Guide to the Papers of Paul Sophus Epstein, 1898-1966
Guide to the Papers of Paul Sophus Epstein, 1898-1966
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Scope and Content of Collection
Section I: Correspondence
Part A: General Correspondence
Abbitt, W. H. 1949 [1 item]
Abraham, Henri (Societé Française de Physique) 1922 [1 item]
Academic Council (list of members) n.d.
Adams, Walter S. See: Reviews of Modern Physics
Air Force Missile Development Center, New Mexico (re: PSE summer seminar, clippings, misc.) 1958-1959 [13 items]
Alemberg, Fred 1936 [1 item]
Alma, Dr. G. H. P. 1954 (request for photograph) [1 item]
American Association of University Professors 1954 (newsletter) [1 item]
American Journal of Physics 1945-1960 (re: reviews, articles) [13 items]
American Physical Society 1923, 1925, 1948, 1953 [6 items] See also: Publications
Anderson, Carl D. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Anderson, John A. 1922 [2 items]
Andreev, Nikolai N. 1956, 1962 [2 items]
Arizona, University of 1959 (re: PSE visit) [1 item]
Arkadiew, Wladimir 1920 [1 item]
Army Air Forces, Weather Central Division 1942-1945 [14 items]
Atomic Energy Commission: Bikini Tests (Notes for Round Table Conference) 1949 [1 item]
Atoms for Peace Award 1960 (re: nominations; 1958, 1959 Award Ceremonies programs) [4 items]
Auger, Pierre See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Aylesworth, Evelyn 1937 [2 items]
Bar, Richard 1922 [1 item: postcard]
Barter, John 1934 (re: PSE Seminar) [2 items]
Barrar, Richard B. 1956 [1 item]
Bartels, Hans Karl n.d. [1 item]
Bateman, Harry 1937 [1 item]
Baumgarten, Franciska n.d. [1 item]
Beams, Jesse Wakefield 1949 [1 item]
Berguis, Fritz 1955, 1956 [2 items]
Berliner, Arnold 1921-1940 [16 items]
Bernstein, O. S. 1953 [1 item: postcard]
Binckley, George Sydney 1922 [4 items]
Bird, Remsen 1938 (re: Thomas Mann) [4 items]
Blanchard, Emile 1923 [1 item]
Bland, Judith 1964 (photocopies re: TV Karman bust, 1 letter re: PSE bust) [23 items]
Blaschke, Wilhelm 1922, 1927 2 items: 1 postcard
Blau, L. W. 1928 (re: doctoral work with PSE) [1 item]
Bliss, G. A. 1922 (re: PSE membership in AMS) [1 item]
Blitzer, Leon 1947 [1 item]
Bloch, Felix 1937 [1 item]
Bohr, Niels 1918-1922 (copies from Sources for History of Quantum Physics, UCB) [8 items: record prints]
Bohr, Niels 1961 (letter and revised text of Bohr's Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1958) [2 items]
Bolza, Hans 1935 (Christmas card) [1 item]
Boodin, J. E. 1936 (re: talk) [1 item]
Born, Max 1921, 1922, 1937 [3 items]
Borowitz, Sidney 1951 [1 item]
Bradley, Nudine (?) n.d. [2 items]
Brauner, Klara 1933 [2 items]
Breiman, Leo n.d. [1 item]
Breit, Gregory 1947, 1960 [2 items]
Bridgman, Percy W. 1937, 1946 (re: PSE's textbook) [2 items]
Brill, A. A. 1921 [1 item]
Brillouin, Louis Marcel 1942, 1947 [2 items]
Brode, Robert 1924, 1948 [2 items: postcard and note of acceptance] See also: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Brown, Edmund G. 1959 See: Segall, Gabriel
Browne, Lewis 1935, 1937 [3 items: 1 postcard]
Buhler, Rolf D. 1953 [1 item]
Burgers, Johannes Martinus 1922 [1 item]
Cabrera, Blas 192(2?) [1 item]
California, University of 1922-1923, 1924, 1945, 1947 (re: summer session, Hans Reichenbach, W. H. Williams, invitation to Hans Bethe Lecture) [6 items]
Caltech Athenaeum 1930-1931 (correspondence re: Arms and Seals for Hall of Associates) [16 items]
Arms and Seals
Miscellaneous memoranda 1923-1962
Caltech Physics Department, Cosmic Ray Symposium
Correspondence (in honor of R. A. Millikan's 80th birthday)
Apr. 1947 - Feb. 1948 [44 items]
Mar. 1948 - June 18, 1948 [54 items]
June 30, 1948 - Nov. 1948 [31 items]
Miscellaneous memoranda, programs, PSE notes [approx 80 items] See also: Reviews of Modern Physics
Caltech Physics Department
Library correspondence 1921-1926 [approx. 80 items]
Library Committee 1947-1958 [approx. 20 items]
Science, Humanities and Engineering Club 1952-1956 (memoranda and misc.) [20 items]
Students: miscellaneous notes, roll books [approx 30 items]
Carhart, Richard R. 1951-1952 [7 items]
Carnegie Institution 1925-1941 [9 items]
Carroll, Thomas J. 1953, 1956 [1 item]
Carter, Edna n.d. [1 item]
Casals, Pablo 1954 (re: Spanish Refugee Aid) [2 items]
Christian Science Monitor 1955 (re: article on freedom of Soviet science) [2 items]
Clay, J. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Coast Surety Corporation 1934 (re: California Water Service Co) [1 item]
Cocconi, G. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Cohn, Helene Hanna 1919, 1922 [3 items]
Collier & Sons, Corporation 1947 (re: article for encyclopedia) [9 items]
Compton, Arthur See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Condon, E. U. 1945 [1 item] See also: USSR Academy of Science
Congress for Cultural Freedom
Correspondence 1951-1953 [46 items]
"The Diamat and the Point of View of Modern Science," PSE paper [3 items]
Publications 1951-1952
3.9 Strasbourg Sept. 1951 miscellaneous printed matter [2 folders]
Conrad, Victor 1942 [1 item]
Cook, Robert C. See: Congress for Cultural Freedom, correspondence, Oct. 23, 1951
Copson, Edward Thomas 1948 [2 items]
Cotton, Aime Auguste 1924 [1 item]
Courant, Richard 1929-1948 [7 items]
Crain, Charles F. 1927 (Wedding invitation) [1 item]
Crank letters 1939 [2 items]
Crommelin, Claude Aug. 1922 [1 item: postcard]
Cummings, N. W. 1944, 1945 [2 items]
Dachow, T. 1923 [1 item]
Darrow, Karl K. See: Reviews of Modern Physics
Darwin, Charles G. 1922 [2 items]
Dehlinger, Walter 1923 [1 item]
Dempster, A. J. 1937, 1945 [2 items]
Deutsch, Armin J. 1953 [1 item]
Dingle, Herbert ca 1943 [2 items: carbon copy and PSE copy of mss, "The Time Concept in Restricted Relativity"]
Dobzhansky, Natalie 1945 [1 item]
Dubois, Marcel 1952(?) [1 item]
DuBridge, Lee A. 1938-1955 [11 items]
Dunn, L. C. 1945 [1 item: telegram]
Dunn, Oliver 1959 [1 item]
Eckart, Carl 1941 [2 items]
Edelberg, S. 1950 [1 item]
Ehrenfest, Hugo 1923 [2 items]
Ehrenfest, Paul 1922-1932 [13 items, including 1 handwritten manuscript on Ehrenfest by PSE and 1 photocopy of postcard] See also: Klein, Martin
Ehrenfest, Tatyana 1937 (Mrs. Paul) [1 item]
Einstein, Albert [Note: No originals; all letters from AE to PSE are in photocopy form (includes 1 handwritten translation of AE letter by PSE and original of letter from PSE to AE)]
1919 -1945 [36 items]
1946 -1947 (correspondence re: Albert Einstein-Philosopher-Scientist volume in The Library of Living Philosophers ) [6 items]
Miscellaneous clippings, correspondence, etc. [8 items] See also: Reviews of Modern Physics
Elsasser, Walter n.d. [1 item]
Epstein, L. Ivan 1947 [3 items]
Ettinger, Pavel (Paul) 1930 [1 item]
Evett, Arthur A. 1953 [1 item]
Ewald, Paul P. 1919-1937, 1961 [7 items]
Eyring, Carl F. See: Reviews of Modern Physics
Fajans, Kasimir 1920 [1 item]
Farkas, Adalbert 1946 [2 items] See also: Hebrew University, American Friends of (re: program, March 1944)
Federation of American Scientists 1953 (miscellaneous newsletters and printed matter)
Fenichel, Hanna 1952 [1 item] See also: Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles
Folles, Leonore and Maragarita 1937-1938 [4 items]
Fortune magazine (re: article on physicists) 1960 [1 item]
Foster, John Stuart 1923 [1 item]
Fraenkel, A. A. 1945-1951 [10 items] See also: Hebrew University, American Friends of
Frank, Philipp 1948, n.d. [2 items]
Fraum, J. A. 1952 [1 item]
Freud, Sigmund 1932 [1 item: photocopy]
Fuks, P. 1936 [1 item]
Gaspar, Greta 1941 [1 item]
General Mills, Inc. 1955 (re: PSE consultation on ICBM Nose Cone Design) [5 items]
