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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Carl Eckart Papers
Creator:
Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0022
Physical Description:
1.85 Linear feet
(5 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1941-1973
Abstract: A small collection of the correspondence and professional papers of the physicist, physical oceanographer and geophysicist
Carl Eckart.
Languages:
English
.
The bulk of Carl Eckart's papers are at the Library of Congress (MSS 65557).
For additional material at UC San Diego related to Eckart, see the SIO Biographical Files (SAC 5) and the SIO Office of Director
Records (SAC 1) at Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Scope and Content of Collection
A small collection of the correspondence and professional papers of the physicist, physical oceanographer and geophysicist
Carl Eckart, including subject files, notebooks, writings and reports. There are also a few files of teaching materials, photographs
and slides. The second series consists of materials copied and transferred from the Library of Congress on the request of
William Nierenberg, due to their local relevance.
Arranged in two series: 1) MISCELLANEOUS, and 2) UC SAN DIEGO SEARCH COMMITTEES.
Carl Eckart Papers. SMC 22. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Carl Henry Eckart (1902-1973) received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Washington University and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton
in 1925. He joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of physics in 1928 and remained on the faculty until
1946, where he made substantial contributions to quantum physics and developed the Wigner-Eckart theorem.
Eckart came to San Diego in 1942 to join the University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR), where he worked on
problems of underwater sound relevant to submarine warfare as assistant director and director of the program. In 1946, Eckart
became a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UC San Diego, a position he held until
1971. He was also appointed the first director of the newly founded Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) in 1946 (MPL became part
of SIO in 1948). Eckart served a short term as the fourth director of Scripps until 1952, and went on to serve in a variety
of important administrative positions at UC San Diego, including a term as Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs from 1965-67.
Acquired 1982, 1990.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Oceanography -- Research
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Physical Laboratory
Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973 -- Archives