Samuel Devons papers, 1959-2004

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 History and Physics Lab--Columbia University and Barnard, 1966-1976


Box 1 History of Physics Summer Conference, 1975


Box 1 Sloan Grant Correspondence, 1972-1974


Box 1 NSF Summer Institute Correspondence of, 1972


Box 1 Committee on Translation


Box 1 AAPT 1977-78


Box 1 Federation of Public Programs in the Humanities


NSF


Box 1 (OLD)


Box 1 Grant Extension


Box 1 Project Inquiries


Box 1 1978


Box 1 1988


Box 1 1991-


Box 1 Bell Proposal


Box 1 Requests for Experimental Materials


Box 1 Participants Meeting, January 7, 1977


Box 1 Spencer Weart, A.I.P.


Box 1 Consultants, S Brush


Box 1 Gross, Walter E.


Box 1 Outside Participants


Box 1 Pending


Box 1 Copies of Lists of Participating Institutions


Box 1 January 3, 1975 letter with list of subjects with description, January 3, 1975


Box 1 May /June Meeting, 1976


Box 1 January 9, 1976


Colleges and Universities


Box 1 Barnard


Box 1 Guilford College


Box 1 New York University


Box 1 North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University


Box 1 North Texas State University


Box 1 Rhode Island College


Box 1 SUNY/Stonybrook


Box 1 UCLA



Box 2 Correspondence re: The Laboratory


Box 2 Brooklyn Poly, October 1972


Box 2 Summer Institute, 1973


Box 2 Instructional materials with accompanying letter, 1975-1979


Box 2 Participants Meeting, Summer 1977 (July ), 1977


Box 2 Sloan Grant, October 4, 1977


Box 2 History of Physics Meeting, January 1978


Box 2 History of Physics, Summer 1978 Comprehensive Report, 1978


Box 2 Correspondence to Advisory Committee, 1978


Box 2 Grant Extension, 1978-79


Box 2 NSF Meeting, January 29, 1979


Box 2 TVC 1980 Auts and Final Auts, 1980


Box 2 NSF Proposal Torosian TC, 1982


Box 2 Barnard-Transportation


Box 2 Boston University


Box 2 Harrison High School


Box 2 Hebrew University & Copenhagen


Box 2 Harvard University


Box 2 Michigan State University


Box 2 University of Minnesota


Box 2 Montclair State University


Box 2 New School of Liberal Arts


Box 2 The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill


Box 2 Queensboro Community College


Box 2 Villanova


Box 2 Western Illinois University


Box 2 Advisory Committee, Shapiro, Meyer


Box 2 Contents listings of Extract Materials


Box 2 Develop Film Account Barnard


Box 2 Experiment Evaluation Form


Box 2 Foreign Institutions


Box 2 Initial Mailing List-Instructional Materials-Mailing Lists, Original Copies, Labels


Box 2 NSF History of Physics, Letters to Participants


Box 2 Interim Reports NSF Correspondence, 1979-1980


Box 2 NSF Project: RIP Haisley, History of Physics Laboratory


Box 2 NSF Proposals & Referees


Box 2 NSF Proposals-Referencing


Box 2 Recommendations NSF


Box 2 "Rainbow" Correspondence NSF


Box 2 HOP Laboratories, Corres Visits


Box 2 Notes on Laboratory Instruction Materials


Box 2 Source Materials Requests



Box 3 Miscellaneous Correspondence, Personal, 1965-1979


Box 3 Induction Letter into International Mark Twain Society, Facsimile of Winston Churchill Induction Letter


Box 3 Canada, 1971


Box 3 MIT Panel-APS, December 1971


Box 3 Morality of Science 1971 Seminar Columbia University Nature of Man, 1971


Box 3 Swiss Conference, August 1971 Solid State Sin Zurich 1971, August 1971, 1971