Gibbs, Roswell Clifton 1924 [1 item]
Gibson, George E. 1922 [1 item]
Gilbert, Horace N. 1945 (re: Mrs. Simmel) [1 item]
Ginsberg, Elsa 1929 [1 item]
Glitscher, Karl 1922 [1 item]
Glocker, Richard 1947 [3 items]
Goetz, Alexander 1962 [1 item]
Goldman, O. B. 1922 [5 items]
Gorter, C. J. 1937 [2 items]
Green, Jerome B. 1923 [1 item]
Groot, Willem de 1929 [1 item]
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1927, 1929 [2 items: printed matter]
Gurian, Clara 1936 [1 item]
Guttman, Lester 1949 [1 item]
Haas, Arthur 1926-1933 [8 items]
Haas, Stephen 1939 [1 item]
Haas, Wander Johannes de 1930, 1932 [2 items]
Haft, Joseph 1942 [1 item]
Hale, George Ellery 1919, 1931-1934 [4 items]
Hall, Harvey 1950 [7 items]
Halpern, Otto 1949-1963 [15 items]
Miscellaneous: Biography, text of Halpern article "On a Nuclear Test Ban," newsclippings, Epstein notes See also: National Academy of Sciences (NAS) correspondence 1952
Hastings, Arlls 1923 [1 item]
Hausner, G. ca 1937 [1 item: card]
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America 1939 (re: Georg Gregor Eisenstadt) [1 item]
Hebrew University, American Friends of
1925, 1940-1943 [10 items]
1944 (includes program, handwritten speech, and correspondence re program at Ambassador Hotel on Mar. 26, 1944: "An Institute on the Hebrew University of Palestine, Its Work and Significance") [23 items]
1945-1948, 1955 [22 items]
Academic Council: membership receipts, minutes of meetings, list of names 1942-1949 [8 items] See also: Farkas, Adalbert; Fraenkel, A. A.
Heilbron, John 1962 See also: Sources for History of Quantum Physics
Heisenberg, Werner ca 1930 [1 item: copy]
Heitler, Walter See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Helds, ? 1922
Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1922 (re: physics book) [1 item]
Hessaby, M. 1945, 1946 [3 items]
Hirsch, Otto E. 1946 [1 item]
Hochfelder, Julius 1944 [1 item]
Hollzer, H. A. 1944 [2 items]
Holroyd, Howard B. 1953, 1955 [2 items]
Hook, Sidney See: Congress for Cultural Freedom Aug. 17, 1951, Nov. 2, 1951
Hopf, Ludwig 1935 [1 item]
Howard, Inga 1942 [1 item]
Howenstein, Karl 1952 [1 item]
Hsu, Chang-Pen 1950 [5 items]
Huber, Josef Franz 1923 [3 items]
Huckel, Erich 1922 [1 item]
Hughes Research Laboratories 1953-1959 (re: Epstein's work as consultant at microwave lab) [29 items]
Hulburt, E. O. 1931 [1 item]
Hulot, J. 1922 [1 item]
Huntington Library 1922 (re: 1st ed. Isaac Newton's Principia) [1 item]
Indiana, University of 1947 (re: summer session course) [4 items]
Infeld, Leopold See: Loria, S.
Institute International Education 1934, 1935 [2 items: bulletins]
Investments, correspondence re 1928-1940 [7 items]
Invitations, miscellaneous 1960, undated [5 items]
Irani, K. D. 1946 [1 item]
Iskraut, Richard W. 1945 [2 items]
Israelitische Cultusgemeinde 1920 [1 item]
Jaffé, George 1941-1947 [6 items: biography, publications, correspondence]
Jewett, Frank B. See: Reviews of Modern Physics
Jewish People's University 1944 [2 items]
Job requests and recommendations (A-Z; see folder for list of names)
Judy, Clinton K. n.d. [2 items: notes]
Kahler, H. 1923, n.d. [2 items]
Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Physics (PE notes) [1 item]
Kalman, Eugene 1931 [1 item]
Kaplan, J. 1947 See also: Hebrew University, American Friends of 1945 [1 item]
Kapzov, N. 1922-1923 [3 items]
Kármán, Theodore von 1947-1954, 1964 (correspondence, clippings, dedication of TVK Memorial Collection, USAF Academy Library, 1964) [7 items] See also: Photo collection for photos of TVK bust by Judith Bland
Kasterin, Nicolai Petrovich 1937 [1 item]
Kelly, M. J. 1947 [3 items]
Kent, Norton A. 1927 [1 item]
Kevles, Daniel 1963 [3 items]
Klein, Martin 1956, n.d. (letter and manuscript on "Ehrenfest's Contributions to the Development of Quantum Statistics") [3 items]
Klein, Oskar 1924 [1 item: part missing]
Klemperer, W. B. 1957 [1 item]
Knapp, I. 1932 [1 item]
Knollman, G. C. 1952 [1 item]
Knopf, Alfred A. 1939 [1 item]
Knudsen, Vern O. 1945, 1948 [5 items, including manuscripts]
Kobler, A. 1923, n.d. [2 items]
Koch, Peter Paul 1921, 1931 4 items, includes 1 photocopy
Kofink, Karl Walter 1963 [1 item: birthday card]
Kolachov, Paul I. 1932 [1 item]
Kopteiva, Z. 1922 [1 item]
Korach, Alfred See: Levy, Herbert
Korff, Serge A. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Krakowski, (?) 1943 [1 item]
Kramers, Hendrik Antony 1947-1948 [2 items, includes record print]
Krenkel, K. 1921 [1 item]
Krick, Irving P. See: Army Air Forces, Weather Central Division
Kyropoulos, Spiro 1948 [1 item]
La Mer, Victor K. 1948 [1 item]
Landé, Alfred 1921-1923, 1933 [7 items, includes 4 record prints]
Lattes, C. M. G. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Laue, Max von 1922-1937 [8 items: clippings, misc, reprints, correspondence]
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando n.d. [1 item: note]
Leeuwen, Hendrika Johanna van 1922 [1 item]
Leischer, A. 1921 [2 items]
Leprince-Rinquet 1948 [1 item]
Levy, Herbert 1940 [1 item]
Lewis, Gilbert N. 1920 [1 item]
Lewis, Mina 1943 [1 item]
Lichtenstein, L. 1921 [2 items]
Lin, C. C. 1949 [1 item]
Littlefield, E. E. n.d [1 item]
Lomonosoff, V. 1949 [1 item]
London, Fritz 1948 [1 item]
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon [6 items: reprint of article on HAL by M. Born, 3 photocopies, misc. material]
Loria, S. 1930-1946 [4 items]
Los Angeles Civil Service Commissioners 1947
Los Angeles Institute of Psychoanalysis 1952 [1 item]
Löwy, Heinrich 1938 [3 items]
Luria, Salvador 1940 [1 item]
Lutz, G. N. 1929-30 [3 items]
Maanen, Adriaan van 1931 [1 item]
Mahzay, Saddy 1932 [1 item]
Margenau, Henry 1948 [3 items]
Martin Company 1962 [1 item: reprint request]
Meissner, Karl Wilhelm 1922-1923, 1937 [3 items]
Menzel, Donald H. 1950 [1 item]
Merrill, Paul W. 1922 [1 item]
Meyer, Edgar 1919-1938 [8 items]
Meyer, E. Michael 1938 [1 item]
Miller, Dayton C. 1930 [1 item]
Millikan, Robert Andrews 1922-1944 [13 items]
Mills, M. n.d. [1 item]
Millsaps, Knox 1963 [1 item] See also: Air Force Missile Development Center [1 item]
Minkowski, Mechyslaw 1921-1923 [5 items]
Minnesota, University of 1923 (re: position) [1 item]
Miscellaneous
M⊘ller, C. 1948-1949 [4 items]
More, Emery 1947 [1 item]
Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1933 [1 item] See also: Courant, Richard [1 item]
Mott Smith, Lewis 1931 [1 item]
Muller, Edmund P. 1931 [2 items]
Munk, Walter H. 1951-1952 [6 items]
Muskat, Morris 1928, 1930 [2 items]
Mysels, Karol J. 1948 [1 item]
National Academy of Sciences [47 items]
1922 -1960
Member and nominee CV's
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. 1945 [5 items]
National Defense Research 1941-1942 (re: PSE research, US Navy Radio and Sound Labs) [26 items]
National Research Council 1952, 1953 (re: query Soviet physics; research proposal) [4 items]
National Science Foundation 1947-1962 (re: Engineering Education Symposium, request for research proposal review) [12 items, includes copy of "National Science Foundation Act of 1947"]
National Science Fund 1948-1949 (re: Mayer Nature of Light Award) [20 items]
Naval Ordnance Laboratories 1948-1949, 1963 (re: Fluid Mechanics Symposium June 27-July 1, 1949, Silver Spring, MD) [31 items]
Neutra, Richard and Dione 1953, n.d. [3 items]
Newspaper clippings 1930-1931
Niessen, Karel Frederik 1931 [1 item: postcard]
Noyes, Arthur Amos 1931 [1 item]
Obituary notices Feb. 8, 1966
Office Naval Research [21 items]
Correspondence 1946-1960
Proposals, contracts, miscellaneous 1949-1960
Office Naval Research, Project VISTA [7 items]
Correspondence 1951
Reprints, notes, etc.
