CENTER FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS NEWSLETTER Vol.

XXXIX, Number 1 Spring 2007

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3843, Tel. 301-209-3165

Publication of the Collected Works

of Niels Bohr Completed
by Finn Aaserud

W ith the publication of the twelfth and final volume of the

Niels Bohr Collected Works, one of the very greatest
physicists of the twentieth century is brought before the public
in one of the premier works of scholarship in modern history
of science. Planning for the publication of the Collected Works
began soon after Bohr’s death in 1962. The driving force
behind the project was Bohr’s close collaborator, the Belgian
physicist and historian of science Léon Rosenfeld, who was the
first General Editor of the series. The first volume, covering
the early years up to 1911, was published in 1972 with Jens
Rud Nielsen (1894–1979) as editor. However, this was the
only volume that Rosenfeld would see, for he died in 1974.
The project, originally conceived as a ten-year effort, was not
completed until well into the next century.

After an interim period with Rud Nielsen doing the brunt of

the work, Erik Rüdinger was named General Editor in 1977.
Mary Calvert using the 12-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory, Rüdinger had served as Bohr’s scientific assistant for a brief
February 23, 1926. She was Edward E. Barnard’s niece, and after period near the end of Bohr’s life. In Volume 5 (published
his death, co-editor of his book A Photographic Atlas of Selected 1985), the first under Rüdinger’s control, Rüdinger laid out the
Regions of the Milky Way published in 1927 by the Carnegie general editorial policy and practice that have been followed
Institution of Washington. Yerkes Observatory photo, courtesy AIP since. At the centennial of Bohr’s birth in 1985 the Niels Bohr
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives Archive (NBA), which had existed in name for a number of
years already, was formally established as an independent
Niels Bohr Library & Archives: What’s In a institution under the Danish Ministry of Education. Rüdinger
[New] Name? continued as Director of NBA and General Editor of the
by Joe Anderson Collected Works. When he retired as Director in 1989 to take
up new challenges, three Volumes (7, 10 and 11) were still

W hile a rose may be a rose, a library isn’t an archive and being planned for future publication. The project has just been
vice versa. In January 2007 the Niels Bohr Library of the completed under Finn Aaserud. Aaserud spent four years as
American Institute of Physics (AIP) adopted an expanded name: postdoctoral Associate Historian at the AIP Center for History
Niels Bohr Library & Archives—which reflects the reality of our of Physics before moving to Copenhagen, where he succeeded
work today. Back in 1962 when the Library was founded, it was Rüdinger as Director of NBA and General Editor.
designed as a repository for books and journals in the history of
physics and allied fields. But in 1965 when the Library became Over the years, many prominent representatives of the several
part of the newly created AIP Center for History of Physics, it fields to which Bohr contributed have edited individual vol-
adopted an archival role that has expanded over time, albeit a umes in the series (see the full list, sidebar). Their work has
new kind of archival program that supports and encourages other been entirely voluntary and has more often than not been con-
repositories in their work to document the history of physics, ducted concurrently with full-time jobs.
astronomy, geophysics, etc. (The archives has extensive holdings,
primarily of the records of AIP and its Member Societies, along Whereas the first nine volumes are mainly devoted to Bohr’s
with some other papers and records for which a more appropriate science, the remaining volumes contain Bohr’s publications
home could not be found elswhere.) In mid 2006 the Niels Bohr outside physics. Volume 10 is devoted to his philosophy. The
Library was administratively separated from the Center for published documentation of Bohr’s other extra-scientific activi-
History of Physics as an independent division of the AIP, while ties proved so large that the volume originally conceived as the
sharing operations.
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 Fermilab, General Electric, Westinghouse, Gottingen, Co-
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives Makes Photos lumbia, Haigerloch (site of the 1944 German attempt to build
More Accessible a reactor), Berkeley, Brookhaven, Harvard College Observa-
by Heather Lindsay tory, Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory.

T he photographs in this newsletter from the Emilio Segrè This year the ESVA celebrates its 7th successful year working
Visual Archives (ESVA) are all newly available through with the UK based ‘Science Photo Library.’ Since summer of
our online searchable photo database at http://photos.aip.org/ 2000, at their request, we have been providing them with digital
With the software introduced at the beginning of 2006 now scans of photographs along with any information we have about
settled in, we have been able to focus on adding new images them. To date we have sent them over 200 photographs, mostly
online, and managed to catalog over 1900 new images last year. of Nobel Laureates. They then conduct further research on the
We have also been able to go beyond portraits by putting up the photos, clean up the digital scans if needed, and make them avail-
images of instruments and institutions that we have in our files. able through their website http://www.sciencephoto.com/. This
has proven to be a good way to make our photographs available
Some of the new keywords: spectroscope, telescope, observa- to a wider international audience, and also generates revenues
tory, calorimeter, cyclotron, accelerator, microscope, CERN, that can help in acquiring and cataloging new photos.

The Sokendai Oral History and Our project on KEK will be unprecedented in a couple of
ways. In its own right, KEK is one of the most important
Archives Project
laboratories in the world, comparable to CERN. But whereas
by Kenji Ito, Associate Professor, The Graduate University
a comprehensive history of CERN has been written by lead-
for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Kanagawa, Japan
ing scholars, much less has been done about KEK. Sokendai’s

A
project attempts to explore various aspects of this large labo-
n oral history and archives project on physics and other
ratory, conducting interviews not only with leading scientists
scientific fields is underway at the Graduate University
of the laboratory, but also with graduate students, technicians,
for Advanced Studies, known as Sokendai, after its Japanese
secretaries, spouses of scientists, and local residents in the
name, Sôgô Kenkyû Daigakuin Daigaku. Sokendai is a
neighborhood. By illuminating the laboratory’s relationship
unique Japanese university. The university itself is new and
with outsiders, we combine community oral history with stud-
not well-known, but it is composed of 16 leading national
ies of laboratories and institutional history.
research institutes (inter-university research institutes or
IURIs) in physics and other natural sciences, humanities, and
It is also notable that this project is in itself an attempt to
social sciences in various places in Japan. Some of them are
emulate a “big science” approach. We organize collabora-
not only top research institutes in the country, but among the
tive research projects and make long-term plans. Indeed, the
leading research centers in the world.
project aims to integrate not only those who work at Soken-
dai or its IURIs around the country, but also scholars from
The goal of Sokendai’s oral history and archives project
other universities and even from other countries. The US-
is to collect oral histories related to IURIs and to facilitate
based scholars Sharon Traweek (University of California,
development of archives at each institute. It also aims to serve
Los Angeles) and Mary Palevsky (University of Nevada, Las
as the research center for the history of the IURIs. Our project
Vegas), have conducted interviews for this project. We are
thus has two main activities. First, we coordinate catalogs of
actively seeking collaborators from overseas and invite visit-
the archives at IURIs. Several IURIs have developed or intend
ing scholars.
to develop their own archives separately. We are trying to set
a standard for online catalogs of the archives following the
The Sokendai Oral History and Archives project is hosted at
EAD (Extended Archival Description) standard, and establish
and funded by the Hayama Center for Advanced Studies in
a common platform to allow searching over all Sokendai’s
Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, where Sokendai has its
IURIs. Second, we conduct oral history interviews at these
headquarters. The core team of the project consists of two
national institutes. The main theme of these interviews is
faculty members, some postdocs, and a few graduate students.
studying the process by which an IURI was established in
In addition, we have many collaborators at Sokendai’s IURIs
various disciplines. We are presently concentrating on a few
and other academic institutions. Historian of physics Kenji Ito
of the institutes and conducting extensive interviews for an
took charge of this project in April 2007. His email address
in-depth case study. Currently we have two main foci. One
is [email protected]. Currently the project has a website
is KEK (National Laboratory for High-Energy Physics) in
only in Japanese, at http://hayama.soken.ac.jp/archive .
Tsukuba, and the other is the Subaru Telescope of Japan’s
National Observatory in Hawaii.

History of science... protects scientists from the sins of dogma—the arrogant belief that science is infallible, unchallenged
and final.... It encourages young scientists not to worship what is already known but to question it.
—Pangratios Papacosta

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(Collected Works of Niels Bohr, continued from page 1)
The Niels Bohr Collected Works. The first three Volumes
last had to be divided into two separate ones. Volume 11 covers
are published under the name of Léon Rosenfeld (1904–
Bohr’s political interests and activities, notably his mission, in
1974) as General Editor, Volumes 5 through 9 are published
the wake of the atomic bomb, for what he called an “open world”
under the general editorship of Erik Rüdinger (Volume 7
between nations. Volume 12 is devoted to Bohr’s efforts as a
jointly with Finn Aaserud), and Finn Aaserud is General
popularizer of physics and, in particular, his published tributes to
Editor of Volumes 10 through 12. The Volumes are pub-
a variety of predecessors, teachers, colleagues, friends and fam-
lished by North-Holland/Elsevier.
ily. Volumes 11 and 12 are particularly successful at bringing
forth Niels Bohr as a person and in shedding light on aspects of
Vol. 1, Early Work (1905–1911), ed. J. Rud Nielsen, 1972.
Bohr’s activities that have so far remained undocumented in the
English language.
Vol. 2, Work on Atomic Physics (1912–1917), ed. Ulrich
Hoyer, 1981.
The Collected Works claim completeness only with regard to
Bohr’s publications. Manuscripts and letters are included selec-
Vol. 3, The Correspondence Principle (1918–1923), ed. J.
tively to illustrate particular points. The main language is English;
Rud Nielsen, 1976.
any contribution previously available only in another language,
typically Danish, appears in the original (often as facsimile) fol-
Vol. 4, The Periodic System (1920–1923), ed. J. Rud
lowed by a translation. Each of the various sections begins with
Nielsen, 1977.
an introduction, sometimes quite extensive, written by the editor
of the volume in question. The volumes are illustrated with rare
Vol. 5, The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics (mainly
photos, and Bohr’s contributions, especially those directed exclu-
1924–1926), ed. Klaus Stolzenburg, 1984.
sively to a Danish audience, are annotated for an international
readership. Each volume includes an index. In addition, Volume
Vol. 6, Foundations of Quantum Physics I (1926–1932),
12 contains a chronological list of Bohr’s publications, with refer-
ed. Jørgen Kalckar, 1985.
ence to where they can be found in the Collected Works.
Vol. 7, Foundations of Quantum Physics II (1933–1958),
At present, several of the volumes are out of print. Elsevier,
ed. Jørgen Kalckar, 1996.
the publisher, has promised to reprint the missing volumes by
2008 and to make the full set available at a favorable price. For
Vol. 8, The Penetration of Charged Particles through Mat-
further information contact Finn Aaserud, Niels Bohr Archive,
ter (1912–1954), ed. Jens Thorsen, 1987.
Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; phone: +45
353 25220, email: [email protected]. The Archive’s homepage
Vol. 9, Nuclear Physics (1929–1952), ed. Rudolf Peierls,
is www.nba.nbi.dk
1986.

