scientists could impacts began to appear, such as changes Spencer Weart, retired director of only state possible problems in vague in species ranges and unprecedented AIP’s Center for History of Physics, has terms. First on the list were sea-level deadly heat waves. Nearly all experts received the 2015 Abraham Pais Prize for rise and a threat to food supplies. New now understood that civilization faced a History of Physics. The prize is awarded items were added through the 1960s and monumental challenge. annually and was established in 2005 by 1970s, ranging from the degradation of the APS Forum on the History of Physics natural ecosystems to threats to human An extended version of the talk may be and by AIP to recognize outstanding health. Experts in fields from forestry found at http://www.aip.org/history/ scholarly achievements in the history to economics, even national security, climate/impacts.htm ■

2014 Recent Additions to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives By Amanda Nelson, Associate Archivist

This year’s additions to our archival Furthermore we received audio-visual of the University of Illinois, Urbana- collections include records of the AIP collections for the recorded sessions Champaign, autobiographical notes Publishing Division Publishing Policy of the APS Forum for History of Physics of Johannes M. Burgers from J. V. Committee reports, over 43 TB of AIP (FHP) at their annual meetings, three Sengers, lecture notes by Joanna Russ, Publishing Peer X-Press backup files, video recordings from the American a copy of Albert Einstein’s Last Will an addition to the American Physical Crystallographic Association (ACS) for and Testament, the journal publishing Society (APS) Southeastern section sessions from their annual meeting censorship practices during World records, the Astrophysical Journal and an acceptance speech for the War II of AIP Publishing, the board administrative files from the American Ken Trueblood Award, and the master game Disintegration, lecture notes of a Astronomical Society (AAS) and our tapes for AIP News Service Division’s class taught by D. H. Douglass, and a annual addition to the AVS records Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside speech given at the Conference on 40 and the Gravity Research Foundation Science. years of Ion Chemistry honoring Carl (GRF) essay contest winners. We Lineberger’s 70th birthday by Lewis also received two sets of personal As always, we received many smaller Branscomb. ■ papers from Philip C. Fisher on his collections for our manuscript work with x-ray astronomy and Ted biographies, institutional histories and Gibbs Berlincourt on his work with miscellaneous physics collections. Visit us online at superconductivity, the Office of Naval These included highlights in the www.aip.org/history-programs Research, and the Secretary of Defense. history of the physics department www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 3 Reimagining Einstein for Students and Teachers By The Einstein Revolution Course Team

In The Einstein Revolution, we examine viewed on its own, without the context course interested in utilizing pieces Einstein as a thread that ties together of the others. as a supplement. The teacher support an understanding of the twentieth document aims to provide an overview century from history and technology to To help our learners navigate our MOOC, of the course from multiple perspectives visual art, film, and beyond. No scientist we built an alternative-learning map and some guidance on where we has generated as much controversy that allows students to find the content believe the content may be useful. It can and interest as Einstein. His theories of interest quickly. This map will allow be downloaded at http://goo.gl/C9cI7c. changed our understanding of the learners to quickly find videos by topic nature of atoms, time, light, and space. or lesson. If you’re just interested in the We didn’t just develop the resource However, his theories had for teachers; our design a reach far beyond the process from the beginning realm of the scientific. included the goal of being easily incorporated in The Einstein Revolution a blended or “flipped” not only features a classroom. While this varied wealth of content, has proven true in our but being a MOOC it experience, we hope it welcomes a diverse, holds true for you if you global audience as well. We wanted to artistic component, for example, it should choose to use the material in a blended cover a broad array of historical inquiry, be a breeze to find the lessons that matter environment. and we recognized the need to build most to you. our course to meet the needs of two Overall, we hope that this purposeful distinct audiences: learners looking for Finally, we recognized and have seen design process provides all of our learners the holistic view and learners interested that many in our audience would be a deeper, more enriching experience for in only one aspect or discrete area of teachers themselves. To that end, we the content of interest to them. Join us Einstein’s life. Consequently, we chose have produced a teacher support in The Einstein Revolution, which can be to ensure that each lesson could be document for anyone taking the accessed at http://goo.gl/Ej909P. ■

Discovery in the Photo Archives: Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory By Savannah Gignac, Assistant Photo Librarian

