Zimmermann, Henry J.

Scope and Contents Records received in 1989, box 1, 1945-1969, contain correspondence and reports on the organization of RLE and its office of publications, and a summary of research activities in 1968 and 1969. Records received in 1990, boxes 2-6, 1946-1979, include meeting reports of the Joint Services Technical Advisory Committee from 1955 through 1973 and research reports for the same period. Administrative files of the director include annual reports, correspondence, research reviews, 20th anniversary of...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The papers of Steve J. Heims consists of notes and interviews that Heims, a physicist and historian of science, assembled while preparing two books. The collection includes correspondence and interview transcripts for the book John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death, a biography about the lives and works of these two mathematicians and about the direction of science in the post-World War II world. Transcripts for interviewees include:...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains course notes and other teaching materials from classes Allis taught in physics at MIT, including Historical Development of Physics (8.471), 1939-1940. Professional correspondence includes technical exchanges about research in plasma physics and gaseous electronics, as well as professional material about scheduling presentations, meetings, and conferences, 1929-1979. Also includes reprints of Allis's writings from 1924 to 1979 on subjects including wave theory,...