Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Lydik S. Jacobsen Papers
SC0235  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0235
    Creator: Jacobsen, Lydik S.
    Creator: Jacobsen, Lydik S.
    Title: Lydik S. Jacobsen papers
    Dates: 1948-1958
    Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
    Summary: Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers relating to Professor Jacobsen's research interests in seismology and structural dynamics.
    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

    Provenance

    Administrative transfer, School of Engineering, 1980.

    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

    Lydik S. Jacobsen Papers (SC0235). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Professor Jacobsen began his teaching career at Stanford in 1924. He headed the Mechanical Engineering Department, 1940-1943, and directed the Earthquake Research Laboratory, 1926-1943 and 1946-1962; received his a.b. in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1921 and his Ph.D. in Physics here in 1927. Jacobsen died in 1976.

    Description of the Collection

    Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers relating to Professor Jacobsen's research interests in seismology and structural dynamics.

    Access Terms

    Jacobsen, Lydik S.
    Jacobsen, Lydik S.
    Stanford University. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Faculty.
    Stanford University. Department of Mechanical Engineering. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
    Stanford University. Earthquake Research Laboratory.