Kamerlingh Onnes served as professor roughly translated to “knowledge of experimental physics at the through measurement,” a motto of University of Leiden from 1882 to 1923. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Other In 1904, he founded a large cryogenics highlights include the illustrations laboratory. He became highly regarded drawn on the walls of the lab alluding in the scientific community for inviting to scientific experiments. To see these other researchers to the lab. This images, visit https://photos.aip.org and laboratory is now known as Kamerlingh type “kamerlingh” in the search box. ■ Outdoor view of Kamerlingh Onnes Labora- Onnes Laboratory. tory in Leiden, Netherlands. Credit: Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.. A recent discovery in AIP’s Emilio Segrè Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Visual Archives revealed an album Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born on of snapshots from daily life in the September 21st, 1853 in Groningen, laboratory. These images depict the Netherlands. Kamerlingh Onnes’ facilities, experimental lab equipment, experiments focused on how materials and staff portraits. The album reveals reacted when cooled to nearly an amateur photographer’s experience absolute zero. These studies included visiting the laboratory and its staff Kamerlingh Onnes’ being the first members. A Dutch phrase commonly Four unidentified men working in a laborato- ry (or instrument making shop) at Kamerlingh person to liquify helium and his 1911 seen throughout this historic photo Onnes Laboratory. Credit: Photo courtesy of discovery of superconductivity. collection is, “door meten tot weten” AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

4 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs AIP Grant Helps to Preserve and Improve Access to the O. W. Richardson Papers at the Harry Ransom Center By Joan M. Sibley

Thanks to support from the History ing correspondence; manuscripts and scientists. Among Richardson’s most Programs of the American Institute proofs received from his colleagues; frequent correspondents in the papers of Physics, the Harry Ransom Center and papers, theses, and dissertations are Edward Victor Appleton, Niels Bohr, at The University of Texas at Austin from his students. William Henry Bragg, Percy Maurice has completed a one-year project to Davidson, Clinton Joseph Davisson, prepare an online finding aid for the O. In addition to Richardson’s work Gerhard Heinrich Dieke, James W. (Owen Willans) Richardson Papers as a researcher, the papers also Hopwood Jeans, Ernest Rutherford, and improve collection housing for document his role as an educator and Frederick Steell Robertson, George long-term preservation. The Richardson his work with students and faculty at Paget Thomson, and J. J. Thomson. Papers form part of the Center’s History several colleges and universities, his of Science holdings, which also include professional activities at conferences The papers also include family papers of the Herschel Family and and in scientific organizations, as well correspondence, especially with Albert Einstein. as his work for various government his brothers-in-law, Clinton Joseph agencies, especially during World War Davisson, Oswald Veblen, and Harold The Richardson Papers were originally I and the years preceding World War II. A. Wilson. In addition to renowned processed during the 1960s and scientists, the papers also include described on over 8,000 catalog Richardson’s contributions to several materials from many lesser-known cards, which were reproduced in A branches of physics—photoelectricity, figures who may be of interest. Catalogue of the Sir Owen Richardson spectroscopy, ultraviolet and X-ray Manuscript Collection in the History radiation, the electron theory, and The Ransom Center offers more than of Science Collection, The University quantum theory—are well documented 50 fellowships annually to encourage of Texas (1968). The new finding aid in the papers. His correspondence the use of its collections by funding replicates and replaces information files include letters from many research visits ranging from one to previously available only through the distinguished physicists (almost all three months with stipends of $3,000 catalogue, offering the first online Nobel laureates in physics prior to 1950 per month. Also available are $1,200 to electronic, searchable description of are represented), chemists, electrical $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation the Richardson Papers. engineers, mathematicians, and other fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. ■

The 153-page finding aid was created in accordance with current archival practices and cataloging standards and includes a biographical sketch, scope and content note, series descriptions, and a detailed folder-level container list, plus three indexes that further reveal the contents of the papers: an Index of Works by O. W. Richardson (600 items), an Index of Correspondents (nearly 1500 names), and an Index of Works by Others (over 1200 items).

O. W. Richardson (1879-1959) was the English physicist best known for his work on thermionics and the discov- ery of Richardson’s Law, for which he was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics. The rehoused papers now oc- cupy 114 boxes (49 linear feet) and in- clude research notes and manuscripts of his writings, both published and A 1914 letter from Niels Bohr in the Richardson Papers. Credit: Photo courtesy of Joan M. Sibley, unpublished; his outgoing and incom- the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 5 6 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs A Grant-in-Aid Recipient’s Letter of Thanks

19 January, 2015

Dear Dr. Good,

I am writing to inform you that, last August, I submitted my major research paper to Dr. Katharine Anderson, my supervisor in the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies at York University. It was reviewed, accepted, and I proceeded to graduation and convocation last October with my Master of Arts in STS.

The paper is titled “Smashing Atoms and Expectations—Entrepreneurial Science and the Dawn of Publicly-Funded High-Tech Venture Capital at Robert J. Van de Graaffs High Voltage Engineering Corporation” and much of the information within came from the research I conducted at AIP. I was able to present portions of the paper at Comell University, York University, Brock University (at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) annual conference) , and at The National Academies in DC via the STGlobal Consortium Conference for graduate students— thrilling experiences all.

