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Newly Opened Correspondence Illuminates Einstein’s Personal LifeBy David C. Cassidy, Hofstra University, with special thanks to Diana Kormos Buchwald, Einstein Papers Project

T he Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently opened a large collection of Einstein’s

personal correspondence from the period 1912 until his death in 1955. The collection consists of nearly 1,400 items. Among them are about 300 letters and cards written by Einstein, pri-marily to his second wife Elsa Einstein, and some 130 letters Einstein received from his closest family members. The col-lection had been in the possession of Einstein’s step-daughter, Margot Einstein, who deposited it with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the stipulation that it remain closed for twen-ty years following her death, which occurred on July 8, 1986. The Archives released the materials to public viewing on July 10, 2006. On the same day Princeton University Press released volume 10 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, con-taining 148 items from the collection through December 1920, along with other newly available correspondence. Later items will appear in future volumes. “These letters”, write the Ein-stein editors, “provide the reader with substantial new source material for the study of Einstein’s personal life and the rela-tionships with his closest family members and friends.”

Among Einstein’s main correspondents in the newly released collection are his first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, from whom he was separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919; Einstein’s two sons with Einstein-Marić, Hans Albert and Eduard; Einstein’s second wife and first cousin, Elsa Einstein, whom he married in 1919; Elsa’s two daughters from her previous marriage, Ilse and Margot; and Einstein’s sister, Maja, and her husband, Paul Winteler. Ilse died in 1934, Elsa in 1936. Maja and Margot joined Einstein in Princeton during the 1930s. The collection also includes a large number of poems and aphorisms written by Eduard Einstein, correspondence among Einstein’s maternal grandparents, as well as items of administrative and financial correspondence from Einstein’s Berlin and Princeton years.

The newly released letters provide little direct insight into Ein-stein’s scientific work. However, he does write his thoughts on the course of his work and, while traveling, his impressions of people, audiences, and cultural situations in the places he visits. In one letter to Elsa in 1916, during a visit with Paul Ehrenfest in Leiden, he wrote how pleased he was with the reception ac-corded relativity theory in the Netherlands. In another letter in 1920, he wrote of his mounting distress over the anti-relativity movement in Berlin, and by 1921, after lecturing extensively to the general public, he admitted, “Soon I’ll be fed up with

Expansion of Alsos, Online Resource for Nuclear History and Issues Referencesby Frank Settle

T he Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues (http://alsos.wlu.edu) has a new Web face, improved features and an

expanded set of annotated references. Initiated in 2000 as a component of the National Science Foundation’s National Sci-ence Digital Library (http://nsdl.org), Alsos has expanded its initial focus on the history of the Manhattan Project to cover Cold War and post-Cold War topics including nuclear power, nuclear waste, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and nuclear terrorism. In doing so, it has grown to include over 2,000 ref-erences, covering a broad spectrum of topics and disciplines associated with nuclear issues.

Among the new features, Alsos now assists users in locating materials with an improved presentation of popular topics. The results are sorted by relevance to facilitate selection of refer-ences from long lists, and online references may be accessed more directly. Finally, users can instantly find books, articles

H. Richard Gustafson playing with a guitar to pass the time while monitoring the control room at a Fermilab experiment. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Lawrence W. Jones Collection.

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and films in libraries near them via links using the “Find in a Library” feature offered publicly by WorldCat.

As would be expected, users usually discover Alsos through search engines, which have extensively indexed its holdings. It is reached by many additional users through links on appropri-ate pages of Wikipedia. Hundreds of libraries, college depart-ments, secondary schools, research institutes, and professors worldwide provide links to Alsos for information about nuclear issues deemed relevant to many disciplines. Recently, Alsos has partnered with three other web sites to integrate a still larg-

er variety of historical and current materials on nuclear themes on the Nuclear Pathways project (http://nuclearpathways.org). Alsos provides bibliographies for specific topics for those con-tent-rich partner web sites.

The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues continues to expand its role as a source of references on both current and historical material. More specifically, the collection contains many references addressing the evolution of nuclear physics and its impact on world events. For further information con-tact Frank Settle, Department of Chemistry, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, 24450, e-mail: [email protected].

In Memoriam: Joan Warnow Blewettby Spencer Weart

I first met Joan when I was a postdoctoral student, attend-ing my first History of Science Society meeting. A young

woman came up to me, found I was studying history of phys-ics, and started enthusiastically telling me about a place I had never heard of, called the Center for History of Physics. Be-ing an arrogant academic, I supposed that since I hadn’t heard of it, I didn’t need to know anything about it. But this woman thrust some brochures on me and insisted I keep in touch. It turned out the place was worth learning about after all.

When I became Director of the Center several years later, it was a small place: basically me, the Director, and Joan, the Directee. But she was the one who really knew what was to be done. She had been running the place as Acting Director for a year after the departure of the former Director, Charles Weiner, and she had been getting out the Newsletter, starting up fundraising, and handling a big educational project along with everything else. So she began to teach me about these things, and about libraries and archives in general. Most his-torians don’t know much more about libraries and archives than a motorist knows about what is behind the gas pump; you just go in and fill up. It turned out there was a lot to learn. Joan herself had learned much of it on the job, since like many librarians in those days she had not had any formal training in archives. Such formal training would not have been a big help for work at the Center anyway, where much had to be invented along the way.

Joan did not just learn about science archiving but helped to transform the field. She spent a long time working out concepts of “documentation strategy.” The aim of this new program was not the traditional one of grabbing the best stuff you could find to hoard in your own archives, but to identify the key historical documentation and work out ways to get it preserved, no matter just where. This goal was implicit in the plans physicists had laid for the Center at its origin, but Joan figured out how to do it. She also raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to get the work done. Mean-

while the archives of our own Niels Bohr Library grew from roughly the size of a walk-in closet—and as messy, with a handwritten cardfile catalog—to a large modern space metic-ulously cataloged online. All this happened with Joan’s me-ticulous and ardent attention to doing everything right, up to the highest standards; and where there weren’t any standards in the archival community, she created them. Even after she retired, she continued to be a great help with her sound ad-vice and her cheerful aid in fund-raising.

Joan’s most important monument is an invisible one: all over the country, in fact all over the world, there are papers pre-served in archives that would otherwise have gone into a dumpster, irretrievably lost. These rescued papers document science in the past century. And that has been so important, a part of the history of civilization, that I expect scholars will be using these papers for as long as human civilization exists. Not many people leave such a useful and important legacy.

Joan’s human qualities were as outstanding as her profes-sional ones. She was interested in everything, and I remem-ber countless lunches when we talked about politics, books, and anything else in the world. Always upbeat and thought-ful of others, she was admired and warmly appreciated by everyone in the Institute (she knew them all, at least in the old days when it was smaller), and broadly in the archival and scientific communities. All who knew her were greatly saddened to learn of her untimely death.

Joan Warnow Blewett and Martin Klein at their marriage ceremony, 2005.

The mistakes made by leading scientists often provide a better insight into the spirit and presuppositions of their times than do their successes.

– Steven Weinberg

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the relativity. Even such a thing fades away when one is too involved with it ...” The new letters also show that, even during his most intense periods of work, he was often corresponding intensely with family members on personal matters.

The new correspondence reveals many aspects of Einstein’s private and public life: his complex relations with his first wife Mileva and his second wife Elsa, with other women in his life, and with his two sons, as well as his most personal thoughts on self-image and on his closest family members, friends, and col-leagues. They show his engagement and at times deep passion for various political and social causes, such as pacifism and Jewish nationalism, but also his financial concerns and protracted struggle with health issues and the illnesses, at times serious, of some of his closest family members. The correspondence follows Einstein from the earliest extant letters to Elsa in 1912, through the hard-ships he and his two families experienced during World War I, the turmoil of the post-war period in Berlin, the relative stability of the late 1920s, the rise of Nazism and Einstein’s departure from Europe in 1933. The later part of the correspondence deals mostly with providing for Einstein’s first wife and his younger son, who suffered from schizophrenia, in Zurich.

Further information may be found at the web sites of the Albert Einstein Archives: www.albert-einstein.org, and the Einstein Papers Project: www.einstein.caltech.edu.

Preserving the History and Heritage of Agilent Technologies, Part IThe Meaning of “Priceless” at Agilentby Cindy Alfieri, Agilent Library

Y ou are probably familiar with the advertisement that item-izes the high cost of planning a major event and ends with

the word “priceless.” At Agilent Technologies, the term applies equally well to laboratory notebooks, equipment manuals, ap-plication notes and technical reports. These are the main archi-val documents that the library at Agilent hunts down, pulls from dumpsters, blows the dust off, lovingly catalogs and ferociously protects so that future researchers will have access to this trove of information. Nowadays this level of commitment is required in order to save materials before they are unthinkingly tossed out when people change jobs, office locations or employers. Part of the commitment involves educating people on the importance of retention (“just because that product is obsolete or out of sup-port doesn’t mean you should toss the manual!”). As Hewlett-Packard Co-founder Dave Packard said in his book The HP Way, people want to do the right thing. Just a simple statement on the why and wherefore of the archival operation is all it usually takes to get people onboard. And that attitude is largely why our archives continue to grow.

In 1999, the Hewlett-Packard corporation spun off its test and measurement organization as an independent entity called Agi-lent Technologies. A library was created for the entire Agilent research community, to be both a 21st century reference library and a protector of the historical record. Our mission for preser-vation is simple: track down the materials before they get into

the dumpster or disappear into the ether; make the materials as broadly accessible as company policy allows; and raise visibil-ity internally for why the materials deserve to be preserved. Lab Notebooks. For many years, Agilent and HP have had an informal process for maintaining lab notebooks. We have used notebooks of various types, colors and sizes to record the pro-cess of research and the interpretation of results. The notebooks protect the company’s intellectual property, provide a tool for referring back to the processes that achieved certain results and capture knowledge in a systematic fashion. Agilent’s process is now more formal. The library purchases the notebooks for the company, disseminates them and obtains them back for preservation. Although we recently investigated the prospect of moving from the traditional print format to electronic lab notebooks, the traditional approach continues as the format of choice. Our bioinformatics group does maintain digital note-books, however, because of the large body of digital data they capture to document their experiments.

Equipment Manuals. One day an engineer phoned the library in a panic, relating that he had just started supporting an old product that was still in support life and that he needed a copy of the manual—which, to his surprise, he couldn’t find on the Web. The library had a copy and sent it to him. This fairly typical scenario is the result of an ongoing effort to search the world, literally, for manuals and bring them back to California for cataloging and retention. In 2005, for example, we received a half-ton of print manuals from Agilent-UK. The manuals typically come to us in binders and vary from 50 pages to 500 pages. Sometimes we see other formats: we recently received thousands of manuals from Agilent-Brasil on microfiche. Last

Arthur Schawlow (left) adjusts a ruby optical maser during an experiment at Bell Labs, while C.G.B. Garrett prepares to photograph the maser flash. Credit: Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Hecht Collection.

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Finding a Subject for a BiographyRobert W. Smith, University of Alberta

A biography is one of the most challenging jobs a historian can undertake, committing the scholar to long years of

work. So the choice of a subject is crucial. Consider, for ex-ample, George Biddell Airy, British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, one of the towering figures of nineteenth century astronomy. Airy conducted a staggeringly voluminous corre-spondence, wrote a huge number of papers and reports, and was a central player in various scientific societies and institu-tions. He kept copies of practically everything he wrote. He has, however, never been the subject of a biography. Indeed, the astonishing extent of Airy’s records seems to have fright-ened off potential biographers. But far more common problems for would-be biographers are a paucity of worthwhile evidence on which to base a study. Even if a good body of records ex-ists, they can be practically unusable if they are not carefully cataloged, organized, and accessible.

Sir William Hunter McCrea (1904-1999) was one of the lead-ing astronomers and cosmologists of the Twentieth century. His scientific researches and engagements in various scientific debates were very important, and these activities continued far beyond his retirement in 1972. He had turned to cosmology around 1930, a time when it was not really a respectable field of inquiry, and lived to see it become one of the most esteemed and exciting areas of inquiry in the physical sciences, with sev-eral of his students playing crucial roles in its development. McCrea was centrally involved too with a range of British and international scientific institutions. Later in his life he wrote some significant historical works, including a history of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. McCrea was also a witness to some of the critical moments in Twentieth century Astronomy and Cosmology. For example, in the early 1930s Subrahman-yan Chandrasekhar, then a fellow at Cambridge, would lunch with McCrea at Imperial College, London, before they walked to meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society. Thus it was that in January 1935, McCrea had a ring-side view of A.S. Edding-ton’s now infamous attack on his friend Chandrasekhar’s ideas on relativistic degeneracy inside stars.

In 1978, I was fortunate enough to interview McCrea as part of a project run by the Center for History of Physics on the history of Astrophysics and Cosmology, a project that led to a remark-ably extensive collection of oral history interviews. At that time I certainly did not imagine tackling a biography of McCrea. But by late 2004, the idea had begun to seem an attractive one as a way to explore not just McCrea’s life but how Astronomy and Cosmology changed during his lifetime. Before commit-ting myself, however, I needed, like any potential biographer considering a possible subject, to find out, first, what kinds of correspondence and manuscripts were in the records left after his death, and if these were rich enough to make a biography feasible. Then, second, I needed to check if the collection was in fact usable and in particular if it had been cataloged.

There is, it turns out, a substantial collection of McCrea pa-pers. It is housed at Royal Holloway College of the University

year, a researcher sent us a URL with dozens more links to old equipment manuals. (The trouble with the links, however, is that you never know when they’ll suffer from link rot.) We are al-ways excited when folks start a conversation this way: “I’m not sure you want these, but I thought I’d let you know I have some old manuals here.” Our current collection of manuals includes both obsolete products and currently supported products.

We recently worked with one of our business units to locate pa-per copies for dozens of obsolete HP manuals that were among the 200 most-requested manuals from the business unit’s exter-nal web site. Those manuals were converted to PDF format and are now freely available on Agilent’s external web site. Our vi-sion is to one day provide that level of access to all equipment manuals as PDF documents.

Application Notes. Application notes are short documents that describe to the user the application(s) for a particular technol-ogy. Again, the library is a central point of contact for both Agilent and HP application notes. We are in the process of digi-tizing all the application notes for easier access.

Technical Reports. Agilent/HP technical reports describe scientific or technical research issues, progress or results–ef-fectively, the R&D within the company. They are used to pro-mote the exchange of ideas internally and to serve as a catalyst toward further research. Although the majority of our reports are for internal use only, we consider broader (external) release where competitive intelligence is not at issue. As with most research-focused companies, Agilent uses many other forms of data capture to assist in filling in the big picture of invention and discovery. While some of that documentation turns out to be quite ephemeral, much of it–such as the formal-ized approaches noted above-does survive as historical record. And that survival is priceless. For further information, contact Cindy Alfieri, Global Manager, Library, Agilent Technologies, e-mail: [email protected].

The physics laboratory of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen at the Uni-versity of Wurzburg, unchanged from the time when x-rays were discovered; From the book: X-rays: Past and Present by Victor E. Pullin and W.J. Wiltshire. [London]: E. Benn, 1927. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Brittle Books Collection.


Manhattan Project Sites May Become Part of National Park System

I n 2004, an act of Congress directed the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine

the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of des-ignating one or more historic sites of the Manhattan Project for potential inclusion in the National Park System. In March 2005, a meeting on Capitol Hill, hosted by the Atomic Heri-tage Foundation, included representatives of the National Park Service, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department of Energy, Con-gressional staffers, and representatives of some of the com-munities and local governments that might be involved. The Park Service subsequently appropriated funds for the study, which got underway in 2006.

Public meetings were held this past April in Oak Ridge, Tenn., site of the enormous uranium-enrichment plants that

made the material for the Hiroshima bomb; in May in Day-ton, Ohio, where the plutonium “initiator” was developed; and in June in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bombs were designed and assembled.

Also under study are the sites in Hanford, Washington, where reactors produced the plutonium for the Trinity test device and Nagasaki bomb. The public comment period for this ini-tial stage is closed, and the study is now into Stage 2 (Devel-op Preliminary Alternatives). This will last until Spring 2007 and will “Identify a range of reasonable alternatives for NPS involvement, assess their effects, analyze public reactions, and select a preferred alternative.” For further information see www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/history/NPSweb/index.htm .

of London, where McCrea had been a professor of mathemat-ics from 1944 until 1966. Moreover, with the essential help of an Archival Processing Grant from the Center for History of Physics, the collection has been excellently cataloged by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, housed at the University of Bath.

With anxieties dispelled about spending years hunting through a thin or disorganized collection of records, and the encourage-ment of the McCrea family, I am now at work on a McCrea biography.

Progress in the History of Physicists in Industry ProjectbyOrville R. Butler

T he AIP History Center’s grant-funded Project to Docu-ment the History of Physicists in Industry, which extends

through December 2007, moved into the home stretch this past year. We successfully negotiated interviewing visits to several companies in an area we had deferred to the end because of its special sensitivy to inspection: the Aerospace and Defense sector. Meanwhile we got well underway with coding and pre-liminary analysis of previous interviews. Project historian Or-ville R. Butler and Director Joe Anderson completed site visits at the corporate laboratories of Honeywell Aerospace, Lock-heed Martin, General Atomics, and Agilent Technologies, add-ing nearly 40 interviews to the project. Another six extended life-history interviews were completed by AIP postdoctoral historian Babak Ashrafi and others. Butler and Anderson will soon visit Raytheon and are in the process of arranging the final laboratory site visit of the project, and they are also visiting public and private archives that may preserve the history of corporate R&D.

As the laboratory site visits have wound down, our emphasis has shifted to coding and analysis of the over one hundred inter-views collected so far. NVivo, the program we use for analysis, released a major upgrade this summer that permits increased

automation of encoding as well as far more detailed analysis. We have had to modify our coding process in minor ways to work around current bugs in the program, but once coding is completed we should be able to undertake detailed analysis limited only by the number and scope of our interviews.

Preliminary Findings

In the process of editing and encoding the interviews we have noticed several trends that we expect will be evident in our final analysis. Some of these trends have already been well documented but others do not yet appear in the research lit-erature. The literature has described a decline of “pure” re-search in industrial settings, which our study confirms. Many of our respondents argue that the distinction between pure and applied research in industry has always been something of a myth, and that instead of “pure” vs. “applied” research, the distinction has in fact been “long term” vs. “near term.” If we accept that definition, our study shows a continued trend toward “near term” research, and an increasing influence of business divisions over the nature of industrial research. The latter is most commonly done by giving control over the lab budget to the business divisions. These divisions’ influences include a push towards research that can provide a quicker

Joe Anderson interviewing Darlene Solomon, Vice President & Director, Agilent Laboratories, July 2006.


return on investment. While modest exceptions to this trend can be found, they exist primarily where “research” is itself a product that is sold primarily to the government, often funded by ongoing contracts.

The effects of the growing influence of electronic records and communications is less clear-cut. As in other fields, e-mail has increasingly replaced telephone conversation as a primary source of communication. Laboratory notebooks, on the other hand, have declined in use rather than migrating to an electronic format. This assertion will no doubt be fine-tuned by subsequent analysis. Some companies still main-tain extensive requirements for research documentation in laboratory notebooks. More often, however, the use of lab notebooks has become largely voluntary and in some cases virtually non-existent. Some laboratories maintain a form of electronic “room” where researchers on a project post and discuss their findings. Others continue a strong oral tradi-tion of “hallway” discussions. In periodic formal reports, PowerPoint presentations have replaced view-graphs. Even where widely used, however, PowerPoint remains somewhat controversial. Some interviewees argue that PowerPoint has changed the nature of presentations from data-based to picture- or concept-based. They suggest this has a potential to increase the role of managers outside the R&D labs who don’t understand the science underlying the concepts. Oth-ers argue that PowerPoint presentations have diminished the free-flowing discussion of concepts between scientists by imposing a narrow format on the previously open interac-tions during reporting sessions, and leads to a focus on re-sults over process.

These and other findings remain tentative at this point, but they give us an initial framework to understand and conceptualize the interviews that we’ve completed. As we bring the inter-view portion of the History of Physicists in Industry Project to a close in the next few months, we will devote much of the re-maining year and a half to coding and analyzing our interviews and preparing the final report.

New High in Book Donations to Niels Bohr Library

G ive us your dirty old books! In the Winter/Spring of 2004, the History Center distributed an announcement

on the Physics Astronomy Mathematics division of the Spe-cial Libraries Association listserv and pamphlets at the Special Libraries Association Conference of that year asking librar-ians for unwanted books. We hoped to generate interest and awareness among potential donors of books to the Niels Bohr Library. Although a number of historians and physicists make valuable donations to our library each year, we realized that many universities and special libraries weeding their collec-tions may not know about us, a library specializing in history of physics with a strong interest in the unused and outdated books they routinely discard. This announcement proved to be very fruitful; a surprising number of people responded with dona-tions, sometimes large and always valuable.

The Niels Bohr Library holds one of the world’s premier collections in the History of Physics and its allied sciences (Astronomy,Geophysics, etc.) for the 19th and 20th centuries. While textbooks and monographs form the backbone of the collection, there are also many conference proceedings, biogra-phies, institutional histories, instrument catalogs, instructional materials, popular-science books, and works on social aspects of the scientific community. While we buy some books from used-book dealers, we rely chiefly on the generosity of donors to fill in gaps.

The response to our advertisement has awarded us close to 300 books to add to the collection. Most significant was a group of 232 books that we accessioned, donated by the Goucher College library. They no longer taught history of sci-ence there and were weeding books to move to a new facility. The collection, which started in the 1880’s, had a large num-ber of History of Physics and Astronomy books. Herbert and Frances Bernstein donated books from the New York Univer-sity Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library. Our library accessioned 32 physics books, selecting from the long list they sent us items that we wanted but did not have. Le-high University also responded to our announcement with an excellent donation, sending us one hundred books from their collection relating to Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics. We accessioned 42 that we did not already have in our collec-tion. Following our usual practice, when we are given books that are duplicated in our collection, we retain the better copy and sell the other to a dealer; thus the duplicate has a chance of finding a home that wants it, and we get some income to use for book purchases.

Book donations to our library have increased overall, and we gladly accept efforts to help us in our endeavor to preserve these resources. In many cases we have the only copy of a par-ticular edition of a book known to exist in this country, or even the only copy of a text known to exist anywhere. While our oral history interviews and other archival sources remain the main reason scholars come to the Niels Bohr Library, we have increasingly had visitors who have been chiefly interested in using the books.

Franco Rasetti at Lake Ross, British Columbia, from the book ‘Franco Rasetti, Physicien et Naturaliste’, by Danielle Ouellet with the collaboration of René Bureau and Marc-Aimé Guérin, Montreal, 2000. Credit: Photograph by Léo G. Morin, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, René Bureau Collection. Donated by Hubert Lechevalier, 2006.


Niels Bohr Library Acquires Materials in New Formats

E ach year we receive more donations in digital formats. The variety of new formats, many of them proprietary and few

of them likely to be in widespread use decades hence, is daunting for a repository that aims to preserve the information for as long as posterity may want them; “digital materials last five years or forever, whichever comes first.” That is, digitized informa-tion is almost indestructible in principle, but in practice depends on ephemeral physical media and software formats. We accept material in digital formats that are currently supported by AIP’s Information Technology Department, and we think we can main-tain the information indefinitely provided we can continue to find funds to either store it on servers that are regularly backed up, or reformat it onto gold CD-R or DVD-R discs. When the current formats begin to obsolesce, and as more research becomes avail-able on the longevity of such discs, we will establish a schedule for migrating the information to new formats and media. This is analogous to our current policy of regularly inspecting our ana-log recordings and reformatting them where needed.

Another feature of the new digital age is that it is getting in-creasingly problematic to make distinctions among “archival records,” “audiovisual recordings,” “oral history interviews,” “published materials,” and so forth. A given DVD might con-tain materials that place it in all of these categories at once! We are fortunate to have dedicated professional catalogers who rise to the challenge of making sure future scholars will find everything they need for their work.

Manuscript Collections and Audiovisual Materials

This year’s accessions include a DVD recording of a presenta-tion given by Benjamin Bederson titled “Los Alamos and Ti-nian: a personal memoir”; a DVD recording from the Musée des Arts et Métiers of filmed talks and digitized reproductions of photographs and French cyclotron files from 1940-1947; a set of two CDs of a sound recording made by the Argonne Na-tional Laboratory titled “To Fermi – with love” (an item that already existed in our collection as a long-playing disc record-ing). We also received a short audio recording and transcript of Lord Kelvin speaking about radioactivity, dated 1905.

