Guide to the Fu Chun Yu Lab Notebooks

Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
October 2010
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Overview

Call Number: SC0995
Creator: Yu, Fu Chun.
Title: Fu Chun Yu lab notebooks
Dates: 1949-1950
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Collection consists of three notebooks (in facsimile) kept by Fu Chun Yu while he was a post-doc in Prof. Felix Bloch's NMR laboratory at Stanford; they cover Yu's work with Warren Proctor that lead to a realization of the chemical shift in molecules.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Ownership & Copyright

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.

Cite As

Fu Chun Yu Lab Notebooks (SC0995). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Fu Chun Yu, born in Shanghai in 1914, graduated from Peking University in 1936. He came to the United States in 1946 and received his PhD from Ohio State University in 1949; he then came to Stanford to work with physicist Felix Bloch. Yu returned to China in 1951, where he continued his career as professor of physics.

Description of the Collection

Collection consists of three notebooks (in facsimile) kept by Fu Chun Yu while he was a post-doc in Prof. Felix Bloch's NMR laboratory at Stanford; they cover Yu's work with Warren Proctor that lead to a realization of the chemical shift in molecules.

Access Terms

Yu, Fu Chun.
Lab notes.
Nuclear magnetic resonance.
Physics--Research.


Box 1

Lab notebooks