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Manuscript Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 543 Collections and/or Records:

Ahmed Zewail Papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-00011

Alfred H. Sturtevant Papers, 1849-1969

 Digital Record
Identifier: 2016-02-17-000262

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

Don Lynn Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 10136-MS
Scope and Contents

The Don L. Anderson papers consist of a small collection of correspondence, memos, and miscellaneous administrative paperwork from the Caltech Seismology Laboratory, from the time Anderson served as Director.

Dates: 1968-1994

Tom M. Apostol Papers

 Collection
Identifier: ApostolTM
Scope and Contents Collection consists of 22 bankers boxes, packed from his office. 3 smaller boxes packed from Apostol's home. Includes papers and slides, digital files and recording of Project Mathematics episodes. Unprocessed.Inventory of boxes from Apostol's office at Caltech: Box 1: DVD, books for Project Mathematics!, miscellaneous photos (Erdos, Mathematicians) cards and correspondence. Box 2: NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology). Box 3: NIST. Box 4: Project Mathematics...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1980s-2000

Aron Kuppermann Papers, 1946-2012

 Digital Record
Identifier: 2016-02-17-000290

Art Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: ArtCommRecords

Art Committee Records

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2005-00016

Artifact Historical Files

 Collection
Identifier: ArtifactFiles
Abstract

Archival miscellany composed of materials from Caltech Divisions and from the Mt. Wilson Observatory Director's files. Consists mostly of manufacturers' catalogs of scientific instruments. Includes inventories of Bridge Laboratory equipment from 1920s.

Dates: 1902-1971

Artifact Historical Files

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1973-00002

ASCIT Board Minutes, 1912-1966

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1969-00001

ASCIT Board Minutes, 1912-1966

 Digital Record
Identifier: 2016-02-17-000288

Astronomy Department Files

 Digital Record
Identifier: 2016-02-17-000188

Division of Astrophysics Records

 Collection
Identifier: 10005-MS
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence, committee minutes, public inquiries regarding astronomical phenomena, etc. relating primarily to the Palomar 200-inch telescope project.

Dates: 1928-1954

Athenaeum Apicians

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2001-00008

Athenaeum Records

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1994-00005

Robert F. Bacher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 10105-MS
Abstract The working papers, correspondence, publications, photos and biographical materials of Robert F. Bacher (1905-2004) form the collection known as the Papers of Robert F. Bacher in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. Bacher was a nuclear physicist who during World War II worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and then from 1943 at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb. He was one of the first members of the US Atomic Energy Commission (1946-49). He served on the faculty...
Dates: 1924-1994

Edward C. Barrett Collection on Early Caltech History

 Collection
Identifier: 10036-MS
Abstract

Edward Cecil "Ned" Barrett was for many years the only business officer of the California Institute of Technology and of its forerunner institution, Throop University/Polytechnic Institute. The collection contains historical and administrative documents relating to the early years of Caltech and Throop, as well as correspondence of Caltech's founders and early leaders, including A. A. Noyes, James A. B. Scherer, Arthur Fleming, George Ellery Hale, and Robert A. Millikan.

Dates: 1891-1950