Guide to the Papers of Richard Chase Tolman, 1735-1958
Guide to the Papers of Richard Chase Tolman, 1735-1958
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Scope and Content of Collection
Materials Separated from Collection
Series I: Personal and Biographical
Family correspondence
R. C. Tolman to Harriet S. Tolman 1895-1921
James P. Tolman to Harriet S. Tolman 1902
Edward Tolman 1928
Miscellaneous letters and documents
Family photographs
Elizabeth Metcalf Smith Tolman's 80th birthday 1888; photographs and notes ca. 1870s
Harriet S. Tolman ca. 1871-1896; Harriet S. and Elizabeth M. S. Tolman n.d.
Richard Chace Tolman as a young boy n.d.
Tintypes of Abby, Harriet, and James Tolman (children of James and Elizabeth M. S. Tolman) n.d.
Rev. Charles P. Lombard and Elizabeth B. Langford Lombard in Munich 1908 (photos given to Harriet S. Tolman, Feb 1914)
Formal photographs of R. C. Tolman
Informal photographs of R. C. Tolman alone, with others, and with family, undated
Miscellaneous personal items
Weaving sampler made by R. C. Tolman for grandmother's birthday 1886
Memorial booklet: "In Memory of Elizabeth M. S. Tolman. A Typical Life," written by Harriet S. Tolman 1891
Voyage journals of Michael Smith 1801, 1806 [2 journals]
Probate distribution records of Michael Smith 1811, 1822
Journal of Louisa Battelle 1814-?
Memorandum book of Anna Durant 1772
Legal matters (with wrapper noting: "From the fire at Charleston-S.C. after Fort Sumter," "From Charleston in the war brought by Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison after the war I believe.") 1735
Memorial booklet: "In Memoriam. Edward Chace Tolman, 1886-1959"
Moral Values, by Walter G. Everett 1918
Loyalty issue, University of Illinois: MS drafts and correspondence 1918 [includes Univ. of Illinois student newspaper, The Daily Illini, and other misc. news clippings]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Miscellaneous: report cards, graduation program, senior portfolio, newsclippings, etc. 1899, 1903
Song book: Tech Songs. The MIT Kommer's Book 1907
Ph.D. thesis: "The Electromotive Force Produced in Solutions by Centrifugal Action" 1910
Honors and Awards [See also: Box 13 (Oversize)]
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) diploma 1914
Order of the British Empire (OBE) insignia award: Caltech news bulletin, correspondence 1948-1952
Honorary Ph.D. degree, Princeton University: correspondence, newsclippings, Princeton Alumni Weekly (publication) 1942
Miscellaneous
Trip to Europe: maps, guides, notes, etc. ca. 1907
Financial matters 1923, 1942-1948
Biographical notes and articles about R. C. Tolman 1949
News releases and clippings 1923-1950
Caltech memorial service for R. C. Tolman: invitations, guest lists, speeches, correspondence 1949
Tribute to R. C. Tolman by Caltech Board of Trustees 1948
Postcards, mileage ration coupons 1919-1920, 1940
Photographs
Bell, Eric Temple [undated]
Oppenheimer, Robert J. [undated]
Series II: Correspondence With Individuals
Arnold, Samuel 1946-1948
Bohr, Niels 1945-1946 [includes family photo]
Boyce, Joseph C. 1946
Brady, Carroll 1939
Bridgman, Percy 1947
Conant, James 1947
Conrad, R. D. 1946
DuBridge, Lee A 1946
Einstein, Albert
1931, 1941 [photocopies, in German]
Letter translation 1945
Evereth, Helen 1919-1920
Groves, General L. R. 1946
Jewett, Frank B. 1946
Lewis, F. A. 1947
Millikan, Robert A. 1946
Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1941
Northrop, Filmer 1947
Noyes, Arthur A. 1916, 1919
Noyes, W. A. 1916
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1938
Pauling, Linus 1945
Waddington, C. H. 1940
Weaver, Warren 1948
Series III: Correspondence With Organizations
California Institute of Technology 1947
Clarendon Press 1940-1946
Department of Agriculture: Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory 1922-1923 [including F. G. Cottrell]
Department of Commerce: National Bureau of Standards 1946
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Mines 1919
George Washington University 1947
Intercollegiate Socialist Society 1920
Michelson Laboratory Dedication, Inyokern 1948
National Civil Liberties Bureau 1919-1920
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) 1940-1947
National Policy Committee 1945
Navy Office of Research And Inventions 1946
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) 1946-1948
Princeton University: Physics Advisory Council 1941
Royal Society 1943
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: U.S. Representative 1946-1948
Atomic Energy Commission: Tolman Committee on Declassification [Photocopies of unclassified Tolman documents. Originals are in the custody of the U.S. Department of Energy.]