Office Ordnance Research 1955 (re: "Diamat" article) [1 item]
Onnes, H. Kammerlingh 1922 [2 items]
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1946 [1 item] See also: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Ortvay, Rudolf 1922 [1 item]
Pahlgren, Greta R. 1921 [1 item]
Palyi, Melchior and Flora Klee 1920-1960 [10 items]
Pasadena School District 1935-1937 (re: Educational Inquiry Committee) [28 items: includes publications, newsclippings]
Paschen, F. 1921 [1 item]
Patents 1954 [3 items]
Pauli, Wolfgang 1922-1940 [5 items]
Pauling, Linus and Ava Helen 1961 [1 item] See also: NAS, June 8, 1945; Reviews of Modern Physics
Pekeris, Chaim L. 1945 [2 items]
Pelle, James S. 1962 [1 item]
Pennsylvania State College 1952 [1 item]
Peysack, Leo 1941 [3 items]
Pikler, Andrew 1950 [3 items]
Planck, Max 1938 [1 item: original in safe]
Plesset, Milton 1933, 1934, 1956 [4 items] See also: Reviews of Modern Physics
Plewes, A. C. 1944 [1 item]
Podolsky, Boris and Rose 1932, 1942 [2 items] See also: Reviews of Modern Physics
Pol, Barth van der 1930, 1938 [2 items]
Pólya, George 1921-1933 [9 items]
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1947 [1 item]
Pomerantz, J. 1953 [1 item]
Princeton University, Aeronautics Publication Program 1950-1951 [8 items: correspondence and outlines]
Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles 1946 [2 items]
Publications (re: miscellaneous, journal articles) 1922-1956 [approx. 40 items]
Publications: miscellaneous lists
Publishers: miscellaneous correspondence 1936-1960 [approx. 25 items]
Rabinovitch, Gregor 1922-1923, 1931 [10 items, includes correspondence and newsclippings re: exhibit of Rabinovitch's etchings, one postcard with woodcut on reverse]
Rafeedie, Ann (?) 1965 [1 item]
Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation 1954-1957 (re: PSE consulting work on "The investigation of phenomena associated with ionized and dissociated gases") [9 items]
Reichenbach, Hans 1941-1945 [3 items]
Reprint requests 1922-1962
Reviews (re: papers by others) 1949, 1956 [3 items]
Reviews of Modern Physics (volume in honor of R. A. Millikan's 80th birthday) [42 items]
April - July 1947
Aug. - Oct. 1947
1947 - Nov. 1948
Miscellaneous notes, manuscripts [14 items]
Rice, Oscar K. 1943 (re: request for research assistant) [1 item]
Riggsby, Ernest D. 1963 [1 item]
Robertson, Howard P. 1928, 1933, n.d. 3 items, includes brief description of HPR by PSE
Rochester, George D. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Roe, Anne 1948, 1951 [7 items]
Roller, Duane 1948, n.d. See also: American Journal of Physics; Reviews of Modern Physics
Romer, Alfred 1960 [1 item]
Rosbaud, P. 1958 [1 item]
Rosenfeld, Herbert 1943, 1944 [2 items]
Rosenthal, Arthur 1931-1946, 1960 [9 items, includes obituary]
Rosenthal, Jenny E. 1933 [1 item]
Rossi, Bruno 1930 See also: Caltech Physics Dept. Cosmic Ray Symposium
Rostin, G. 1922 [2 items]
Rott, Leo 1946 [4 items]
Rubinowicz, Adalbert 1918-1922 [8 items, includes 3 record prints]
Russell, Henry Norris 1926 (re: manuscript, "Notes on Observations of Lunar Detail") [1 item]
Russian-American Club of Los Angeles 1944-1945 [2 items]
Rutherford, Ernest 1920 [1 item: photocopy]
Sachs, Hanns 1933 [2 items]
Saint-John, Charles Edward n.d. [1 item: Christmas card]
Sandage, Allan 1956 [1 item]
Sande Bakhuyzen, Henricus G. van de 1922 [1 item]
Schachenmeier, Richard Hermann 1922 [1 item]
Scheel, Karl 1922 [4 items]
Schein, Marcel See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Schelling, J. C. 1934 [2 items]
Schenker & Company 1922 (re: transport of PSE's books, etc.) [1 item]
Schrödinger, Erwin 1937 [1 item: photocopy of postcard]
Scott, J. E. 1962 [1 item]
Segall, Gabriel M. D. 1941, 1952, 1959 [4 items]
Shankland, R. S. 1954 [1 item]
Shockley, William 1942 (re: lecture) [1 item: brief note]
Silvertooth, Wilbur 1936 [1 item]
Simmel, Ernst 1935-1936, 1944-1945 [4 items]
Sinclair, Upton 1931-1947 [5 items, includes 1 printed New Year's letter]
Societies, miscellaneous 1946, 1950 [2 items]
Sommerfeld, Arnold 1922-1923, 1937, 1948-1949 [12 items, includes 2 photocopies]
Sources for History of Quantum Physics 1962-1963 [9 items, includes transcript of interview]
Steingardt, Fred 1948 [1 item]
Stern, Alfred 1949 [1 item]
Stern, Otto 1923, 1946 [2 items]
Stiehl, Max 1923 [2 items: 1 letter and 1 pamphlet]
Stobbe, Martin 1936 (includes letters re Stobbe) [6 items]
Straus, Ernst n.d. (re: Helen Dukas) [1 item]
Stromberg, Gustaf 1946 [1 item]
Struck, Hermann 1923, 1930-1935 [8 items]
Sullivan, Sylvester 1943
Swann, William Francis Gray 1930 [2 items]
Takamine, Toshio 1923-1931 [5 items]
Thomas Chemical Company 1955 (re: query) [1 item]
Thomassen, Nepo 1932, 1937 (includes photographs of Thomassen family) [5 items]
Tolman, Richard Chace (text of address on Bohr and biography by John G. Kirkwood) [2 items, undated]
Trau, Elazar 1947-1948 [6 items]
Troll, Frederico 1947 [1 item]
Tunell, George 1954 [1 item]
Unidentified
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation 1955 (re: booklet) [1 item]
Urey, Harold C. 1948 (re: dinner in support of E.U. Condon) [3 items]
USSR Academy of Sciences 1945 [1 item]
Vallarta, Manuel S. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Van Bladel, J. B. 1962 [1 item]
Van Rysselberghe, (?) 1937 [1 item]
Vautra (?), Richard n.d. [1 item]
Veintrach, R. 1940 [1 item]
Velikovsky, Immanuel 1945 [2 items]
Watson, Earnest C. n.d., 1947 (re: Dirac) [2 items]
Wayne, Palma n.d. [3 items]