I would like to thank the Friends of the American Institute of Physics for their generous grant-in-aid. It enabled me to visit the Centre’s Niels Bohr Library & Archives to investigate Van de Graaff, his colleagues, his accelerator, his corporation, and the state of physics during that time; and to listen to audio tapes and hear the voices of his peers. I also consulted photographs from the Emilio Segrd Visual Archives and took a trip into DC to conduct research at the Archives and at the National Museum of American History Library. None of these visits would have been possible without the generosity of the Friends. I was able to do quality research for my major research paper and for the biography on Van de Graaff that is now under way.

I would also like to thank you Greg and to thank Joe Anderson, Orville Butler, Melanie Mueller, Savannah Gignac, and Stephanie Jankowski for their attention, assistance, kindness, and helpfulness. It was a wonderful experience that I shall never forget. Thank you all so much.

Best regards, Edward Fenner, MA Science & Technology Studies York University Toronto,

www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 7 Physics Heritage & Promise: Special Initiatives Campaign

The History Programs of AIP are seeking to raise $2,000,000 to build capacity by strengthening programs that currently have partial support, and to ensure the sustainability of these programs for the long term. The programs include the Science Heritage Public Lecture Series, Grants-in-Aid, Grants-to-Archives, and the Emerging Technologies Fund.

• We intend to use a portion of the funds toward fully endowing the Lyne Starling Trimble Science Heritage Lecture Series. The series was partially endowed at $100,000 by Dr. Virginia Trimble and will be fully endowed at $500,000. The lecture series is an important step in disseminating a humanistic perspective on science.

• The Grants-in-Aid and Grants-to-Archives programs fund research and collections in the history of physics and allied sciences. These programs have assisted more than 250 scholars to produce over 45 publications and helped archives make 69 major collections available for research. They are partially funded by AIP. The Institute aims to complete the endowment of these programs through this campaign.

• The Emerging Technologies Fund allows AIP History Programs to keep current with digital technologies that are emerging at an ever-increasing rate. The goal is to support projects such as in-house digitization of the rarest and most fragile books, allowing researchers around the world to access the information housed within AIP’s collections.

Why are these projects important? We have developed an international reputation as a model for preserving and making known the history of physics, astronomy, and allied sciences. AIP History Programs support the community of historians and science writers who produce books, films, and other media products, and they provide interesting and authoritative science information for the public. These programs embody the core of how we remain successful at supporting the history and future of the physical sciences for both scholarly and popular audiences.

Why now? The AIP History Programs celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2012. During our first 50 years, we amassed great contributions to the physical and the allied sciences within the walls of the Niels Bohr Library & Archives—and that was just the beginning. Our most formidable challenge is preserving, presenting, researching, digitizing, disseminating, exhibiting, and expanding them. These initiatives help us preserve YOUR legacy into the next century.

Help us preserve the past and fuel the future. Donate today to the Physics Heritage & Promise campaign. For your convenience, you may use the attached envelope. For more information on our various funds and naming opportunities, contact the AIP Development Office [email protected] or at 301-209-3139.

8 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs Documentation Preserved Colgate University. Case Library. Compiled by Melanie Mueller Special Collections Department. Our report of new collections or new finding aids is based on our regular survey of Hamilton, NY 13346-1398, USA 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 Donald Keith Berkey papers. Collection have an online finding aid available. dates: 1950–1965. Size: 4 cubic feet.

To learn more about any of the collections listed below, use the International Catalog Colgate University Department of Physics of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences at www.aip.org/history/icos. and Astronomy records. Collection You can search in a variety of ways including by author or by repository. dates: 1929–1991. Size: 2.2 cubic feet.

Please contact the repository mentioned for information on restrictions and access Ernest Fox Nichols papers. Collection to the collections. dates: 1893–1925. Size: 0.3 cubic feet.

NEW COLLECTIONS Library and Archives. 5241 Broad . Oral History Branch Road NW, Washington, DC Research Office. Box 20, Room 801 University of Toronto. University 20015, USA Butler Library, , NY 10027, Archives. 120 St. George St., Toronto, USA Ontario M5S 1A5, Canada Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial Magnetism World War II-era Reminiscences of Joseph Kaplan: oral Oral history interview with Elizabeth records. Collection dates: 1941–1952, history. Collection dates: 1960. Size: Allin. Collection dates: 1993. Size: 3 tapes undated. Size: 2 records boxes, 2 photo Transcript: 82 pages. (3 hours). album boxes, and 1 document box. Reminiscences of Sir Robert Alexander Donald A. MacRae papers. Collection Carnegie Institution Department of Watson-Watt: oral history. Collection dates: 1933–1989. Size: 0.46 linear meters. Terrestrial Magnetism instrument dates: 1961. Size: Transcript: 568 leaves; photograph collection. Collection dates: Audio recording: 2 reels. J. N. Patterson Hume papers. Collection 1909–circa 1956. Size: 24.5 linear feet (24 dates: 1941–1997. Size: 3.68 linear meters. photograph album boxes, 33 binder Reminiscences of Sir Robert Alexander boxes, 27 glass plate negative boxes, 7 Watson-Watt: oral history. Collection Robert William McKay papers. Collection negative boxes). dates: 1964. Size: Transcript: 121 leaves. dates: 1922–1965. Size: 1.72 linear meters (8 boxes).