Preserving the History and Heritage of Vol. 10, Complementarity beyond Physics (1928–1962),
Agilent Technologies, Part II ed. David Favrholdt, 1999.
by Karen Lewis (For Part I see Fall 2006 Newsletter, p.3)
Vol. 11, The Political Arena (1934–1961), ed. Finn Aas-

W hy a History Center? Many companies use their his-

tories as a marketing tool, but visitors to the Agilent
Technology’s History Center learn about much more than cur-
erud, 2005.

Vol. 12, Popularization and People (1911–1962), ed. Finn

rent business prospects. At the History Center, visitors are Aaserud, 2006.
introduced to Silicon Valley’s formative influences—a com-
pany with a nearly seventy-year tradition of science and tech-
nology invention and model business practices. In 1999, when the test and measurement portions of Hewlett-
Packard were spun off to become Agilent technologies, the
On November 18, 1999, Agilent Technologies set a record for collection was divided along product lines. The HP company
Silicon Valley with the largest stock ‘Initial Public Offering’ up archives founder, Karen Lewis, went to Agilent with the test
to that time (at $2.1 billon). However, the actual story of Agilent and measurement portion of the collection. In 2005 ownership
began in 1939 with two people, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, of the collection was transferred to the Agilent Technologies
working in a now legendary garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Foundation. It is in this context that the Foundation’s executive
Palo Alto, CA. Although attempts were made as early as 1970 director, Karen Lewis, developed the History Center, which
to preserve Hewlett-Packard Company’s historical material, a puts a public face on the company’s contribution to local, state
professionally administered archival program did not officially national and international history.
begin until 1987 as a 50th anniversary project. During that year it
became a permanent program within Corporate Public Relations When the Agilent Archives was transferred to the Agilent Tech-
Services, charged with identifying, collecting, preserving, and nologies Foundation the collection was appraised. According
providing access to materials that document the company’s to the appraiser, author and history of science specialist Jeremy
history, philosophy, policies and products. Norman, “The Agilent Company Archives contains primary

History Newsletter Spring 2007 ● 

 ent and comprehensive understanding of its origins and current
contexts. Nanotechnology can be seen less as a revolutionary
break with the past than as part of the effort, familiar to histori-
ans, to develop technological solutions to social and economic
problems. Developing this interpretation will demand an under-
standing of nano’s history at multiple levels of analysis–research
fields, instrumentation, individual contributions, national and
state policy, and as an example of a technologically-based social
movement with competing utopian and dystopian viewpoints.

To help address such issues, in October 2005 the National

Science Foundation allocated $33 million to “inform the pub-
lic and explore the implications of nanotechnology.” About
a third of this funding went to establish two national Centers
A famous shot of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in their garage in for Nanotechnology in Society: one at Arizona State University
Palo Alto, 1939. The instrument is a “200 series” audio oscillator, and the other, which I co-direct, at the University of California,
Hewlett Packard’s first product. They picked the number because Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB).
they thought it sounded good. Courtesy Agilent History Center
One of the main research initiatives at the CNS-UCSB is
source materials of the highest possible historical value of the exploring the historical context of what may best be called the
type most sought after and used by historians of twentieth cen- “nano-enterprise.” Our working group is composed of myself,
tury applied science, technology and business. [It is] one of the Timothy Lenoir and Eric Gianella at Duke University, Cyrus
most historically significant company archives.” Mody at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and Mary Ingram-
Waters, who is one of several graduate research fellows funded
Core elements of the collection include: Printed materials such by the CNS-UCSB. Together, we are looking into key aspects
as annual reports, product catalogs, and company publications, of nanotechnology’s history including the evolution of state and
such as the first weekly employee newsletter, dating back to federal policies, the role of grant officers in shaping research
1943, which documents the culture of the World War II years in a programs, and the importance of novel research areas such as
West Coast, applied technology company. Visual Collections that spintronics and molecular electronics.
illustrate products and process, plants, activities and events and
employees from 1939 to the present. The Oral History Collec- Our research takes advantage of diverse methodologies and
tion which contains over one hundred interviews with former ex- sources. These include collecting oral histories (thanks, in part,
ecutives, scientists, engineers, salespeople and office and factory to funding from the AIP Center for History of Physics) and
workers. The Archival Material forms the largest element of the deploying sophisticated data mapping and visualization tools
collection, and includes the records of top-level planners, deci- developed by Lenoir. More traditional resources are also brought
sion makers and scientists. This material is regularly transferred to bear, including scientific publications, conference reports
to the History Center’s Archives for permanent preservation. and so forth. However, already I can note one unfortunate and
disturbing trend—nanoscience, like almost all 21st-century
The History Center provides research services and interpretive techno-scientific endeavors, relies on communications that
tours for the general public. Within the context of the growth are ephemeral in nature (web-published reports, e-mail, etc.).
and development of California’s dynamic Silicon Valley, the The relative paucity of correspondence and other essential
collections and the guided tours provide an explanation of the documentation presents a serious challenge to all scholars and
development and evolution of applied technology in the 20th archivists attempting to understand this area of scientific research
and 21st centuries, the history of globalization of the technol- and one can only imagine the problem worsening with time.
ogy business and the roots and practices of a renowned busi-
ness culture, emulated the world over. Nanotechnology’s history already has a “standard model” which
is often used to frame general articles. This begins with Richard
For further information please feel free to contact Devon Daw- Feynman’s famous 1959 after-dinner speech to members of the
son at 408-553-7571, email: [email protected] American Physical Society (“Plenty of Room at the Bottom”).
The standard model continues with G.K. Binnig and H. Rohrer’s
development of the scanning tunneling microscope, for which
Exploring Nanotechnology’s Hidden History they received the 1986 Nobel prize, Richard Smalley’s 1996
By W. Patrick McCray Nobel prize for helping discover buckyballs, and—ta-da!—the
passage of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000.

H istorians have paid scant attention to nanotechnology and

nanoscience research, despite the fact that in the United
States alone, government and corporate sources have invested
While this story provides a tidy historical trajectory replete
with famous scientists and top-shelf prizes, there are other,
well over $10 billion in it since 2001. The lack of rigorous his- untold or less examined histories of nanotechnology. Already
torical analysis is unfortunate, for anticipating future societal scholars have begun to debunk the familiar narrative by point-
and ethical implications of nanotechnology will rest on a coher- ing out that Feynman’s speech had little effect in galvanizing

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nanoscience research. Another example of a key but neglected
item in nano’s history is the development of molecular beam
epitaxy. Perfected by scientists like John Arthur and Al Cho
at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s, this technique allows for
the precise fabrication of new materials and nano-structures.
Although MBE is now four decades old and is an established
part of the solid-state physicist’s toolkit, it doesn’t typically
appear in the standard model of nano history.

Another facet of the history that scholars at the CNS-UCSB are

looking into is the role of public imagination in fostering policies
for nano research. As Howard McCurdy showed in his excellent
1997 book Space and the American Imagination, public visions
of future technologies play an important role in establishing sup-
port or opposition for policy. In the nano realm, futurist groups The physicist Clinton J. Davisson, the first Bell Labs researcher
took to cultivating an environment of technological optimism, to win a Nobel Prize, in his laboratory, ca. 1930s.
within which political and social acceptance of new (and some- Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center
times “fringe”) technologies like nano could flourish. Just as
interesting is the fact that some futurist groups initially devoted photographs; 50,000 films and videos; and 20,000 artifacts
to promoting the space frontier in the 1970s shifted to pro-tech- documenting AT&T’s storied past, as well as the complicated
nology activism, including nano, in the 1980s. history of American telecommunications.

Nanotechnology’s advocates have pointed out how the subject In 1984, the Bell System, owned by the former American Tele-
brings together scientists from disparate disciplines to work on phone and Telegraph Co. (a.k.a. “Ma Bell,” which became AT&T
common research topics. In the same fashion, the historical Corp. in 1994), was split up in the largest corporate reorganiza-
context of nanotechnology offers tremendous research pros- tion in U.S. history. Out of the divestiture was born Southwest-
pects for historians along with opportunities to collaborate with ern Bell Corp. (renamed SBC Communications Inc. in 1995) and
scholars from fields like sociology, economics and anthropol- six other “Baby Bells” who each inherited local Bell operating
ogy. In view of the continued enthusiasm, media coverage, companies that were over 100 years old. Soon after the signing
and funding that nanotechnology attracts, historians of science of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, SBC Communications
and technology have an opportunity, perhaps even a responsi- Inc. began acquiring some of its siblings: Pacific Telesis Group
bility, to challenge the “standard model” and establish a more (1997), Southern New England Telecommunications Corp.
nuanced understanding of nanotechnology history, how it con- (1998) and Ameritech Corp. (1999). In a strategic alliance, SBC
nects to other bodies of scholarship, and how it may inform the and BellSouth Corp. pooled their wireless properties, forming
public and policy makers. Cingular Wireless, LLC (2000). Upon the acquisition of its ear-
lier parent AT&T Corp. (2005), SBC renamed itself AT&T Inc.
For further information contact Patrick McCray, The “new” AT&T soon purchased BellSouth (2006) to become
[email protected] the largest telecom company in the world.

