Science -- Study and teaching
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Physical Science Study Committee records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0626
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises records produced by the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC). Materials in the collection span the years from approximately 1956 to 1971, with the bulk of the records dating from the 1960s.
Materials include: educational transparencies, correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, reports, proposals, audio tapes, and film and lecture transcripts.
Materials include: educational transparencies, correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, reports, proposals, audio tapes, and film and lecture transcripts.
Dates:
circa 1956-1971
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