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A. Theodore Forrester Papers, 1985-1987
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Title: A. Theodore Forrester Papers
Collection number: 1978
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 linear ft.
Date: 1985-1987
Abstract: The collection contains notes, drafts, and publication information concerning Forrester's work on ionization, including materials
related to his book Large Ion Beams.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Terry Crow, 16 July 1997.
[Identification of item], A. Theodore Forrester Papers (Collection number 1978). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Arranged in the following series:
- 1. Publications on ionization.
- 2. Publications on ionization by A. Theodore Forrester.
- 3. Articles on the analysis of ionization.
- 4. Resonance, Radiation, Excitation, Ionization by A. Theodore Forrester.
- 5. Surface ionization reprints
- 6. Draft of Large Ion Beams
- 7. Letter to A. Theodore Forrester from Harold R. Kaufman concerning Soviet Union thruster research.
- 8. Notes concerning ionization.
- 9. Book correspondence and publication information.
- 10. Unsorted notes.
- 11. Index to notebooks and unsorted references.
- 12. Correspondence with publishers.
- 13. Outline, introduction, and notes for A Broad Uniform Unidirectional Ion Source by A. Theodore Forrester and J. T. Crow, N. A. Massie and D. Scott Goebel.
- 14. Large Ion Beams.
This collection focuses on Forrester's work on ionization and contains a large amount of pre-publication materials, including
drafts and notes.
Processed by Benjamin Formaker-Olivas and Lilace Hatayama, August 2012.
Theodore Forrester (1918-1987) was a renowned physicist, engineer and inventor, famous for his research in ionization, quantum
optics, and satellite acceleration. Forrester received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1942. He then worked on the Manhattan
Project at the University of California Radiation Lab in Berkeley. He worked in the private sector (including RCA Laboratories,Westinghouse
Research Labs, and International and Rocketdyne Divisions of North America) and academic institutions, including USC, the
University of Pittsburgh, and UC Irvine. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1967. At UCLA he was a member of both the Physics Department
and the Electrical Engineering Department, working on the physics of ionized gases (plasmas), specializing in plasma sheaths
and plasma sources. His last work, Large Ion Beams: Fundamentals of Generation and Propagation, was finished weeks before
his death in 1987 and published the same year.
Forrester was a popular teacher of physics, electromagnetics, and plasma physics and an active member of the Academic Senate
and the Academic Freedom and Faculty Welfare Committees. He was a political activist as well, speaking out against the Vietnam
War, nuclear proliferation, U.S. intervention in Central America and the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Extracted from In Memoriam, University of California Academic Senate.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
A. Theodore Forrester.