Department of Physics Historical records, 1862-1997, bulk 1906-1957

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Series II: Individuals, 1862-1997

This series consists of materials related to individual faculty members and other individuals with ties to the Department of Physics, usually as a guest lecturer. Materials include original correspondence between prominent physicists from within and outside the Columbia University community, photographs, negatives, notes, and lecture announcements. Files are arranged alphabetically by last name of the individual. Much of the correspondence from these individuals is with Dean George B. Pegram. Of particular interest are two notebooks of George B. Pegram from when he was a student at Columbia in 1899 as well a notebook of lectures by Professor McCullogh as transcribed by Peter A. Jay in 1862. Files containing correspondence have date ranges noted; those with just photographs are almost always undated.



Box 1 Aston, F.W., 1922


Box 1 Bethe, Hans Albrecht


Box 1 Bjerknes, Vilhelm, 1905-1925


Box 1 Bohr, Aage



Box 2 Bohr, Niels, 1923 1985, 1923, 1985


Box 2 Booth, Eugene T.


Box 2 Born, Max, 1925-1926


Box 2 Bragg, William Henry, 1914


Box 2 Bragg, William Lawrence, 1924


Box 2 Cooper, Leon N.


Box 2 Davis, Bergin -- Letters from Famous Physicists, 1905-1949


Box 2 Debye, Peter J.W., 1924-1925


Box 2 Ehrenfest, Paul, 1923-1924


Box 2 Einstein, Albert, 1912-1933 1970, 1912-1933, 1970


Box 2 Fermi, Enrico, 1935 1954, 1935, 1954


Box 2 Fermi, Lawrence, and Rabi at Los Alamos-Photograph, 1945


Box 2 Fitch, Val. L.


Box 2 Fitch, Val and Rainwater, James, 19531991


Box 2 Foreign Lecturers, 1897-1913 undated, 1897-1913, undated


Box 2 Gell-Mann, Murray


Box 2 Goeppert-May er, Maria


Box 2 Hadamard, Jacques, 1911


Box 2 Hahn, Otto, 1907


Box 2 Hallock, William, 1903-1913


Box 2 Hayner, Lucy, 1963


Box 2 Heymans, Paul, 1925-1926


Box 2 Ihlseng, Magnus C., 1921


Box 2 Kusch, Polykarp, 1952-1993


Box 2 Lamb, Willis E., 1947-1961


Box 2 Langmuir, Irving and Levene, P.A., 1924


Box 2 Larmor, Joseph, 1906-1907


Box 2 Lawrence, Ernest O., 1935


Box 2 Lederman, Leon M.


Box 2 Lorentz, Hendrik A., 1906-1907 1922, 1906-1907, 1922


Box 2 Lummer, Otto, 1905-1908


Box 2 McCulloh (Richard Sears) Lecture Notes by Peter A. Jay, 1862


Box 2 Millikan, Robert A., 1912-1916 1992, 1912-1916, 1992



Box 3 Pegram, George B. -- Biographical info and photographs, 1947-1959


Box 3 Pegram, George B.-Correspondence, 1907-1935


Box 3 Pegram, George B.-Notebooks, 1899


Box 3 Pegram, George B.-Postcards, 1897-1914


Box 3 Penzias, Arno A.


Box 3 Perrin, Jean, 1913


Box 3 Planck, Max, 1908-1909


Box 3 Pupin, Michael I., 1938-1945


Box 3 Quimby, Shirley L., 1930s 1988, 1930s, 1988


Box 3 Rabi, Isidor I., 1947-1975


Box 3 Rainwater, James,1983



Box 4 Ramsey, Norman


Box 4 Rubbia, Carlo


Box 4 Runge, Carl, 1913


Box 4 Schawlow, Arthur L.


Box 4 Schwartz, Melvin, 1962-1988


Box 4 Schwinger, Julian S., 1978


Box 4 Serber, Robert, 1965


Box 4 Siegbahn, Manne, 1924-1925


Box 4 Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1922-1923


Box 4 Steinberger, Jack


Box 4 Szilard, Leo, 1945-1987


Box 4 Ting, Samuel C.C. (Chao-chung)


Box 4 Townes, Charles H., 1954


Box 4 Urey, Harold C., 1933-1965


Box 4 Weinberg, Stephen


Box 4 Wien, Wilhelm, 1912-1913


Box 4 Wick, Gian Carlo1950-1992


Box 4 Wien, Wilhelm ("Willy"), 1954


Box 4 Wu, C.S.(Chien-shiung) -- Biographical Info and Photographs, 1957-1992


Box 4 Wu, C.S. (Chien-shiung)-Correspondence, 1992-1997


Box 4 Yukawa, Hideki, 1949-1954


Box 4 Unidentified Faculty Photographs and Negatives