McLennan/Parks Family papers. Collection dates: 1883–1990. Size: 3.37 linear meters.

Martin Alfred Peacock papers. Collection dates: 1933–1950. Size: 0.56 linear meters (4 boxes).

Boris P. Stoicheff papers. Collection dates: 1950–2008. Size: 12.32 linear meters (98 boxes).

University of Toronto Department of Astronomy records. Collection dates: 1964–2003. Size: 1.92 linear meters (4 boxes).

Carnegie Institution of Washington. James Stith (right) in uniform watching a student working on equipment in a classroom at Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. West Point, NY. Students unidentified. Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 9 (New Collections, cont’d from previous page) Bart Bok lectures in Astronomy 211, fall Harvard College Observatory Office of term. Col. dates: 1952–1953. Size: 1 folder. the Director records. Collection dates: Columbia University. Rare Book and 1987–1991. Manuscript Library. Butler Library, 6th Bart Bok lectures in Astronomy 211. Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA Collection dates: 1955. Size: 3 leaves. subscriptions records relating to the founding of the Samuel Devons papers. Collection dates: Charles Franklin Brooks memorandum astronomical observatory. Collection 1959–2004. Size: 63 linear feet (42 boxes). on meteorology and climatology at dates: 1805–1825. Size: 1 container. Harvard University. Collection dates: 1945 September 13. Size: 8 leaves. Harvard University Department of Fermilab. History and Archives Project Astronomy syllabi, course outlines, and Office, MS-109 PO Box 500, Batavia, Beverly Charles Dunn student and reading lists in astronomy. Collection IL 60510, USA teaching materials. Collection dates: dates: 1901–1967, undated. Size: 1 box. 1937–1948. Size: 3.2 cubic feet (9 boxes). Oral history interview with Roger Dixon. Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Collection dates: 2013 July 30. Harvard College Observatory forms Sciences Committee on Geophysics and notices from the Observatory and records. Collection dates: 1930–1941 Tom Elioff collection on the Observatory Safety Council. Collection superconducting super collider. Size: 3 boxes. dates: Undated. Size: 8 containers. Collection dates: 1991–1993. Size: 1.25 linear feet (1 carton). Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Harvard College Observatory Astrophysics director’s office files. observation log notebooks. Collection Oral history interview with Andrei Collection dates: 1964–1986. dates: 1961–1980. Gaponenko. Collection dates: 2013 May 16. Records of the High Altitude Harvard College Observatory records Observatory. Collection dates: 1941–1953 of Boyden Station, Bloemfontein, South Edwin L. Goldwasser papers. Collection Size: 20 containers. Africa. Collection dates: 1907–1956. Size: dates: 1968-1978. Size: 1 linear foot (3 7 cubic feet (21 boxes and 2 folders). boxes). John Peter Huchra papers. Collection dates: 1970–2010. Size: 141.06 cubic Harvard College Observatory records on Oral history interview with Sergo feet (136 record cartons, 1 half-letter standards of stellar magnitude: proposed Jindariani. document box, 8 flat boxes, 1 tube). Collection dates: 2013 June 14. plans and other records. Collection dates: 1880–1881. Size: 1 folder. Oral history interview with Young-Kee Margaret Walton Mayall papers. Kim. Collection dates: 1927–1993. Collection dates: 2014 February 4. Harvard College Observatory records relating to expositions and museums. Oral history interview with Pier Oddone. Donald H. Menzel Astronomy 206 course Collection dates: 1892–1902. Size: 2 Collection dates: 2013 July 2 and 8. notes. Collection dates: 1963. Size: 28 containers. centimeters (1 volume). Oral history interview with Chris Polly. Harvard College Observatory records, Collection dates: 2013 June 10. letters of condolence to Edward Donald H. Menzel atomic and molecular Charles Pickering regarding the death spectra: Astronomy 206 course of Willamina Paton Fleming. Collection notes. Collection dates: 1962. Size: 28 Harvard University. Archives. Pusey dates: 1911. Size: 0.1 cubic feet (1 binder). centimeters (140 leaves). Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Harvard College Observatory scrapbook. Donald H. Menzel course notes for Bart Bok and Guido Münch lectures in Collection dates: 1891–1892. Size: 1 box. Astronomy 155. Collection dates: 1964- Astronomy 212, fall term. Collection 1965. Size: 28 centimeters (1 volume). dates: 1954–1955. Size: 1 folder. Harvard College Observatory tabulations of observations and computations. Donald Howard Menzel papers Bart Bok and Harold Ewen lectures in Collection dates: circa 1921. Size: 1 (unprocessed accessions). Collection Astronomy 241, fall term. Collection container. dates: 1901–1988. Size: 2.21 cubic feet (2 dates: 1954–1955. Size: 1 folder. record cartons, 1 document box). Harvard College Observatory Office of Bart Bok lectures in Astronomy 210. the Director records. Collection dates: Elizabeth Weichel Moore papers. Coll. Collection dates: 1952. Size: 1 folder. 1973–1989. dates: 1929–2007. Size: 0.8 linear feet.