Note
Formation of Committee on Declassification 1945
Declassification Guide for Military Utilization Project 1946
Special Declassification Guide for U.S. Member, United Nations Atomic Energy Commission 1946
Smyth Report 13 (Russian translation): general and technical information, publications 1948
Declassification Guide for U.S. Member, United Nations Atomic Energy Commission n.d.
Sample guides and tables extracted from Section 9 and Table 1 of Nov 17 Classified Substances Report of Tolman Committee on Declassification 1946
Tolman Committee Report, nos. 2 and 3 1946 Jan 20, 1946 Jun 21
Tolman Declassification Policy 1946-1947
Declassification information 1946-1947
Meetings with industries 1945 Dec 27-29
Correspondence and memoranda prepared on the release of information about the Manhattan Project 1946
Selection of declassification reviewers 1946
Release Committee of the Manhattan Project 1945
Reclassification of the Report (Nov. 1945) of the Tolman Committee on Declassification 1946-1948, 1950
Request by Arnold Kramish (Rand Corp.) for full declassification of the original committee report 1965
Addendum: Committee on Postwar Policy Declassification Report 1944 [added Oct 1991]
Series IV: Lecture Notes
Lectures on selected topics in thermodynamics
Part 1: General Principles n.d.
Parts 2 and 3: Relation of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics; Fluctuations in Total Number of Particles in a Grand Canonical Ensemble n.d.
Part 4: Radiation 1946-1947
Relativistic Thermodynamics, spring term 1948
Space and Time in Modern Physics n.d.
Series V: Calculations And Notes
Best value of c for field nebulae [undated]
Calculations to accompany On the Principles of Statistical Mechanics [undated]
Current calculations on nebular distribution [undated]
Expanding cloud: starting from point source with distribution of velocities
Non-static line elements in isotropic co-moving coordinates [undated]
Non-static solutions (starting from Sen formulae) [undated]
Non-static solutions of Einstein's field equations for spheres of fluids [undated]
Non-static spheres of fluids [undated]
Stability of fluid spheres [undated]
Thermal transfer in stars by convection and by radiation [undated]
Origin of life studies [undated]
Miscellaneous calculations [undated]
Notebooks ca. 1915 [2]
Series VI: Manuscripts
Table of contents: "Applications of Thermodynamics to Steady State"; "Problems in Thermodynamic Chemistry," ch. 21a [undated]
"Applications of Thermodynamics to Steady State," ch. 1 [2 drafts, undated]
"Thermodynamics with Relations to Statistical Mechanics," ch. 1 1949 [handwritten draft and final copy]
"Thermodynamic Property of Radiation," ch. 4 [undated notes]
"A Survey of the Sciences" 1947 [handwritten draft]
"Correlation of Nebular Counts with Recession" [2 drafts, undated]
"Correlation of Nebular Counts with Recessional Motion" [handwritten and typed drafts, undated]
"On the Theory of Surface Tension and the Behavior of Droplets and Vapor" [handwritten draft, undated]
"The Effect of Droplet Size on Surface Tension" [2 handwritten drafts, undated]
"On the Stability of Stellar Models with Remarks on the Origin of Novae" [handwritten draft, undated]