The San Antonio collections are centered on records of the regional

holding companies—SBC Communications Inc., Pacific Telesis
The AT&T Archives and History Center Group, Southern New England Telecommunications Corp.,
Documents the Complex History of Ameritech Corp., and BellSouth Corp.—and their predecessors
and subsidiaries, which trace the evolution of local landline and
Telecommunication Corporations wireless phone service in 22 states (1878-present).
By William D. Caughlin, Corporate Archivist, AT&T Inc.
The Warren holdings comprise records of AT&T Corp. and its

S cholars interested in 130 years of scientific and techno-

logical innovations, pioneered by AT&T will find the
company’s archival collections a matchless source for their
predecessors including the original Bell Telephone Company,
as well as former subsidiaries Western Electric Company, Inc.
and Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. These materials main-
research. Historians will also find the collections indispens- ly illustrate technological innovations, such as long-distance
able for understanding the bewildering number of mergers, voice and data services, and their impact on American society
acquisitions and divestitures that have shaped the telecom in- (1869-present). The “old” AT&T Archives assumed its current
dustry since 1876. The AT&T Archives and History Center, form twenty years ago with the consolidation of three distinct
with locations in San Antonio, TX (AT&T world headquar- collections: the AT&T Corporate Collection, formerly housed
ters) and Warren, NJ (30 miles from New York City), is reput- at AT&T’s old headquarters in lower Manhattan; the Western
edly the largest corporate archives in the United States and a Electric Collection, from AT&T’s previous manufacturing sub-
genuine national treasure. While in separate settings, the two sidiary; and the Bell Telephone Laboratories Collection, the
repositories are unified operationally. The combined collec- one most apt to attract historians of physics. The latter docu-
tions contain over 40,000 cubic feet of documents; 1,500,000 ments the history of research and development at AT&T, with

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 greatly expanded funding of traditional means of observation,
and still more to the advent of satellite observations—starting
with the Soviet Sputnik, launched under the IGY banner in
1957. For some geophysical topics it is still useful to mount a
specially intensive effort over a limited period, and this year a
new International Polar Year (IPY) has gotten underway in the
arctic regions, while an International Heliospheric Year (IHY)
has begun to probe the solar-terrestrial relationship.

In recent years several historians have described how the

initial IGY funding was motivated in good part by Cold War
“national security” considerations. Governments not only
wanted scientific data, but competed for prestige and for
information on remote regions where they might someday do
battle. The current IPY and IHY are motivated by concerns
A Bell Labs scientist studies a helium-neon laser to determine for “security” in a much larger sense, with special attention to
the relationship of power output to the length of the cavity, ca. the threat of climate change and in particular global warming
1963-1964. Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. This focus is
peculiarly appropriate for 50th Anniversary projects, for it was
IGY funding that launched C.D. Keeling’s classic research on
considerable material pre-dating the 1925 creation of Bell Labs
the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. With two years
itself. This collection remained at AT&T even after the 1996
of measurements in the pristine air of Antarctica, where the
spin-off of Lucent Technologies.
US Navy had established a base for IGY research, Keeling
demonstrated in 1960 that the level was ominously rising. (The
Although the AT&T Archives and History Center exists to serve
full story may be found on the AIP History Center’s Website at
company activities and is not open to the general public, the
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/Kfunds.htm.)
Archives invites serious scholars to make use of the collections.
Material is generally available for scholarly research thirty years
Historians and geophysicists have been laying plans to com-
after its creation. We are delighted to supply digital copies of
memorate the IGY with meeting sessions and other activities.
photographs or other select non-proprietary documents at no
An “IGY Gold” History initiative aims to identify and recog-
cost. Research visits, however, are the best means to access the
nize participants in the first IGY and preserve memoirs, arti-
collections, and must be scheduled in advance. Onsite databases
cles, photographs, and other items of historical significance for
are available to researchers for identifying archival materials.
the IGY. Some oral history interviews will be conducted, for
For more information, please contact William Caughlin,
example, when people gather for meetings.
Corporate Archivist, AT&T Archives and History Center, 4949
Von Scheele, San Antonio, TX 78229; phone 210-697-1763;
The American Geophysical Union’s History of Geophysics
e-mail [email protected]; or George Kupczak, Area
Committee organized an “all union” session at the AGU’s
Manager of Archival Collections, AT&T Archives and History
December 2006 meeting, “IGY +50: History, Significance, Con-
Center, 5 Reinman Road, Warren, NJ 07059; phone 908-226-
text.” The history committee plans to organize further sessions
2319; e-mail [email protected]. And for additional
for the December 2007 meeting, and hopes to screen several of
information on the holdings at the Warren facility, please see
the original television films on the IGY that WGBH produced
“History of Physics Resources at the AT&T Archives” in the
in the early 1960s. A main “IGY+50” celebration will be held
Spring 1998 issue of this Newsletter, online at http://www.aip.
July 2-4, 2007 in conjunction with the “General Assembly of
org/history/newsletter/spr98/att-arc.htm.
the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics” (IUGG)
in Perugia, Italy. Some two dozen historians and IGY veterans
will present talks and posters. The 50th Anniversary of the
50th Anniversary of International Geophysical Space Age, commemorating the launching of Sputnik, will be
Year Commemorated with Meetings and the subject of a conference sponsored by the NASA history
division and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and
New Research
Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on October 22-23, 2007

T
in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary meeting of the
his year geophysicists are celebrating the 50th Anniver-
Society for the History of Technology. Also in Washington, on
sary of the premier historical landmark of their field, the
October 31-November 1, 2007 an international meeting of
International Geophysical Year. The IGY, actually 18 months
scholars, “Making Science Global: Reconsidering the Social
in 1957-1958, built on a tradition of International Polar Years
and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and
that were held in 1882-1883 and 1932-1933, but was far more
Geophysical Years” to be held at the Smithsonian Institution.
comprehensive. An armada of ships, airplanes and land expe-
ditions took an unprecedented “snapshot” of the planet’s con-
Anyone aware of other IGY commemorative activities is invited
dition. This unique global project is not being repeated today,
to let us know, and we will post the information on the Web
for global monitoring has become routine. That is due partly to
version of this article.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory Records
Management Program Preserves
Historical Materials
by Corene Wood

I n 2007, Brookhaven National Laboratory is celebrating 60

years of discovery. Since its inception in 1947, the Lab has
been home to six Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and countless
other advances. One of ten national laboratories overseen
and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory
conducts research in the physical, biomedical and environmental
sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security.
Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities
available to university, industry and government researchers.

Brookhaven National Laboratory maintains a Records Man-

agement Program to ensure that the Laboratory’s records are
preserved, protected, and maintained, following rules laid out
in the records schedules of the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) and DOE. The Records Management
Office, located in the Laboratory’s Information Services Divi-
sion, leads and coordinates the effort, and each BNL organiza-
tional unit designates one or more Records Representative(s).
The Records Representatives are the first point of contact for
staff on records matters.

The major elements of Brookhaven’s Records Management

Program include the institutional File Plan, the BNL Records
Inventory, and a Vital Records Program. At the present time,
the Laboratory manages its records at the records series level,
using a commercial software system (Documentum’s Records
Manager). The Laboratory is presently evaluating software
T.D. Lee used a doodle pad during talks with C.N. Yang, while
systems that will enable us to manage our electronic records at both were visiting scientists at Brookhaven in the summer of
the document level in the future. 1956. These discussions led to questioning the conservation of
parity in weak interactions and resulted in their being awarded
The Laboratory’s records are preserved and protected until the Nobel Prize in 1957. Courtesy Brookhaven National
they reach the end of their assigned retention period. Records Laboratory
with a long retention period and permanent records, includ-
ing those that are of historical significance, are transferred to a on a specified schedule to ensure that, if needed, our vital records
federal records center, which is managed by NARA. Records will be accessible, up to date, and ready for use.
are reviewed at the end of their retention period to determine
whether they are eligible for destruction. As the Laboratory celebrates its 60th Anniversary, the Records
Management Program is focusing its efforts on the preserva-
Until recently, the Records Management Office maintained an tion of archival information. This includes documentary infor-
onsite Records Holding Area, which was used to store inactive mation which falls outside the definition of a record, but which
records. In 2006, the Laboratory contracted with Iron Moun- is of historical interest. Some examples include the personal
tain for records storage and the Records Management Office papers of renowned researchers, including those of some Nobel
dispositioned approximately 6,000 cu. ft. of records for transfer Prize winners. The Records Management team at Brookhaven
to Iron Mountain or the Federal Records Center. has developed a preliminary inventory of archival material and
space has been allocated for an archive, where these papers
The Laboratory also contracts with Iron Mountain for the storage may be preserved, displayed, and made available for use by
of its vital records. Through the “Vital Records Program,” the scholars. Next steps are to collect the material and have it eval-
laboratory has identified those records that would be needed to uated by an archivist.
resume or continue critical operations in the event of an emer-
gency, such as a fire or a natural disaster. To prepare for the pos- For information, contact Corene Wood, Sr. Staff Specialist,
sibility of such an event, the laboratory stores duplicate copies of P.O. Box 5000, Building 477, Upton, NY 11973; wood@bnl.
its vital records at an offsite location. These records are updated gov, or visit the laboratory’s Website at www.bnl.gov.

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 AIP Adopts Policy on Preserving Journal Referee Files
by Joe Anderson

W e’re pleased to announce that the American Institute of

Physics has adopted a policy (see below) on preserving
referee files for the journals that it publishes and making them
report that led to the rejection of Einstein’s original submission.
Robertson’s papers are available at the CalTech Archives.

available to researchers 50 years from their date of creation. In addition to tracing individual controversies like this one,
The policy also recommends that the AIP Member Societies Harry Marks, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins,
follow the same procedures for journals that they publish on notes that “ referee reports are an invaluable source of informa-
their own. tion about experimental practices and social networks. . . .” He
adds that “I cannot think of any comparable source as rich in
In September 2005, Daniel Kinnefink published “Einstein information about tacit knowledge, the role of evidence and
Versus the Physical Review” in Physics Today (online at judgment, etc. . . .”
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_58/iss_
9/43_1.shtml). The article, an impressive piece of scholarship, The 50-year restriction is based on existing policies of the Nobel
illustrates the rich information that referee records can provide, Foundation, the Royal Society, and a number of journals in other
in this case regarding a disagreement between Physical Review fields. The policy was drafted by the staff of AIP’s Center for His-
editor John Tate and Einstein over a manuscript that the lat- tory of Physics and was revised and approved by the Institute’s
ter submitted in 1936. Because individual Physical Review History Advisory Committee, Governing Board, and Publishing
referee reports for the 1930s no long exist, Kinnefink had to Policy Committee. AIP publishes approximately one-third of the
piece together incomplete, albeit persuasive, evidence from the world’s journal literature in physics each year, and when imple-
journal’s log books (thanks to editor Martin Blume the origi- mented, this new policy will ensure a very valuable resource for
nals are now in the Niels Bohr Library & Archives) and from researchers in the future. We hope that it may offer a model to
the papers of Howard Percy Robertson, who wrote the referee other publishers as well.