Wehrli, Max 1922, 1926 [3 items]
Weinbaum, Sidney 1924, 1949-1952 [8 items]
Weinberg, Frederick 1953, 1957 [3 items]
Weinstein, Alexander 1924 [1 item]
Western Jewish Institute 1945 [1 item]
Westphal, Wilhelm 1924 [1 item]
Weyl, Hermann 1922, 1924, 1953 [4 items]
Weysenhoff, Tom 1920 [1 item]
Whaling, W. 1959 (re: review on "Notable Contributions from the Division...") [3 items]
Wheeler, John A. See: Caltech Physics Dept., Cosmic Ray Symposium
Whipple, Fred L. 1949 [1 item]
Wick, Gian Carlo 1949-1950 [4 items]
Wiley, John and Sons, Inc. 1934-1948 [57 items]
Williams, W. H. n.d. [1 item]
Winiewski, Felix Joachim von 1934 [1 item]
Wolffke, Mieczslaw 1923 [1 item]
Wright, Fred E. 1939 [1 item]
Yale University Press 1931-1939 (re: Gibbs Commentary manuscript) [6 items]
Young, Richard D. 1951 [5 items]
Zarotschenzeff, M. Z. 1944 [3 items]
Zenneck, Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm 1930, 1931 [2 items]
Zentralbibliothek, Zurich 1955 (re: Einstein article) [2 items]
Zerkowitz, Guido 1919, 1933, 1938 [4 items]
Part B: Family Correspondence and Documents
Eisenstadt, Georg (Gregor) 1935-1939 [2 items]
Eliasberg, Alex 1937 [1 item]
Eliasberg, Wladimir 1922 [1 item]
Eliasberg family (Paul, Frieda, Samuel) 1937, 1940, 1946, 1948 [5 items]
Epstein, Alice Ryckman (PSE's wife) 1949 [2 items]
Epstein, Hedwig Lida (PSE's sister) 1912-1913 [7 items, includes passport]
Epstein, Sara Lurie (PSE's mother) [2 items: photocopies of excerpts from Dostoyevsky's The Diary of a Writer]
Lurie, Irene (Baum) 1940-1941, 1944-1946, 1951, undated [14 items]
Lurie, Rashel 1930-1932, 1938 [6 items]
Lurie, Samuel and Selma 1921-1923, 1931-1932, 1940, 1947, 1950, n.d. [18 items]
Mase, Sadi 1938, 1941 [2 items]
Mase, Vera Lurie (PSE's cousin) 1930, 1935, 1937-1940 [20 items]
Miscellaneous family letters 1871-1882, 1921-1922, 1935, 1942, 1944 [18 items]
Section II: Biographical and Personal
Miscellaneous articles, obituary, records, etc.
Autobiographical notes: description of student days in Moscow ca 1901-1905 (includes revised version by daughter)
Bibliography, list of publications
Manuscripts: "Recollections" and "Family Information," by PSE 1933 [handwritten on notebook paper]
Miscellaneous glass slides
Bills and receipts
Biographies of others
Diplomas, credentials, university matters
Income tax forms, etc.
Industrial Employment Review Board: correspondence re: security clearance 1952-1953
Insurance
Miscellaneous
Passports, ID's, etc.
Photographs
Caltech group photos 1922-1931
Epstein 1930s and undated
Group photos 1912, 1950s [mostly undated]
Miscellaneous: signed lithograph of Einstein by Hermann Struck #148/150; signed portraits of H. A. Lorentz ca 1930; signed print by Joseph Huber
Scientists
Section III: Articles and Lectures
Address in honor of Oliver Heaviside 1950
Address in honor of Robert A. Millikan 1948
"Bestätigte Traumdeutungen" (Epstein manuscript?) n.d.
Comments on draft: V. I. Lenin and Natural Science, by A. A. Maximov n.d.
Comments on "The Position of Scientists in Russia" n.d.
"The Death Urge" n.d.
"The Diamat and the Point of View of Modern Science" n.d.
"Einstein's Contribution to Human Thought" ca 1922 [the address is reported in the Star News as being delivered Feb. 24, 1925]
Eulogy for Mrs. von Kármán n.d.
"Freud" n.d.
"The Frontiers of Science" 1935
Incomplete and unidentified manuscript n.d.
Jewish Academic Society of Southern California: introductory remarks n.d.
"The Mark of Cain" n.d. [2 copies]
"Metaphysics in the Light of Modern Science" 1935
Miscellaneous notes
"The New Physics" (book review) 1922
"Philosophers vs. Scientists" n.d.
" The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P. A. M. Dirac" (book review) ca 1931
"The Problem of Reality" n.d.
"Psychoanalytic Appreciation of Historical Research" n.d.
"A Psychoanalytical Appreciation of Rebecca West's Novel, The Judge" n.d.
"The Regimentation of Thought and Science in Russia" 1951
" The Restless Atom by Alfred Romer" (book review) n.d.
"Robert A. Millikan as Physicist and Teacher" 1948
"Status of Atomic Research" n.d.
"Trends of Modern Science" n.d
Section IV: Notebooks
Part A: Pre-Caltech, ca 1898-1921
Technical notebooks
Technical notes, Russian ca 1906-1910
"Kinetische Gastheorie," course lecture by A. Sommerfeld, Munich, summer semester 1910 [includes technical notes in Russian]
"Theorie der Wärmestrahlung," course lecture by Dr. P. Debye, Munich, winter semester 1910-1911
"Geometrische Optik," course lecture by A. Sommerfeld, Munich, winter semester 1910-11
"Ausgwählte Kapitel der Relativitäts-Theorie," A. Sommerfeld, Munich, summer semester 1911
"Röntgenstrahlen und Verwandtes," A. Sommerfeld, Munich, winter semester 1911-12
"Elektronentheorie der Metalle," A. Sommerfeld, Munich, summer semester 1912 [includes technical notes in English, Apr. 1939]
"Quanten Theorie," course lecture by A. Sommerfeld, Munich, winter semester 1912-13
"Ausgewählte Kapitel der Statistik," course lecture by A. Sommerfeld, Munich, winter semester 1913-14
Technical notes ca 1914 [in German]
"Über die Grundlagen der Elektrodynamik," A. Sommerfeld, Munich, summer semester 1916
"Lektüre der Riemannschen Habilitationsschrift," Hermann Weyl, winter 1920-21 [includes notes in English: "Schrödinger," Feb. 22, 1927]
Non-technical notebooks
"Traumbuch" Nov. 1911 - Aug. 1921
Recipes n.d. [in German]
"Bruchstück einer Selbstanalyse," Leiden June-July 1921 [includes loose notes in English]
Mixed notes: psychoanalytic and myths in German and English n.d.
