GUIDETOAN ADDENDUMTOTHEJAMESA.VANALLENPAPERS ANDRELATEDCOLLECTIONS by JEREMYM.BROWN PROJECTARCHIVIST WITHFUNDSFROMTHE IOWASPACEGRANTCONSORTIUM UNIVERSITYARCHIVES THEUNIVERSITYOFIOWALIBRARIES IOWACITY,IOWA52242-1420 COPYRIGHT2002THEUNIVERSITYOFIOWA GuidetoanAddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections3 TableofContents PrefacebyJeremyM.Brown,ProjectArchivist.....................5 ScopeandContentNote,AddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapers........6 ScopeandContentNote,ThePhysicsDepartmentPapersUnderJamesA.VanAllen (1951-1985).......................................8 AddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapers SeriesI.UniversityofIowaPapers...........................9 A. GeneralCorrespondenceandAssistantFiles..............9 1.MiscellaneousA-Z..........................9 2.GeneralCorrespondence.......................17 3.Mrs.Robison’sYearbook/Correspondence.............18 4.ChristineHalasArchivingCompositionBooks...........18 a.Research...........................19 b.NASA.............................19 c.NS..............................19 2.Proposals................................19 3.SpacecraftMissions.........................20 4.SpacecraftMissions,DepartmentalResearch...........28 5.VanAllen’sProposedinstrumentsthatneverflew..........29 6.OtherResearch............................29 a.Balloons............................29 b.Expeditions..........................29 c.SecurityFiles.........................29 C.Reference&Subjectfiles.........................29 1.SovietFile...............................29 2.InstrumentBrochures.........................29 3.MiscellaneousSubjectFiles......................29 4.NewspaperClippings.........................30 D.AdvisoryandProfessionalActivities...................31 1.Committees,PanelsandWorkingGroups...............31 a.GroupsPresentin1993FindingAid..............31 IGY..........................31 SpaceScienceBoard...................31 ParticlesandFieldsSubcommittee............32 Galileo...........................32 b.GroupsNotPresentinthe1993FindingAid.........32 2.ProfessionalSocietiesandOtherAffiliations.............33 3.RefereeingandReviews........................33 a.JournalofGeophysicalResearch...............33 b.OtherReviews.........................34 4GuidetoanAddendumtoTheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections E.ConferenceFiles..............................34 F.TripFiles..................................35 G.VanAllen’sProfessorialMaterial.....................35 1.LectureNotesandClassMaterial...................35 2.AdviseeFiles..............................36 H.Calendars.................................37 I.VanAllen’sResearchNotesandHolographicNotes............37 J.SpeechesandCongressionalTestimony..................37 a.DeliveredSpeechesandLectures...............37 b.Interviews...........................37 2.CongressionalTestimony.......................39 KSpacePolicy................................40 1.SpacePolicyCorrespondence.....................40 2.VanAllen’sSpacePolicyFiles/Folders................41 3.ReferenceFolders,Miscellaneous...................41 4.VanAllen’sSpacePolicyPublications................41 SeriesII.ManuscriptsandPublications.........................41 SeriesIII.OversizedMaterial..............................42 ThePhysicsDepartmentPapersUnderJamesA.VanAllen(1951-1985) SeriesI.UniversityActivities..............................43 A.CollegeandFacultyGroups.......................43 B.Committees................................43 SeriesII.PhysicsDepartment..............................43 A.Correspondence..............................43 B.Facilities..................................43 1.ComputerCenter............................43 2.PhysicsResearchCenter........................43 3.Observatories..............................44 C.Administration..............................44 1.Financial................................44 2.CommitteeFiles............................44 3.DepartmentResearchReports.....................44 4.Miscellaneous.............................44 5.VanAllen’s“DepartmentalMatters”BrownFolders.........45 D.Personnel.................................45 E.Pedagogy.................................45 F.FellowshipsandAwards.........................46 G.ColloquiaandSeminars..........................46 Appendix:AddendumtothePublicationListofDr.JamesA.VanAllen.....46 GuidetoanAddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections5 Preface ThemainbodyofDr.JamesA.VanAllen’spaperswastransferredtotheUniversityof IowaLibrariesintheearly1990s,andaninventoryofit,compiledbyChristineD.Halas, TheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections,waspublishedbytheLibraries in1993. Inlate2001,Dr.VanAllentransferredthematerialsdescribedinthepresentinventory. ThisaddendumdocumentsDr.VanAllen’sactivitiesfromthelate1980stothelate 