10 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs Robert Vivian Pound miscellaneous Carl Borgmann. Collection dates: 1983 J. Institute history of papers. Collection dates: Undated. November 10. Size: Transcript: 12 pages; molecular biology collection. Collection Audio recording: 1 cassette. dates: 1909-2000. Size: 50 linear feet (102 Nathan M. Pusey letter to Senator boxes). Joseph R. McCarthy regarding Harvard Association of Universities for Research Professor Wendell H. Furry. Collection in Astronomy oral history interview with dates: 1953 November 9. Size: 0.3 cubic John Denton. Collection dates: 1984 Lawrence Berkeley National feet (1 pamphlet folder.) December 3. Size: Transcript: 34 pages; Laboratory. Archives and Records Audio recording: 2 cassettes. Office. One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. Richard Wilson personal archive. 69-107, MS: 69R0102, Berkeley, CA Collection dates: 1944-2007. Size: 49 cubic Oral history interview with Frank K. 94720, USA feet (49 record cartons). Edmondson. Collection dates: 1996 October 30. Size: Transcript: 72 pages; LBL Accelerator and Fusion Research Frances Woodworth Wright papers. Audio recording: 3 cassettes. Division Bevalac logbooks of Emery Collection dates: 1895-1992. Size: 0.5 Zajec. Collection dates: 1952-1992. Size: cubic feet (1 document box). Association of Universities for Research 11 linear feet (11 records boxes). in Astronomy oral history interview Harvard University. Houghton Library. with Gilbert Lee. Collection dates: 1983 LBL Accelerator and Fusion Research Cambridge, MA 02138, USA October 30. Size: Transcript: 39 pages; Division Collider Physics Group Audio recording: 2 cassettes. correspondence and records of Andrew Benjamin Peirce correspondence. Sessler. Collection dates: 1970-1990. Size: Collection dates: circa 1835-1880. Size: 9 Walter J. Moore papers. Coll. dates: 1900- 2 linear feet (2 records boxes). linear feet (18 boxes). 1995 (bulk 1985-1995). Size: 2.4 cubic feet. LBL Accelerator and Fusion Research Association of Universities for Research Division Heavy Ion Fusion Accelerator Henry E. Huntington Library. 1151 in Astronomy oral history interview Research Group files of Edward J. Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, with Juan Pascoe. Collection dates: 1985 Lofgren. Collection dates: 1964-1983. USA March 23. Size: Transcript: 25 pages; Size: 10 linear feet (10 records boxes). Audio recording: 1 cassette. Friedrich Kurylo collection on Ferdinand LBL Life Sciences Division Biology Braun. Collection dates: 1901-1987 (bulk and Medicine Department research 1960-1965). Size: 6 boxes (2,009 items). J. Craig Venter Institute. Archives. and development files of Hal Anger. 4120 Capricorn Lane, La Jolla, CA Collection dates: 1946-1981. Size: 19 Francis G. Pease papers. Collection 92037, USA linear feet (19 records boxes). dates: 1850-1937 (bulk 1905-1937). Size: Approximately 14 boxes (4,250 items).

Francis Gladheim Pease addenda. Collection dates: 1908-2001 (bulk 1908- 1937). Size: 1 box (90 items).

Olin C. Wilson papers. Collection dates: 1930-1990. Size: 34 boxes (4,372 items).

Fritz Zwicky papers. Collection dates: 1940-1967. Size: 2 boxes (38 items).

