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Johnson, Vivian A. 1912-1985 Papers, 1937-85. 2 Boxes. Physicist Johnson, Vivian A. 1912-1985 Papers, 1937-85. 2 boxes. Physicist, faculty member of Purdue University, researcher in theoretical solid state physics and author of many scientific papers on the transport properties of semiconductors. Concerned with the educational opportunities and the status of women. Visiting lecturer of the American Association of Physics Teachers as a part of the National Science Foundation program to stimulate interest in physics. Her scholarship, leadership and abilities as a teacher were recognized in 1973 when she received the Standard Oil Foundation Teaching Award and in 1979 when she received the Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award. Member of Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma, Indiana Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa and the American Association of University Professors. In Special Collections of Purdue University. Reprints, 1937-66, 1949-65; scientific papers, notes and correspondence. Unpublished preliminary inventory in the Special Collections. Vivian A. Johnson Page 1 Sent to Storage April 84 (350) Visiting Lecturers 42-48 Electrons in Crystals 1953 Multicontact Theory 1942-43 The Polaron 1956-7 Electrons in Crys ta 1s Eradt Reprints 1937-66, 1949-65 Structure of Metals 1949 Student affairs '69 Electric Quantum Theory Lects. by Phillip Frank by G. Wentzel Schein Heisenberg Rethe Nordheim 3ughes Seminar by Schwinger Radiation Damage 1958 Box 2 Reprints Lark-Horowi tz L.H. Biography Comments of 7etty I,.H. Vivian A. Johnson (continued) Box 2 (continued) L.H. Biography Drafts of Lectures Chronology of Scientif ic Dev Budget Review Committee Exponent Report 1969 Curriculum Committee Courses & Lecture by Lanczos ,Ket~sselacrI'oly tccht~ic Institute At.cht\,es and Dept, of j of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- ~cificRegional Office. The accessions include records Special Collections, Troy, NY (contact John Dojka). ed by a variety of offices within the Pacific Regional n Hawaii. Operations Division records document the Papers of William Otis Hotchkiss, 1878-1954. Geologist, author, and educator. Subject files reflecting administrative regional administration of stations reporting from the an Islands, the Pacific Trust Territories, American issues during Hotchkiss's tenure as president of Rensselaer Guam, the Wake Islands, and other locations. Top- Polytechnic Institute, particularly its development of defense ered include storm development, cooperative pro- programs prior to World War 11. 1935-1943. 15 ft. with the Federal Aviation Administration and mili- Rockefeller University, New York, N't' (contact Barbara iation authorities, drought conditions, tsunami alerts, Gilson). s activities, and the establishment of new reporting i in the Pacific. Records of the Office of the Regional Papers of Duncan Arthur MacInnes, 1885-1965. On the dogist include those of the Climatology Program, physical chemistry faculty at the University of Illinois, Ur- 969, and focus on weather forecasting and gathering bana ( 19 11-1917), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ~ortingdata from observation stations throughout the ( 19 17- 1926), and Rockefeller University (earlier the Rocke- basin. Mauna Loa Observatory records, 1963-1966, feller Institute for Medical Research) ( 1926-1965). ent the planning and installation of the weather obser- MacInnes was the author of The Pritzciples of Elecrro-chem- atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii. isrry and numerous contributions to scientific publications al Archives Record Group 370. 29 cu. ft. and mountaineering magazines. Correspondence; diaries; lec- tures; addresses; annual reports; manuscripts; figures; photo- Jerscy Histot-ical Society Collections, Newark, NJ graphs; maps. Of particular interest are subject files pertain- 1ti1ct Sandor 13. Cohctl ). ing to the small conferences sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and held at Shelter Island and Rocke- mooks of Francis Robbins Upton, 1852-1921. Physicist feller Institute in the immediate postwar era. Also contains rathematician. Scrapbooks containing letters, certifi- printed matter, and photos, illustrating Upton's career material pertaining to war contract work ( 1941-1945) at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research where MacInnes first recipient of a master of science degree granted by ton University, at Thomas A. Edison's Menlo Park was senior investigator; topographical maps of climbing and camping areas; biographical material; and collected reprints. tories where he worked on incandescent light, and lat- Correspondents include: Haywar'd Cirker, Jesse W. M. Du- >resident of Edison Pioneers, an organization of early Mond, Walter J. Hamer, Herbert S. Harned, Enok Hetland, yees of the Edison Company. Includes letters of C. W. Hiatt, Frank B. Jewett, Robert L. Kay, John G. Kirk- 3s A. Edison and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1877-1925. 3 wood, Walter R. Kirner, Victor K. LaMer, W. Albert Noyes, Alfred R. Pray, B. Roger Ray, A. N. Richards, Har- i\ylv:inia Stat? Un~versit?.Center Ihr Electronic Ma- low Shapley, Charles P. Smyth, Florence M. Stewart, and I< and De\-~ce\.University Park. PA (cc3ntact Peter John A. Wheeler. 1926-1965. ey ) Royal Society Library. London. England. ; of Russell S. Ohl. Consists of miscellaneous papers Papers of Harold Warris Thompson, 1908-1983. Thompson he career of Oh1 including internal memos from Bell was a distinguished Oxford scientist and teacher who made atories and graphs and calculations made by Ohl as exceptional contributions to international science; he was s the transcript of an oral history ( 1976) by Lillian also a lifelong enthusiast for association football. He was :son. There is little in the way of correspondence. educated in Sheffield and at Trinity College, Oxford, then 1958. 2 boxes. spent a year researching in Berlin before returning to Oxford lue L'ni\.ersity Libraries, Special Collections. West La- to take up a Fellowship at St. John's College. Thompson tte. IN (contact Helen Schroyer). quickly established himself as an outstanding teacher and de- veloped his research interests in the area of chemical spec- ; of Vivian Annabelle Johnson, 1912-1985. Physicist, troscopy. He contributed to international science as Foreign member of Purdue University, researcher in theoreti- Secretary of the Royal Society, 1965-1971, and as president lid state physics and author of many scientific papers of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), : transport properties of semiconductors. Concerned 1963-1966, and of the International Union of Pure and Ap- he educational opportunities and the status of women. plied Chemistry (IUPAC), 1973-1975. Throughout his life ~g lecturer of the American Association of Physics Thompson gave devoted service to football, from amateur ers as part of the National Science Foundation pro- player in his youth to Chairman of the Football Association, to stimulate interest in physics. Member of Sigma Xi, 1976-198 1. The collection is regrettably very unbalanced. Pi Sigma, Indiana Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta There is no personal or biographical material and very little a, and the American Association of University Profes- record of Thompson's research. On the other hand, his con- Reprints, 1937- 1966, 1949-1965; scientific papers, tributions to international science and football are extensive- and correspondence. 1937-1985. 2 boxes. ly documented. There is a full record of Thompson's Foreign .
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