Part B: Caltech Period, 1921-1955
Technical notebooks
"Light and matter," lectures by H. Lorentz, Pasadena and "For the library" (book lists) winter term, 1922
Technical notes and bibliography in German and English; genealogical notes on the Lurie family [up to 1923]
Technical and bibliographic notes in German, English and Russian [up to 1926]
Lectures by Max Born Feb. 1926
Technical notes
Late 1920s - early 1930s
ca 1930
(PSE's class lectures?) ca 1930
Early 1930s 2 folders
Technical notes, travel notes and comments on Chicago Art Institute 1934
Technical notes (PSE's class lectures?) ca 1938-1939
Technical notes 1939
"Mixed Notes" 1939
Notes on technical subjects n.d. [probably 1930s]
Notes and addresses 1930s
"Notes (first hand)" 1930s
"Notes (mixed)" 1940
"Lectures 1940"
"Absorption of acoustic waves," vols. 1 and 2 1940 [2 folders]
"Notes (for papers)" 1940-1941
"Lectures I, additions" 1942
"Notes (second hand)" 1940-1942
"Notes (first hand) I" 1941
"Sound problems" 1941-1942
"Notes (first hand)" 1941-1943
"Notes for papers" 1941, 1943, 1945, 1948
"Sound problems" 1942
"Meteorology I" 1942
"Meteorology II" 1942
"Lectures" 1943
"Note book (first hand)" 1943
"Relativity and other first hand notes" 1943-1945
"Historical notes: A. Einstein; Planck (How did he find the Planck Law)" n.d. [post 1943]
"Second hand notes on quantum theory (I)" n.d. [probably 1940s]
"Second hand notes on quantum theory (II) and other subjects" n.d. [probably 1940s]
"Theory of heat conduction" n.d. [probably 1940s]
"Upper atmosphere II" n.d. [probably late 1940s]
"Fluid mechanics" n.d. [probably 1940s - 1950s]
"Sound problems" n.d. [probably 1940s - 1950s]
"Notes on literature," technical bibliography 1944
"Lectures: quantum theory and statistics" 1952
"Notes (second hand), propagation des ondes" 1944
"Notes (second hand)" 1944-1945
"First hand" 1945
"First hand notes" 1945-1946
"Second and first hand notes" 1946
"Lectures" 1946-1947
Technical notes, with loose correspondence 1948-1954
"Lectures" 1947-1948
"First hand notes and second (relating to mechanics and other subjects). In Part ONR." 1947
"First hand (and some weather division)" 1947
"Interior ballistics" 1949
"Shock wave problems and other subjects" [1949 and after]
"Lectures on physical optics (winter)" 1949
"Library orders" 1949-1952
"Aerothermodynamics. Equations of state" [1950 and after]
"Thermo-elasticity" 1950-51
"Industrial problems" 1951
Mixed notes in German and English n.d.
"Benioff's problem" n.d.
Non-Technical notebooks
Datebook 1922
English lessons n.d. [probably 1920s]
"Notes about psychology of creativity and related topics" [post 1958]
"Albert Einstein," notes and speech, 1937; "Notes for a talk about the Congress for Cultural Freedom," n.d.
Historical notes in German and English n.d. [probably 1930s]
Historical notes, German and English n.d [probably 1930s]
Addresses; notes on Freud and other readings, miscellaneous technical notes n.d. [probably 1930s]
Addresses; notes on mixed subjects in German and English [notes partially dated 1933, 1935]
Travel diary, Washington, D.C. 1942
Talk: "Psychoanalysis of historical research," 1949; notes on Freud, n.d. [post 1950]; notes for a talk, "Psychoanalysis as a means of understanding fictional productions," 1952
"Political and biographical notes" n.d. [probably 1940s]
"Hebrew University affairs" 1940s
Travel diary 1951.
Psychological warfare (no. 1) 1950s
Psychological warfare (no. 2) 1950s
Notes on Russian scientists n.d. [probably 1950s]
"ONR - human relations research" 1950s
"The death urge" n.d.
Addresses and travel diary (?) n.d. [mostly Russian]
Part C: Post-Caltech (Retirement) Period, 1955-1966
Technical notes
"Problems of electromagnetism" 1954-1955
"Aerothermodynamics: ONR" 1955
"R-W" [Ramo-Wooldridge] 1955
"Holloman Lectures: Foundations of Lagrangean dynamics," n.d.; "Foundations of kinetic theory," 1959
"R-W: Guided Missiles Research Division" [late 1950s-early 1960s]
"H-A [Hughes Aircraft] (also some private notes beginning Dec. 1968")
Non-Technical notes
"The Mark of Cain" n.d.
Section V: Notes and Manuscripts
Lecture notes by Robley Evans of PSE's courses
Thermodynamics 1929
Electricity and magnetism 1930
Electromagnetic waves 1931 [2 folders]
Miscellaneous notes
"Quantum dynamics," lecture by A. Sommerfeld Jan. 8, 1929
"Electron theory of metals," lecture by A. Sommerfeld Jan. 10, 1929
Lecture notes, Einstein lecture Jan. 24 [1931]
"Extension and Improvement of Slater's Method" n.d.
"Computation of the Primary Magnetic Moment" n.d.
"Gibbsian Methods in Quantum Statistics" n.d.
"Critical Appreciation of Gibbs's Statistical Mechanics" n.d.
"Non-Static Models of the Universe and Radial Flow of Matter" n.d.
"The Heitler and London Interchange Integral" n.d.
"Random Walks in One Direction" n.d.
"Expanding Universe and Cosmic Rays" n.d.
"Hyperbolic Orbits" n.d.
Manuscripts
"Theorie der Rayleighschen Scheibe, zur Theorie des Starkeffekts," MS II, V, VI and others
"Rotierende Elektronen und Quantentheorie, ein Satz aus der Theorie der Zylinderfunktionen" ca 1920
"Theorie des Starkeffekts," "Theorie des Heliumspektrums," "Theorie der Kugelfunktionen," and other short papers ca 1920s
"Kapitel I: Stand der Forschung vor den Arbeiten von Bohr"
"Kapitel II: Die ersten Erfolge der Quantentheorie im Gebiet der Spektroskopie"
"Drittes Kapitel: Hilfssätze aus der Mathematik und Mechanik"
"Viertes Kapitel"
"V. Kapitel: Theorie der Feinstruktur wasserstoffähnlicher Spektrallinien"
"Theorie der Wellengleichung des Rotationsellipsoids, Munich" 1912
"Über die Fortpflanzung des Lichtes..." 1920
"Ein Elektron im magnetischen Felde 1910," with supplement 1943
Lectures, technical writings in German ca 1919-1920 2 folders
Miscellaneous German writings, technical and non-technical ca 1919-1920
Lecture notes and miscellaneous documents in English ca 1921
"Quantentheorie" 1916-1917 and later
"Problem of quantum theory in light of the theory of perturbations" 1919 and other early manuscripts
"Die Randwertprobleme der mathematischen Physik," Zurich 1920
Notes in German on acoustics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, optics, Vienna 1920
"Theorie des Schalldruckes auf akustische Resonatoren" and other manuscripts
"Ausgewählte Kapitel der höheren Dynamik 1920-1921 and other manuscripts
"Die Störungsrechnung im Dienste der Quantentheorie" 1921
"Theorie der festen Körper," Aachen 1929
Miscellaneous early manuscripts in German
"The time concept in restricted relativity (a rejoinder)" 1942
Lecture on statistical mechanics late 1950s
Manuscript for a book, Men of Physical Science, Chap. II 1937
"Cynetic theory of evaporation," by W. Shoulejkin n.d.
"Derivation of Planck's Law from the hypothesis of light quanta;" "Notes on Utilization of Saw Dust" n.d.
"Electrostatics," Parts I and II n.d.
"Characteristic oscillations of rotating and absorbing bodies;" "Magnetic fields of rotating bodies" n.d.
"Some considerations relating to the temperature dependence of recombination rates," reports for Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, n.d.
"Problems of reality," speech by Epstein, remarks by R. C. Tolman, n.d.
Notes on diffraction and shortplane waves, n.d.
"Theory of ferro-magnetism" n.d.
"On lined cavities of conic shape" n.d.
"Theory of ferro-magnetic resonance at high signal powers," report for the Hughes Microwave Laboratories 1957
"On the problems of resonance of ferrite obstacles;" "Ferrite Sphere," report for Hughes n.d.
"Reflection of sound from solid plate, Report #6;" "On the construction of a tank for sound absorption measurements in water" n.d.
"The effect of the intercline on the propagation of sound;" notes about sound transmission in sea water 1941
"On the equilibrium of bubbles," ONR Project n.d.
"On ferrites and literature on cavitation," ONR Project n.d.
Maser Laboratory work, Hughes n.d.
Manuscripts on masers, reports for Hughes Aircraft n.d.
"On sound propagation and absorption of radio waves," report for Ramo-Wooldridge n.d.
"On collisions," report for Ramo-Wooldridge n.d.
"Electric conductivity and dielectic constant in the high atmosphere;" "On sound propagation in the atmosphere," reports for Ramo-Wooldridge n.d.
"The absorption of sound in suspensions and emulsions" n.d.
Part I: "Water fog in air," by P. S. Epstein and R. R. Carhart
Part II: "Air bubbles in water"
Manuscripts on parallels n.d.
"Supersonic problems" 1943
"Hypersonic flow," two papers by W. D. Hayes for Ramo-Wooldridge n.d.
