Guide to the David Locke Webster Papers SC0197
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Title: David Locke Webster papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0197
Physical Description:
28.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1911-1973
Summary: Correspondence
(1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g. Klystron Tube, compton effect), research
notebooks (1916-1970) and correspondence relating to the Physics Department during the
1940's. Also includes glass plates for printing graphs, photographs, and maps.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Transferred by the Department of Physics, 1978.
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David Locke Webster Papers (SC0197). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman of
the Physics Department at Stanford (1920-1942), was born in Boston November 6, 1888. He
recieved his B.A. (1910) and Ph.D. (1913) from Harvard University.
Description of the Collection
Correspondence (1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g. Klystron Tube, compton
effect), research notebooks (1916-1970) and correspondence relating to the Physics
Department during the 1940's. Also includes glass plates for printing graphs, photographs,
and maps.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Compton effect.
Physics -- History.
Klystrons.
Papers ARCH-2023-513
1911-1973
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Research notebooks
1924-1939
General Physical Description note: In black binders
Box 2
Research notebooks
1927-1933
General Physical Description note: In black binders
Box 3
Research notebooks, reprints, and lectures notes
1928-1935
General Physical Description note: In black binders
Box 4
Research notebooks
1925-1933
General Physical Description note: In black binders
Box 4A
Research notebooks
1925-1933
Box 5
Research notebooks, miscellaneous subject files
1915-1970
Box 6
Reprints, notes, data from work done for Ames Research
1967-1970
Box 7
Reprints, notes, data from work done for Ames Research
1967-1970
Box 8
Miscellaneous maps and photographs. High Street copper plate
Undated
Box 8A
Miscellanous glass plates for printing graphs
Material Specific Details: -Early slides on K-S
acceleration, superseded -Lantern Slides on "Schiff's Changes", used in Jan 1963 -D.L.
Webster's slides for talk on Electron Acceleration — AGU meeting of April 1965 -Alson
[?] on RRKY. September - December 1915 -1917 glass plates. JPL. -Negatives of slides
on Flight and X-Rays, 1920
Box 8B
Miscellanous glass plates for printing graphs
Material Specific Details: -Final photos. Experiments on
the Emission Quanta of Characteristic X-rays. Sept. 1915-March 1916 -Pictures taken in
work on emission quanta of characteristic X rays. Sept. - Dec. 1915 [dry
plates]
Box 9
Miscellaneous correspondence, subject files
1939-1970
Scope and Contents note
Topics: Flying, Coulomb's Law, Compton Effect, Klystron papers
Box 10
Correspondence, material related to Stanford Physics (administration
of)
1940s
Box 11
PAS Programs, Reprints
1930-1960s
Box 13
Relativity, bulk of this work done before Ames Research work in the late
1960s
1959-1973
Box 14
Notes, review papers, planetary information
Addenda, 2023-513 ARCH-2023-513
Box 15
Seventh Senate Charter Elections Rosters
Box 15
Seventh Senate Committee on Committees Minutes and Documents
Box 15
Seventh Senate Steering Committee Documents 1825-2021
Box 15
Eighth Senate: Senate Reports, Senate Minutes
Box 15
Steering Committee Documents 2167-2270
Box 15
Senate Documents - Eight Senate
Box 15
Steering Committee Documents 2272-2415
Box 16
Ninth Senate Reports Minutes Agenda
Box 16
Ninth Senate Academic Appraisal to Laby Animal Care
Box 16
Ninth Senate - Senate Attendance to University Press
Box 16
Ninth Senate Steering Committee Minutes and Documents
Box 16
Ninth Senate Land and Buildings to Research
Box 16
Senate 10 No. 1
1977-1978
Box 17
Steering Committee Minutes Eight Senate
Box 17
Committee on Committees Minutes Eight Senate
Box 17
C-AAA to ASSU Eight Senate
Box 17
C-EEWU to Judicial Eight Senate
Box 17
Committee on Committees Documents
Box 17
Parking and Transport to Research Eight Senate
Box 17
Services to Students to University Press Eight Senate
Box 17
Land and building development Libraries: C-Lib ULC Eight Senate
Box 18
Ctees C-AAA - C-LBD 1977-1978
Box 18
Ctees C-Lib - C-US 1977-1978
Box 19
Academic Council Minutes
1969-1974
Box 19
Personnel on Inactive Former committees
