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Finding Aid for the Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd Papers, 1919-1975
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Title: Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd Papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1975
Collection number: 1345
Creator:
Dodd, Lawrence Ellsworth, b. 1886.
Extent:
61 cartons (61 linear ft.)
Abstract: Collection consists of personal papers of Dr. Lawrence E. Dodd, professor of physics at UCLA, including correspondence, research
notes and materials, photographs, and printed material.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Dodd was born on July 16, 1886 in Cascade, IA; BS, Cornell College, 1910; MS (1914) and Ph.D (1918), Univ. of Iowa; worked
for three years at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.; joined the physics dept. of the Southern Branch of
the Univ. of CA, and remained at UCLA, retiring as professor in 1954; president of the Southern CA section and member of the
national executive council, American Assn. of Physics Teachers; research interests included measurements on the properties
of matter and geometrical optics; publications include
Laboratory experiments in fluids and heat (c1947); he died on Sept. 14, 1975 in Port Angeles, WA.
Collection consists of personal papers of Dr. Lawrence E. Dodd, professor of physics at UCLA, including correspondence, research
notes and materials, photographs, and printed material.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Dodd, Lawrence Ellsworth,--b. 1886--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles.--Dept. of Physics--Faculty--Archival resources.
Physicists--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.