Indiana University. Office of University Archives and Records Management. Bryan Hall 201, 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Left to right: Andrew Granato, Gordon Baym, Charles Slichter, and Lillian Hoddeson converse Association of Universities for Research at the History Solid State Physics Meeting. October, 1981. Credit: Department of Physics, in Astronomy oral history interview with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 11 (New Collections, cont’d from previous page) Thomas S. Elleman papers. Collection . Department of dates: 1958-2005. Size: 2 linear feet. Rare Books and Special Collections. LBL Nuclear Science Division 60-Inch 1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ Cyclotron Mechanical Design Group Oral history interview with Raymond 08544, USA technical records. Collection dates: 1944- LeRoy Murray. Collection dates: 1999. 1988. Size: 1 linear foot (1 records box). Size: 0.25 linear feet. Arnold Guyot collection. Collection dates: 1829-1928. Size: 1.93 linear feet. LBL Nuclear Science Division 88-inch Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Cyclotron control room logbooks. records. Collection dates: 1928-2003. Collection dates: 1971-1982. Size: 21 Rice University. Fondren Library. Size: 442.75 linear feet. linear feet (21 records box). Woodson Research Center. P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA LBL Office of the Director research and Weather Bureau, Raleigh Office records. Collection dates: 1887- development administrative files of Robert F. Curl academic papers. 1972. Size: 15 linear feet (88 volumes). Andrew Sessler. Collection dates: 1973- Collection dates: 1981-2008 (bulk 1985- 1980. Size: 26 linear feet (26 records 1993). Size: 8.0 linear feet (17 boxes). boxes). Lloyd Robert Zumwalt papers. Collection Restrictions: Permission to publish dates: 1960-1978. Size: 0.75 linear feet. material from the Robert F. Curl Academic papers must be obtained from Institute of Technology. the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Institute Archives and Special Oregon State University. Libraries. Library. Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N- Special Collections. Corvallis, OR 118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 97331, USA Space Services Inc. records. Collection dates: 1970s-1990s. Size: 28 linear feet. papers. Collection Thomas Heger papers. Collection dates: dates: 1923-1988. Size: 64 record cartons 1898-2010. Size: 32 linear feet. and 12 manuscript boxes. Rockefeller Archive Center. 15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, E. Dale Trout papers. Collection dates: NY 10591-1598, USA National Archives and Records 1939-1983. Size: 5.2 cubic feet. Administration. Pacific Sierra Region. International Education Board records. 1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, Collection dates: 1923-1960. Size: 37 cubic CA 94066, USA Oregon State University. Libraries. feet (93 boxes). University Archives. Corvallis, OR LBL Engineering Division Mechanical 97331, USA Engineering Bubble Chamber Scripps Institution of Oceanography. notebooks. Collection dates: 1946-1974. Oregon State University School of Archives. Mail Code C-075-C. La Jolla, Size: 1 linear foot (1 records box). Oceanography photographs. Collection CA 92093-0175, USA dates: 1970-1972. Size: 0.8 cubic feet (816 LBL Nuclear Science Division scientist photographs). Harald Sverdrup manuscripts. Collection files of Glenn Seaborg. Collection dates: dates: 1937-1977 (bulk 1937-1943). Size: 1961-1975. Size: 21 linear feet (21 records Oregon State University College of 2.4 linear feet (6 archives boxes). boxes). Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences records. Collection dates: 1943-2008. Smithsonian Institution. Archives. Size: 7.66 cubic feet. North Carolina State University. Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, Special Collections Research Center, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, Oregon State University Department NCSU Libraries. Box 7111, Raleigh, DC 20024-2520, USA NC 27695-7111, USA of Physics records. Collection dates: 1909-1974. Size: 2 cubic feet and 593 Alexander Dallas Bache papers. Roscoe Braham papers. Collection dates: photographs. Collection dates: 1821-1869. Size: 0.9 1863-2011. Size: 53 linear feet (91 archival linear meter. boxes, 6 archival half boxes, 5 archival Oregon State University Sigma Xi legal boxes, 4 card boxes, 2 flat boxes, 2 records. Collection dates: 1932-2001. James Henry Coffin papers. Collection reel boxes and 2 flat folders). Size: 0.1 cubic feet. dates: 1848-1884. Size: 0.1 linear meter.