"On the Stability of Spheres of Simple Mechanical Fluid held together by Newtonian Gravitation" [undated notes and miscellany]
"Consideration of the Gibbs Theory of Surface Tension" [undated]
"The Superficial Density of matter at a Liquid-Vapor Boundary" [undated]
Series VII: Patents, Reviews, Reprints
Patents on liquefaction apparatus 1928-1929
Book review: The Philosophy of Physical Science , by Sir Arthur Eddington 1939
Reprints
"The Concentration of Hydrogen Ion in Sulfuric Acid," with L. H. Greathouse 1912
"The Molecular Mechanism of Colloidal Behavior," with A. E. Stern 1918
"A Tyndallmeter for the Examination of Disperse Systems" 1919
"Review of the Present Status of the Two Forms of Quantum Theory" 1922
"Further Experiments on the Mass of the Electric Carrier in Metals," with Ernest W. Guernsey 1923
"The Initial Rate of Decomposition of Nitrogen Pentoxide," with E. C. White 1925
"The Mechanism of Chemical Reaction" 1925
"Further Study of the Inertia of the Electric Carrier in Copper," with L. M. Mott-Smith 1926
"Methods of Statistical Mechanics," and "Statistical Mechanics and Its Application to Physical-Chemical Problems" 1927
"On the Astronomical Implications of the De Sitter Line Element for the Universe" 1929
"On the Possible Line Elements for the Universe" 1929
"The Reflection and Transmission of Light by Photographic Plates," with D. B. McRae 1930
"Thermodynamics and Relativity" 1933
"The Present Status of Cosmology" 1936
"Remarks on the Doctor of Philosophy Degree" 1938
"A Survey of the Sciences" 1947
Reprints by relatives
"The Fatherhood of God as Seen by Modern Faith," by H. S. Tolman 1891 [2 copies]
"More Concerning the Temporal Relations of Meaning and Imagery," by E. C. Tolman 1917
"Psychological Monographs," by E. C. Tolman n.d.
"History of Psychology in Autobiography," E. C. Tolman n.d.
Reprints by Niels Bohr
"A Challenge to Civilization" 1945
"A Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics," n.d.
Reprints by others
"An Interpretation of Orthogenesis," by A. H. Sturtevant 1924
"Essays on Evolution," (parts 1-3) by A. H. Sturtevant 1937-1938
"The Interrelations of Inversions, Heterosis, and Recombination," by A. H. Sturtevant and K. Mather 1938
"The Radial Distribution Function in Liquids," by J. G. Kirkwood and E. M. Boggs 1942
"The Reality Problem in Quantum Mechanics," by Paul S. Epstein 1945
"Thermodynamics of an Ice Age: The Cause and Sequence of Glaciation," by G. N. Lewis 1946
"A Theorem in the Charge-Symmetrical Meson Theory," by W. Heitler 1946
"The General Affine Field Laws," by E. Schrdinger 1946
"The Foundation of the Theory of Probability-I," by E. Schrdinger 1947
"The Final Affine Field Laws I," by E. Schrdinger 1947
"Proton Isobars in the Theory of Radiation Damping," by W. Heitler and N. Hu 1947
"On the Representation of the Wave Function of a Quantized Field by Means of a Generating Function," by H. W. Peng 1947
"Radiation Damping in the General Theory of Relativity," by N. Hu 1947
"The Challenge to Americans," by Henry L. Stimson 1947
"The Beginning of Civilization in America," by G. N. Lewis 1947
"Robert Andrews Millikan: 1868-1953," by L. A. DuBridge 1954
"Letters of J. Robert Oppenheimer," by A. K. Smith and C. Weiner, The Sciences 1980 Mar
"Dr. Oppenheimer," magazine article by P. Hamburger n.d.