Box 3 Moscow/Leningrad, Rutherford Cent (Bosnia), 1971


Box 3 Summer Institute, 1972


Box 3 NSF, Washington, DC, February1974


Box 3 PF Syracuse, 1975


Box 3 Minnesota/ Michigan, Illinois, 1975


Box 3 1976 North Carolina| CCNY March1976|Arden House, 1976


Box 3 North Carolina, 1976


Box 3 National Science, 1976


Box 3 8 HIPS + NY Summer, 1976


Box 3 December, 1976|CC 1977|Dean's Do, March26, 1977


Box 3 FFH, 1977


Box 3 Airlie 1978 Illinois, 1975, 1978, 1975


Box 3 Ampor/Farad/Henry/ Columbia University Colloquium, April 1978


Box 3 Columbia University 1978 Human Rights, 1978


Box 3 Columbia College/Columbia University Orientation, 1978


Box 3 Lectures, 1978


Box 3 Galileo-Brecht, 1978


Box 3 Montclair B. F., 1978


Box 3 Arete, 1978


Box 3 OAS, 1978


Box 3 December, 1978


Box 3 PBK Columbia University, 1979


Box 3 Israel & Rome, 1979


Box 3 1979


Box 3 Review LAJP, 1970-80 Heilbron


Box 3 Toronto, 1980


Box 3 The Art of Experiment PBS, 1981


Box 3 Visits, 1981 Adelphi, 1981


Box 3 Haifa Museum, Magnetism, 1982


Box 3 1983


Box 3 New Rochelle, April 5, 1984--Ben Franklin-Nat. Phil, April 5, 1984


Box 3 New Rochelle ILGWU, 1984


Box 3 APS, January 1983 Princeton 1983 Cavendish Coloumb, January 1983, 1983


Box 3 IGLWU, 1984


Box 3 Retirement, 1984


Box 3 Cohen, S.S, 1985


Box 3 Cohen, S. Ofer, Shimon, 1985


Box 3 Seminar, January 18-December 30, 2001


Box 3 Haifa/ Magnetism Museum


Box 3 Faraday's Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction (Diaries and Papers)


Box 3 Rowland


Box 3 China


Box 3 Miscellaneous



Box 4 Speaking Engagements, 1959-1963


Box 4 Nasta Kansas, April 1960/Montclair Co, 1961


Box 4 Liberal Arts, Art of Expo, 1965


Box 4 Science at Columbia, 1965-1966 September 1966, 1965-1966, September 1966


Box 4 Columbia University, "70" years, 1966


Box 4 World of Science and Scientist World, 1967


Box 4 Jerusalem/World of Science, October, November 1967


Box 4 Report on Indian Visit (for Royal Society), August 1968 1967-1968, August 1968, 1967-1968


Box 4 Hong Kong, February1968


Box 4 Poet's Physics/Columbia University Forum, 1968


Box 4 US, 1968/India Recall


Box 4 Smithsonian Lecture Art of Expo, 1972


Box 4 UCLA, April 1972


Box 4 AAPT-RPIM, 1973


Box 4 ILGWU Awaho, 1974


Box 4 Dallas, 1974


Box 4 Stony Brook, 1974


Box 4 Arden, 1983 Science/Labor, 1983


Box 4 Bartlett, David, 1992-


Box 4 Miscellaneous-Personal, 1997-1998


Box 4 SESP, 1998-1999


Box 4 History of Physics Lab, 1999


Box 4 Low, B.


Box 4 Chem Heritage


Box 4 Conference "High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure" February-March1967 Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel, February-March1967


Box 4 Columbia University


Box 4 Current Action


Box 4 Columbia University Science Libraries etc.


Box 4 Columbia University Library Scorecard


Box 4 DOGS: Lexie & Emale


Box 4 Faculty House NFL


Box 4 Final-Budgeting


Box 4 Guides to Columbia University Libraries


Box 4 NYAS-SPA


Box 4 NYAS


Box 4 Personal


Box 4 Requests for General Reprints


Box 4 Library Columns-November 1995


Box 4 S.D-Films


Box 4 Wild Ginger



Box 5 History of Science


Box 5 Henderson-College of New Rochelle


Box 5 History of Science, Brooklyn


Box 5 Boyer Corres/Awards/ The Carl Boyer Awards


Box 5 History and Philosophy of Physics


Box 5 Volta Film Student Libraries Reactions


Box 5 Zaza


Box 5 Science: Films GE


Box 5 TVC


Box 5 NSF:, 1980-1981


Box 5 A.A.RT.