AIP Policy on Preservation of Journal Referee Files (2) Review files should be access-restricted for a pe-
riod of 50 years from the date of creation. A restric-
The American Institute of Physics recognizes that review tion of this length provides for the privacy of review-
files of leading journals represent an important resource ers during their active careers, and it makes the files
for historians and other scholars. They provide unique in- available to the scholarly community within a reason-
sights into the state of science at the time they were writ- able amount of time. It also reflects general archival
ten, and they often illustrate contemporary issues and con- practice. For AIP journals, the current Editor and AIP
troversies. The reviews for rejected manuscripts can be Executive Director, acting jointly, may provide access
of special value. Accordingly, AIP adopts the following to qualified researchers before the 50-year time period
policy for its own journals and further recommends the expires, at their discretion. Similarly, the current Edi-
policy for AIP Member Society journals. tor and appropriate Member Society official, acting
jointly, may provide earlier access to Member Society
(1) Journal publishers are responsible for preserving journal records stored in AIP’s archives. In any case,
the historically valuable records of their journals permission must be sought where feasible from rel-
when feasible and should arrange to place their peer- evant parties (referees, editors, authors) if still living.
review files at an appropriate archive (e.g., their home Data analysis without individual identification would
institution archives, the Library of Congress). The be permitted, subject to all basic policy requirements,
AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives is one appropriate before the expiration of the 50 year restriction.
repository for the records of AIP and AIP Member
Society journals, but shortages of space and funds (3) If resources permit, AIP further recommends that
make it impossible for AIP to save any but the most paper review files be digitized and/or microfilmed on
historically valuable files of leading journals. Library an annual or other schedule to eliminate the need for
and History Center staff will help journal editorial permanently storing voluminous paper records. Ma-
boards find other appropriate repositories for files that terials already in digital format should be retained
AIP cannot accept, or if they prefer another repository. permanently by the appropriate repository if feasible.
The Center and Library will also provide help and The AIP Center for History of Physics can provide
advice in placing records of Member Society journals advice on archival microfilming standards and on pre-
that are not published by AIP, but they do not have serving digital files.
the resources to house these records in the Niels Bohr
Library & Archives. March 2007

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New Web Exhibit Explores the Recent Publications of Interest
History of Cosmology Compiled by Babak Ashrafi

A new AIP History Center website tells with unprecedented

depth, accuracy and excitement how scientists have
explored the structure of the universe. “Cosmic Journey: A
Kevin L. Cook writes about sending a balloon into the stratosphere
in “Space Shot: 1935” in the Fall 2006 issue of American Heri-
tage of Invention and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2006.
History of Scientific Cosmology” (http://www.aip.org/history/
cosmology/) is the newest of a dozen exhibits in the Center’s The American Journal of Physics has “Einstein and the existence
“Exhibit Hall.” “Cosmic Journey” is the largest of these of atoms” by Jeremy Bernstein in the October 2006 Vol. 74, No. 10
exhibits, with more than 35,000 words and 380 illustrations. issue; “Revisiting the 1888 hertz experiment” by Daniele Faccio,
Matteo Clerici and Davide Tambuchi as well as “The story of c” by
The exhibit exploits the potential of web hypertext by mirroring Kenneth S. Mendelson in Vol. 74, No. 11.
the structure of science itself. The pages are arranged in two
parallel columns, “Ideas of Cosmology” and “Tools of Cos- Volume 63, No. 4, 2006 of Annals of Science has several
mology.” Readers could choose “Ideas” first, going down the interesting articles including “British Acoustics and its Trans-
sequence of those pages, from formation from the 1860s to the
the musings of Plato to current 1910s” by Ja Hyon Ku; “Edward
theories of the Big Bang. Or Milne’s influence on modern cos-
they could follow the “Tools” mology” by Thomas Lepeltier;
sequence from primitive navi- and “Thermodynamic deduction
gational instruments to extraor- versus quantum revolution: the
dinary astronomical satellites. failure of Richardson’s theory
Whereas some readers like to of the photoelectric effect” by
follow such a linear sequence, Shaul Katzir.
others prefer to explore along
spontaneous paths, and these Elizabeth Neswald writes about
readers can follow links back “Science, sociability and the im-
and forth to discover, for exam- provement of Ireland: the galway
ple, how advances in telescope mechanics’ institute, 1826-51,”
engineering led to better theo- and Nestor Nerran writes about
ries and how advances in theory “Spreading nucleonics: the iso-
spurred the development of new tope school at the atomic energy
instruments. Readers can also research establishment, 1951-67”
step aside for vignettes on top- in The British Journal for the
ics like “Women in Astronomy,” History of Science, Vol. 39, 2006.
The main page for the online exhibit on Cosmology:
“How Old is the Universe?” or (http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/cosmology)
In Volume 40, Suman Seth chal-
“Computer Models.” lenges conventional views with
“Crisis and the construction of
The exhibit has many brief biographical side-pages on the modern theoretical physics,” while Matthew Stanley offers “So
tenacious, proud and often surprising scientists themselves. simple a thing as a star: the eddington-jeans debate over astrophysi-
The topics are illustrated with old drawings, modern photo- cal phenomenology”
graphs and explanatory diagrams and animations. There is even
a sound clip from a concerto composed by the great astronomer Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang talked to The CERN Courier
William Herschel, who began his career as a court musician. about some of his early work, his impressions of the Large Hadron
The “Ideas” section was written by Norris Hetherington and Collider and his thoughts about the future of physics in the Jan/Feb
the “Tools” section by Patrick McCray, each a leading historian 2007 issue.
in his subject. Other experts generously reviewed the exhibit
for accuracy. The editing and layout were supervised by Center “Majorana: from atomic and molecular, to nuclear physics” by R.
Director Spencer Weart, who has produced all the other his- Pucci1 and G. G. N. Angilella appears in Foundations of Physics,
tory of science exhibits on the AIP Center’s web “Exhibit Hall” Vol. 36, No. 10, 2006.
(http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html). This Website draws
more than a million visitors a month, ranging from school chil- Historia Scientiarum, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2006, is a special issue on
dren to retirees, from almost every country in the world. A text- “Science and Technology during the Second World War and the
only version of “Cosmic Journey” will be prepared for the sight- Cold War: A Perspective for a Cooperative Study” and includes
impaired. Because of the popularity and value of this Website, “A perspective on the historical study of science and technology
any item on it gets a good ranking in search algorithms; already during the second world war and the cold war in japan” by Hiroshi
a query on the terms “history cosmology” will find the new Ichikawa; “The Kaiser Wilhelm society during the second world
exhibit on the first page of leading search engines. war” by Helmut Maier; “Science sobilization in the Soviet Union”

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by Eduard I. Kolchinsky; and “American scientists and cold war the boycott of the international centre for theoretical physics”
politics: current and future research directions” by Jessica Wang. by Alexis De Greiff; “Exporting MIT: science, technology,
and nation-building in India and Iran” by Stuart W. Leslie
Jaume Navarro examines “Imperial incursions in late-victorian and Robert Kargon;” ‘An effective instrument of peace’: sci-
cambridge: J. J. Thomson and the domains of the physical entific cooperation as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy,
sciences” in History of Science, Vol. 44, part 4, No. 146, 2006. 1938-1950” by Clark A. Miller; “Atoms for peace, scientific
internationalism, and scientific intelligence” by John Krige;
“The invisible businessman: nuclear physics, patenting prac- “Catalysts of change: scientists as transnational arms control
tices, and trading activities in the 1930s” by Simone Turchetti, in advocates in the 1980s” by Kai-Henrik Barth; “Hallowed
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Vol. lords of the sea: scientific authority and radioactive waste
37, No. 1, 2007, is about Fermi and his group in Fascist Italy. in the United States, Britain, and France” by Jacob Darwin
Hamblin; and “Meteorology as infrastructural globalism” by
Volume 97 of Isis, 2006 contains Thomas L. Hankins, “A ‘large Paul N. Edwards.
and graceful sinuosity’: John Herschel’s graphical method” as
well as W. Patrick McCray’s “Amateur scientists, the international Physics in Perspective has “Enrico Fermi’s discovery of
geophysical year, and the ambitions of Fred Whipple” and Mary neutron-induced artificial radioactivity: neutrons and neutron
Terrall’s “Mathematics in narratives of geodetic expeditions.” sources” by Francesco Guerra, Matteo Leone and Nadia
Robotti, as well as “Physics in Madrid: where science competed
Nicholas Kollerstrom writes about “John Herschel and the discov- with art” by José M. Sanchez-Ron in Vol. 8 No. 3, 2006.
ery of neptune,” Kevin Johnson offers “A glimpse at the astronomy Number 4 of that volume contains “Paul A.M. Dirac’s ‘the
heritage of the science museum , London,” Suzanne Débarbat and principles of quantum mechanics’ ” by Laurie M. Brown as well
Françoise Launay examine “The 1874 transit of venus observed in as “Physics in Glasgow: a heritage tour” by Sean F. Johnston.
Japan by the french, and associated relics,” and David W. Hughes Vol. 9, No. 1, 2007, includes “Guido Beck, Alexandre Proca,
describes “The introduction of absolute magnitude (1902-1922).” and the oporto theoretical physics seminar” by Augusto José
These appear in Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, dos Santos Fitas and António Augusto Passos Videira, and
Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006. “Philipp Frank, Richard von Mises, and the frank-mises” by
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Finally, Kimball A. Milton
“William Herschel and the prehistory of stellar spectroscopy” offers “In appreciation Julian Schwinger: from nuclear physics
by Michael Hoskin and David W. Dewhirst is in Vol. 37, part 4, and quantum electrodynamics to source theory and beyond.”
No. 129, 2007, of the Journal of the History of Astronomy.
“Frank Ross, his ross lens design, and the lick observatory 20-inch Kameshwar Wali describes “The man behind bose statistics”
astrograph” by Donald E. Osterbrock appears in Vol. 38, No. 130. in the October 2006 issue of Physics Today. The January 2007
issue includes a celebration of “The Bethe Ansatz after 75 years”
H. William Koch offers “Recollections on sixty years of NBS by Murray T. Batchelor and a history of “The early says of pre-
ionizing radiation programs for energetic x rays and electrons”
in Vol. 111, No. 6, 2006, of Journal of Research of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, and Ted Doiron offers
“20ºC: a short history of the standard reference temperature for
industrial dimensional measurements” in Vol. 112, No. 1, 2007.