12 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs Smithsonian Institution Meteorological Historical Library. Ann Arbor, Michigan Sciences records. Collection dates: 1949- Project records. Collection dates: 1849- 48109-2113, USA 1999. Size: 7 cubic feet. 1875. Size: 2.5 linear meters. Ernest F. Barker papers. Collection dates: University of Wisconsin–Madison Oral history interview with Fred circa 1894-1934. Size: 0.25 linear feet and Department of Meteorology contracts. Lawrence Whipple. Collection dates: 1 oversize folder. Collection dates: 1950-1963. Size: 4 cubic 1976. Size: Audiotapes : 4 reels (3.5 hours); feet. Transcript : 87 pages. Walter Pinkus papers. Collection dates: 1960-2011. Size: 7 linear feet and 1 oversize box. University of Wyoming. American , Santa Barbara. Heritage Center. Dept. 3924, 1000 Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Juris Upatnieks papers. Collection dates: E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 1963-1994 (bulk 1965-1979). Size: 7.25 82071, USA linear feet and 1 oversize folder. University of California, Santa Barbara K. C. Black papers. Collection dates: Department of Physics records. 1942-1973. Size: 6.24 cubic feet. Collection dates: circa 1954-1990. Size: 0.2 University of Missouri–St. Louis. linear feet (1 half-size document box). University Archives. One University University of Wyoming. Department Boulevard. St. Louis, MO 63121, USA of Geology and Geophysics records. Collection dates: 1881-1972. Size: 29.25 University of California, Santa Cruz. University of Missouri–St. Louis cubic feet, 1 artifact. Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Department of Physics records. Observatory. University Library, Rm. Collection dates: 1969-1981. Size: 0.5 359, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA linear feet Western Reserve Historical Society. East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA James E. Keeler papers. Collection dates: 1868-1986. Size: 2 document boxes. Matthew Luckiesh papers. Collection University of Nebraska–Lincoln. dates: 1887-2013 (bulk 1910-1965). Size: Libraries. University Archives. Room 5.77 linear feet. 308, Love Library. Lincoln, NE 68588- University of Michigan. Bentley 0410, USA Historical Library. Ann Arbor, Michigan Worcester Reed Warner papers. 48109-2113, USA Collection dates: 1896-1900. Size: 0.10 John W. Weymouth physics and linear feet. astronomy papers. Collection dates: Detroit Optical Institute notes. 1951-1981. Size: 1 box. Collection dates: 1898. Size: 39 pages. Wisconsin Historical Society. Archives. 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706, University of Minnesota. Charles University of Notre Dame. Archives. USA Babbage Institute. Center for the 607 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, History of Computing. University of IN 46556, USA U.S. Weather Bureau journals, Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, MN letterbooks, and weather records. 55455, USA Eugene R. Marshalek papers. Collection Collection dates: 1886-1976. Size: 23.6 dates: 1960-2000 (bulk 1970-1985). Size: cubic feet. Sperry Univac Point of View speech. 22.5 linear feet. Collection dates: 1973 November 13. Size: Transcript: 18 pages; Audio recording: 1 Library. Manuscripts audio cassette. University of Wisconsin–Madison. and Archives. Box 208240, New University Archives. Steenbock Library, Haven, CT 06520, USA Oral history interview with Philip Duncan Madison, WI 53706, USA Thompson. Collection dates: 1986 Sidney Altman papers. Collection dates: December 5. Size: Transcript: 40 pages; Reid A. Bryson papers. Collection dates: 1967-2011. Size: 71 linear feet (89 boxes). Audio recording: 2 audio cassettes. 1949-1970. Size: 37 cubic feet. Walter Jack Cunningham papers. University of Wisconsin–Madison Collection dates: 1941-1987. Size: 6.5 University of Michigan. Bentley Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic linear feet (15 boxes). www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 13 Renwick family letters and manuscripts. NEW FINDING AIDS Polaroid Corporation archives. Collection dates: 1794-1916. Size: 2 linear Collection dates: 1937-[ongoing]. Size: Columbia University. Rare Book and feet (310 items in 3 boxes and 1 portfolio). circa 4,000 linear feet. Manuscript Library. Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA Fisk University. Library & Special Harvard University. Houghton Library. George W. Hill papers. Collection dates: Collections. Nashville, TN 37208, USA Cambridge, MA 02138, USA circa 1900. Size: 35 items (2 boxes). Elmer S. Imes papers. Collection dates: Hermann Helmholtz letters and other Selig Hecht papers. Collection dates: 1902-1942. Size: 2 boxes. papers. Collection dates: 1847-1891. Size: 1914-1937. Size: circa 1,600 items (7 0.5 linear feet (1 box). boxes). Andrei Sakharov papers. Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Collection Walter L. Hildburgh papers. Collection dates: 1852-2002 (bulk 1960-1990). Size: 57 Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA dates: 1892-1900. Size: circa 100 items (3 linear feet (137 boxes). boxes). Charles Palache papers. Collection George Sarton papers. Collection dates: 1881-1954. Size: 18 boxes. Arthur Korn correspondence. Collection dates: 1906-1956. Size: 0.75 linear feet (7 dates: 1898-1934. Size: 38 items (1 box). volumes). William Henry Pickering papers. Collection dates: 1870-1907. Size: 2 cubic Seymour Melman papers. Collection Richard Von Mises papers. Collection feet (9 boxes, 3 folders). dates: 1958-1997. Size: 46 linear feet (circa dates: 1908-1950. Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 16,400 items in 99 boxes). box). Nathan Prince papers. Collection dates: William B. Meloney collection on Marie 1714-1747. Size: 0.22 cubic feet (1 flat box). Curie. Collection dates: 1920-1943. Size: Indiana University. Office of University 2.5 linear feet (400 items in 5 boxes). Archives and Records Management. Harvard University. Baker Library, Bryan Hall 201, 107 South Indiana James S. Pickering papers. Collection Harvard Business School, Manuscript Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA dates: circa 1945-1968. Size: 7 linear feet Division, Soldiers Field, , MA (15 boxes). 02163, USA Richard Owen papers. Collection dates: 1834-1890. Size: 1 box.

