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Call Number: SC0883
Creator:
Hoff, Nicholas J. (Nicholas John),
1906-
Title: Nicholas J. Hoff papers
Dates: 1903-1997
Bulk Dates: 1940-1997
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes articles and papers by Hoff on aircraft
structures and other matters, 1944-1981; diplomas, awards and other biographical
materials, 1928-1997; and materials he collected on the history of aviation including
articles, reports, and photographs, 1903-1958.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
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.
Nicholas J. Hoff Papers (SC0883). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Nicholas J. Hoff was a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford
University at the time of his death in 1997. Born on Jan. 3, 1906 in the small town of
Magyarovar in western Hungary, he came to Stanford in 1939 for graduate work and earned
his Ph.D. in 1942. He taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn before returning
to Stanford in 1957 to start an independent department of aeronautical engineering. In
1965 he published a famous textbook titled "The Analysis of Structures." Although his
focus was primarily on aeronautical structures, much of his work was extremely general
and has been applied in a number of different fields.
Collection includes articles and papers by Hoff on aircraft structures and other
matters, 1944-1981; diplomas, awards and other biographical materials, 1928-1997; and
materials he collected on the history of aviation including articles, reports, and
photographs, 1903-1958.
Hoff, Nicholas J. (Nicholas John), 1906-
Stanford University--Faculty.
Aeronautics.
Airframes.
Airplanes--Design and construction.