The Gravity Research Foundation made its annual addi-tion of files pertaining to the 2006 Essay Contest (0.5 linear feet). This year, for the first time, the donation included a DVD (“Universal Gravitation and Autodynamics: a working quan-tum model for universal gravitation”). The Gravity Research Foundation also digitized the files from their annual contest from 1949-2006 and submitted this CD copy to the archives for research use. As further evidence of the changing nature of records, we received a set of e-mail correspondence files from Nancy Grace Roman. These records were submitted through electronic mail, printed onto archival paper and added to the archives (3 folders). Robert Ubell added to our existing collec-tion of files from his years as editor of the “Masters of Mod-ern Physics” series (0.5 linear feet). The Publishing Division of the American Institute of Physics increased its holdings in

our archives with the addition of programs and abstracts from past years of the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Annual Conference and digests of the INTERnational MAGnetics Conference (2.0 linear feet).

The Member Societies of AIP have been exceptionally active this year in preserving their historical records. The Society of Rheology increased its existing collections in our archives with the addition of the Rheology Bulletin from 1977-2005 and the society’s annual meeting programs and abstracts from 1978-2005 (0.75 linear feet), as well as a set of rosters from 1958-1996 containing lists of the officers and committee members of various Society of Rheology committees. The Acoustical Society of America also increased its holdings with the addi-tion of a publication commemorating the 75th Anniversary of ASA (1 folder), celebrated in 2004. The American Physical Society donated the records of Val Fitch (2 linear feet), con-taining files produced during his term as President of APS. The American Astronomical Society donated the audio recordings of the AAS Centennial Celebration, held in Chicago in 1999 (13 audio cassettes).

This spring the American Institute of Physics celebrated 75 years of service with a meeting at the Cosmos Club in Washing-ton, DC (where the AIP Governing Board held its initial meet-ing in 1931) and symposia held at AIP’s corporate headquarters in College Park, MD and its publishing center in Melville, NY. We are saving many materials generated by this celebration, including webcasts, taped sessions, promotional materials, and organizational records, as well as the interviews noted in the oral history section of this report.

The Niels Bohr Library received several additions to our Insti-tutional Histories collection, including a DVD commemorating the Acoustical Society of America’s 75th anniversary; a set of three DVDs from the IBM Research Center, commemorating its 60th anniversary; a pamphlet titled Official Guide: Carnegie Institute of Technology; an unpublished manuscript (101 pages) documenting the history of the Lehigh University Department

Isidor Isaac Rabi with students from Art Rich’s group during a visit to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Lawrence Jones Collection.

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of Physics, and a presentation given by Cherry Murray at a 2005 meeting of APS, outlining the history, changes and development of Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. For our biographical files we received a copy of a talk given by Lawrence Cranberg titled “Ethical Problems of Scientists.”

To our growing Miscellaneous Physics Collection, we added the following items: “Remembering the Manhattan Project: Report of the proceedings from the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s Sym-posium Report and Preservation Plan” (115 pages); a photocopy of a notebook from the files of Jules Guéron, from his uranium research (100 pages); notebooks and lecture notes from David Allen Park’s undergraduate years at Harvard (0.5 linear feet); a program from the Broadway show “Dr. Atomic” and notes from a pre-performance talk by Wolfgang Panofsky; a manuscript by Arjun Saxena titled “Important facts and clarifications of the invention and evolution of integrated circuits” (54 pages, 1 CD); and a CD containing an audiovisual presentation inspired by the audio recording of Benjamin Lee’s talk at the 1977 APS meeting in Chicago, compiled by Joo Sang Kang, Professor of Physics, Korea University.

Books

The Niels Bohr Library continues to receive many important donations of books and other printed materials, many of them difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. For example, Albert Parr from the National Institute of Standards and Technology donated George Shortley’s own copy of The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics, the classic text famous as “Condon and Shortley.” This unique copy has Shortley’s extensive mar-ginal notes, and will be locked in our rare books collection.

Several of our donations narrated the histories of physics at particular universities. Ryan E. Doezma donated Late Start, Last Finish from the University of Oklahoma Physics Depart-ment. John David Jackson donated History of the Physics De-partment: University of California, Berkeley 1950-196�, and Cyrus C. Taylor donated Physics at a Research University: Case Western Reserve 1�30-1990.

As noted in the separate article on p.7, some large collections came after we asked institutional librarians to consider sending us books that they were planning to discard. Meanwhile we got enough other large donations to keep library staff busy check-ing what we needed and cataloging the new accessions. Because our collection is already quite comprehensive, we actually need only a fraction of the useful books offered. For example, An-gela Gooden at the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library at the University of Cincinnati offered to donate nine books, but we already had copies of most of them. We did gain the second edition of the textbook Physics by Chris D. Zafiratos.

Besides rescuing what would have been library discards, we accessioned 27 books to our collection from a donation by Louis Belliveau on his retirement from the Harry Diamond Laboratory. Herbert and Frances Bernstein donated a num-ber of books from the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library, of which we accessioned 31. And AIP’s CEO Marc Brodsky offered books from his own

library, adding 24 books to our collection. Elroy O. LaCasce of Bowdoin College offered a number of books, of which we accessioned 8. We also received donations of valuable printed materials from Alice Dodge Wallace, Shaun Hardy of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institu-tion of Washington (including IUGG reports), David Park at Williams College, and Milton Katz of the SUNY College of Optometry (books on optometry and ophthalmic lenses).

Visual Archives

We now have over 8,000 images available in a greatly improved online interface. That is still only a third of the collection, and we are digitizing more photos on a regular basis. Many of the donations we received this year are now online, including im-ages we are grateful to have received from Donald Clayton, Ken Ford, Charles Hargrove (Bancroft Library), Jeff Hecht, Zdenek Herman, Hubert Lechevalier, Norton Hintz, Law-rence W. Jones, Randy J. Montoya (Sandia National Labs), Peter Prokop (Bildarchiv Austria), Dale Syphers (Bowdoin University), and Crystal Tinch (AAS). Nobel laureates Roy Glauber and Theodor W. Hänsch donated photographs of themselves at our request, and so did AIP Member Society Presidents Anthony A. Atchley, Robert Bau, John J. Hop-field, Timothy Killeen, Andrew M. Kraynik, Christie R. K. Marrian, Neal D. Shinn and J. Craig Wheeler.

Oral History Interviews

Tape-recorded interviews are the materials most used by schol-ars who visit the Library, and we have added an unusually large volume since last Fall’s report. Many have come through the History of Physicists in Industry project conducted by Joe An-derson and Orville Butler. These are structured interviews of 1-2 hours, built around questions about the administrative or-ganization and record-keeping practices of industrial research laboratories, but including a variety of interesting personal and historical information. In the fall of 2005, Anderson and Butler visited two major industrial labs. At Honeywell, they interviewed David Arch, Robert Carlson, Barry Cole, Allen Cox, Bob Horning, Burgess Johnson, Cathy Juneau, Jane Kaufenburg, and Daniel Youngner. Interviewed at Lockheed Martin were David Chennette, Rick Kendricks, Walt Mar-tin, Jeff Newmeyer, Rich Nightingale, Malcolm O’Neill, Pat Perkins, Jessica Perrine, James Ryder, and Mike Schultz.

In 2006 at General Atomics in La Jolla, Anderson and Butler interviewed David Baldwin, Doug Fouguet, Chris Hamilton, Woodie Jarrett, Linda Lanstille, John Rawls, Constantine Scheder, Arksl Shenoy, Rich Steven, and Tony Taylor. At Agilent Technologies in Santa Clara, they interviewed Cindy Alfiese, Devon Dawson, Curt Flory, Jim Hollinshorst, Mel Kronick, Steve Newton, Darlene Solomon, Hoen Storrs, Bob Taber, and Greg VanWiggeren. As another part of the project, the Center for History of Physics contracted with his-torian Sheldon Hochheiser to conduct two more extensive, au-tobiographical interview sessions with William Brinkman.

We received a large donation of video oral histories from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (81 DVDs),


focusing on physicists in medicine. These interviews were con-ducted from 1995 to 2004, but were recently reformatted from VHS to DVD.

David DeVorkin sent us 10 interviews that he conducted in Cambridge, Mass. in fall 2005. They were with Eugene Avrett, Robert Davis, Owen Gingerich, Kathy Haramundanis, Da-vid Latham, Thomas Marsden (two separate sessions), Rich-ard E. McCrosky, Leo McGrath and Charles Whitney. He also provided copies of interviews with other important figures in space astronomy: Thomas van Flandern, Steve Maran, and Victor Sablinski.

The Center’s postdoctoral historian, Babak Ashrafi, inter-viewed Joel Birnbaum (two sessions), Len Cutler, Cherry Ann Murray (two sessions), and Arno A. Penzias (two ses-sions). Stuart W. Leslie interviewed Harold Agnew (Los Ala-mos), as well as Edward Chester Creutz, Arthur Kantrow-itz of AVCO-Everett Research Lab, Tihiro Ohkawa (General Atomics) and Ronald Waltz (General Atomics). Working under a National Science Foundation grant administered by the AIP Center, Patrick McCray interviewed Michael Flatte, Olle Heinonen, Daniel Loss, Stephan von Molnar and Stu-art Wolf. Other interviews that historians sent to us for ar-chiving were Michael Gruntman by David Stern, Chester McKinney by David Blockstock, and the AVS award win-ners Dick Brundle, Jane Chang, and Stan Veprek by Paul Holloway. Joan Bromberg conducted an interview with Carol O’Alley. And Francis Slakey and Jennifer Ouellette inter-viewed Richard Garwin and Sidney Drell for APS News; here as in many of the other cases we transcribed the inter-view. Sean F. Johnston sent us an interview series relating to the history of holography. His interviews are with Steven A. Benton, Tung Hon Jeong, Emmett N. Leith, Graham Sax-by, Larry D. Siebert, and a partial interview with H. John Caulfield. Finally, an interview with Herman Zimmerman was conducted by Maiken Lolck with support from an AIP Center grant-in-aid.

The American Institute of Physics celebrated its 75th Anniver-sary in 2006, and hired Richard Kindig to produce interviews with all available important figures from our past and present, discussing AIP’s history and the role of physics in general. The results are archived on 22 DVDs, with notes but no tran-scripts. The interviewees were John A. Armstrong, Richard Baccante, Theresa C. Braun, Marc H. Brodsky, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Kenneth W. Ford, Hans Frauenfelder, Rod-erick M. Grant, William C. Kelly, H. William Koch, Glo-ria B. Lubkin, Robert H. Marks, Elaine Moran, Norman F. Ramsey, John S. Rigden, Roland W. Schmitt, Frederick Seitz, Benjamin B. Snavely, Justin T. Stimatze, James H. Stith, Darlene A. Walters and Lindsay Windsor.

Recent Publications of InterestCompiled by Babak Ashrafi

American Heritage of Invention and Technology Vol. 21, no. 4, Spring 2006: “How to detect an atomic bomb,” by T. A. Heppen-heimer. Vol. 22, no. 1, Summer 2006: “Big bang: The deadly busi-ness of inventing the modern explosives industry,” by Jack Kelly.

American Journal of Physics Vol. 74, no. 5, May 2006: “Do physicists need myths?,” by Harold I. Brown; Vol. 74, no. 6, June 2006: “Einstein, Perrin, and the reality of atoms: 1905 revisited,” by Ronald Newburgh, Joseph Peidle,and Wolfgang Rueckner. Vol. 74, no. 7, July 2006: “A selected history of ex-pectation bias in physics,” by Monwhea Jeng; “Radioactivity induced by neutrons: Enrico Fermi and a thermodynamic ap-proach to radiative capture,” by Alberto De Gregorio; “The hid-den symmetry of the Coulomb problem in relativistic quantum mechanics: From Pauli to Dirac,” by Tamari T. Khachidze and Anzor A. Khelashvili. Vol. 74, no. 9, September 2006: “Dis-missing renewed attempts to deny Einstein the discovery of special relativity,” by Roger Cerf.

Annals of Science Vol. 63, no. 2, April 2006: “Meteorology’s struggle for professional recognition in the USA (1900-1950),” by Kristine C. Harper. Vol. 63, no. 3, July 2006: “Nineteenth-century developments in coiled instruments and experiences with electromagnetic induction,” by Elizabeth Cavicchi.

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Vol. 34, May 2006: “Reflections on the conception, birth, and child-hood of numerical weather prediction,” by Edward N. Lorenz; “History and Applications of mass-independent isotope ef-fects,” by Mark H. Thiemens.

Astronomy & Geophysics Vol. 47, no.2, April 2006: “Comets from antiquity to the present day,” by Iwan Williams and Ste-phen Lowry.

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Bd. 29, Heft 1, 2006: “Das erste Jahrhundert deutschsprachiger meteorologischer Lehrbücher,” by Stefan Emeis.

The British Journal for the History of Science Vol. 39, no. 2, June 2006: “Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815-90): Engineering thermodynamics in mid-nineteenth-century France,” by Faidra Papanelopoulou.

This is our usual compilation of some (by no means all) recently published articles on the history of modern phys-ics, astronomy, geophysics and allied fields. Note that these bibliographies have been posted on our web site since 1994, and you can search the full text of all of them (along with our annual book bibliography, recent Catalog of Sources entries, exhibit materials, etc.) by using the “Search” box on our home page: www.aip.org/history/s-indx.htm. To restrict your search to the bibliographies, use the advanced search link.

The only thing wrong with scientists is that they don’t understand science. They don’t know where their own in-stitutions came from, what forces shaped them, and they are wedded to an anti-historical way of thinking which threatens to deter them from ever finding out

– Eric Larrabee


Centaurus Vol. 48, no. 2, July 2006: “Adding Velocities with-out exceeding the velocity of light: Wilhelm Wien’s algorithm (1904) and Albert Einstein’s light postulate (1905),” by Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein.

Discover Vol. 27, no. 5, May 2006: “Drake’s Brave Guess,” By Seth Shostak.

Historia ScientiarumVol. 15, no.3, March 2006: “Japanese wartime geology: a case study in northeast china,” by Michiko Yahima.

History of Science Vol. 44, part 1, no. 143, March 2006: “An Hiatus in history: The British claim for Neptune’s co-predic-tion, 1845-1846” (parts 1 and 2) by Nicholas Kollerstrom; “The Archaeology of the inverse square law: (2) The Use and non-use of mathematics,” by Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Vol. 36, no. 2, March 2006: “The rush to accelerate: Early stag-es of nuclear physics research in Australia,” by R.W. Home; “Yoshio Nishina and two cyclotrons,” by Dong-Won Kim; “Accelerators and politics in postwar Japan,” by Morris F. Low; “Particle accelerators in Mexico,” by María De La Paz Ramos Lara; “The quest for the Brazilian synchrocyclotron,” by Ana M. Ribeiro De Andrade and R.P.A. Muniz; “Brazilian synchrocyclotron light,” by Marcelo Baumann Burgos; “Politi-cal storms, financial uncertainties, and dreams of ‘big science:’ The construction of a heavy ion accelerator in Argentina,” by Diego Hurtado De Mendoza and Ana Maria Vara; “Chemical free energies and the third law of thermodynamics,” by Patrick Coffey.

History and Technology Vol. 22, no. 3, September 2006: “Interpreting the Moon landings: Project Apollo and the his-torians,” by Roger D. Launius; “A Nordic satellite project un-derstood as a trans-national effort,” by Nina Wormbs; “The Materiality of microelectronics,” by Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock.

Isis, 2006: Vol. 97, no. 2, 2006: “‘For slow neutrons, slow pay:’ Enrico fermi’s patent and the U.S. atomic energy program, 1938-1953,” by Simone Turchetti; “A Lead user of instruments in science: John D. Roberts and the adaptation of nuclear mag-netic resonance to organic chemistry, 1955-1975,” by Carsten Reinhardt; “Device physics vis--vis fundamental physics in Cold War America: The case of quantum optics,” by Joan Lisa Bromberg.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage Vol. 9, no.1, June 2006: “The Beginnings of radio astronomy in the Neth-erlands,” by Hugo van Woerden and Richard Strom; “From Potts Hill (Australia) to Pune (India): The journey of a radio astronomer,” by Govind Swarup; “Bruce Slee and Ron Bur-man: The genesis of solar radio astronomy in Australia,” by Wayne Orchiston; “Arthur Beer and his relations with Einstein and the Warburg Institute,” by Hilmar W. Duerbeck and Peter Beer; “A Brief history of the Astrophysical Research Consor-tium and the Apache Point Observatory,” by Jim Peterson and Glen Mackie.

Journal for the History of Astronomy Vol. 37, part 2, no. 127, May 2006: “Stellar structure and evolution, 1924-1939,” by Karl Hufbauer. Vol. 37, part 3, no. 128, August 2006: “Be-yond the big galaxy: The structure of the stellar system 1900-1952,” by Robert W. Smith.

La Recherche May-July 2006: “L’atome piégé par le « plan Marshall »,” by John Krige.

Perspectives on Science Vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2006: “The crafting of scientific meaning and identity: Exploring the per-formative dimensions of Michael Faraday’s texts,” by Ronald Anderson; “From Phenomenology to field theory: Faraday’s visual reasoning,” by David C. Gooding; “Faraday and Piaget: Experimenting in relation with the world,” by Elizabeth Cavic-chi; “Discovering discovery: How Faraday found the first me-tallic colloid,” by Ryan D. Tweney.

Physics in Perspective Vol. 8, no. 1, March 2006: “The Politics of memory: Otto Hahn and the Third Reich,” by Ruth Lewin Sime; “Early attempts to detect the neutrino at the Cavendish Laboratory,” by Jaume Navarro; “Berkeley and its physics her-itage,” by Per F. Dahl. Vol. 8, no. 2, May, 2006: “Otto Hahn: Responsibility and repression,” by Mark Walker; “A Different laboratory tale: Fifty years of Mössbauer spectroscopy,” by Catherine Westfall.

Physics Today April 2006: “Erskine Williamson, extreme con-ditions, and the birth of mineral physics,” by Russell J. Hem-ley; “Albert Einstein in Leiden,” by Dirk van Delft. June 2006: “The American Institute of Physics: 75 years of service,” guest editors Marc H. Brodsky and Mildred S. Dresselhaus; “Trend-spotting: Physics in 1931 and today,” by Spencer Weart; “Look-ing back and ahead at condensed matter physics,” by Marvin L. Cohen. July 2006: “Scientists, security, and lessons from the Cold War,” by Charles H. Holbrow. August 2006: “Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics,” by Isidor Isaac Rabi (transcribed and edited by R. Fraser Code).

Physics UspekhiVol. 49, no. 3, 2006: “ The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the first half-century,” by V.G. Kadyshevsky and A.N. Sissakia. Vol. 49, no. 5, 2006: “One of Gibbs’s ideas that has gone unnoticed (comment on chapter IX of his classic book),” A.D. Sukhanov, Yu G. Rudoi.

Science & Education Vol. 15, no. 5, February 2006: “Histori-cal surprises,” by Roger H. Stuewer. Vol. 15, no. 6, August 2006: “Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum,” by Pierre J. Boulos.

Science in Context Vol. 19, no. 2, June 2006: “Remarks on a new autograph letter from Augustin Fresnel: Light aberration and wave theory,” by Gildo Magalhes.

Social Studies of Science Vol. 36, no. 3, 2006: “Celebrating tomorrow today, the peaceful atom on display in the Soviet Union,” by Sonja D. Schmid. Vol. 36, No. 4, 2006: “Whose mass is it anyway? Particle cosmology and the objects of theo-ry,” by David Kaiser.


Studies In History and Philosophy of Science, Part B: Stud-ies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Vol. 37, no. 2, June 2006: “Schrödinger’s interpretation of quantum mechanics and the relevance of Bohr’s experimental critique,” by Slobodan Perovic; “Heisenberg and the wave-particle duality,” by Kristian Camilleri; “A far-reaching project behind the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity,” by Alberto De Gregorio.

Technology and Culture Vol. 47, no. 1, January 2006: “Cor-porations, universities, and instrumental communities: Com-mercializing probe microscopy, 1981-1996,” by Cyrus Mody.

Documentation Preserved, Fall 2006Compiled by Jennifer S. Sullivan

As you can see, an unusually large number of collections are in-cluded in this Newsletter’s Documentation Preserved column. In the past we’ve depended entirely on voluntary descriptions sent to us by the archives holding the collection—prompted usually by our semiannual survey of repositories. This issue’s bumper crop of collection descriptions is the result of two new Web-based ways that we gather information on collections. A growing number of archives are creating online catalogs of their archival collections, and this year we began systemati-cally checking for and, if available, searching the online cata-logs for each of the 50 or so archives that we survey every six months, taken from the 200 archives we survey over a two-year cycle. Second, we searched the Research Library Group’s new ArchiveGrid, introduced this spring, which contains near-ly a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, archives and museums. Thanks to the three sources—voluntary reports (which are still vitally important) and the two Web ven-ues—we’re pleased to be able to provide you with an unusu-ally large number of new collections. As always, more com-plete descriptions may be found in our International Catalog of Sources for Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS), online at www.aip.org/history/icos

National Library of Australia. Manuscripts Section, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.John Gatenby Bolton papers. 1940-1993. 0.56 linear meters (4 boxes).

Academia Brasileira de Ciências. Biblioteca. Rua Araújo Porto Alegre, 64, 5o andar. Castilo, Rio De Janeiro RJ CEP 20030-010, Brazil.Academia Brasileira de Ciências member files, Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 1916-[ongoing]. Restrictions: Access restricted to dossiers of living members; open access to dossiers of deceased members.

University of Alberta. University Archives, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E2, Canada. Edward Hunter Gowan scrapbook. 1935-1948. 0.03 meters. Ernest Sydney Keeping papers. 1917-1977. 0.42 meters. Donald Burton Scott papers. 1938-1975. 0.42 meters. Restrictions: Access to some series resticted. University of Alberta Nuclear Research Centre records. 1973-1991. 0.30 meters. University of Alberta Institute of Earth and Planetary Physics records. 1973-1990. 0.10 meters.

Royal Society. Library. 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, England, UK.Papers of Thomas Gold. 1944-2004. 28 boxes. Restrictions: This col-lection is open for access, some correspondence has been restricted until January 1, 2030.

St. John’s College. The Library, Cambridge CB2 1TP, England, UK.Papers and correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys. 1886-1999. 68 boxes.

University of Bath. Library, University Archives. Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, England, UK.Papers and correspondence of Albert Freedman. circa 1929-2004. 37 boxes. Restrictions: collection open by appointment with the Archivist.

University of Bristol. Arts and Social Sciences Library, Special Col-lections. Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 ITJ, England, UK. Papers and correspondence of Andrew Keller. 1944-2001. 125 boxes.Papers and correspondence of Sir Alec (Alexander Walter) Merrison. 1931-2001. 39 boxes and oversize items (circa 910 items).

Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg. Mission culture scientifique et technique. 7, rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France. Records of the Université Louis Pasteur nuclear reactor service. 1964-2002. 6.14 linear meters (42 cartons). Restrictions: Open subject to authorization. Records of the Institut de physique de Strasbourg, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg. Institut de physique. 1867-1992. 3.2 linear meters (49 cartons). Restrictions: Records relating to personnel (1 IPS 13-15) closed.

American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. Records of the Executive Office of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1907-1989. 70.55 linear feet. Records of Science and policy programs of the American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science. 1954-1994. 158.75 linear feet. Restrictions: Cases containing sensitive and graphic information may be restricted. Researchers must obtain access permission from pro-gram staff. Membership and meetings records, American Ass ciation for the Ad-vancement of Science. 1848-[ongoing]. Records of Education and human resources programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1953-1995. 90+ linear feet.

L-R: Donald Herriott, Ali Javan and William Bennett with the first helium-neon laser. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Hecht Collection.


American Philosophical Society. Library. 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA. Leonard Carmichael papers. circa 1917-1973. 183 linear feet (circa 180,000 items). Thomas H. Court collection on microscopes and other optical instru-ments. 1588-1935. 5 linear feet. George Howard Darwin letters. 1834-1881. 5 items. John Dovaston astronomical notebook. 1764-1799. 1 volume (131 pages). Benjamin Vaughan papers. 1746-1900. 13.25 linear feet.

Brown University. The John Hay Library, University Archives. Providence, RI 02912, USA. Ladd Observatory papers. circa 1875-1971. circa 27 linear feet. Re-strictions: The bulk of this material is stored off site and cannot be seen at the Library without making an appointment. Ladd Observatory scrapbook of clippings relating to astronomy. 1917-1939. 1 volume (253 pages). Albert Michelson manuscripts of Experimental determination of the velocity of light. circa 1882. 1 volume (114 pages).

California Institute of Technology. Institute Archives. 1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Oral history interview with Noel R. Corngold. October 11 - October 16, 2002. Transcript: [ii], 73 leaves (2 sessions). Interviews were con-ducted by Sarah Lippincott. Restrictions: Permission to quote or cite required from CalTech. Arthur L. Klein papers. 1928-1974. 1.5 linear feet. Bruce H. Morgan lecture notes. 1953-1954. 0.25 linear feet. Oral history interview with John Robinson Pierce. 1979 April 16 - April 27, 1979. Transcript: vi, 47 pages. (3 sessions). Interviews were conducted by Harriett Lyle. Restrictions: Permission to quote or cite required from CalTech. Russell W. Porter drawings. 1928-1945. 1.5 linear feet.

Case Western Reserve University. Kelvin Smith Library. Special Collections. 11055 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106-7151, USA. William D. Buckingham collection. 1925-1968. 3 boxes.

Central State University. Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library. University Archives. Box 1006, Wilberforce, OH 45384, USA. Herman R. Branson papers. 1952-1970. circa 8 linear feet.

Chemical Heritage Foundation. Roy Eddleman Institute for In-terpretation and Outreach. 315 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA. Papers of Robert G. Parr. 1941-2003. 69 linear feet. Restrictions: A lim-ited number of files are restricted due to their confidential academic nature —these files are notated as such in the finding aid.

Chicago Historical Society. Prints and Photographs. Clark Street and North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. Photographs of Argonne National Laboratory. 1949-1952. 23 pho-tographic prints.

City College of the City. University of New York, Archives and Special Collections, North Academic Center, New York, NY 10031, USA. Alfred G. Compton papers. 1853-1965. 1.2 cubic feet.

Columbia University. Oral History Research Office. Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA. Reminiscences of Athelstan Spilhaus. 1980. 461 pages. Interviewed by Frederick Peterson Jessup.

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New York, NY 10027, USA. Ian Vlodarskii papers. 1960-1969. circa 125 items (1 box).

Cornell University. Carl A. Kroch Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory Electrical Engineering reports by Marshall H. Cohen. 1950-1960. 1 cubic foot. Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory Electrical Engineering reports, by Donald F. Holcomb. 1952-2004. 7 cubic feet.Cornell on Mars press kit. 2004. 1 folder. Cornell University Department of Astronomy Records. 1903-2004. 1 volume and 0.1 cubic foot. Kenneth I. Greisen lecture notes. 1940. 1 volume. Paul Hartman papers. 1944-1993. 2 cubic feet. P. Gerald Kruger letters. 1926-1931, 2002. 0.3 cubic feet.

Dartmouth College. Library. Special Collections Dept. Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Dartmouth College Observatory record of astronomical observa-tions. 1850-1851. 1 volume (117 pages). Robert L. Long, Jr. papers. 1956-1958. 40.75 linear feet (2 boxes).

Dudley Observatory. Archives. 107 Nott Terrace, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA. Papers of James H. Armsby. 1851-1864. 2 boxes. Dudley Observatory observational journals. 1859-1883. 19 volumes.

Duke University Medical Center. Archives and Memorabilia. DUMC 3702, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Papers of David E. Yount. 1949-2000. 21 linear feet (14 boxes).

Fisk University. Library. Special Collections. Nashville, TN 37208-3051, USA. Augustus Shaw records. 1925-1926. 0.5 linear feet.

Georgetown University. Library. Special Collections Division. 37th and O Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20057, USA. Reverend James Curley papers. 1832-1889. 2 boxes. Friar A. W. Forstall papers. 1880-1910. 0.5 box.

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Archives. Stan-ford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky records. 1975-1998. 33 manuscript boxes.

Huntington Library. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA. Paul W. Merrill papers. 1922-1961. 15 boxes.

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. James Madison Me-morial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue, S. E., Washington, DC 20540, USA . Federal science & technology policy, by D. Allan Bromley. 1 video-cassette Dana family papers. 1805-1961. 9 microfilm reels. Papers of Glenn Theodore Seaborg. 1866-1999. 407.4 linear feet. Restrictions: Classified, in part.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA. 02139, USA. Department of Nuclear Engineering curriculum materials. 1952-1990. 104 cubic feet (104 records cartons).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ames Research Center. Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA. Ames Research Center archives reference collection. 1939-1998. 19 linear feet.


National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST Research Library and NIST Archives, Information Services Division. 100 Bureau Drive, MS 2500, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. Oral history interviews conducted by Karma Beal and others with: Ernest Ambler, 1988. 103 pages total. Peter L. Bend-er, 1987. 8 pages total. Bascomb Birmingham, 1987. 10 pag-es total. Lewis Branscomb, 1988. Richard K. Cook, 1988. 31 pages. Marilyn E. Jacox, 1998. 36 pages. Johanna (Anneke) M.H. Levelt Sengers, 1996 and 1997. 76 pages. Elio Passaglia, 1981, 1988. 16 pages. John A. Simpson, 1993 May 20. 18 pages. Oral history interview conducted by Dr. Karl Kessler and Walter Weinstein with: Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 1981. 34 pages. Remembering Edward Condon oral history interview. 1986. 69 pages.

Naval Historical Center. Operational Archives Branch. Washing-ton Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060, USA. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory records. 1942-1956. 2 cubic feet.

New York Public Library. Rare Books and Manuscripts Division. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA. Gherardi Davis papers. 1828-1940. 3 linear feet (8 boxes).

New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. New York, NY 10037, USA. H. Mack Thaxton papers. 1961-1963. 25 items (1 folder).

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Cen-ter, NCSU Libraries. Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111, USA. John Bewley Derieux papers. 1902-1961. 2 linear feet. Alfred Alexander Dixon papers. 1909-1939. 0.25 linear feet. North Carolina State University. Dept. of Physics records. 1959-1983. 0.5 linear feet. Dale Sayers papers. circa 1975-2005. 60 linear feet. Restrictions: Access is restricted until collection is processed. Please contact the repository for details. Superconducting super collider publications collection. 1989-2003. 3.5 linear feet. Restrictions: Access is restricted until collection is processed. Please contact the repository for details.

Northeastern University Libraries. Archives and Special Collections. Boston, MA 02115, USA. Albert James Augustine papers. 1927-1935. 0.15 cubic feet (1 box). Beverly C. Dunn, Jr. papers. 1927-1935. 0.5 cubic feet (1 box). Restrictions: Student records (box 1, folder 1) are restricted until 2045.

Ohio State University. University Archives. 2700 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Antarctic deep freeze oral history collection. circa 1950-1959. 81 audio cassettes. 2 VHS video cassettes. Alfred D. Cole papers. 1861-1928. 17 items. David O. Edwards papers. 1961-1993. 9.5 cubic feet. Oral history interview with John Kraus. 2002. 1 sound cassette (90 minutes). Interview conducted by Robert Wagner.

Oregon State University Libraries. University Archives. Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Oceanography: The Making of a Science video. 110 VHS videocassettes (60 minutes each), 1 file folder of additional material. Oregon State University Atmospheric Sciences

Department records. 1968-1991. .25 cubic feet. Oregon State University. Dept. of Physics records. 1909-1974. 2 cubic feet. Radiation Center records. 1969-2000. 1 cubic foot. Willibald Weniger papers. 1908-1955. 0.1 cubic feet. Willibald Weniger photograph collection. circa 1905-1930. 0.25 cu-bic feet (circa 600 prints and 40 negatives).

Pikes Peak Library District. Special Collections. Colorado Springs, CO 80901, USA. International Tesla Society records. 1984-1990. 0.4 cubic feet (1 box). Tesla Book Company collection. 1886-1985 4.4 cubic feet (12 boxes).

Princeton University. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collec-tions, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Stephen Alexander collection. 1827-1882. 0.4 cubic feet (1 box). Albert Einstein collection. 1913-1975. .67 linear feet (1 records box, 1 oversize print box). William Francis Magie papers. 1875-1945. .20 linear feet. Hyatt and Mayer collection. 1804-1921. 5.1 linear feet (9 boxes and 8 volumes). Project Matterhorn publications and reports. 1951-1958. 3 linear feet (3 boxes). Howard C. Rice collection on the Rittenhouse Orrery. 1943-1954. 2.5 cubic feet.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Schlesinger Library. Cambridge MA 02138, USA. Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas papers. 1890-1997. 0.4 linear feet.

Rice University. Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center. P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA. William E. Gordon papers. 1947-1994. 12 boxes (12 cubic feet). Richard E. Smalley papers. 1990-1998. 3 cubic feet.

Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and Archives. New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. John Maurer papers. 1928-1987. 27 cubic feet (8 cartons, 2 manu-script boxes, and 26 oversize boxes).

Gordon Gould (left) with Ben Senitsky at TRG with millimeter wave amplifier.Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Hecht Collection;.

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Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History Archives Center. MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20560, USA. Institute for Advanced Study Electronic Computer Project draw-ings. 1949-1961. 2 cubic feet: 1 folder, 3 boxes. Orlan W. Boston papers. 1926-1947. 0.3 cubic feet: 1 box. Nobel Voices Video History Project collection. 2000-2001. 3 cubic feet (20 boxes). Innovative Lives program collection. 1995-2005. 13.15+ cubic feet (20 boxes). Jack Kilby manuscript. 1951. 0.05 cubic feet: 1 folder. Emilio Segrè collection. 1942-1997. 0.25 cubic feet.

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum. Ar-chives. Washington, D.C., 20560, USA. Farouk El-Baz collection on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Earth Ob-servation and Photography Experiment. 1975. 3.6 cubic feet (7 legal document boxes). Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl collection. 1947-1968. 6 boxes and 1 oversize. Werner Neupert collection on the Orbiting Solar Observatory Pro-gram. 2.18 cubic feet (2 records center boxes). John A. O’Keefe collection. undated. 31.61 cubic feet (29 record cen-ter boxes). S. Fred Singer papers. 1953-1989. 54.5 cubic feet (50 records center boxes).

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. National Museum of American His-tory, Washington, DC 20560, USA. Arno Brasch scrapbook. circa 1927-1939. 1 volume. Memorandum on a 250 foot aperture steerable radio telescope, by Bernard Lovell. circa 1951. 1 volume. Walther Müller physics laboratory notebooks. circa 1926-1929. 5 volumes. Project Matterhorn Stellarator Division log book. 1952 July 8-1953 June 11. 1 volume. Norman Ramsey collection on the Manhattan Project. 1945-1946. 24 items (4 folders).

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections. Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Ames Research Center publications. 1958-2000. 4 linear feet. Walter E. Meyerhof papers. 1948-1994. 25.5 linear feet. Ervin J. Nalos papers. 1939-1950. 3 linear feet. Frank K. Pomeroy notebook. 1909. 0.25 linear feet. M. M. Schiffer papers. 1953-1979. 2.4 linear feet. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See papers. 1891-1970. 1.5 linear feet. W. W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics records. 1947-1964. 15 lin-ear feet.

State University of New York at Stony Brook. Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library. Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. Clarence Weston Hansell papers. 1928-1967. 11.2 cubic feet (15 boxes). Vance Lewis Sailor collection. 1970-1995. 9 cubic feet.

Swarthmore College. Friends Historical Library. 500 College Av-enue Swarthmore, PA, 19081, USA. Swarthmore College Astronomy department records. 1899-1986. 16 linear feet. Restrictions: Access restricted. Consult repository for details.

United States Naval Observatory. Library. 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20392-5420, USA. United States Observatory Oral History Project interviews. 1983-2005. 48 transcripts.

University of Alaska. Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. Alaska & Polar Regions Department. Oral History Unit. Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. Oral history interview with Syun-Ichi Akasofu. 1985. 48 transcripts. 1 session. Interview conducted by Dan O’Neil. Science and scientists, some recollections by Sydney Chapman. Re-corded in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 8, 1965 and December 16, 1966. 3 sound tape reels. Oral history interview with T. Neil Davis. 1968. 1 session. Talk by Robert Hunsucker at a geophysical retirement seminar . 1987 December 17. 1 session. Oral history interview with Keith Mather. 1992. 1 session, 1.5 hours. Geophysical Institute 50th anniversary celebration recordings. 1998-2001. 10 sessions (8 interviews and 2 panel sessions). Inter-views conducted by Bill Schneider.

University of California, San Diego. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Keith A. Brueckner administrative records. 1959-1970. 7.2 linear feet (18 archives boxes). Margaret Burbidge interview. 1982. 1 sound cassette. Richard Lingenfelter papers. 1980-1999. 17.53 linear feet (44 ar-chives boxes and 1 oversize folder). Stanford S. Penner papers. 1938-1998. 3.5 linear feet (7 archives boxes, 4 oversize folders, and 4 art bin items). Laurence Peterson papers. 1954-1995. 8 linear feet (81 archives boxes and 10 records cartons). Reuven Ramaty papers. 1963-1999. 17.80 linear feet (44 archives boxes and 8 oversize folders). University of California, San Diego Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences records. 1979-1995. 4 linear feet (4 record cartons). White Mountain Research Station administrative files. 1949-1996. 9.7 linear feet (21 archives boxes, 1 card file box, and 6 oversize folders).

University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. Jean Storke Menzies collection. 1951-1993. 25 linear feet (32 boxes).