Box 5 Reviews: Blurbs; Info Volta & Electricity


Box 5 NSF Grant Extension


Box 5 Mabou Mines Theater Company


Box 5 Nader Ordoubadi


Box 5 McCarry, Garrett


Box 5 Rainbow II David F


Box 5 Di, Paola, Daniel (G.S.)


Box 5 Film: Purvis, M E-M-Fische


Box 5 Arien Film (MFA)


Box 5 History of Films-School of Arts


Box 5 School of Arts


Box 5 History of Science


Box 5 Cosmo, 1971


Box 5 Black Holes


Box 5 X-Rays


Box 5 Miscellaneous


Box 5 Teachings History of Physics


Box 5 W3904-5 Atomism, Religion, Dissemination


Box 5 NSF Correspondence


Box 5 Arrears 1999 20002001, 1999


Box 5 3001 Q Papers/Current Originals, 3001


Box 5 Wheeler, J.A.


Box 5 Seminar (PDF) 2003-Current


Box 5 Columbia University:Seminar


Box 5 Dieu Donne


Box 5 Devons, Samuel Biographical


Box 5 Role of University


Box 5 ERN


Box 5 SD-C.V.


Box 5 1975 Questionnaire, 1975


Box 5 Science


Box 5 6OY at Columbia University



Box 6 AIP AAPT APS


Box 6 American Committee of Weizman Institute


Box 6 Ampere Electrononamics


Box 6 Astrolabe


Box 6 Zaza, A.


Box 6 Bibliographic Sources


Box 6 Bibliography


Box 6 Book Reviews


Box 6 Computers Multimedia in Education


Box 6 Daily Correspondence (Old), January 1978-August 1979


Box 6 Dibner Institute


Box 6 Edison/Einstein


Box 6 George Braziller, Inc


Box 6 Haifa Museum


Box 6 Harvard Cab


Box 6 Harvard Lab, 1970


Box 6 Hebrew University (NY)


Box 6 Galili, H.V.


Box 6 Marshall Cavendish Insight


Box 6 Jerusalem Lab


Box 6 Optical Data Corp


Box 6 Plenum


Box 6 Pre-Galilean Mechanics


Box 6 Publications-Projected/Possible


Box 6 Scribners


Box 6 S D. Repnit


Box 6 Sol University Press, Miscellaneous


Box 6 Time


Box 6 Rehovot (SAAC Official )


Box 6 Voyage of Mimi


Box 6 Weizman Institute



Box 7 Advisory Committee


Box 7 Amaldi


Box 7 American Education|Education (General)|University UK Europe| History WW II


Box 7 Bernal


Box 7 Biology


Box 7 China


Box 7 Classes Green/Arab


Box 7 Feather


Box 7 Franklin


Box 7 History of Atomic Theory


Box 7 Columbia University Professorships


Box 7 Hartmann, Lillian


Box 7 Hartmann, Lillian| Hartmann-Hoddeson|Corres


Box 7 Hartmann, Lillian|Devons|History of Science Correspondence


Box 7 Maths 3001x


Box 7 Medieval


Box 7 Morality & Science


Box 7 Newton, Isaac & 17th Century Optics


Box 7 Rankin, Joanna


Box 7 Newton Alchemy


Box 7 Optics


Box 7 Obits


Box 7 Szoke


Box 7 TIAA (Corres)


