Particles (Nuclear physics)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Carl D. Anderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 10053-MS
Abstract
A selection of the course and teaching notes, correspondence, technical files, and photographs of Carl D. Anderson (1905-1991) form the collection known as the Carl D. Anderson Papers in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. Working under Robert A. Millikan at Caltech, Anderson conducted experiments on the penetrating radiation known as cosmic rays with a magnet cloud chamber, and in 1936 he won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the positive electron, or...
Dates:
1923-1987
Richard P. Feynman Papers
Collection
Identifier: FeynmanRP2
Abstract
This collection documents the career of Nobel Prize winner Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988). It contains correspondence, biographical materials, course and lecture notes, speeches, manuscripts, publications, and technical notes relating to his work in quantum electrodynamics. Feynman served as Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology from 1951 until his death.
Dates:
1933-1988
Murray Gell-Mann Papers
Collection
Identifier: GellMannM
Scope and Contents
The scientific and personal correspondence, organizational and government files, technical and teaching notes, writings and talks, civic and social action files, biographical and family papers, and a small collection of audiovisual material of Murray Gell-Mann form the Murray Gell-Mann Papers.
Dates:
1931-2001; Majority of material found within 1955-1993