"On electric surface waves" n.d.
"Die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik," T. Ehrenfest-Afanasyéva, Leiden 1948
"Oscillating systems" n.d.
"Characteristic oscillations of cylindric shells" n.d.
"Equations of shell oscillations" and miscellaneous papers; "On the elastic oscillations of a cylindric shell," reports #2 and #3 n.d.
"On cylindric and spherical shells" n.d.
"Elastic vibrations in plates and shells" n.d.
"Oscillating shells," notes and calculations n.d.
"Law of refraction in absorbing media" n.d.
"On the continuous spectrum of the hydrogen atom," with M. Muskat n.d.
"Reflection of waves in an inhomogeneous absorbing medium" n.d.
"Discovery of the quantum of action" n.d.
"Planck, etc." n.d.
"Analysis of linear random sets" n.d.
"Theory of wave propagation in a gyromagnetic medium, I and II" n.d.
"On the reflection of short electromagnetic wave trains" n.d.
"Refraction and reflection of short wave trains" n.d.
"Problems of guidance I," report #1 n.d.
"Conditions in a plane acoustic wave" n.d.
"Notes about Kyropoulos' problem" n.d.
"Ponderomotive actions exerted by sound waves on acoustic resonators" n.d.
"Geometrical optics of absorbing media;" "A problem of electron motion" n.d.
"Hydrodynamics with inertia terms" n.d.
"Thermodynamics for engineers" n.d.
"An electron in a single pole magnetic field" n.d.
"A problem of Einstein-base statistics" n.d.
"On atmospheric diffusion" n.d.
"Surface waves" n.d.
"Question of propagation" n.d.
"Crystal optics" n.d.
"Notes about induced emission or absorption" n.d.
"Modes of a cylinder as excited by a plane wave" n.d.
"Velocities of light," notes on a paper by J. A. Bearden and J. S. Thompson n.d.
"On surface waves (elastic)" n.d.
"On magnetic screening;" "More about electromagnetic surface waves" n.d.
"On Woolley's equation" n.d.
"Theory of dielectric constants" n.d.
"Is Sommerfeld's theory correct?" "How was the quantum of action discovered?" n.d.
"Evaluation of the force between two spheres," "Potential fields in the vicinity of two cylinders or of two spheres" n.d.
"General statistics on L. Bolzmann and T. Gibbs theories" n.d.
"Sound absorption in water, including the influence of air bubbles" n.d.
"On the theory of cavitation and related phenomena" n.d.
"On cavitation and bubbles" n.d.
"Stratified medium, Part I" n.d.
"Absorption of radiation in stratified medium" n.d.
"On magnetic fields" n.d.
"Potential of two spheres" n.d.
"On magnetic screening" n.d.
"On the appraisal of long-range forecasts;" "Tentative way of appraising long-range forecasts" n.d.
"Theory of mean squared errors, as defined by the weather bureau" n.d.
"Oscillations of a parallelepiped" n.d.
"On the electrolytic current, produced by gravity" n.d.
"Silberstein's problem" n.d.
"On the construction of a tank for sound absorption measurements in water" n.d.
"Thermoelectricity in crystals" n.d.
"Density of radiation" n.d.
"Scattering of radiant energy" n.d.
"Planck's objection to Gibbs' entropy definition" n.d.
"Reflection and transmission of sound through plates" n.d.
"Huyghens' principle in plane" n.d.
"On the shape of vortices" n.d.
"On sound signals of a special type" n.d.
"Hyperbolic orbits" n.d.
"On the evaluation of certain integrals, important in the theory of quanta" n.d.
"Spherically shaped charges" n.d.
"Calculations for the theory of sound" n.d.
"On the air resistance of projectiles" n.d.
"Theory of conical lining collapse" n.d.
"Analysis of linear random sets" n.d.
"Optics of stratified media" n.d.
"Theory of collapse" n.d.
"Hubble's data" n.d.
"About integrals of the type..." n.d.
"Some formulas from cylindric functions" n.d.
"On the magnetic field of free electrons" n.d.
"Magnetic screens" n.d.
"Light pressure of electrons and other charged particles" n.d.
"Götz's problem (statistics of photographic emulsions)" n.d.
"Functions of the elliptic cylinders" n.d.
"Emden's differential equation" n.d.
"Potapenko's problem" n.d.
"Slit diffraction" n.d.
"Binary equilibrium computations" n.d.
"Wave pockets in Dirac's theory" n.d.
"Dirac electron" n.d.
"Collision of two spheres" n.d.
"Recurrences" n.d.
"Dr. Pease's problem" n.d.
"Reflection and refraction of elastic waves" n.d.
"Theory of heat conduction" n.d.
"What is a spinor?" n.d.
"Radius of curvature of rays in geometrical optics" n.d.
"Tables of the integral" n.d.
"Theoretical consideration on photographic graininess" n.d.
"Two electrons with relativity but without retardation (classical theory)" n.d.
"Elliptic plate" n.d.
"Expansions in terms of Heine-functions" n.d.
"Energy in relativity"
"Problems of electrostatics"
"Notes on Oliver Heaviside"
"Magnetic field of rotating charged bodies"
"Angle relations for oblique Cartesian coordinates"
"L. S. Jacobsen on Southwell's principle"
"Analysis of linear random sets"
"Effect of the thermocline on the propagation of sound"
"On the absorption of sound waves in suspensions and emulsions"
"Statistics of verification"
"Things relating to Young's thesis"
"Reflection of sound waves," three communications
"Metallic reflection and transmission"
"Influence of air bubbles on the extinction of sound in water"
"Gutenberg's problem"
"On potentials of uniformly polarized bodies"
"On the density of heat radiation in absorbing media"
"Classical treatment of two particles"
"On the pressure of sound waves"
Evaluation of Clark Jones's "On the ultimate performance of polarizers for visable light"
Miscellaneous manuscripts by others
"Tentative focuser theory" and other reports to Hughes Aircraft
Committee on Surface Features of the Moon
"On Planck's quantum theory of action;" "On Bohr's quantum theory;" "Guiding of falling projectiles"
"On the Stokes formula and miscellaneous"
"Lafdjian's problem" and other manuscripts
"On LeSage's hypothesis;" "Conversion of conduction waves;" "Wave function in parabolic coordinates"
"Notes on Mr. Young's problem;" "Elastic vibrations;" "Cyclotron resonance in solids;" miscellanous
"Against reactionary Einsteinism in physics," A. A. Maximov
"Turbulance and elastic waves"
"On refraction and absorption of waves passing through dispersive matter"
"Evaluation of certain determinants"
"On the expanding universe"
"Memorandum on the external consistency of measurements"
"Entropy and energy increase in a hydrodynamic system," ONR Project
"Coherent scattering and bubbles in water"
"Theory of heat and mass transfer from slow moving sphere to surrounding medium," ONR. Project; "Absorption of nutrients by aquatic plants," by Sargent
"Corrugated wave-guides"
"Psychoanalytic appreciation of historical research"
"Heat radiation in absorbing bodies;" "On the additivity of entropy;" "Can any system of differential equations be canonized?"
"Ionization of gases in an electric field;" "Contributions to the theory of probes," report for Ramo-Wooldridge
"Plane wave properties"
"Electromagnetic waves in ferrites;" "Analysis of Ne'el's assumptions;" "Analysis of Ne'el's theory;" miscellaneous
"Papers on the elastic properties of lattices"
"Light pressure on electrons and other charged particles;" "Potential fields in the vicinity of two circular cylinders or of two spheres"
"Absorption of radiation in a stratified medium;" "Radiation field in an absorbing medium"
"Theory of conical lining collapse," NOTS report; "Whittaker and Robinson," "Calculus of Observations;" "Munch's problem"
"Crossection of Coulomb center, etc.;" "Model of Solid;" "Movement of energy in plane waves"
"Plane waves in absorbing medium;" A system of orthogonal functions"
"The off-axis ferrite post in a rectangular wave-guide, etc.," report for Hughes
"Magnetic spheroid in homogeneous field;" "Energy in electrostatics and magnetostatics, etc."