Series VIII: Speeches
"The Effects of the Annihilation of Matter," National Academy of Sciences meeting 1930
Speech for the second dinner for A. Einstein 1931 Feb
Transcript of remarks for Associates meeting 1931 Jan 16
Albert Einstein speeches translated by R. C. Tolman 1931-1932
"Physical Science and Philosophy," Natural Philosophy Symposium 1943
"Remarks on the Foundations of Freedom in Science," Princeton University Bicentennial 1946 [includes correspondence]
Speech for Caltech Associates meeting 1946 Jan 16
Correspondence re: "A Survey of the Sciences," Graduate School Convocation of Brown University 1947
Notes for "The Age of the Universe," Occidental College 1948 May 17
Speech for R. A. Millikan's 80th birthday 1948
"The Crisis of Materialism," School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America 1948 Feb 20
Speech for Sunset Club Christmas party [undated]
Speech and abstract of paper, "Further Discussion of the Rate of Annihilation of Matter and the Red-Shift, Luminosity and Angular Extension of the Nebulae in Non-static Curved Universe," for Eugene meeting [undated]
Series IX: Reports And Other Printed Matter
Reports
"The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," by the Manhattan Engineer District 1945
"A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy," by the U.S. Dept. of State 1946, 1947 [2 reports]
"Second Semiannual Report to the Congress by the United States Atomic Energy Commission" 1947
"Report to the Congress by the United States Atomic Energy Commission" 1947
"Third Semiannual Report to the Congress by the United States Atomic Energy Commission" 1948
"Fourth Semiannual Report to the Congress by the United States Atomic Energy Commission" 1948
"Development and Control of Atomic Energy," report to Congress by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 1948
"Providing for Extension of the Terms of Office of the Present Members of the Atomic Energy Commission," report to Congress by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 1948
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Misc. reports and correspondence 1946-1948
Isotopes Division reports 1947
Miscellaneous printed matter
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Security Council verbatim records of meetings 1948 [3 records]
Official records, nos. 1-4 1946
Atomic energy proposals and resolutions
International Control of Atomic Energy. Documents under discussion by the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States 1947 [2 copies]
Miscellaneous 1946-1948
Public Affairs Bulletin No. 44: Atomic Power. Issues before Congress 1946
"1943-1983, Los Alamos: The Lab, The Town, The People," The Chronicle 1983 [newspaper article]
Four Lights, nos. 11-14 1917 Jun-Jul [periodical]
Newsclippings re: Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb, Tolman 1945
Open letter to the U.S. President and Congress re: World War II [undated]
General Chemistry, by Linus Pauling 1947 [inscribed]
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology 1934 [with notes]
Series X: Ruth Tolman
Correspondence
Richard C. Tolman 1930
Miscellaneous 1945, 1957
Photographs: Ruth Tolman and others [undated]
Correspondence re burial
Reprints
"An Attempt to Study the Effect of Scientific Training upon Prejudice and Illogicality of Thought," by J. H. Sinclair and R. S. Tolman 1933
"Six Years After: A Study of Predictions," by R. S. Tolman 1946
The Journal of Social Sciences, 4th vol. 1948
"A Semantic Study of Concepts of Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists," by H. M. Grayson and R. S. Tolman 1950
"Teaching by Free Group Discussions," by M. L. Johnson 1952
"The Group Interview in the Selection of Medical Students," by M. L. Johnson 1952
"Seeing's Believing," by M. L. Johnson 1953
"Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished," by R. S. Tolman 1953
"Theory of Free Discussion Group," by M. L. Johnson 1953
Reprints of letters sent to Dr. Sanford from spokespersons of various psychological associations nationwide re state legislative activity 1955
"Psychotherapy and Personality Change," by R. S. Tolman 1955
"A Course on Factors Influencing Scientific Judgement," by M. L. Johnson 1955
"A Factor-Analytic Investigation of the Factor Called General Reasoning," by J. P. Guilford, N. W. Kettner, and P. R. Christensen 1955
"The Relationship between Certain Factor-Analyzed Abilities and Success in College Mathematics," by J. R. Hills 1955
"Observer Error: Its Bearing on Teaching," by M. L. Johnson 1955
"Evolution of Community Mental Health Concepts," 1956
"Testing for Learnt Skill in Observation and Evaluation of Evidence," D. W. James, M. L. Johnson, and P. Venning 1956
"Education for Health - Some Principles and Their Application," D. B. Nyswander 1956
"Who Returns to the Clinic for More Therapy?," by R. S. Tolman and M. M. Meyer 1957
"Perception and Interpretation," by M. L. Johnson n.d.