University of Chicago. The Joseph Regenstein Library. Depart-ment of Special Collections. 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, Il 60637, USA. Albert Einstein correspondence with Charles Wegener. 1954 August - September. 1 folder. George Ellery Hale papers. circa 1889-1950. 0.5 linear feet (1 box). University of Chicago Innominates/X-Club records. 1917-1982. 2.75 linear feet (6 boxes).

University of Connecticut Libraries. Archives and Special Collec-tions. Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. Robert M. Thorson papers, 1851-2005. 0.5 linear feet.

University of Idaho. Library. Special Collections and Archives. Moscow, ID 83853, USA. Samuel S. M. Chan papers, 1962-1988. 1 cubic foot. Guide to the University of Idaho Research Office Records, 1945-1982. 7.5 cubic feet.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives. Room 19, Library, 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Don C. DeVault papers, 1956-1990. 8.0 cubic feet. Sidney B. Gaythorpe papers, 1903-1961. 0.6 cubic feet. George W. Myers papers, 1887-1925. 0.1 cubic feet. Joel Stebbins papers, 1907-1957. 0.1 cubic feet. John A. Thornton papers, 1943-1991. 3.0 cubic feet. Restriction: Box 5 has access restrictrions; contact repository for details. Astronomical Society records, 1980-1989. 0.1 cubic feet.


University of Iowa Libraries. Main Library. Archives. Iowa City, IA 52242-1420, USA. Vivian E. Hickman collection, 1991-1996. 1 item. Harry F. Olson papers, 1938-1966. 0.25 linear feet. C.C. (Charles Clayton) Wylie papers, 1910-1960. 0.5 linear feet.

University of Maryland. Hornbake Library. Archives and Manu-scripts Department. College Park, MD 20742, USA. Frank J. Kerr papers, 1945-2000. 39.5 linear feet. John S. Toll papers, 1943-1991. 27.0 linear feet.

University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute. Center for the History of Computing. University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Calvin N. Mooers papers, 1930-1990. 28.0 cubic feet.

University of Pennsylvania. Archives. North Arcade, Franklin Field, Philadelphia PA 19104-6320, USA. Oral history interview with Herman P. Schwan [video-recording]. 3 videotapes. Flower and Cook Observatory records, 1875-1987. 5.0 cubic feet. Oral history interview with Walter D. Wales [video-recording]. 1987. 3 videotapes.

University of Pennsylvania. Van Pelt-Dietrich Li-brary Center. Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206, USA. John Ewing notebooks on astronomy and physics, 1959. 1 item. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Depart-ment of Physics letter to Lewis Mumford, 1851-2005. 0.5 linear feet.

University of Rochester. Rush Rhees Library, Dept. of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Archives, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. Papers of the Department of Physics, 1929-1946. 3 boxes. Institute of Applied Optics records, 1917-1936. 2 boxes.

University of Texas at Austin. Center for American History. University Archives. Faculty Papers Collec-tion. Austin, TX 78713, USA. Papers of Bryce S. DeWitt, 1950-2005. 6.3 linear feet. Restriction: Restricted access to glass plates. All other materials unrestricted. Access to glass plates arranged by appointment only. Contact archivist for details. W. F. Eberlein papers, 1936-1986. 16.0 linear feet. Walter E. Millett papers, 1923-2003. 10.0 linear feet. Franklin E. Roach papers, 1955-1972. 1.0 linear foot.

University of Utah. Marriott Library. Special Collec-tions. Manuscript Division. Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. James Gilbert Black papers, 1921-1983. 0.9 cubic feet.

University of Washington Libraries. University Ar-chives. Mailstop #0-10. Seattle, WA 98195, USA. David Bodansky Papers, 1955-2001. 4.45 cubic feet. Restriction: 1 file is restricted. Contact repository for details.

Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Spe-cial Collections & Archives. Logan, UT 84322-3000, USA. Wilford R. Gardner papers, 1904-2002. 68 boxes.

Washington State University Libraries. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections. Pullman, WA, 99164-5610, USA. William Band papers, 1857-1989. 4.0 linear feet.

Western Kentucky University. Kentucky Library, Manuscripts Section. Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA. George Vernon Page papers, 1942-1951. 0.2 cubic feet.

Yale University Library. Manuscripts and Archives. Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Gibbs Symposium records [videorecording], 1964-1989. 15 videotapes. Arthur Williams Wright papers, 1755-1876. 0.75 linear feet. Department of Physics records, circa 1910-1975. 0.5 linear feet. Re-striction: Access is partially restricted. Details available at repository.

Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg engaged in a long and intimate collaboration through the 1930s, creating the quantum physics that has radically transformed philosophy and daily life. Michael Frayn’s recent play Copenhagen is bringing this extraordinary chapter in the history of physics to a wide audience, portray-ing the collaboration’s deep friendship, intellectual rivalry, and final collapse. As a side-effect of the play’s popularity, the Center for History of Physics has received dozens of requests for copies of the photograph shown here. The image illuminates, in a compact and moving fashion, the collaboration of the two great physicists at its peak.

This is one of two photographs taken in 193� by a teenage boy, Paul Ehrenfest, Jr., son of the noted physicist Ehrenfest senior. Copies wound up in the hands of Victor Weisskopf, another of the many outstanding scientists who passed through Bohr’s institute in Copenhagen. Weisskopf eventually donated his photograph collection to the Center. Ehrenfest’s snapshots are now included in the selection of images (about one-third of AIP’s holdings) available online in the Center’s Emilio Segrè Visual Archives at http://photos.aip.org

We stand as silent visitors in the lunchroom of Bohr’s institute. Note the Carlsberg beer bottles: Bohr and his group were partly supported by a bequest from the founder of the brewery. The world-famous teacher and his greatest student are eating, drinking, laughing and — as usual — vigorously arguing.

Somebody, presumably Weisskopf or Ehrenfest junior, wrote on the back of this photo that shows Bohr speaking: “Ja, ja, Heisenberg, aber– ” (“Yes, yes, Heisen-berg, but– ”).

Recent Publications on the History of PhysicsA supplement to the Newsletter of The Center for History of Physics/Niels Bohr Library

and The Forum for History of Physics, American Physical SocietyCompiled by Per and Eleanor Dahl

BOOKS

This list is the thirteenth of an annual series. It includes books on the history of modern physics and related topics (including astronomy, geophysics, and physics in medicine) published in 2004 or later. (See earlier lists for details on how the list is prepared.) Articles in journals are listed elsewhere in the Newsletter.

For more comprehensive coverage of publications on the history of science, consult the annual Current Bibliography in Isis(published by the University of Chicago Press for the History of Science Society). Publications on the history of astronomy are listed in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage.

We suggest that you use this list to recommend books for your institution’s library; ISBN numbers are given, when available, for this purpose. Prices (which are for hardcover editions unless otherwise indicated) are subject to change by the publisher.

Permission is hereby granted to copy freely all or part of this list for any educational purpose. More extensive versions of this and the previous lists are available on the Center’s web site at:

www.aip.org/history/web-news.htm#bibl

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COLLECTED WORKS (including unpublished papers)............................................................................................ 141HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY & SPACE SCIENCES..................................... 141HISTORY OF PHYSICS............................................................................................................................................. 141HISTORY OF SCIENCE............................................................................................................................................. 142INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE................................................................................................. 142PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE..................................................................................................................................... 143SCIENCE AND SOCIETY.......................................................................................................................................... 143SCIENCE AND ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MUSIC........................................................................................... 144SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC POLICY................................................................................................ 144SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – ENERGY, EFFECTS ON ENVIRONMENT..................................................... 144SCIENCE AND THE MILITARY; ATOMIC WEAPONS.......................................................................................... 144COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES (3 or more Scientists)................................................................................................ 145HISTORY OF EARTH SCIENCES............................................................................................................................. 145HISTORY OF INSTRUMENTS.................................................................................................................................. 146HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.................................................................................................................................. 146HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.................................................................................................................................... 147INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; ANALYSES OF A SCIENTISTS WORK..................... 147REFERENCE WORKS: ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, etc. .......................................................................... 149TEXTS, LECTURES, AND POPULAR WRITINGS BY SCIENTISTS.................................................................... 149

INDEX.....................................................................................please search our web site at www.aip.org/history/s-indx.htm

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COLLECTED WORKS OF SCIENTISTS (including unpublished papers)

[Descartes, René] Aczel, Amir D. Descartes’ Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe. xiv + 273 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Broadway Books, 2005. ISBN 0-7679-2033-3 (hc) $24.05.

[Einstein, Albert] Brockman, John (ed.) My Einstein Essays by Twenty-Four of the World’s Leading Thinkers on the Man, his Work, and his Legacy. xvi + 259 pp. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. ISBN 0-375-42345-1 (hc) $25.00.

[Yang, Chen Ning] Yang, Chen Ning. Selected Papers (1945-1980) of Chen Ning Yang. 624 pp. Singapore: World Scientific Publish-ing Co., 2005. ISBN 981-256-367-9 $48.00.

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY & SPACE SCIENCES

Basdevant, Jean-Louis; Rich, James; Spiro, Michel. Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics: From Nuclear Structure to Cosmology. 515 pp. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN 0-387-01672-4 (hc) $79.95.

Chien, P. Columbia—Final Voyage: The Last Flight of NASA’s First Space Shuttle. 454 pp. New York: Copernicus Books/Springer, 2006. ISBN 0-387-27148-1 $27.50.

Farrell, John. The Day Without Yesterday. Lemaìtre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology. viii + 261 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005. ISBN 1-56025-660-5 (hc) $24.95.

Halpern, Paul; Wesson, Paul. Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos. viii + 264 pp., illus., notes, index. Wahington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2006. ISBN 0-309-10137-9 (hc) $27.95.

Johnson, George. Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. xiv + 162 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. ISBN 0-393-05128-5.

Kanipe, Jeff. Chasing Hubble’s Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time. ix + 205 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. ISBN 0-8090-3406-9 (hc) $24.00.

King, D. A. (ed.) In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civi-lization. xxvi + 1066 pp., figs., apps., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. ISBN 900414188X.

Mackowski, M. P. Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. 289 pp. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58544-439-1 (hc) $49.95.

Pyle, R. Destination Moon: The Apollo Missions in the Astronaut’s Own Words. 192 pp. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-087349-3 $24.95.

Sobel, Dava. The Planets. iv + 270 pp., bibl., index. New York: Viking Press, 2005. ISBN 0-670-03446-0 (hc) $24.95.

Vilenkin, Alex. Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes. viii + 235 pp., illus., notes, index. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-8090-9523-0 (hc) $24.00.

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

Baker, Gregory L.; Blackburn, James A. The Pendulum: A Case Study in Physics. xii + 300 pp., figs., bibl., index. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0198567545 (hc) $89.50.

Cashmore, Roger; Maiani, Luciano; Revol, Jean-Pierre (eds.) Prestigious Discoveries at CERN: 1973 Neutral Currents, 1983 W & Z Bosons. Springer. ISBN 3540207503 (hc) $59.95.

Dardo, Mauro. Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics. xi + 533 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521832470 (hc) $110.00.

Darrigol, Oliver. Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl. xiv + 300 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0198568436 (hc) $64.50.

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Kaiser, David. Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. xix + 469 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0226422674 (pb) $30.00.

Massimi, Michela. Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle. xiv + 211 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521839114 (hc) $75.00.

Morus, Iwan Rhys. When Physics Became King. xii + 303 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0226542025 (pb) $25.00.

Steinberger, Jack. Learning About Particles—50 Privileged Years. x + 181 pp., figs., bibl. New York/Berlin: Springer, 2005. ISBN 3540213295 (hc) $49.95.

Steinle, Friedrich. Explorative Experimente: Ampere, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik. Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Boethius Band 50. 450 pp., apps., tables, bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3515081852 (hc) Eu80.00.

Watson, Andrew. The Quantum Quark. x + 464 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521829070 (hc) $30.00.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Calaprice, Alice. The Einstein Almanac. xvii + 174 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0801880211 (hc) $24.95.

Darling, David. Gravity’s Arc: The Story of Gravity, from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond. ix + 278 pp., refs., bibl., index. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006. ISBN 0-471-71989-7 (hc) $24.95.

Finocchiaro, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992. xii + 485 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 0520242610 $50.00.

Lightman, Alan; Jesse Cohen (eds.) The Best American Science Writing, 2005. xiii + 303 pp. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 0-06-072642-3 (pb) $13.95.

McMullin, Ernan (ed.) The Church and Galileo. Studies in Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. xiii + 319 pp., bibl., index. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. ISBN 0268034842 (hc) $60.00.

