Harry Manley Goodwin papers
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection contains correspondence with MIT colleagues during the period Goodwin was a professor of physics; and correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and news releases from the period he was dean of graduate students and of the graduate school. Also contains a bound volume on mechanics written in German in 1892 by Goodwin based on lectures delivered in Leipzig by a German engineer named Mayer.
Dates
- 1888 - 1936
Creator
- Goodwin, H. M. (Harry Manley), 1870- (Person)
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Biography
Harry Manley Goodwin, 1870-1949, SB 1890, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Leipzig, was an assistant in physics at MIT, 1890-1892, instructor, 1892-1897, assistant professor of physics, 1897-1903, associate professor of physics and electrochemistry, 1903-1906, and professor, 1906-1940. In 1906 he established and headed the first undergraduate course in the United States leading to a degree in electrochemistry. He was director of the Research Laboratory of Electrochemistry, 1930-1933. Goodwin was secretary of MIT's Society of Arts, 1922-1940, and chair of the faculty, 1939-1940. He was the first dean of graduate students, 1926-1932, and dean of the newly established graduate school, from 1932 to 1940, when he retired as professor emeritus and honorary dean.
Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet (1 manuscript box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Harry Manley Goodwin was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1890 to 1940 in the Department of Physics. He also served in several administrative positions. The collection contains correspondence with MIT colleagues during the period Goodwin was a professor of physics; and correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and news releases from the period he was dean of graduate students and of the graduate school.
Location
Materials are stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use.
Bibliography
- Tenney L. Davis (MIT 1913) and H. M. Goodwin (MIT 1890). A History of the Departments of Chemistry and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1865-1933 (Cambridge, Mass.: The Technology Press, 1933)
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- Chandler, Charles Frederick, 1836-1925
- Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
- Goodwin, H. M. (Harry Manley), 1870-
- Hutchinson, W. Spencer (William Spencer), 1890-
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dean of Graduate Students
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate School. Office of the Dean
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Society of Arts
Creator
- Goodwin, H. M. (Harry Manley), 1870- (Person)
- Title
- Preliminary Inventory to the Papers of Harry Manley Goodwin
- Status
- Ready For Review
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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