Science -- Study and teaching
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Jerrold R. Zacharias papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0031
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Notebooks from the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1942-1947), correspondence about the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and information about his research on atomic clocks and molecular beams document Zacharias's scientific work. There is extensive correspondence with colleagues and professional organizations about scientific and educational issues. Correspondence documents his work on the Physical Science Study Committee and there are reports,...
Dates:
1912 - 1986
Physical Science Study Committee records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0626
Abstract
The collection spans the years from approximately 1956 to 1971, with the bulk of the records dating from the 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1956-1971
Theatre of Grand Philosophical Recreations...Garnerin
Digital Record
Identifier: VBI_000140
Dates:
c. 1815
Victor Frederick Weisskopf papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0572
Abstract
The collection documents the professional life and career of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908-2002) from the 1920s through 2002. Educated in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, Weisskopf made contributions to the quantum theory of radiative transitions, the self-energy of electrons, the electrodynamic properties of the vacuum, and the theory of nuclear reactions. In 1943, several years after his move to the United States, Weisskopf was invited to join the Manhattan Project, where he served as...
Dates:
1922 - 2002