"On the appraisal of long-range forecasts" ca 1940
"A criterion for judging the significance of correlations" ca 1940
Manuscripts relating to work for the Ferrite Laboratory I 1956-1959, report for Hughes Aircraft
Manuscripts relating to work for the Ferrite Laboratory II
"More on the ferrite and ferrite sphere"
"Einstein and Mayer;" "Dielectric constant of a cloud;" "Evaporation of meteors;" "Equations;" "High-frequency spectroscopy;" "Supplement to magnetism"
"Condensation studies"
"Badger's problem;" "Le Sage's hypothesis;" "Potapenko's problem;" "Hugo's Problem II;" "Mr. Young's problem: Theory of absorption and refraction for large mean free paths"
"Variational principles for electromagnetic resonators and wave-guides," A. D. Berk, Hughes Laboratories
"Electric conduction in gases with dynamic ionization," W. E. Rice 1956
"Logarithmic spirals"
"Rutherford's theory"
"Significance of correlations I, numerical data (Vista)"
"Significance of correlations II, numerical data (Vista)"
Manuscripts, numbered
"Theory of condensation on foreign nuclei," MS 202
"Preliminary report on the properties of porous membranes," MS 207
"General considerations on Knudsen's flow," MS 208
"Separation factor in true molecular flow," MS 209; "Flow through variable channels," MS 210
"Preliminary theoretical discussion of the flow of gases through barriers," MS 211
"Inhomogeneous barrier, Part I," MS 213
"Theory of diffusion in streaming fluid, Part I," MS 214
"Preliminary theory of inhomogeneous barriers," MS 215
"Theory of diffusion with flow," MS 216
"Tentative theory of diffusion in streaming fluid," MS 217
"Theory of diffusion in a streaming fluid, Part I," MS 218
"On the slope of the flow diagrams," MS 219
"Theory of diffusion in a streaming fluid, Part II," MS 220
"Flow through comparatively large holes," MS 221
"Motion of fluids through narrow channels," report #2 1943, MS 222
"Theory of diffusion in a streaming fluid, Part II," MS 224
"On some complex representations," MS 227
"Theory of gyroscopes," MS 230
"Remarks on Present's paper," MS 234
"Formal treatment of diffusion with viscosity," MS 239
"Further remarks about diffusion with viscosity," MS 241
"Flow of gases through homogeneous barriers," MS 242
"Standard differential equations of first order," MS 243
"Theory of flow of gases," MS 246
"Separation of gases," MS 247
"Separation of gases," MS 248
"Viscous flow through a circular hole," MS 250
"Influence of structure on flow," MS 251
"Separation chains," MS 254
"Approximate theory of separation chains," MS 255
"Chain suggested by Professor Badger," MS 258
"Generalization of chains," MS 261
"Equilibrium state of triangle chains," MS 263
"Some problems from the theory of separation chains," MS 265
"Theory of chains," MS 266
"On the equations of hydrodynamics," MS 267
"On the motion of shock waves," MS 268
"On the structure of low energy shock waves," MS 272
"Magnetic field of the thermokinetic motions of conduction electrons," MS 278
"Materials for the theory of Fermat's last theorem," MS 280
"Some problems of magnetism," MS 290
"On LeSage's theory of gravitation," MS 290
"Further problems of magnetism," MS 291; "Magnetization by rotation," MS 292
Manuscripts, miscellaneous [8 folders]
Miscellaneous scientific material
Miscellaneous and incomplete manuscripts
Section VI: Reprints
1911
"Kraftliniendiagramme für die Ausbreitung der Wellen in der drahtlosen Telegraphie...," Jahrbuch der drahtlosen Telegraphie und Telephonie , IV:176-187 [2 copies]
"Über Relativistische Statik," Ann. der Physik, 36:779-795 [2 copies]
"Zur Frage nach der Herkunft des Erdmagnetismus" [in Russian, with German summary], from a Russian journal
1914
"Die ponderomotorischen Drehwirkungen einer Lichtwelle und die Impulssätze der Elektronentheorie," Ann. der Physic , 44:593-604
"Lichtdruck auf die vollkommen leitende Halbebene," Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesell, 16:449-456 [2 copies]
"Über die Beugung an einem ebenen Schirm unter Berücksichtigung des Materialeinflusses" [doctoral dissertation] [2 copies]
"Zur Thermodynamik von Systemen mit nicht additiver Entropie," Physikalische Zeitschrift, 15:673-675
"Spezielle Beugungsprobleme," Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, V/3:488-525
1916
"Zur Theorie des Starkeffektes," Physikalische Zeitschrift, 17:148-150 [2 copies]
"Zur Theorie des Starkeffektes," Ann. der Physic, 50:489-520 [2 copies]
"Über den lichtelektrischen Effekt und die ß-Strahlung radioaktiver Substanzen," Physikalische Zeitschrift, 17:313-316
"Versuch einer Anwendung der Quantenlehre auf die Theorie des lichtelektrischen Effekts und der ß-Strahlung radioaktiver Substanzen," Ann. der Physic, 50:815-840 [2 copies]
"Zur Quantentheorie," Ann. der Physic, 51:168-188
"Über die spezifische Wärme des Wasserstoffs," Verh. der deut. phys. Gesell., 22/23:398-413
1917
"Zur Theorie der Beugung an metallischen Schirmen," Ann. der Physic 53/9:35-42 [2 copies]
"Hamilton-Jacobische Funktion und Quantentheorie," Verh. der deut. phys. Gesell, 13/14:116-129
"Bemerkung über das Nernstsche Wärmetheorem," Ann. der Physic, 53/9:76-78 [2 copies]
1918
"Anwendungen der Quantenlehre in der Theorie der Serienspektren," Die Naturwiss., 17:230-253 [2 copies]
"Über die Struktur des Phasenraumes bedingt periodischer Systeme," Sitzungsberichte derkönigl. preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften , 23:435-446 [2 copies]
1919
"Bemerkungen zur Frage der Quantelung des Kreisels," Physikalische Zeit., 20:289-294 [2 copies]
"Über die Interferenzfähigheit von Spektrallinien vom Standpunkt der Quantentheorie," Sitzungs-berichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissen. , 73-90 [2 copies]
"Zur Theorie der Raumladungserscheinungen," Verh. der deut. phys. Gesell., 5/6:85-99 [2 copies]
"Theoretisches über den Starkeffekt in der Fowlerschen Heliumserie," Ann. der Physic, 58:553-576 [2 copies]
"Erweiterung der Quantensätze für beliebige Systeme," Verh. der Schweitzerischen Naturforschenden Gesell.