Minerva has “Maintaining discipline in the Kaiser Wilhelm society

during the national socialist regime” by Richard H. Beyler in Vol.
44, No. 3, 2006, and “Science frustrated: the ‘Einstein institute’ in
Madrid” by Thomas F. Glick and José M. Sanchez Ron in No. 4.

“Rethinking the history of solar wind studies: Eddington’s analysis

of comet morehouse” by Ian T. Durham appears in Vol. 60, No.
3, 2006, of Notes and Records of the Royal Society. “Crom-
well varley FRS, electrical discharge and victorian spiritualism” by
Richard Noakes appears in Vol. 61, No. 1, 2007.

Osiris Vol. 21, 2006 is about “Global power knowledge: science

and technology in international affairs” and includes “Introduc-
tion: science, technology, and international affairs” by John Krige
and Kai-Henrik Barth; “Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid,
decolonization, and the cold war in the making of the IAEA” by
Gabrielle Hecht; “The ambivalence of nuclear histories” by Itty Otto Stern (left) and Irving Langmuir in discussion during
Abraham; “Prometheus unleashed: science as a diplomatic a conference at Como, Italy, circa 1927. AIP Emilio Segrè
weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration” by Ronald E. Visual Archives
Doel and Kristine C. Harper; “The politics of noncooperation:

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cision laser spectroscopy” by Richard G. Brewer, Aram Moora-
dian, Boris P. Stoicheff. The February 2007 issue has Theodore
A. Welton’s “Memories of Feynman” and Steve K. Lamoreaux’s
“Casimir forces: still surprising after 60 years.”

Carlo Cercignani examines “Ludwig Boltzmann: atomic genius”

in the September 2006 issue of Physics World. In the Decem-
ber 2006 issue, Francis Everitt examines “James Clerk Maxwell:
a force for physics.”

“Einstein and Oppenheimer: interactions and intersections” in the

context of Oppenheimer’s and Einstein’s relation to their Jewish
roots, their stance regarding nationalism, and their philosophical
commitments is Silvan S. Schweber’s contribution in Science in
Context, Vol. 19.

“The ‘house that Dick built’: Constructing the Team that Built the
Bomb” by Denise N. Rall in Social Studies of Science, Vol. 36,
No. 6, 2006, is based on Richard Feynman’s eyewitness account of
computing at Los Alamos.

Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 37, Well known art photographer Berenice Abbott photographed
No. 4, 2006, includes “Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: this Log Periodic Antenna (used for studies of refraction
Bell’s theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982)” by and scintillation of radio stars) at the Air Force Cambridge
Research Laboratories, Sagamore Hill Radio Observatory, MA.
Olival Freire, Jr.; “Symmetry and asymmetry in electrodynamics
She worked with Man Ray in Paris in the early 1920s before
from Rowland to Einstein” by Giora Hona and Bernard R. Gold- opening her own studio. She returned to the States in 1929 and
stein ; and “Cosmologies with varying speed of light: a historical in the late 1950s began to take photographs that illustrated the
perspective” by Helge S. Kragh. laws of physics. Photograph by Berenice Abbott, USAF Technial
Photo Branch, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Documentation Preserved, Spring 2007 California Institute of Technology. Institute Archives. 1201
Compiled by Jennifer S. Sullivan East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA
91125 USA.
All the information here is entered in our online Interna-
tional Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Al- Frank Estabrook Papers. Collection Dates: 1969-1991.
lied Sciences. PLEASE NOTE: This column is published Size: 2 linear feet. Contact the repository for information
in its full extended form, as in previous years, as part of about access.
our online newsletter. Please see the latest issue online at
Central Michigan University. Clarke Historical Library.
www.aip.org/history/newsletter.html
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859 USA.

Simon Fraser University. University Archives. Burnaby, Wayne Osborn Papers. Collection Dates: 1959-2006. Size:
British Columbia V5A 156 Canada. 6.5 cubic feet (11 boxes).

Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Science records. Dartmouth College. Rauner Special Collections Library.
Collection Dates: 1965-2000. Size: 8.26 metres. Some files Hanover, NH 03755 USA.
may contain personal or confidential information. Access to
these files may be restricted as required by law. Arctic Seminar records. Collection Dates: 1953-1962. Size:
1.5 linear feet.
Institut d’Estudis Catalans C. del Carme, 47. 08001
Barcelona, Spain. Dartmouth College Arctic Seminar papers. Collection
Dates: 1953-1962. Size: 1.5 linear feet.
Esteban Terradas papers. Collection Dates: circa 1901-
1950. Size: 11.5 linear feet. Gordon Harkness Gliddon papers. Collection Dates: 1941-
1959 (bulk 1947-1957). Size: .5 linear feet.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Architectural Archives. 2129
S. 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA. Foresta Institute of Ocean and Mountain Studies. 6185
Franktown Road, Washoe Valley, NV 89704 USA.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia architectural materials on
physics facilities. Collection Dates: 1892-1961. Size: 21 Foresta Institute for Ocean and Mountain Studies records.
items (5 drawings, 14 blueprints, and 2 manuscript letters). Collection Dates: circa 1991-2001. Size: 30 cubic feet.

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 A. Baird Hastings papers. Collection Dates:
circa 1927-1957. Size: 7 file drawers.

Harvard University. Historical Scientific

Instruments Collection. Science Center B-
06. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

William Bond & Son records. Collection

Dates: 1763-1921. Size: circa 4 cubic feet (1
box and 7 volumes).

Harvard University. Houghton Library.

Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

John F. W. Herschel papers. Collection

Dates: 1810-1917. Size: 3 linear feet.

William Herschel astronomical papers.

Collection Dates: 1796-1805. Size: 0.5 linear
Robert R. Wilson on the phone. Taken on the occasion of the first 200 GeV beam
passing through the Main Ring, making the National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL, feet.
re-named Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1974) the world’s highest-energy
particle acceleratory laboratory, March 1, 1972. Fermi National Accelerator Labora- William Herschel papers. Collection Dates:
tory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives 1780-1822. Size: 1 linear foot.

George Mason University. Special Collections & Archives. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1300
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 USA. Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA.

Harold J. Morowitz manuscripts. Collection Dates: circa Wister, Miercken, and Whiteside family papers. Collection
1956-1993. Size: 3 cubic feet; 4.5 linear feet. Dates: 1777-1890. Size: 620 items.

George Washington University. Department of Special Indiana University. Office of University Archives and
Collections. University Archives. 2130 H Street, NW, Records Management. Bryan Hall 201, 107 South Indiana
Washington, DC 20052 USA. Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.

George Washington University, Department of Physics Goethe Link Observatory Director’s records. Collection
records. Collection Dates: 1935-2000. Size: 33.25 linear feet. Dates: 1935-1941. Size: 0.8 cubic feet.
Contact archivist regarding access restrictions on collection.
Mason E. Hufford papers. Collection Dates: 1853-1952.
Hansen Planetarium. 110 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, Size: 2 cubic feet. Please see the photographs curator for
UT 84101 USA. access to the lantern slides and lithograph plates series.

Hansen planetarium records. Collection Dates: 1964- Daniel Kirkwood papers. Collection Dates: 1864-1895.
2006. Size: 135 cubic feet, and 20 flat files. The collection is Size: 0.4 cubic feet.
unprocessed.
Kenneth P. Williams papers. Collection Dates: 1772-1963.
Harvard University Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, Size: 5.4 cubic feet.
MA 02138 USA.
Iowa State University. Special Collections Department and
Edward Purcell papers. Collection Dates: circa 1938-1997. University Archives. 403 Parks Library, Ames, IA 50011-
Unprocessed, access may be restricted; contact repository. 2140 USA.

Norman Ramsey papers. Collection Dates: circa 1945-1990. Raymond M. Hughes papers. Collection Dates: 1923-1972.
Unprocessed, access may be restricted; contact repository. Size: 7.56 linear feet (6 document boxes).

Samuel Williams papers. Collection Dates: 1780-1791. Size: Louis Bevier Spinney papers. Collection Dates: 1891-1951.
6 volumes. Access may be restricted. Details at the repository. Size: 0.84 linear feet (2 document boxes).

Chauncey Wright papers. Collection Dates: 1852. Size: 1 Robert M. Stewart papers. Collection Dates: 1930-1988.
folder. Access may be restricted. Details at the repository. Size: 1.26 linear feet (3 document boxes).

Harvard University. Francis A. Countway Library of Wilbur Collins Thoburn papers. Collection Dates: 1945-
Medicine. Harvard Medical School. Rare Books Dept. 10 1992. Size: 0.42 linear feet (1 document boxes).
Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115 USA.
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Iowa State University. Parks Library. Archives of Women Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives
in Science and Engineering. 403 Parks Library, Ames, and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Room 14N-118,
Iowa 50011-2140 USA. Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.