Scientists Against Time, by James Baxter 1946 [inscribed copy]
Series XI: Supplements
1998 Supplement
Personal correspondence 1912-1922, undated
2000 Supplement
R. C. Tolman reprints
"The Electromotive Force Produced in Solutions by Centrifugal Action" 1911
"Relativity Theory: General Dynamical Principles" 1914 [2 copies]
"The Specific Heat of Solids and the Principle of Similitude" 1914
"The Principle of Similitude and the Principle of Dimensional Homogeneity" 1915
"Note on the Homogeneity of Physical Equations" 1916 [2 copies]
"The Electromagnetic Force Produced by the Acceleration of Metals" with T. Dale Stewart, 1916 [2 copies]
"On Mr. R.C. Tolman's 'Principle of Similitude' " by T. Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa
"The Mass of the Electric Carrier in Copper, Silver and Aluminium" with T. Dale Stewart, 1917 [2 copies]
"The Measurable Quantities in Physics" 1917
"A General Theory of Energy Partition with Applications to Quantum Theory" 1918
"Relation between Intensity of Tyndall Beam and Size of Particles" 1919
"Relation between Intensity of Tyndall Beam and Concentration of Suspensions and Smokes" 1919
"The protection Afforded by Various Filters against Bacterial Suspensions in Air" 1919
"An Electrical Precipitator for Analyzing Smokes" 1919
"The Disappearance of Smoke in a Confined Space" 1919
"Statistical Mechanics Applied to Chemical Kinetics" 1920
"Relativity Theories in Physics" 1920 [2 copies]
"The Entropy of Gases" 1920
"Motion of Droplets and Particles in the Field of the Corona Discharge" 1920
"The Thermal Ionization of Metallic Vapors" 1921 [2 copies]
"Note on the Theory of Monomolecular Reactions" 1921 [2 copies]
"Review of the Present Status of the Two Forms of Quantum Theory" 1922
"Contributions to the Study of Ammonia Catalysts" 1922
"The Moral and the Socially Desirable" 1922 [3 copies]
"The Temperature Coefficient of Photochemical Reaction Rate" 1923 [2 copies]
"The Entropy of Diatomic Gases and Rotational Specific Heat" 1923
"Rotational Specific Heat and half Quantum Numbers" 1923
"Weak Quantization" 1924 [2 copies]
"Duration of Molecules in Upper Quantum States" 1924 [2copies]
"On the Derivation of the Equation for the Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate" 1925 [2copies]
"The Entropy of Supercooled Liquids at the Absolute Zero" 1925
"On the Estimation of Maximum Coefficients of Absorption" 1925 [2 copies]
"The Mechanism of Chemical Reaction"
"Note on the Problem of the Quantitative Formulation of Bohr's Correspondence Principe" 1925 [2 copies]
"The Principle of Microscopic Reversibility" 1925 [2 copies]
"On the Equilibrium between Radiation and Matter" 1926 [2 copies]
"Remarks on Professor Lewis's Note on the Path of Light Quanta in an Interference Field" 1926
"On the Nature of Light" 1926
"A New Kind of Test of the Correspondence Principle Based on the Prediction of the Absolute Intensities of Spectral Lines" 1926
"Further Study of the Inertia of the Electric Carrier in Copper" 1926
"On Chemical Activation by Collisions" 1927
"Methods of Statistical Mechanics" 1927 [2 copies]
"The Thermal Decomposition of Ozone" 1927
"The Thermal Decomposition of Ozone: part I" 1927
"The Thermal Decomposition of Ozone: part II" 1927
"The Thermal Decomposition of Ozone: part III" 1927
"On the Extension of Thermodynamics to General Relativity" 1928
"On the Equilibrium between Radiation and Matter in Einstein's Closed Universe" 1928
"On the Energy and Entropy of Einstein's Closed Universe" 1928
"Further Remarks on the Second Law of Thermodynamics in General Relativity" 1928 [2 copies]
"Experimental Demonstration of the Equivalence of a Mechanically Oscillated Electrostatic Charge to an Alternating Current" 1929