"Über das Vorzeichen das Lichtdruckes auf kleine Teilchen," Mitt. der phys. Gesell. Zürich, 19:30-35 [2 copies]
"Sur la cohérence des lignes spectrales du point de vue de la théorie des quanta," Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, Société suisse de physique , May-June 1919, pp. 238-40 [3 copies]
1921
"Beschouwingen op het gebied van de theorie der quanta," Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam , 29:965-979 [2 copies]
"Über die Polflucht der Kontinente," Die Natur-wissenschaften, 25:499-502 missing, 6/98 missing, 6/98
"On the Principles of the Theory of Quanta," Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Proceedings 23/8:1193-1205
1922
"Die Störungsrechnung im Dienste der Quantentheorie. I. Eine Methode der Störungsrechnung," Zeit. für Physik , 8/4:211-228; "II. Die Numerische Durchführung der Methode," ibid. 8/5:305-320; "III. Kritische Bemerkungen zur Dispersionstheorie," ibid. 9/1-2:92-110
"Problems of Quantum Theory in the Light of the Theory of Perturbations," The Physical Review, 19:578-608
"The Evaluation of Quantum Integrals," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 8:166-167
1923
"The Stark Effect for Strong Magnetic Fields," Philosophical Magazine, 46
"Paramagnetism and the Theory of Quanta," Science, 57:532-33
1924
"The Quantum Theory of the Fraunhofer Diffraction," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.,10:133-139
"On the Resistance Experienced by Spheres in their Motion Through Gases," Physical Rev., 6:710-733
"On the Simultaneous Jumping of Two Electrons in Bohr's Model," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 10:337-342
1926
"On the Evaluation of Certain Integrals Important in the Theory of Quanta," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 12:629-633
"Centennial of the Undulatory Theory of Light," Science, 63:387-393
"Second Order Stark Effect in Hydrogen," Science, 64:621-622
"The Stark Effect from the Point of View of Schroedinger's Quantum Theory," Physical Rev., 28:695-710
"The New Quantum Theory and the Zeeman Effect," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 12:634-638
1927
"Remarks on the Quantum Theory of Diffraction," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 13:400-408
"The Magnetic Dipole in Undulatory Mechanics," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 13:232-237
"The Dielectric Constant of Atomic Hydrogen in Undulatory Mechanics," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 13:432-438
"Two Remarks on Schrödinger's Quantum Theory," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 13:94-96
1928
"Fine Structure of the Scattered Radiation from Graphite," Physical Rev., 32:331-335 [Missing 7-94]
1929
"Konferenz über den Michelson-Morleyschen Versuch," Die Naturwiss., 17/48:923-928
"Zur Theorie des Radiometers," Zeit. für Physik, 54:537-563
"On the Continuous Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 15:405-411 (With Morris Muskat)
1930
"Reflection of Waves in an Inhomogenous Absorbing Medium," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 16:627-637
"Geometrical Optics in Absorbing Media," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 16:37-45
"Note on the Nature of Cosmic Rays," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 16:658-663
1931
"Answer to Prof. Störmer's Remark," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 17:160-161
1932
"On Ferromagnetism and Related Problems of the Theory of Electrons," Physical Rev., 41:91-109
"Über Gasentmischung in der Atmosphäre," Gerlands Beit. zur Geophysik, 35:153-165
1933
"La résistance de l'air sur les projectiles," Extrait du Mémorial de l'artillerie française, pp. 635-650
"The Expansion of the Universe and the Intensity of Cosmic Rays," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 20:67-78
"On the Temperature Dependence of Ferro-Magnetic Saturation," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 19:1044-1049
1934
"On the Bending of Electromagnetic Micro-Waves Below the Horizon," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 21:62-68
1935
Review of P. Dirac, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., in Science, 81:640-641
"The Frontiers of Science, I and II" Reflex, June, pp. 7-9
"The Frontiers of Science, III and IV," Reflex, July, pp. 19-24
"Uses and Abuses of Nationalism, I and II," Reflex, Nov., pp. 17-22
"Uses and Abuses of Nationalism, III," Reflex, Dec., pp. 15-19
1936
"On the Equation of Diffusion," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 23:94-98
"Uses and Abuses of Nationalism, IV," Reflex, Jan., pp. 14-18
1937
"On the Magnetic Energy of Supraconductors," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 23:604-610
"Physics and Metaphysics," The Scientific Monthly, 45:49-54
1938
"Influence of the Solar Magnetic Field Upon Cosmic Rays," Physical Rev., 53:862-866
1941
"Secondary School Mathematics in Relation to College Physics," Am. Jour. Physics, 9:34-37 [2 copies]
"On the Absorption of Sound Waves in Suspensions and Emulsions," Applied Mechanics (Von Kármán Festschrift), pp. 162-188
1942
"On the Theory of Elastic Vibrations in Plates and Shells," Jour. Math. and Physics, 21:198-209
"The Time Concept in Restricted Relativity," Am. Jour. Physics, 10:1-6
"The Time Concept in Restricted Relativity: A Rejoinder," Am. Jour. Physics, 10:205-208
1945
"The Reality Problem in Quantum Mechanics," Am. Jour. Physics, 13:127-136
1946
"On the Elastic Properties of Lattices," Physical Rev., 70:915-922
1947
"Radio-Wave Propagation and Electromagnetic Surface Waves," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 33:195-199
1948
"Robert Andrews Millikan as Physicist and Teacher," Rev. Mod. Physics, 20:10-25
1950
"On the Stability of Gas Bubbles in Liquid-Gas Solutions," J. of Chemical Physics, 18:1505-1509
1953
"The Absorption of Sound in Suspensions and Emulsions: I. Water Fog in Air," J. Acoustical Soc. of Am., 25:553-565 (With R. Carhart)
"Dialektischer Materialismus und die modernen physikalischen Theorien," Physikalische Blätter, 9:49-55
"Zur Situation der Naturwissenschaftler in der Sowjetunion," Physikalische Blätter, 9:221-226
1954
"On the Possibility of Electromagnetic Surface Waves," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 40:1158-1165
"On Planck's Quantum of Action," Am. Jour. Physics, 22:402-405
1956
"Theory of Wave Propagation in a Gyromagnetic Medium," Rev. Mod. Physics, 28:3-17
Reprints [2 volumes, bound]
Vol. 1 (1921-1927): contains only reprints listed above, with a single exception, "Zur Aberrationstheorie," Phys. Zeitschrift , 24:64-65
Vol. 2: contains essentially the same as Vol. 1
Miscellaneous manuscripts, WWII era, meteorology
"Climatology and Long Range Weather Forcasting" n.d. [2 copies]
"A Criterion for Judging the Significance of Correlations" 1942
"Forecast Verification" March 1943
"Statistics of Verification" April 1943
Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1950s
"On the Theory of Vibrations of Thin Shells and Plates," ONR Report, Dec. 31, 1954
"On the Electric Conductivity of Ionized Gases," Ramo-Wooldridge Report, May 8, 1957
Section VII: Tapes and Books
Tapes
Epstein's memoirs [reel-to-reel and cassette]
Books, German and Russian
Beard, C. A. Die wirtschaftliche Grundlage der Politik. Franz Mittelbach Verlag, Stuttgart, 1949. [ The Economic Foundation of Politics .]
Bronshtein, M. P. et al., eds. Atomnoe Jadro. Gos. izdat., 1934. [ Atomic Nucleus. Collected papers of the first all-union nuclear conference.]
Fok, V. A. Nachala kvantovoi mekhaniki. L., 1932. [ Beginning of Quantum Mechanics.]
Fuks, N. A. Mekhanika aèrosolei. M. izdat., AN USSR, 1955. [ Mechanics of Aerosols.]
Kosonogov, J. J. Kontsentricheskii uchebnik fiziki dlia srednikh uchebnykh zavedenii. 3rd ed., Kiev izdat. Prosianichenko, 1912. [ Concentric Physics Textbook for Secondary Schools.]
Landau, L., and E. Lievshitz. Mekhanika sploshnykh sred. M-L. Ogiz, 1944. [ Mechanics of Continuous Media .]
Malinin, A., and K. Burerin, compilers. Sobranie arifmeticheskikh zadach. Kolomea; Izdat., Ya. Orenshteina. [Collected arithematic problems for all sorts of secondary schools.]
Meshcherskii, I. V. Kurs teoreticheskoi mekhaniki. M.-P. Gos. izdat., Part I, 1923, Part II, 1925. [ Course in Theoretical Mechanics .]
Na Chuzhoi storone, I and II. Berlin, 1923. [ In a Strange Land, Parts I and II. Literary journal]
Newton, I. Optics. M.-L. Gos. Izdat, 1927. [Translation to Russian from the 3rd English edition of 1721, with notes by S. I. Vavilov]
Pevzner, M. and L. Ratsional'noe (dieteticheskve) i Lechebnoe pitanie. M.-L. Gos. izdat., 1930. [ Rational (dietetic) and Health Diet . A practical guide to the organization of health diet in resorts, in sanatoria, rest houses and diet restaurants.]
Repson, J. Trips Abroad: A Guide. 1926. [In Russian]
Technical Physics of the USSR. Vol. IV, no. 11-12, 1937; Vol V., no. 2, 1938. [Texts in English and German]
Timiriazev, A. K. Kineticeskaia teoriia materii. M.-P. Gos. izdat., 1923. [ Kinetic Theory of Matter; lectures given at M.G.U., 1917-1918]
Tsinger, A. Nachal'naia fizika. 20th ed. Gos. juch-ped., izdat., 1931. [ Beginning Physics.]
Tsinger, A. Rabochaia Kniga po fizike. M.-L. Gos. Izdat., 1930. [Physics workbook for the 5th and 6th years; two separate books]
Voprosy filosofii, #1,1951. [ Questions of Philosophy. Leading USSR philosophy journal]
Wolf, M. Stereoskopbilder vom Sternhimmel, 1. Serie. 1915.
Wolf, M. Stereoskopbilder vom Sternhimmel, 2. Serie. 1918.
Miscellaneous Russian textbooks 1898-1905. [3 books]