Box 7 Time


Box 7 Review Heilbromm


Box 7 Weber and Kohlrausch


Box 7 18th Century


Box 7 Stein, 1965


Box 7 Arete, 1970s


Box 7 Colloquia-Talks Art of Opt., etc., 1972


Box 7 Optic/Rainbow, 1973


Box 7 Progress Reports, Meetings April 1975 May 1975, April 1975, May 1975


Box 7 Tesla, N NY, July 9, 2001


Box 7 Biblio 9/02, Barzun Secondary



Box 8 Arms


Box 8 Super Science


Box 8 Radiation, Hazards, Health


Box 8 Ozone Layer


Box 8 ABM/Star Wars


Box 8 Power/Energy


Box 8 Book Reviews


Box 8 Science Journalism


Box 8 E Colog


Box 8 Creationism Biology


Box 8 Sociology as Science


Box 8 Education, Reports & Policies


Box 8 Education, General


Box 8 Education, General Pres Cuttings


Box 8 Shanker


Box 8 Political Savvy


Box 8 Semin: Computers, Innovation


Box 8 Falk Corp. Collection, 1995-


Box 8 Biographical Sketches


Box 8 Science & Labor


Box 8 US Institutions


Box 8 Miscellaneous


Box 8 Rediscovering "The Wheel"


Box 8 Example & Precept


Box 8 Benezet Exp., 1935-1936


Box 8 A.P.S.


Box 8 Pro-Bono (Public)


Science Writers Colloquium, 1967-1968


Box 8 General Science Colloquium, 1976-79


Box 8 Columbia Science Colloquium, 1976-77


Box 8 Barnard Science Colloquium


Box 8 Fall Science Colloquium, 1978-79


Box 8 Science Colloquium--Sloan Grant #467-2880-2298


Box 8 Science Colloquium, Fall 1977 & Spring 1978, 1977, 1978


Box 8 Science Colloquium


Box 8 N.A.S.


Box 8 School Education: Topical Alternative Schools


Box 8 T.E.R.C.


Box 8 Testins


Box 8 Education Statistics


Box 8 Cernobyl


Box 8 Rutgers


Box 8 History of Columbia University Seminar


Box 8 Neugrescal, Seth


Box 8 P.B.P.


Box 8 2nd Science Writers Colloquium, October 13, 1967 Devons, S., Covener, October 13, 1967


Box 8 3rd Science Writers Colloquium, March1968


Box 8 NYU


Box 8 Feurwerker, Elie, 1992


Box 8 NY Times & The New Yorker Articles



Box 9 Kirchoff B.B. Radiation


Box 9 Joule, James Prescott


Box 9 Helmholtz, H.V.


Box 9 OHM


Box 9 Faraday Macheto-Optics


Box 9 Volta Film Promotoion-Purchasers


Box 9 Volta| FFH: Catalogs| Contracts


Box 9 TVC


Box 9 MISC


Box 9 Elgen


Box 9 Neutron Source-General Nuclear


Box 9 Neutron Exp Source


Box 9 Neutron


Box 9 Misc. 20th Century USA|Australian-N.Z. Sciences


Box 9 Nuclear Moments Rabi Mag. Reson.


Box 9 Elec Units W-K| E-M Units|Diamagnetism


Box 9 Reviews Film-Reaction-1980


Box 9 JOT|Logarithemic Notations


Box 9 Stern-Q.Mechs| Q.M. Measurements


Box 9 Magnestism


Box 9 Ampere-Faraday LOGS and Editing Notes


Box 9 Art of Experimentation


Box 9 Actual, 2004


Box 9 Filmmmakers Handbook



Box 10 Optics: Miksic, M.