"On the Possible Line Elements for the Universe" 1929
"On the Astronomical Implications of the De Sitter Line Element for the Universe" 1929
"A Test of the Radiation Hypothesis of Chemical Reaction" 1929
"The Rate of Decomposition of Nitrogen at Moderately Low Pressures" 1929
"The Effect of the Annihilation of Matter on the Wave-Length of Light from Nebulae" 1930
"More Complete Discussion of the Time-Dependence of the Non-Static Line Element for the Universe" 1930
"On the Estimation of Distances in a Curved Universe with a Non-Static Line Element" 1930
"On the Use of the Entropy Principle in General Relativity" 1930
"On the Use of the Energy-Momentum Principle in General Relativity" 1930
"On the Weight of Heat and Thermal Equilibrium in General Relativity" 1930
"Temperature Equilibrium in a Static Gravitational Field" 1930
"The Rate of Decomposition of Nitrogen Pentoxide at Very Low Temperatures" 1930
"On the Gravitational Field Produced by Light" 1931
"Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics" with Albert Einstein, 1931
"Nonstatic Model of the Universe with Reversible Annihilation of Matter" 1931
"On Thermodynamic Equilibrium in a Static Einstein Universe" 1931
"On the problem of Entropy of the Universe as a Whole" 1931
"On the Theoretical Requirements for a Periodic Behaviour of the Universe" 1931
"On the Behavior of Non-Static Models of the Universe when the Cosmological Term is Omitted" 1932
"Experiments on the Rate of Dissociation of Nitrogen Tetroxide" 1932
"Thermodynamics and Relativity" 1933
"Effect of Inhomogeneity on Cosmological Models"
"Suggestions as to the Energy-Momentum Principle in a Non-Conservative Mechanics" 1934
"Suggestions as to Metric in a Non-Conservative Mechanics" 1934
"A Mechanical Rectifier for the Measurement of Small, Commercial-Frequency, Alternating Potentials' 1934
"The Thermal decomposition of Nitrosyl Chloride" 1935
"Thermal Equilibrium in a General Gravitational Field" 1935 [2 copies]
"Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory" 1935
"The present Status of Cosmology' 1936
"Remarks on the Doctor of Philosophy Degree" 1938
"The Purpose of University Study" c. 1938
"Static Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations for Spheres of Fluid" 1939
"On the Stability of Spheres of Simple Mechanical Fluid Held Together by Newtonian Gravitation" 1939
"The Philosophy of Physical Science: book review" 1940 [2 copies]
"On the Establishment of Grand Canonical Distributions" 1940
"Physical Science and Philosophy" 1943
"Models of the Physical Universe" 1945
"A Survey of the Sciences" 1947 [3 copies]
2001 Supplement
Personal correspondence 1919-1954 [transferred from the collection of Robert Bacher]
2003 Supplement
Miscellaneous awards, diplomas, and certificates
Newton Grammar Schools, diploma, June 28, 1895
Newton High School Battalion, certificate, June 27, 1899
Newton High School, diploma, June 27, 1899
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, warrant of appointment to sergeant in company of Battalion of Cadets, MIT, May 10, 1900
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science, June 9, 1903
Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Berlin, certificate, April 28, 1904
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dalton Fellowship, June 6, 1906
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dalton Fellowship, June 4, 1907
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy, June 7, 1910
National Academy of Sciences, diploma of election, April 25, 1923
Princeton University, Doctor of Science, h.c., June 16, 1942