1990s.Inorganizingthisgroupofpapers,IsoughttorespecttheworkofDr.VanAllen aswellastheordersetforthbyChrisHalas’soriginalfindingaid. In2000,theHalasinventorywasdigitizedbytheAmericanInstituteofPhysics,encoded inEAD(EncodedArchivalDocument)format,andmadeavailableontheInternetat http://www.aip.org/web2/aiphome/history/ead/iowa_java_papers/19990077.html.This GuidetoanAddendumhasalsobeendigitizedandaddedtotheAIPsite. OrganizationoftheaddendumandcompilationofthisGuidetoanAddendumwasmade possiblebyagranttoDr.VanAllenfromtheIowaSpaceGrantConsortiumandits director,WilliamJ.Byrd,ofIowaStateUniversity.MyworkwasguidedbyDr.Van Allen,informedbyChristineHalasWood,andsupportedbythelibrariansandstaffin SpecialCollectionsattheUniversityofIowaLibraries.Alloftheseindividualshelped meincreatingthisfindingaid,anaccomplishmentthatwouldnothavebeenpossible withoutthem. JeremyM.Brown,ProjectArchivist 6GuidetoanAddendumtoTheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections ScopeandContentNote,AddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapers: A.GeneralCorrespondenceandAssistantFiles: Thissubsectioniscomprisedprimarilyofcorrespondence.Themajorityofthissection, the“MiscellaneousA-Z”files,wasassembledinfilecabinetsbyDr.VanAllen’slong- timeassistant,Mrs.EvelynD.Robison.Ihaveslightlydivergedfromtheoriginal collection’sprecedentinthatIhaveleftthesubjectfilesinterfiledwiththealphabetical filesinordertopreserveMrs.Robison’sfilestructure.Manyoftheitemsfoundinthe subjectfilesoverlapwithlaterpartsofthecollection,andonemusttakecaretonotethe cross-references.Thefilingstylechangesmarkedlyinthemiddleof1995,followingMrs. Robisondeath,andtheamountofmaterialsfileddecreasedgreatly. Thesecondpartofthissection,“GeneralCorrespondence,”containsonly correspondence,themajorityofwhichwasfoundinanunsortedstate,separatefrom othermaterialsinMrs.Robison’sformeroffice.Thesematerialsarefiled chronologically,as“incoming”and“outgoing”.Incomingautographrequestsarefound attheendoftheoutgoingcorrespondence. ThelasttwopartsofthissectionaredocumentsproducedbyMrs.RobisonandChris (Halas)Wood.Mrs.Robison’syearbookscontainappointmentinformationaswellas informationregardingdeadlinesandothertasksassociatedwithsupportingDr.VanAllen andthePhysicsDepartment.Thesespantheyears1966to1995.ChrisWood,the archivistfortheoriginalcollectionprovidedhercompositionbooks,whichcontain informationabouttheoriginalcollectionandprovidefurthercontextforDr.VanAllen’s workingeneral. B.Research: SponsoringAgencies.Thismaterialwasfoundintermingledwithother,unrelated materialsandshouldfillgapsintheoriginalcollection.AnexceptiontothisisDr.Van Allen’sOfficeofNavalResearch(ONR)files,whichprovideanupdateonhisactivities sincethedonationoftheoriginalcollection. SpacecraftMissions.ThemajorityofthematerialmakingupthissectionisfromDr.Van Allen’songoingprojectwithPioneer10/11.Thefirstseveralboxesofmaterialoriginated fromDr.VanAllen’soffice.ThebulkofthePioneermaterialwasfiledbyMrs.Robison, whosefilingsystemhasbeenpreservedhere.Therearealsosignificantamountsof materialfortheHawkeyeandVoyagermissions.Manyphenomenawerestudiedby comparingdataobtainedusingdifferentspacecraft.Thesetypesofanalysesarefoundin the“jointmissionanalysis”category. C.ReferenceandSubjectFiles. GuidetoanAddendumtotheJamesA.VanAllenPapersandRelatedCollections7 ThebulkofthematerialinthiscategorycomesfromDr.VanAllen’spersonalfiling cabinets.Thefoldersthemselveswerescatteredacrossvariousfiledrawers,butunlikethe othermaterials,andalthoughimportanttoDr.VanAllen’swork,theseweregenerally nothiscoresubjectareas.Theclippingsthatnowcomposetheclippingsfilewerefound inmanydifferentplaces.TheyarearrangedchronologicallyanddepictDr.VanAllen’s interests.ThefirstsectionoftheclippingsfileismadeupofarticlesaboutDr.VanAllen himself;therestwerefoundwithhispapers. D.AdvisoryandProfessionalActivities Mostofthematerialinthiscategoryfillsgapsintheoriginalcollection.Organizations thatappearedintheoriginalfindingaidareorderedinthesamewayinthisaddendum, althoughnotallarepresenthere.Organizationsthatwerenotintheoriginalfindingaid havebeenplacedfollowingtheothergroups. E.ConferenceFiles ThefilescontaininformationpertainingtomeetingsinwhichDr.VanAllenwasa participant.Itisimportanttolookatboththespeechesandlecturescategoriesastheyare verysimilarinnature.Thesefilesarearrangedchronologically. F.TripFiles ThesetripfileswerecreatedbyMrs.Robison,andthereisamarkeddifferenceinstyle afterherdeathin1995.ThetwogroupingsoffilesandbluebinderspreserveMrs.R’s originalsystem. G.ProfessorialMaterial Liketheoriginalcollection,thissubseriesisseparatedintotwosubcategories.Thefirst containsmaterialrelatingtoclassesthatDr.VanAllentaughtandreflectshisteaching style.ThesecondcontainsmaterialfromstudentswhoreceivedadvanceddegreesasVan