Professional Women in ANS (American Nuclear Society) Joe Stearns Clark papers. Collection Dates: 1949. Size: 0.1
Committee records. Collection Dates: 1978-1994. Size: 0.5 cubic feet (1 folder).
linear feet (4 folders).
Leonard Parker Cohen student notes. Collection Dates:
Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections. Milton S. 1934. Size: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder).
Eisenhower Library. 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD
21218 USA. Charles Stark Draper oral history collection. Collection
Dates: 1976. Size: 0.3 cubic feet (6 cassettes). There are
Henry Augustus Rowland collection of reprints. Collection restrictions on access to portions of this collection. Researchers
Dates: 1793-1900. Size: 12.5 linear feet (10 boxes). may request permission to use restricted materials. Consult the
Institute Archivist for further information.
Cleveland Abbe papers. Collection Dates: 1851-1952. Size:
4.4 linear feet (9 document boxes and 3 flat boxes). Roy Kaplow papers. Collection Dates: 1963-1981. Size: 0.3
cubic feet (1 manuscript box).
Richard Threlkeld Cox papers. Collection Dates: 1958-
1972. Size: 0.5 linear feet. Richard C. Lord papers. Collection Dates: 1946-1981. Size:
32 cubic feet (32 records cartons).
Albert Lee Grauer notebooks. Collection Dates: 1904-1907.
Size: 5 volumes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of
Physics curriculum materials. Collection Dates: 1874-1917.
Charles Lane Poor papers. Collection Dates: 1898-1945. Size: 0.7 cubic feet (2 manuscript boxes).
Size: 4.6 linear feet (11 document boxes).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research
Harry Fielding Reid papers. Collection Dates: 1894-1944. Laboratory of Electronics records. Collection Dates:
Size: 3.35 linear feet (6 boxes). 1944-2000. Size: 8.2 cubic feet (3 records cartons, 14
manuscript boxes, and 3 half manuscript boxes). In
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. James Madison accordance with MIT policy, there are restrictions on access
Memorial Building. First Street and Independence to portions of this collection. Researchers may request
Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540 USA. permission to use restricted materials. Consult the Institute
Archives for further information. Retrieval requires advance
Wallace R. Brode papers. Collection Dates: 1901-1974.
notice.
Size: 8750 items; 25 containers plus 1 classified; 10 linear
feet. Classified, in part. Arthur Fleming Nesbit papers. Collection Dates: circa
1895. Size: 0.2 cubic feet (1 small manuscript box).
Alan Shapley papers. Collection Dates: circa 1950s. Size: 80
containers.

Nancy Roman with a model of the Orbiting Solar Oberservatory Adelaide Ames, Arlow Shapley’s assistant at Harvard College
(OSO), circa 1963. NASA photo, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Obserservatory from 1924-1932. She was co-author of the
Visual Archives, Roman Collection Shapely-Ames catalogue of bright galaxies. Newspapers report
she was “lost by drowning” in 1932. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual
Archives, Shapley Collection

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 Pennsylvania State University. Libraries.
Special Collections Division. University Park,
PA 16802 USA.

Pennsylvania State University. College of

Science records. Collection Dates: 1884-1971.
Size: 12.25 cubic feet.

Harold Kistler Schilling papers. Collection

Dates: 1934-1973. Size: 2.5 cubic feet.

State University of New York at Buffalo.

University Archives. 420 Capen Hall,
Amherst Campus, Buffalo, New York 14260
USA.

Gregory Breit personnel folder. Collection

Dates: 1968-1973. Size: 1.2 linear feet.
Permission required; consult archivist at the
L-R: J. A. Orange, Leonard D. Dempster, Irving Langmuir, George Hotaling, repository.
Willis Rodney Whitney, and William David Coolidge at General Electric Research
Laboratory, ca 1912. General Electric Research Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Moti Lal Rustgi papers. Collection Dates:
Segrè Visual Archives, Hecht Collection 1951-1992. Size: 40 boxes (18 linear feet).
The bulk of this collection is open for research;
John T. Norton papers. Collection Dates: 1936-1966. Size: contact the repository for details.
0.7 cubic feet (2 manuscript boxes). There are restrictions on
access to this collection. Researchers may request permission Western New York Nuclear Research Center history files.
to use restricted materials. Consult the Institute Archivist for Collection Dates: 1953-1970. Size: 5 boxes (4.5 linear feet).
further information.
Western New York Nuclear Research Center records.
David J. Rose papers. Collection Dates: 1949-1984. Size: Collection Dates: circa 1959-1998. Size: 10 manuscript boxes
22 cubic feet (22 records cartons). There are restrictions on plus 2 half boxes (5.5 linear feet total).
access to this collection. Researchers may request permission
to use restricted materials. Consult the Institute Archivist for Tufts University. Tisch Library. Archives and Special
further information. Collections. Medford, MA 02155 USA.

David S. Saxon papers. Collection Dates: 1969-1991. Size: Allan Cormack papers. Collection Dates: 1909-1997. Size:
5.3 cubic feet (5 records cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 2 audio 10.5 linear feet. Some records may be restricted. Please
tapes). In accordance with MIT policy, there are restrictions on contact the repository for details.
access to portions of this collection. Researchers may request
permission to use restricted materials. Consult the Institute University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library.
Archivist for further information. Berkeley, CA 94620-6000 USA.

B. E. Warren papers. Collection Dates: 1926-1978. Size: 0.5 Raymond Thayer Birge correspondence relating to
cubic feet (2 boxes). Oppenheimer hearings. Collection Dates: circa 1928-1954.
Size: 1 box.
Michigan State University. University Archives and
Historical Collections. East Lansing, MI 48824-1327 USA. Robert Bigham Brode papers. Collection Dates: circa
1930-1959. Size: 9 cartons. Unarranged collection;
Michigan State University. Department of Astronomy and unavailable for use. Inquiries regarding these materials
Astrophysics annual reports. Collection Dates: 1967-1969. should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public
Size: 3 folders. Services, The Bancroft Library.

Michigan State University. Department of Biophysics Geoffrey F. Chew papers. Collection Dates: circa 1921-
records. Collection Dates: 1962-1968. Size: 1 folder. 1991. Size: 2 cartons (2.5 linear feet). Collection stored off-
site; advance notice required for use.
Minnesota Historical Society. Division of Archives and
Manuscripts. 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102, Leland Cunningham papers. Collection Dates: circa 1916-
USA. 1970. Size: 44 cartons (55 linear feet). Unarranged collection;
consult the University Archivist regarding use. Collection
Arvid Reuterdahl papers. Collection Dates: undated, 1902- stored off-site; advance notice required for use.
1944. Size: 10 items.

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Gerson Goldhaber papers. Collection Dates: 1949-1991. Luis W. Alvarez bubble chamber logs. Collection Dates:
Size: 33 cartons, 2 boxes (42.05 linear feet). Collection stored 1956-1970. Size: 36 volumes (4 linear feet).
off-site; advance notice required for use.
Ruggero Boscovich scientific lectures given at the Collegio
A. Carl Helmholz papers. Collection Dates: circa 1945- RomaNo. Collection Dates: 1758-1759. Size: 1 volume.
1981. Size: 2 cartons (2.5 linear feet). Collection stored off-
site; advance notice required for use. Collection of biographical materials on Ernest O.
Lawrence. Collection Dates: 1960-1968. Size: 4.9 linear feet
Arthur F. Kip papers. Collection Dates: circa 1933-1978. (6 boxes).
Size: 9 cartons (11.25 linear feet). Collection stored off-site;
advance notice required for use. P. Gerald Kruger letters to Erika Wackenroder Kruger.
Collection Dates: 1939-1940. Size: 1 box (0.2 linear feet).
Margaret Kivelson oral history interview. Collection Dates:
1988-1992. Size: 2 volumes: (xv, 380, vii, 381-760 pages) : Sophia Levy McDonald miscellany. Collection Dates: 1942-
28 cm. 1945. Size: 1 portfolio (0.1 linear feet)

John H. Reynolds papers. Collection Dates: 1949-1998. Bernard Peters course notes for J. Robert Oppenheimer’s
Size: 11 cartons (13.75 linear feet). Collection stored off-site; Physics 221 (quantum mechanics). Collection Dates: 1939.
advance notice required for use. Size: 1 volume.

Cornelius A. Tobias oral history interviews and Wendell Prescott Roop correspondence. Collection Dates:
supplementary material. Collection Dates: 1979-2000. 1907-1928. Size: 1 box (0.2 linear feet).
Size: 1 box (0.4 linear feet) and 30 sound cassettes.
Bernard G. Saunders papers. Collection Dates: circa 1940-
Charles H. Townes papers. Collection Dates: circa 1970. Size: 1 carton (1.25 linear feet).
1950-1977. Size: 5 cartons (6.25 linear feet). Preliminary
arrangement; consult University Archivist regarding access. David Harold Sloan papers. Collection Dates: 1925-1983.
Collection stored off-site; advance notice required for use. Size: 1 box (0.4 linear feet).

William Chinowsky papers. Collection Dates: circa 1970- Robert H. Weitbrecht papers. Size: 10 cartons. Inquiries
1992. Size: 3 cartons (3.75 linear feet). Collection stored off- regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the
site; advance notice required for use. Head of the Manuscripts Division.

John Hundale Lawrence papers. Collection Dates: 1935- University of California, Los Angeles. University Research
1987. Size: 12.25 linear feet (9 cartons, 2 boxes, and 12 Library. Department of Special Collections. Los Angeles,
microfilm reels). CA 90024 USA.

John A. McCone papers. Collection Dates: 1904-1991. David S. Saxon oral history interview. Collection Date:
Size: 35 cartons, 8 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 8 volumes and 4 1994. Size: 3 volumes (1052 pages).
oversize folders.
Louis B. Slichter oral history interview. Collection Dates:
Charles L. Schwartz papers. Collection Dates: 1968- 1976, 1977 and 1978. Size: 185 pages.
1995. Size: 52 cartons, 2 oversize folders (65.1 linear
Yuan T. Lee papers. Collection Dates: circa 1964-1993. Size:
feet). Unarranged collection; unavailable for use. Inquiries
10 cartons, 1 box (12.9 linear feet). Portions of this collection
regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the
are restricted; permission of the University Archivist required
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
for access. Collection stored off-site; advance notice required
Samuel Silver papers. Collection Dates: bulk 1933-1976. for use.
Size: 17 cartons and 20 boxes.
Nobel laureate: an oral history interview with Willard F.
Course notes of lectures by George Louis Le Sage. Libby. Collection Dates: 1978. Size: Sound recording: 5.5
Collection Dates: 19th century. Size: 3 folders in 1 portfolio hours. Transcript: ix, 171 pages : port. ; 28 cm. Audiotapes
(378 pages). are accessible by special arrangement only. Contact the
repository for details.