North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC 27611, USA

Reginald Fessenden papers. Collection dates: 1887-1935. Size: 60.5 feet (38,000 items).

Princeton University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Edwin Plimpton Adams papers. Collection dates: 1900-1945. Size: 1.35 Professor of Physics Charles P. Slichter (left) and Graduate Student William C. Holton examine a glass Dewar vessel used to cool materials to within a few degrees of the absolute zero of cubic feet (3 boxes). temperature. The Dewar vessel, large electromagnet (background), and microwave equipment (foreground) are part of a sensitive apparatus used by Mr. Holton for his doctoral research. With Raymond S. Dugan papers. Collection it he can study magnetic atoms which are present in nonmagnetic materials in concentrations of one part in one hundred billion. 1960. Credit: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at dates: 1921-1940. Size: 2.10 cubic feet (6 Urbana-Champaign, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. boxes).

14 History Newsletter | Summer 2015 www.aip.org/history-programs Donald Ross Hamilton papers. Collection Charles Fertig collection. Collection Special Collections and University dates: 1946-1970. Size: 19.50 cubic feet (17 dates: 1979-1985. Size: 1.25 cubic feet. Archives. Stanford, CA 94305, USA cartons). Institute for Advanced Study Computer Stephen Henry Schneider papers. Martin Schwarzschild papers. Collection Project records. Collection dates: 1950- Collection dates: 1971-2010. Size: 368.25 dates: 1939-1994. Size: 11.4 linear feet (29 1957. Size: 0.7 cubic feet. linear feet (250 boxes). boxes). Melvin Kranzberg papers. Collection dates: 1934-1988. Size: 140 cubic feet (359 University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720- Rockefeller Archive Center. 15 Dayton document boxes). 6000, USA Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA Innovative Lives presentation and interview: Harry Kroto. Collection dates: Robert Bigham Brode papers. Collection 2001 October 1. Size: 0.75 cubic feet (4 dates: 1922-1975. Size: 13 linear feet (10 Theodore Berlin papers. Collection cartons, 1 cardbox, 1 oversize folder). dates: 1944-1962. Size: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes of BetaCam SP, Umatic and VHS tapes, and audio cassettes). document cases, 1 bound volume). Perry Byerly papers. Collection dates: 1941-1974. Size: 8.75 linear feet (7 cartons, Harold R. D. Roess papers. Collection John C. Bugher papers. Collection dates: 1 oversize folder). 1926-1966 (bulk 1950-1966). Size: 22 linear dates: circa 1920-1964. Size: 2.3 cubic feet (6 boxes). feet (63 boxes). Robert H. Weitbrecht papers. Collection dates: 1931-1882. Size: 10.8 linear feet (8 Lewis M. Rutherfurd collection. Duncan A. MacInnes papers. Collection cartons, 2 boxes). Collection dates: 1846-1884. Size: 0.3 dates: 1926-1965. Size: 9.25 linear feet. cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder). Rockefeller University, President Detlev University of Notre Dame. Archives. Sproul Observatory astronomer W. Bronk records. Collection dates: 1897- 607 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, photoprints. Collection dates: 1916-1975. 1976. Size: 211.28 linear feet (52 document IN 46556, USA Size: 1 oversize flat box. boxes, 157 record storage cartons). John Anthony Poirier papers. Collection C. L. Stong papers. Collection dates: dates: 1971-1974. Size: 12 reels microfilm. 1952-1976. Size: 12.5 cublic feet (38 Smithsonian Institution. National document boxes). Museum of American History. Archives Western Reserve Historical Society. Center. MRC 601, 12th Street and Kevin M. Tuohy papers. Collection dates: East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, 1897-1959. Size: 1.2 cubic feet. DC 20560, USA Warner & Swasey records. Collection Stanford University. Department of dates: 1900-1985. ■ Paul Armer papers. Collection dates: 1949-1970. Size: 5.0 cubic feet (15 document boxes).

Robert Bemer collection on computer standards. Collection dates: 1958-1979. Size: 4.6 cubic feet (10 document boxes).

Eric Clamons records of the American National Standards Institute X3L2 Committee. Collection dates: 1969-1979. Size: 3.0 cubic feet (10 document boxes).

Allen Balcom Du Mont collection. Collection dates: 1884-1965. Size: 46 cubic feet (84 document boxes, 42 flat boxes, 6 oversized folders, 25 notebooks, 3 Paige Spencer Weart (left) conversing with Martin Schwarzschild (right) at an oral history interview. boxes, 2 flat oversize boxes). 1978. Credit: Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. www.aip.org/history-programs Summer 2015 | History Newsletter 15 Center for History of Physics Non-Profit Org. American Institute of Physics U.S. POSTAGE One Physics Ellipse PAID College Park, MD 20740-3843 College Park, MD Permit No. 2321

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