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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Marvin Chodorow papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0761
Physical Description:
84 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1929-1993
Date (bulk): 1943-1974
Abstract: Collection includes technical reports,
articles, class files, memoranda, drafts and text for lectures, proposals and contracts,
notes, correspondence, and minutes. Collection largely pertains to his research in linear
accelerators, klystrons, and microwaves; professional activities; classes he taught at
Stanford; and administrative duties at Stanford. There are also some materials pertaining to
his classes as a student in the 1930s.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
This collection is open for research.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Chodorow received his B.A. in 1934 at the University of Buffalo, and his Ph.D., 1939, at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at Pennsylvania State College and
College of the City of New York and worked with the Sperry Gyroscope Company (1943-47),
before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1947. He served as Chair of the Department of
Applied Physics from 1962-69 and Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, 1959-78. He
held a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, 1962-63, and was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering, 1967, and the National Academy of Sciences, 1971.
Marvin Chodorow Papers (SC0761). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Collection includes technical reports, articles, class files, memoranda, drafts and text
for lectures, proposals and contracts, notes, correspondence, and minutes. Collection
largely pertains to his research in linear accelerators, klystrons, and microwaves;
professional activities; classes he taught at Stanford; and administrative duties at
Stanford. There are also some materials pertaining to his classes as a student in the
1930s.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Klystrons.
Physics.
Linear accelerators.
Microwave tubes.
Stanford University. Department of Physics
Chodorow, Marvin