By unrolling before [the physics student] the continuous tradition through which the science of each epoch is nourished by
the systems of past centuries, through which it is pregnant with the physics of the future; by mentioning to him the predic-
tions that theory has formulated and experiment realized; ... [history] fortifies in him the conviction that physical theory is
not merely an artificial system, suitable today and useless tomorrow, but that it is... an increasingly more clear reflection of
realities.
--Pierre Duhem

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University of Kansas. Libraries. Kenneth Spencer William D. Morgan papers. Collection Dates: 1820, 1921-
Research Library. University Archives. Lawrence, KS 1963. Size: 1 cubic foot.
66045 USA.
University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives.
Robert J. Friauf papers. Collection Dates: 1953-1994. Size: Andersen Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
22 linear feet.
Edward L. Hill papers. Collection Dates: 1928-1973. Size: 1
University of Maryland. Hornbake Library. Archives and linear foot (2 boxes).
Manuscripts Department. College Park, MD 20742 USA.
Aneesur Rahman papers. Collection Dates: 1970s-1980s.
Stephen G. Brush papers. Collection Dates: 1888-2006. Size: 9.1 linear feet (7 boxes).
Size: 10.5 linear feet. Some papers are restricted, including
letters of recommendation and referee reviews of papers Peter G. Roll papers. Collection Dates: 1962-1970. Size: 3
submitted to journals. boxes.

University of Michigan. Bentley Historical Library. Ann University of Minnesota Department of Physics papers.
Arbor, MI 48109-2113 USA. Collection Dates: 1886-1972. Size: 5.2 linear feet (4 boxes).

Arthur Adel papers. Collection Dates: 1920s-1994. Size: 0.2 University of New Hampshire. Dimond Library. Special
linear feet. Collections. Archives. Durham, NH 03824-3592, USA.

David M. Gates student notebooks. Collection Dates: 1940- Arthur S. Adams papers. Collection Dates: 1948-1950. Size:
1946. Size: 8 volumes. 28 boxes.

Hussey family papers. Collection Dates: 1876-1926. Size: Arthur F. Nesbit papers. Collection Dates: 1895-1903 and
8.5 linear feet and 1 oversize folder. undated. Size: 2 boxes.

Freeman D. Miller papers. Collection Dates: circa. 1946- University of Pittsburgh. University Library System.
1995. Size: 1 linear foot. Archives Service Center. 7500 Thomas Boulevard,
Pittsburgh, PA 15208 USA.
Anna Newton student notebook. Collection Dates: 1893.
Size: 1 volume. Richard Pratt papers. Collection Dates: 1820-2005. Size:
32.76 cubic feet (78 boxes).
Douglas Richstone papers. Collection Dates: 1993-1996.
Size: 0.2 linear feet. Carl Gustav Hempel papers. Collection Dates: 1903-
1997. Size: 25 linear feet. Access to the collection is
Scott Turner lecture notes. Collection Dates: 1900-1902 and
1904. Size: 0.2 linear feet (6 volumes and 1 envelope).

Jack C. van der Velde papers. Collection Dates: 1979-1994.

Size: 3.5 linear feet.

Walter G. Wallace student notebook. Collection Dates:

1890-1891. Size: 1 volume.

Norman Wright papers. Collection Dates: 1929-1992. Size:

2 linear feet.

University of Michigan. Special Collections Library. 711

Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
USA.

Tracy W. McGregor collection of Arabic, Persian, and

Turkish mathematical and astronomical manuscripts.
Collection Dates: 1486-1919. Size: 151 volumes (245 items).

William Walker volume of celestial observations. Otto von Guericke’s electric machine, from the book The Forces
of Nature: A Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical
Collection Dates: 1796-1799. Size: 1 volume.
Phenomena. by Amedee Guillernin, translated from the French
by Mrs. Norman Lockyer, and edited with additions and notes by
University of Minnesota Libraries. Manuscripts Division. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 2nd Edition, published by Scribner,
Literary Manuscripts Collections. Andersen Library, Welford and Armstrong, New York, 1873. AIP Emilio Segrè
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA. Visual Archives, Brittle Books

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open for research with the following exceptions: Letters of University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
recommendation and some individual files in the general records. Collection Dates: 1930-1973. Size: circa 0.21 cubic
correspondence series are closed. Research access to material feet. Processing levels vary. Contact repository for details.
in the teaching series and to some files in the correspondence
series is restricted; requests are subject to individual review University of Washington Department of Astronomy
by curator. Please contact the Archives of Scientific records. Collection Dates: 1952-1972. Size: 1 folder. Access
Philosophy for additional information. may be restricted; contact repository for details.

Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh records. University of Washington Department of Earth and Space
Collection Dates: 1931-2002. Size: 6.875 linear feet. Sciences records. Collection Dates: 1897-2006. Size: 630.39
cubic feet (1284 boxes, 4 folders).
University of Rhode Island. University Libraries. Special
Collections. University Archives. 15 Lippitt Road, University of Washington Nuclear Physics Laboratory
Kingston, RI 02881-2011 USA. records. Collection Dates: 1949-1995. Size: circa 15.88 cubic
feet. Access may be restricted; contact repository for details.
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of
Oceanography oral history interviews. Collection Dates: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Carol
15 July - 23 July 1999. Size: 1 box of 7 digital videocassettes M. Newman Library. Special Collections Department. P.
(0.25 linear feet). O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001 USA.

University of Rhode Island Graduate School of George Collins papers. Collection Dates: 1960-1969 and
Oceanography records. Collection Dates: 1935-1998. Size: undated. Size: 2.0 cubic feet.
138.5 linear feet (277 boxes).
Nuclear Pioneers: Conference on Nuclear Developments
University of Texas at Austin. Center for American videotapes and papers. Collection Dates: 1991. Size: 0.5
History. Archives of American Mathematics. Austin, TX cubic feet.
78713 USA.

Collection on the mechanical harmonic synthesizer

and multiharmonograph. Collection Dates: 1939-1948
and undated. Size: 2 inches. Collection stored offsite at the
Collections Deposit Library. Please allow 48 hours for retrieval.

University of Washington Libraries. University Archives.

Mailstop #0-10. Seattle, WA 98195 USA.

American Astronomical Society correspondence.

Collection Dates: 1981-2004. Size: 22 cubic feet (22 boxes).
Access may be restricted; contact repository for details.

Henry Louis Brakel papers. Collection Dates: 1965. Size: 1

item. Access may be restricted; contact repository for details.

Hans G. Dehmelt papers. Collection Dates: 1989-1990.

Size: circa 0.42 cubic feet. Access may be restricted; contact
repository for details.

Richard H. Fleming papers. Collection Dates: 1930-1986.

Size: 17.5 cubic feet.

Ronald Geballe papers. Collection Dates: 1950-1998. Size:

circa 32.5 cubic feet. Access may be restricted; contact
repository for details.

Chihiro Kikuchi papers. Collection Dates: 1941-1989. Size:

circa 0.04+ cubic feet. Access may be restricted; contact
repository for details.

Edward A. Stern papers. Collection Dates: 1973-1997. The large metallic shpere, which Clarence Hewlett is standing
Size: circa 1.19 cubic feet. Access may be restricted; contact beside, was used for evaporating materials, such as selenium,
repository for details. onto blanks in high vacuum at General Electric Research Labo-
ratory in Schenectady, NY. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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 Friends of the Center for History of Physics

Avoiding a Taxing Matter out of charitable deductions, possible avoidance of the alternative
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2006 Annual Fund

We gratefully acknowledge the support of many Friends whose contributions have helped to preserve and make known the history
of physics and allied sciences. This list is our public acknowledgment of Friends who have contributed in 2006 to the Center for
History of Physics. Leaders contributed $5,000 or more; Benefactors contributed $2,500 to $4,999; Patrons contributed $1,000
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J. Scott Price Nicolaas Bloembergen H. I. Fusfeld Hatsuyoshi Kato
★ Robert Resnick John Blume Donald Garber ★ Charles F. Kennel REVIEWERS:
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John S. Rigden Corwin Hammond Donald F. Geesaman Brian J. Kiefer Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
★ R. G. Robertson Booth David C. Gilkeson Charles H. King, Jr Norris Hetherington
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Rubby Sherr ★ Marc H. Brodsky Robert P. Godwin Paul D. Koenigs Stephen Brush
★ Daniel M. Siegel Bert E. Brown Alfred Scharff Toyoki Koga Goucher College
★ Luther W. Smith ★ Stephen G. Brush Goldhaber Harwood G. Kolsky Library
Robert B. Smith James H. Burgess Bernard Goodman ★ Victor Korenman Geoffrey Eichholz
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★ Richard D. ★ David C. Cassidy ★ Kurt Gottfried Stephen F. Kral Bradford Kirby
Taylor, III William J. Cavanaugh Zbigniew W. ★ John Kronholm
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ASSOCIATE Timothy A. Cohn Blanca L. Haendler ★ Henry & Betty Roy Bishop
S. C. Abrahams ★ Jack H. Colwell Fred B. Hagedorn Landsberger** Joanne Hart
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E. Alyea Rothberg ★ D. A. Hamlin William J. Layton Marc Brodsky
Gordon Wood ★ Bernd Crasemann H. P. Hanson Hassel Ledbetter James Stith
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“We live today in a world in which poets and historians and men of affairs are proud that they wouldn’t even begin to consider thinking
about learning anything of science, regarding it as the far end of a tunnel too long for any wise man to put his head into.”
--J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Academic Partners of the Center for History of Physics

T he Center for History of Physics has established a new membership category for academic institutions that value its work
and are willing to make small annual donations for a number of years. The group is called the “Academic Partners for the
Center for History of Physics.” The CHP Development Committee recently set out to solicit memberships. Trial invitations were
sent personally to twelve physics departments and the response was enthusiastic: ten immediately committed to join.