Miller, David Philip. Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. 330 pp., illus. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-7546-3177-X (hc) $109.95.

Preston, Diana. Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. xiv + 400 pp., notes, bibl., index. New York: Berkley Books, 2005. ISBN 0-425-20789-7 (pb) $15.00.

Raymo, Chet. Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian. xiii + 194 pp., illus., index. New York: Walker & Company, 2006. ISBN-13 978-08027-1494-7 (hc) $27.95.

Seife, Charles. Decoding the Universe. How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From Our Brains to Black Holes. v + 296 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Viking, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03441-X (hc) $24.95.

Watson, Peter. Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud. xix + 822 pp., notes, index. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-621064-X (hc) $29.95.

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE

Brown, Louis. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. (Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Volume II.) xviii + 295 pp., figs., apps., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521830796 (hc) $107.95.

Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. 662 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0226109216 (hc) $45.00.


Cullen, Vicky. Down to the Sea for Science: 75 Years of Ocean Research Education, and Exploration at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. ix + 174 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Woods Hole, MA: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2005. ISBN 1880224097 (pb) $20.00.

Fox, Robert; Gooday, Graeme (eds.) Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning, and College Life. xix + 363 pp., frontis., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0198567928 (hc) $134.50.

Gorn, M. NASA: The Complete Illustrated History. 304 pp. New York: Merrell, 2005. ISBN 1-85894-254-3 (hc) $39.95.

Lord, M. G. Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science. 259 pp. New York: Walker, 2005. ISBN 0-8027-1427-7 $24.00.

Low, Morris (ed.) Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond. xiv + 242 pp., illus., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 1403968322 (hc) $65.00.

Norberg, Arthur L. Computers and Commerce. A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, En-gineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957. x + 347 pp., figs., index. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 2005. ISBN 026214090X (hc) $40.00.

Pirtle III, C. Engineering the World: Stories from the First 75 Years of Texas Instruments. 266 pp. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-87074-502-6 $27.95.

Sandage, Allan. The Mount Wilson Observatory. (Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Volume I.) xiii + 647 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521830788 (hc) $107.95.

Yoder, Hatten S., Jr. The Geophysical Laboratory. (Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Volume III.) xiv + 270 pp., figs., tables, apps., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 052183080X (hc) $107.95.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Brown, Harvey R. Physical Relativity. Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective. 340 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-927583-1 (hc) $55.00.

Dowe, Phil. Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of Science, Reason, and Religion. viii + 205 pp. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2005. ISBN 0802826962 $24.00.

Finkbeiner, Ann. The Jasons. The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite. xxx + 304 pp., notes, index. New York: Viking, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03489-4 (hc) $27.95.

Reisch, George. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. xiv + 418 pp., illus., figs., index. New York: Cambridge Uni-versity Press, 2005. ISBN 0521546893 (pb) $26.99.

Ryckman, Thomas. The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics 1915-1925. ix + 317 pp., apps., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-517717-7 (hc) $79.95.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Ball. P. The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. 436 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. ISBN 0-374-22979-1 (hc) $27.00.

Basalla, George. Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials. 247 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-517181-0 (hc) $29.95.

Grant, Edward. Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus. 328 pp., index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN 0801884012 (pb) $22.00.

Knight, David M.; Eddy, Matthew D. (eds.) Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900. 286 pp., illus., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7 (hc) $94.95.

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Olson, Richard G. Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin. 312 pp. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Uni-versity Press, 2006. ISBN 0801884004 (pb) $19.95.

Silver, Lee M. Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life. xvi + 444 pp., notes, bibl., index. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-06-058267-8 (hc) $26.95.

Ward, Keith. Pascal’s Fire: Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding. xiv + 270 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: One World Publications, 2006. ISBN-13 978-1-85168-446-5 (pb) $14.95.

SCIENCE AND ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MUSIC

Atalay, B. Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci. xix + 314 pp., illus., bibl., notes, index. New York: Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-085119-8 (pb) $12.95.

Evens, Aden. Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience. 224 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN 081664537X (pb) $23.50. ISBN 0816645361 (hc) $70.00.

Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. 264 pp., illus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-691-12150-8 (hc) $29.95.

SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC POLICY

Conway, Erik M. High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999. xvii + 369 pp., index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 080188067X (hc) $49.95.

Kessler, Andy. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets. 262 pp. New York: Collins/Harper Collins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-084097-8 $14.95.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – ENERGY, EFFECTS ON ENVIRONMENT

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. 381 pp. New York: At-lantic Monthly Press, 2006. ISBN 0-87113-935-9 $24.00.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. 325 pp., illus. Emmans, PA: Rodale, 2006. ISBN 1-59486-567-1 (pb) $21.95.

Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change. Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilization. x + 302 pp., index. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN 0-684-86352-9 (hc) $26.00.

SCIENCE AND THE MILITARY; ATOMIC WEAPONS

Beason, Doug. The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought. xiii + 256 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0306814021 (hc) $26.00.

Dorries, Matthias (ed.) Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen in Debate: Historical Essays and Documents on the 1941 Meeting Between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. (Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Vol. 20.) viii + 195 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: Of-fice for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, 2005. ISBN 0967261724 (pb) $12.00.

Edwards, John. The Geeks of War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds behind Tomorrow’s Warfare Technologies. xvii + 221 pp., index. New York: American Management Association, 2005. ISBN 0814408524 (hc) $24.00.

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. The World of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. 387 pp., illus., table, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. (hc) $26.00.

Gibson, T. M. Los Alamos: 1944-1947. 128 pp. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005. ISBN 0-7385-2973-7 (pb) $19.99.


Grunden, Walter E. Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science. xi + 335 pp., bibl., index. Kansas: Univer-sity Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 0700613838 (hc) $39.95.

Karlsch, R. Hitler’s Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche. 415 pp. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich, Germany: Deutsche, 2005. ISBN 3-421-05809-1 Eu24.90.

Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. 272 pp. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8135-3666-9 (hc) $39.95.

Preston, Diana. Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. xiv + 400 pp., ill., bibl., index. New York: Walker & Company, 2005. ISBN 0-8027-1445-5 (hc) $27.00.

Walton, Steven A. (ed.) Instrumental in War: Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the War. (History of Warfare Vol. 28, Kelly Devries, ed.) xxiv + 414 pp., illus., index. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. ISBN 9004142819 (hc) $174.00.

COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES (3 or more Scientists)

Byers, Nina; Williams, Gary. Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics. 520 pp. New York: Cam-bridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521821975 (hc) $50.00.

Glass, I. S. Revolutionaries of the Cosmos. The Astro-Physicists. xiii + 317 pp., figs., bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0198570996 (hc) $74.50.

Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann. Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space. xiii + 274 pp., bibl., table, index. New York: Basic Books, 2004. ISBN 0262612135 (pb) $16.95.

Kojevnikov, Alexei B. Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. History of Modern Physical Sciences, Vol. 2. xxii + 360 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. London: Imperial College Press, 2004. ISBN 1860944205 (pb) $32.00.

Visser, Rob; Touret, Jacques (eds.) Dutch Pioneers of the Earth Sciences. (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, Vol. 5). xii + 200 pp., illus., figs., index. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, 2004. ISBN 9069843897 (hc) $40.00.

Webb, Richard C. Tele-visionaries: The People Behind the Invention of Television. xv + 170 pp., figs., app., index. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2005. ISBN 047171156X (hc) $49.95.

HISTORY OF EARTH SCIENCES

Clark, J.O.E. (ed.) 100 Maps: The Science, Art, and Politics of Cartography Throughout History. 256 pp. New York: Sterling, 2005. ISBN 1-4027-2885-9 $24.95.

Fisher, Irene K. Geodesy? What’s That? My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth, with a Running Commentary on Life in a Government Research Office. xx + 376 pp., figs., apps., index. New York: University Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-595-36399-7 (pb) $25.95.

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers. xv + 357 pp., illus., notes, index. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. ISBN-10: 0-87113-935-9 (hc) $24.00.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science. xxix + 346 pp., ill., bibl., index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005. ISBN 0295984821 $50.00.

Hoare, Michael Rand. The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy. xii + 275 pp., illus., apps., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-5020-0 (hc) $84.95.

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Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. 272 pp. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8135-3666-9 (hc) $39.95.

Kozak, Jan T.; Moreira, Victor S.; Oldroyd, David R. Iconography of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. 82 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Prague: Geophysical Institute of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2005. ISBN 8023943901 (hc) Eu25.

Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. 314 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN 0-684-86352-9 (hc) $26.00.

Livingstone, David N.; Withers, Charles W. J. (eds.) Geography and Revolution. viii + 433 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0226487334 (hc) $45.00.

Rudwick, Martin J. S. The New Science of Geology. Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution. 336 pp., illus. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-86078-958-6 (hc) $114.95.

Sawyer, Kathy. The Rock from Mars. A Detective Story on Two Planets. xii + 394 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. New York: Random House, 2006. ISBN 1-4000-6010-9 (hc) $25.95.

Winchester, Simon. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. xiv + 462 pp., illus., apps., index. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. ISBN-13 978-0-06-057199-3 (hc) $27.95.

HISTORY OF INSTRUMENTS

Biagioli, Mario. Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. xi + 302 pp., figs., apps., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0-226-04561-7 (hc) $35.00.

Marché II, Jordan D. Theaters of Time and Space: American Planetaria, 1930-1970. 266 pp. New Brunswick, MA: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8135-3576-X (hc) $49.95.

HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

Bardi, Jason Socrates. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time. viii + 277 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006. ISBN 1-56025-706-7 (hc) $25.00.

Berlinski, D. Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics. 197 pp. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2005. ISBN 0-679-64234-X $21.95.

Delone, B.N. The St. Petersburg School of Number Theory. Translated by Robert Burns. History of Mathematics. Volume 26. xv + 278 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2005. ISBN 0821834576 (hc) $59.00.

Derbyshire, John. Unknown Quantity. A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra. viii + 374 pp., illus., index. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2005. ISBN 0-309-09657-X $27.95.

Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. xvii + 1022 pp., figs., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Else-vier Science, 2005. ISBN 0444508716 (hc) $252.00.

Hawking, S. (ed.) God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History. 1160 pp. Philadelphia, PA: Run-ning Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7624-1922-9 $29.95.

Kaplan, Michael; Kaplan, Ellen. Chances Are: Adventures in Probability. 319 pp., illus., index. New York, NY: Viking Press, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03487-8 (hc) $26.95.

Plotkin, J.M. (ed.) Hausdorff on Ordered Sets. History of Mathematics: Sources. Vol. 25. xviii + 322 pp., app., bibl. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society; London: London Mathematical Society, 2005. ISBN 0821837885 (pb) $69.00.

Shell-Gellasch, Amy; Jardine, Dick (eds.) From Calculus to Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Class-room. xii + 255 pp., figs. Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America, 2005. ISBN 0883851784 (pb) $39.50.


HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Auyang, Sunny Y. Engineering—an Endless Frontier. 344 pp., apps., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN 674019784 (pb) $18.95.

Brown, G. I. The Big Bang: A History of Explosives. 256 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-3792-0 (pb) $19.95.

Buchanan, Brenda J. (ed.) Gunpowder, Explosives and the State. 450 pp., illus., figs., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-7546-5259-9 (hc) $99.95.

Carlson, W. Bernard (ed.) Technology in World History. Foreword by Thomas P. Hughes. 7 volumes. 700 pp., illus., gloss., index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195218205.

Copeland, B. Jack (ed.) Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker’s Struggle to Build the Modern Com-puter. 584 pp., illus., index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-856593-3 (hc) $129.95.

Dawson, Virginia P.; Bowles, Mark D. (eds.) Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003. xv + 310 pp., figs., apps., index. DVD Washington, DC: NASA, 2005. (hc)

Edwards, Steven A. The Nanotech Pioneers: Where Are They Taking Us? xiii + 244 pp., illus., index. Weinheim: Wiley John & Sons Inc., 2006. ISBN 3-527-31290-0 $27.95.

Elder, Donald C.; James, George S. (eds.) History of Rocketry and Astronautics. AAS History Series, Vol. 26. (Based on papers pre-sented at the Thirty-First History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Turin, Italy, 1997). xviii + 412 pp., illus., index. San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Society, 2005. ISBN 0877035180.

Evans, Chris; Ryden, Göran (eds.) The Industrial Revolution in Iron: The Impact of British Coal Technology in Nineteenth-Century Europe. ix + 200 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 075463390X (hc) $94.95.

Hecht, Jeff. Beam: The Race to Make the Laser. x + 284 pp., apps., bibl., index. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195142101 (hc) $29.99.

Lécuyer, C. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970. x +393pp., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-12281-2 (hc) $40.00.