Box 10 Italian Academy


Box 10 Fraun Hofer


Box 10 Hudson River Review Dealings, February1987-July 1988


Box 10 Jerusalem Lectures Lectures 1973-1975 1979, 1973-1975, 1979


Box 10 Magnetism Lectures, 4001


Box 10 NPL, 1995-1996


Box 10 Comprehensive Reports, Devon, S


Box 10 Quantum Atomic


Box 10 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 9 folders



Box 11 SLD SLAC Accounts, March1987


Box 11 Film: Correspondence, School of Arts: Film, 1974-1975


Box 11 Film Reviews


Box 11 EDC, AAPT, AAAS, EFLA, Film: Review, Preview


Box 11 Film & Museums


Box 11 FFH Film Income, Sales


Box 11 Volta: Film Script


Box 11 Pupin-Rabi Anniversary Committee Notes 1977-


Box 11 Floriani


Box 11 Schecter


Box 11 Wilson


Box 11 Perina


Box 11 Rabi, Professor


Box 11 Volta Draft


Box 11 Laboratory Files ( 2 folders)


Box 11 Video Expl


Box 11 Volta


Box 11 Keet TV Shows


Box 11 Competitions, Film


Box 11 Films, Information re: Film Distributors


Box 11 Volta


Box 11 Votes for Perception Through Eyes


Box 11 Sloan Foundation Grant Approvals



Box 12 W.A. Benjamin, Inc., Patterson, Neil, Book Reviews


Box 12 Book Reviews-General


Box 12 Review for Nature, December 1968


Box 12 "The Role of Science in a General Education", December 11, 1968


Box 12 Science in Modern World, Wolfe. J., Physics, March21, 1967


Box 12 Westinghouse Radio, Frontiers of Science


Box 12 8D-Energy


Box 12 Muonic Atoms, Rochester, 1971


Box 12 Frieze, Wait, Reanimate


Box 12 Ticohepans, September 1969


Box 12 Physics Today, Biology Tomorrow, March1965 October 1966 September, October 1970, March1965, October 1966, October 1970


Box 12 ISSHA Proposal December 1968 January 1969, December 1968, January 1969


Box 12 Connecticut NASTA-CSTA


Box 12 Rabi, JPA November 1, 1986 November 1977, November 1, 1986, November 1977


Box 12 Technology & Social Change


Box 12 Teacher's College Course, July 1986


Box 12 Edelstein, NY


Box 12 Wesley, Walter (new member), June 1977


Box 12 M/C Atomic Pays, Misc Notes


Box 12 Double Helly Book Reviews


Box 12 Devons, S., Introduction (Preface) & Postscript to Biology and the Physical Sciences, 1968


Box 12 Introduction, Biology & The Physical Sciences, 1968


Box 12 APS Washington, May 1964


Box 12 Mann, Horace, June 1967


Box 12 Student Life Research, March1967


Box 12 Bronx High School of Science, November 1966


Box 12 Panel Discussion ( NY State), January 1966


Box 12 NEA Scientific & Cultural Values, 1965


Box 12 MIT Summer Conference 1967 MS of Devons' Talk, 1967


Box 12 Priestley, Joseph, Experiments with an Electrified Cup


Box 12 Franklin, Benjamin: Notes, Devon, S Notes for Blue Book/ Lab Notes


Box 12 Gettysburg, 1966


Box 12 "Benjamin Franklin as Experimental Philosopher", APS Washington Meeting


Box 12 Franklin, Benjamin


Box 12 Franklin, Benjamin and The Conservation of Electricity


Box 12 NAT. PHL. Today


Box 12 M/S Science Progress


Box 12 Science Progress


Box 12 Cornell


Box 12 Journalism Issues in News


Box 12 Sloan-Rabi Commitee, 1978



Box 13 1996 Barometer, 1996


Box 13 Geomagnetism Maps for Gilbert's Experiment on Magnetism


Box 13 EMI Physics, October 1978


Box 13 Energy Conservation Faraday-Helmhoztz


Box 13 Pasteur, L., Bernard. C.


Box 13 Rutherford-Rowland


Box 13 Weber-Kohlrausch


Box 13 Work


Box 13 Local Mail


Box 13 Logarithmic Notations


Box 13 Physics-Science Progress, 1 No. 198, April 1962


Box 13 Newton:Alchemy


Box 13 Fluids-Newton-Oscillations


Box 13 Newton-Biography


Box 13 OAS SA, 1968


Box 13 Rabi-Dean's Statements, 1977


Box 13 Miscellaneous