The Center’s Development Committee is in the process of contacting more institutions to see if they would like to join this part-
nership. If you would like more information about this program, or if you would like to help out in contacting institutions (which
the CHP makes quite painless) please contact Dan Kleppner ([email protected]) or John Rigden ([email protected]). If you are
an academic institution and are interested in learning more about this partnership, please send an email to [email protected]
or call 301-209-3006.

Academic Partners of the Center for History of Physics

Response to first solicitation, March 2007, Physics Departments at:

Carleton College University of Minnesota

Case Western Reserve University Ohio State University
Duke University Stanford University
Emory University University of Texas, Austin
Harvard University

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David Berley ★ Richard J. Drachman ★ Richard Hanau ★ Jack H. Irving Ivar E. Lindstrom
Sakae Besshou Philip Lewis Dreike Alan W. Harris ★ Kazuyoshi Itoh Walter Hayward Lipke
James M. Bishop John J Dropkin James B. Hartle Marilyn E. Jacox Daniel Lister
Alan Bleier Thomas Duby Alex Harvey James Stroud Jarratt C. David Livengood
Mr. John B. Michael D. Duncan ★ J. N. Hays J. Gordon Jarvis Peter N. Lombard
Blottman, III Timothy E. Eastman ★ Jeffrey C. Hecht Verner Jensen ★ John H. Lowenstein
Jack S. Boparai Vernon J. Ehlers Otto Heinz Kenneth E. Jesse ★ Chris
Richard C. Bradley ★ Robert S. Ehrlich Brian K. Heltsley David C. Johannsen Lubicz-Nawrocki
Walter C. Braun Stanley L. Ehrlich Harry E. Herchert L. W. Johnson Gloria Lubkin
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Darrell Q. Brown Maurice Eisenstadt Thomas W. Hickmott ★ Michael D. Jones David D. Lynch
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Morton K. Brussel ★ Fred T. Erskine, III Lillian H. Hoddeson ★ Alice M. King ★ Philip A. Macklin
William R. Burdett Steven Robert Marvin M. Hoffman Raymond Kosiewicz Maura J. Mackowski
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Donald G. Burkhard Frank Feiner Arnold Honing ★ William Henry Maiello, Phd
David Burstein Carl C. Fields Rosamond Kuhlman Constantinos Manolis
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James D. Button ★ Philip C. Fisher Jay W. Howe Renee LaFontaine Edward James
Warren E. Byrne ★ Robert C. Fleck John L. Hubisz Vasudevan Lakshmina- Mc Lellan
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★ David K. Campbell Myron H. Fliegel Karl Hufbauer George L. Lamb, Jr David K. McCarthy
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★ Bartley L. Cardon Michael W. Friedlander William R. Hunter Paul D. Larson Dorothy McGarry
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William H. Chambers ★ Owen Gingerich
Brett Edward Chapman Charles Joseph Glinka
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Christensen Joel E. Gordon
★ Eugene L. Church Leon Gortler
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★ Richard T. Close Richard W. Granville
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★ Robert C. Cook ★ Thomas Greenslade
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Stephen Craxton Alexander R. Grone
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★ Samuel Derman Bertrand I. Halperin
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G. J. Dienes ★ James Edward David Hilbert (left) and James Franck stop to discuss physics, circa 1926
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 Friends of the Center for History of Physics
Ronald K. Smeltzer ★ Eugene B. Turner
Mark N. McDermott (1930 - 2006), who served David Lewis Smith ★ W. Robert Van
on the University of Washington physics faculty Eugene R. Smith, Jr Antwerp
for more than 40 years, died on November 4, 2006 John W. Smith Noel E. Van Slyke
from complications related to ALS (amyotrophic lat- ★ Lary R. Smith Randy Charles
eral sclerosis). An atomic physicist who contributed James L. Snelgrove Van Vranken
to the understanding of the electrical and magnetic ★ Arnold L. Snyder Richard N. Wagner
properties of certain nuclei, Prof. McDermott was Siavash H. Sohrab P. R. Wakeling
recognized for his distinguished career of service to ★ M. Sokal** Michael S. Walker
his department, the university, and the physics com- Roger Alan Souter Robert A. Walkling
munity. One of his legacies is the Physics and Astronomy Building, which was Helmuth G. Spieler ★ William Wallace
planned and constructed during the ten years that he was department chair. His Tenney Spofford ★ G. King Walters
deep interest in the history of physics led to his membership on the Friends Peter G. Standley Peter J. Wanderer, Jr
of the Center for History of Physics Development Committee, where he was Robert W. Standley D. Randolph Watts
instrumental in launching the Center’s first fund-raising campaign: History that
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of importance is accomplished.” —Bertrand Russell
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Remember the Center in your estate plans—your bequest helps
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 Friends of the Center for History of Physics

Announcing the Marc H. Brodsky Fund for Oral History of Physicists in Industry

“It is my pleasure to announce the new Marc H. Brodsky Fund for Oral History of Physicists in Industry,” said Fred Dylla,
incoming Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics. Spontaneous applause greeted this surprise an-
nouncement at the March 29th gala farewell dinner honoring Marc Brodsky’s exemplary 14 years of service as AIP’s Execu-
tive Director and CEO. “We give our great thanks to the benefactors for this Fund honoring Marc’s distinguished career,” Fred
continued. “Please join me in thanking the Lois and Julian Brodsky Family for their initial generous pledge and concept for
the Fund, and John and Elizabeth Armstrong, for their generous gift to establish this as a permanently restricted endowment
for the Center for History of Physics.” Fred also thanked AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Process-
ing, William Brinkman, Robert Doering and Texas Instruments, Morrell Cohen, Bruce Curran, Millie Dresselhaus, Roderick
Grant, Mark B. Ketchen, Daniel Kleppner, James McGroddy, Richard Meserve, Stanford Ovshinsky, Roland Schmitt, Trey
Smith and SAIC, and James Stith who were other lead donors to the Fund.

This permanently restricted endowment will enable the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics and Niels
Bohr Library & Archives to interview several important industrial physicists each year, transcribe and preserve their oral
histories, and make them available to researchers now and in the future.

Lois and Julian Brodsky initiated the Fund through a generous gift of $50,000. Julian, Marc’s brother, is a founder, Director
and Vice Chairman of Comcast Corporation. The gift recognizes Marc’s past work as an industrial physicist, and also is a
memento of Julian’s personal experience of the value of oral histories both in his company’s archival efforts, and in creating
a history of the cable television industry. “In 1991 a fire at my company destroyed our records, and in recreating them, we
conducted several oral histories of key personnel.” Julian further comments, “Recognizing Marc through this Fund is very
appropriate because of his stellar reputation in the industrial physics world as well as his work at AIP. The Fund honors both
aspects of Marc’s career.”

The Fund comes at a critical time. Very little has been done to document the history of physicists in industry, and even less
is currently being done to preserve the recollections of the many unsung heroes who are responsible for many beneficial
technologies. Under Marc Brodsky’s leadership, AIP is conducting a pioneering project to document the History of Physicists
in Industry to conclude at the end of 2007. The Marc H. Brodsky Fund for Oral History will help us to continue this work in
perpetuity.

With the addition of this new Fund, the current endowment for physicists in industry is about $150,000, providing only a
fraction of what is needed to preserve the broad history of industrial physics. If you wish to help preserve this history, please
donate online at www.aip.org/helphistory, or contact the AIP Development Office at 301-209-3141.

From left to right: Lois and Julian Brodsky, Fred Dylla, Marc and Vivian Brodsky

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This Newsletter is a biannual publication of the Center for Center for History of Physics Newsletter
History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, One Physics Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 Spring 2007
Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740; phone 301-209-3165; fax 301-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
209-0882; e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]. Editor: Spencer
R. Weart. The Newsletter reports activities of the Center and Niels Bohr Library and Archives;
What’s In a [New] Name?.................................................................1
Niels Bohr Library, and other information on work in the history
of physics and allied fields. Any opinions expressed herein do Publication of the Collected Works of Niels Bohr Completed..........1
not necessarily represent the views of the American Institute of Emilio Segrè Visual Archives Makes Photos More Accessible.........2
Physics or its Member Societies. This Newsletter is available
on request without charge, but we welcome donations (tax-de- The Sokendai Oral History and Archives Project............................ 2
ductible) to the Friends of the AIP Center for History of Physics Preserving the History and Heritage of Agilent
(www.aip.org/history/friends.htm). The Newsletter is posted on Technologies, Part II......................................................................... 3
the Web at http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/index.html. Exploring Nanotechnology’s Hidden History.................................. 4

Spencer R. Weart, Director; R. Joseph Anderson, Director, The AT&T Archives and History Center Documents the
Niels Bohr Library & Archives; Richard Harrigan, Web/ Complete History of Telecommunication Corporations................... 5
Publications Specialist; Babak Ashrafi, Historian; Stephanie 50th Anniversary of International Geophysical Year
Jankowski, Administrative Secretary; Julie Gass, Assistant Commemorated with Meetings and New Research..........................6
Librarian; Jennifer S. Sullivan, Assistant Archivist;
Melanie Brown, Assistant Archivist; Mark A. Matienzo, Brookhaven National Laboratory Records Management
Assistant Archivist; Orville R. Butler, Historian; Barbara Program Preserves Historical Materials........................................... 7
Allen, Senior Library Preservation Assistant; Nancy Honeyford,
AIP Adopts Policy on Preserving Journal Referee Files................. 8
Senior Library Assistant; Heather Lindsay, Photo Librarian;
Mary Romanelli, Photo Archives Assistant; Marla Rosenthal, New Web Exhibit Explores the History of Cosmology.................... 9
Transcription Editor.
Recent Publications of Interest........................................................ 9
Documentation Preserved, Spring 2007........................................ 11

Avoiding a Taxing Matter............................................................... 18

Friends of the Center for History of Physics.................................. 18

Academic Partners of the Center for History of Physics............... 20

Mark McDermott........................................................................... 22
Announcing the Marc H. Brodsky Fund for Oral History
of Physicists in Industry.................................................................... 23

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