Pursell, Carroll (ed.) A Hammer in Their Hands. A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience. xviii + 397 pp., illus., figs., table, index. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 2005. ISBN-13 9780262162258 (hc) $40.00.

Sargent, Ted. The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives. xvii + 234 pp., illus., refs., index. New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006. ISBN 1-56025-809-8 (hc) $25.00.

Sarkar, Tapan K.; Mailloux, Robert; Oliner, Arthur A.; Salazar-Palma, Magdalena; Sengupta, Dipak I. History of Wireless. (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering.) xix + 655 pp., index. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. ISBN 041718149 (hc) $77.99.

Smil, Vaclav. Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and their Lasting Impact. ix + 350 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195168747 (hc) $35.00.

Tucker, J. Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. 294 pp., illus. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-7991-4 (hc) $55.00.

INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; ANALYSES OF A SCIENTISTS WORK

[Armstrong, Neil A.] Hansen, James R. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. The Authorized Biography. xi + 769 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0743259637 (hc) $30.00.

[Bacon, Roger] Goldstone, Lawrence; Goldstone, Nancy. The Friar and the Cipher. Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the

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Most Unusual Manuscript in the World. xi + 320 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 2005. ISBN 0-7679-1472-4 (pb) $14.95.

[Bell, Alexander Graham] Gray, Charlotte. Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Inventing. 467 pp., apps., index. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-55970-809-3 (hc) $29.95.

[Bernal, John Desmond] Brown, Andrew. J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. xiv + 562 pp., illus., index. Oxford: Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-851544-8 (hc) $29.95.

[Bethe, Hans] Brown, Gerald E.; Lee, Chang-Hwan (eds.) Hans Bethe and His Physics. 400 pp. Singapore: World Scientific Pub-lishing Co., 2006. ISBN 981-256-609-0 (hc) $84.00.

[Birkeland, Kristian] Egeland, Alv; Burke, William J. Kristian Birkeland: The First Space Scientist. 221 pp. New York, NY: Springer Verlag, 2005. ISBN 1-4020-3293-5 (hc) $109.00.

[Boltzmann, Ludwig] Cercignani, C. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms. 329 pp. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-857064-3 (pb) $44.50.

[Curie, Marie] Poirier, Jean-Pierre. Marie Curie: et les Conquérants de l’Atome, 1896-2006. 366 pp., illus., table, bibl. Paris, France: Pygmalion, 2006. ISBN 2756400521 (pb) Euro21.50.

[Darwin, Charles] Herbert, Sandra. Charles Darwin, Geologist. xx + 485 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8014-4348-2 (hc) $35.95.

[Descartes, René] Aczel, Amir D. Descartes’ Secret Notebook: A true Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe. xiv + 273 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 2005. ISBN 0-7679-2033-3 (hc) $24.95.

[Doppler, Christian] Schuster, P. M. (Translated from German by L. Wilmes.) Moving the Stars: Christian Doppler, His Life, His Works and Principle, and the World After. 232 pp. Pöllauberg, Austria: Living Edition, 2005. ISBN 3-901585-05-2 $39.00.

[Einstein, Albert] Elzinga, Aant. Einstein’s Nobel Prize: A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors. The Archival Evidence. xii + 228 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. ISBN 881352837 (hc) $39.95.

[Einstein, Albert] Bernstein, J. Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905. 200 pp. New York, NY: Copernicus Books/Springer Verlag, 2006. ISBN 0-387-26005-6 (hc) $25.00.

[Einstein, Albert] Hentschel, Ann M.; Grasshoff, Gerd. Albert Einstein: “Those Happy Bernese Years.” 180 pp., figs., app. Bern: Staempfli Publishers Ltd, 2005. ISBN 3727211776 (pb).

[Einstein, Albert] Renn, Jürgen (ed.) Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe. Einstein’s Life and Work in Context and Documents of a Life’s Pathway. 255 pp. + 560 pp., illus., apps., bibls., indexes. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2005. ISBN 3527405712 (hc) $100.00.

[Feynman, Richard Phillips] Feynman, R. P.; Leighton, R. (eds.) Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character. x + 506 pp., illus., apps. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-06132-9 $29.95.

[Franklin, Benjamin] McCormick, B. Ben Franklin: America’s Original Entrepreneur. xvii +266 pp., index. Irvine, CA: Entrepre-neur Press, 2005. ISBN 1-932531-68-8 (hc) $26.95.

[Galilei, Galileo] Biagioli, Mario. Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. 312 pp. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0-226-04561-7 (hc) $35.00.

[Ginzburg, Vitalii L.] V. L. Ginzburg, (translated from Russian by M. V. Tsaplina et al.) About Science, Myself and Others. 549 pp. Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7503-0992-X (hc) $85.00.

[Haber, Fritz] Charles, D. Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare. 313 pp. New York, NY: Ecco/Harper Collins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-056272-2 $24.95.

[Herschel, John] John Herschel’s Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination, and the Ambitions of Empire. xxix + 229 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. (hc) $79.95.


[Hooke, Robert] Cooper, Michael; Hunter, Michale (eds.) Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies. xxi + 335 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2006. ISBN 075465365Y (hc) $99.95.

[Huygens, Christiaan] Andriesse, C. D.; Miedema, Sally. Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle. xi + 480 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521850908 (hc) $95.00.

[Kellermann, E. Walter] Kellermann, E. Walter. A Physicist’s Labour in War and Peace: Memoirs 1933-1999. 350 pp. Stamford: Stamford House Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1904985092 (pb).

[Laplace, Pierre Simon] Hahn, Roger. Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist. x + 310 pp., apps., index. Cam-bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-67401892-3 (hc) $35.00.

[Mach, Ernst] Blackmore, John T.; Itagaki, Ryoichi; Tanaka, Setsuko (eds.) Ernst Mach’s Science: Its Character and Influence on Einstein and Others. 304 pp., index. Kanagawa: Tokai University Press, 2006. ISBN 4486031881 (hc) .

[Newcomb, Simon] Carter, B.; Carter, M.S. Simon Newcomb: America’s Unofficial Astronomer Royal. 213 pp. St. Augustine, FL: Mantanzas, 2006. ISBN 1-59113-803-5 $26.96.

[Oppenheimer, J. Robert] Carson, Cathryn; Hollinger, David A. (Eds) Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Re-flections. (Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Vol. 21.). xii + 413 pp., figs., apps., index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 0967261732 (pb) $14.00.

[Oppenheimer, J. Robert] McMillan, P.J. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. viii + 373 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-14-20.0115-5 (pb) $16.00.

[Sakharov, Andrei] Gorelik, Gennady. The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist’s Path to Freedom. With Antonia W. Bouis. xviii + 406 pp., illus., figs., app., index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 019515620X (hc) $47.50.

[von Braun, Wernher] Ward, B. Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun. 282 pp. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59114-926-6 $23.96.

[Young, Thomas]. Andrew Robinson. The Last Man Who Knew Everything. Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius. x + 288 pp., bibl., index. New York: Pi Press, 2006. ISBN 0-13-134304-1 (hc) $24.95.

REFERENCE WORKS: ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, etc.

Godin, Benoît. Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present. Routledge Studies in the History of Sci-ence, Technology and Medicine Series. xx + 360 pp., apps., index. Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0415341043.

Hockey, Thomas (ed.) The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. 2000 pp. New York, NY: Springer, 2006. ISBN 0-387-31022-3 (hc) $499.00.

Illiffe, Rob; Keynes, Milo; Higgitt, Rebekah (eds.) The Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885. 2 Vols. ixix + 337 pp., apps. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1851967788 (hc) $295.00.

TEXTS, LECTURES, AND POPULAR WRITINGS BY SCIENTISTS

Lightman, Alan. The Best American Science Writing, 2005. xiii + 300 pp. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-072642-3 (pb) $13.95.

Weiner, Jonathan (ed.) The Best American Science and Nature Writing. xxii + 304 pp., notes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. ISBN-13 978-0-618-27343-0 (pb) $14.00.

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Prize and Award Monies Donated to the Center

Recipient Name of Prize

Charles B. Duke 2006 American Physical Society Pake Prize

Mildred S. Dresselhaus 2005 Heinz Award, Technology, the Economy and Employment

Allan R. Sandage 2000 Peter Gruber Foundation Prize for Cosmology

Robert L. Gluckstern 1998 U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize for Research

75 Years of Information that Matters

O n May 3, 2006 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, physicists and policy-makers gathered to commemo-

rate the first meeting of the AIP Governing Board, held 75 years ago to the day in the Cosmos Club. A wide-ranging symposium, “Diverse Frontiers of Science,” featured talks from many noted scientists in a variety of fields. Later, a reception and dinner was held in honor of the anniversary. It was noted that several talks included a quote from Yogi Berra. The consensus of the speakers on the “end of phys-ics” issue was, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”

Please visit the AIP web site at www.aip.org/anniversary/event_overview.html to see the program and speakers, including a historical overview by Center for History of Physics Director Spencer Weart.

Giving Back to the Physics Community

“Prizewinners of the AIP member societies have benefited mani-festly from their asso-ciation with physics, and should be grateful for the opportunity to give something back,” declared Charlie Duke, winner of the American Physical Society’s Pake Prize in 2006. Charlie donated his prize money to the Center for History of Physics to “put my money where my mouth is.”

Charlie received this prize “For groundbreaking theoretical contributions to the understanding of tunneling in solids, and inelastic scattering of low-energy electrons in solids, and for his outstanding contributions to Xerox Corporate Research both as an intellectual and research manager.” The Center and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) extend hearty congratulations and a very big thank you to Charlie for his generosity and foresight in helping preserve the history of physics.

Early this year Charlie retired from the position of Vice President and Senior Research Fellow in the Xerox Inno-vation Group. Prior to holding this position, he was Dep-uty Director and Chief Scientist of the Pacific Northwest Division of the Battelle Memorial Institute and Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Washington. He has recently been named a Research Professor in the De-partment of Physics at the University of Rochester. During his illustrious career, Charlie has been active in leadership roles with several different science and technical societies, including the AVS, American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, and AIP itself.

Charlie, a recent member of the Friends of the Center for History of Physics Development Committee, urges all who have an interest in the preservation and dissemination of science history to give generously to the Center. He notes that “Physics is fun, a great career option, and has contrib-uted mightily to the economic and defense strength of the US. The Center has the vital mission of collecting and pre-serving archival records of the men and women who made these contributions, and of disseminating this information as an inspiration to the next generation of scientists.”

Charlie joins a small but illustrious group of prominent sci-entists who have given part or all of their prize money from major awards in recent years.

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T he new Pension Protection Act of 2006 may help your charitable gift-giving practices in 2006 and

2007 if you are 75 ½ years old and withdrawing from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).

IRA and Charitable Gifts: Taxpayers are encouraged to save for retirement through IRAs where their money grows un-taxed until withdrawn in retirement. Withdrawals are considered taxable income at a presumed lower tax rate in retirement than during the taxpayer’s prime earning years thus benefiting the taxpayer. However, significant compli-cations limited the use of IRA withdrawals for charitable gifts. Under the older regulations, donations made through IRA withdrawals required the donor to take an IRA dis-tribution, pay tax on the proceeds, write a check to the charity of choice and then, and only if they itemize their deductions, take an income tax deduction on their tax re-turn. Another discouraging complication included the annual cap of 50% of the adjusted gross income (AGI) on tax-free charitable gifts.

New Act: The new amendment permits tax-free with-drawals for charitable contributions directly from IRA funds not to exceeding a total of $100,000 annually per individual or $200,000 per couple if both hold sepa-rate IRA accounts. The rationale behind this new act is to encourage greater charitable giving by removing the tax on donated IRA withdrawals. Donors who have benefited from the un-taxed growth of their IRA now will benefit when making charitable contributions with those funds. Because the donor will not have to rec-ognize income from the withdrawals, their AGI will be lower, so self-employment and social security taxes will be lower. Other benefits may include elimination of the 3% phase-out of charitable deductions, possible avoidance of the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and

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Newly Opened Correspondence Illuminates Einstein’s Personal Life..........................................................1

Expansion of Alsos, Online Resource for Nuclear History and Issues References................................................1In Memoriam: Joan Warnow Blewett.....................................2

The Meaning of “Priceless” at Agilent......................................3

Finding a Subject for a Biography..........................................4

Progress in the History of Physicists in Industry Project......................................................................5

New High in Book Donations to Niels Bohr Library.............6

Niels Bohr Library Acquires Materials in New Formats.......7Recent Publications on the History of Physics.......................9

Documentation Preserved, Fall 2006...................................11Friends of the Center for History of Physics........................26