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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Dirk Walecka notebooks and papers
creator:
Walecka, John Dirk
Identifier/Call Number: SC0424
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1960-1986
Abstract: Notes, lectures and reports on nuclear theory, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics. Collection
also includes reprints and some correspondence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of John D. Walecka, 1990.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
John Dirk Walecka Notebooks and Papers (SC0424). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Walecka, a.b. Harvard 1954 and Ph.D. MIT 1958, joined the Stanford faculty in 1960; he was chair of the Physics Department
from 1977 to 1982. He left Stanford in 1987 to be the scientific director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
(CEBAF) in Newport News, VA.
Notes, lectures and reports on nuclear theory, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics. Collection
also includes reprints and some correspondence.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Quantum theory -- Study and teaching.
Nuclear physics -- Study and teaching.
Walecka, John Dirk
Walecka, John Dirk
Stanford University. Department of Physics
Stanford University. Department of Physics. Faculty