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Title: Arthur Edward Ruark papers
Date (inclusive): 1885-1979
Collection Number: 80112
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
56 manuscript boxes
(22.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: This collection contains writings, technical reports, reprints, lectures, correspondence, notes, and printed matter relating
to physics.
Creator:
Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-1979
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
[Identification of item], Arthur Edward Ruark papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American physicist; assistant and senior associate director of research, Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1969.
| 1899 | Born in Washington, D.C. |
| 1921 | Received A.B. cum laude from Johns Hopkins University |
| 1923 | Received A.M. from Johns Hopkins University |
| 1927-1929 | Worked as a physicist for Gulf Oil Co., Mellon Institute |
| 1926-1927 | Served as assistant professor of physics at Yale University |
| 1924 | Received Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University |
| 1922-1926 | Served as a member of the Atomic Structure Section of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. |
| circa 1945-1956 | Started the graduate program of physics at the University of Alabama |
| 1934 | Served as the head of the physics department at the University of North Carolina |
| 1930-1934 | Served as professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh |
| 1930 | Served as chief of physics division for the Gulf Research Laboratory |
| 1979 | Died in Washington, D.C. |
| 1930 | Wrote Atoms, Molecules, and Quanta with Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Harold Clayton Urey |
| 1959 | Wrote "Material for the McKinney Report - Progress Towards Fusion-Power" |
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, technical reports, reprints, lectures, correspondence, hand-written notes, and printed matter relating to physics.
Publications include
The Physical Review, American Journal of Physics, Physics Today, the German language
Zeitschrift Für Physik, and the French language
Le Journal de Physique et le Radium. Also includes published reports from the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Physics
Nuclear energy -- United States
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission