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Series 1: Academic files 1968-2005

Scope and Content

The series includes materials related to Byers' activities as a professor at UCLA, including instructional materials for physics and gender studies courses, lecture notes for a talk on the Holocaust, course outlines, exams and problem sets, anti-war and anti-nuclear materials, and a university study in which she participated.
box 1, folder 1-3

Courses: Physics C185 2001

box 1, folder 4

Courses: Physics C185 1995-1998

box 1, folder 5

Courses: Physics 226B and 226C 1984

box 1, folder 6

Courses: Physics 226A 1981-1982

box 2, folder 1

Courses: Physics 226A and 226B 1977-1981

box 2, folder 2

Courses: Physics 224 1977

box 2, folder 3

Proton decay notes and research 1978-1981

box 2, folder 4

Courses: Women's Studies M135/History M198G 1996-1997

box 2, folder 5

Holocaust lecture and notes 1997-2005

box 2, folder 6

Course materials and notes circa 2002

box 2, folder 7

Exams and course materials 1972-1980

box 2, folder 8

Oxford course materials 1969-1973

box 3, folder 1

Seminars and lectures 1969-2005

box 3, folder 2

Papers and articles 1958-2003

box 3, folder 3

Gender studies materials 1995-2003

box 3, folder 4

History of science materials 1994-1996

box 3, folder 5

Anti-nuclear materials 1981-2004

box 3, folder 6

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (CWP) 2000-2003

box 3, folder 7

American Physical Society 1995-2003

box 3, folder 8

Forum on History of Physics 1982-2004

box 3, folder 9

Notes undated

box 4, folder 1

Notebooks 1958-1979

box 4, folder 2

University Transition Study 1997

 

Series 2: Correspondence and photographs 1946-2006

Scope and Content

The series includes professional and personal correspondence and photos, including letters discussing the Watts Riots in 1965, affirmative action in regards to women in the UC system, and correspondence with a potential employer from 1955-1956 regarding her refusal to take a loyalty oath. Photographs are personal snapshots with unidentified persons and dates are limited to 1946-1958 and 1991-2006. This series is arranged chronologically.
box 4, folder 3

Correspondence and photographs 1946-1956

box 4, folder 4-6

Correspondence and photographs 1948-1958

box 4, folder 7

Correspondence: Loyalty oath 1955-1956

box 5, folder 1

Correspondence 1958-1959

box 5, folder 2

Correspondence: Watts Riots 1965

box 5, folder 3

Correspondence 1967-1973

box 5, folder 4

Correspondence 1974

box 5, folder 5

Correspondence: Association of Academic Women (AAW) 1974-1976

box 5, folder 6

Correspondence 1974-1978

box 5, folder 7-8

Correspondence 1980-1989

box 5, folder 9

Correspondence with Xavier Carelse 1991-1993

box 5, folder 10-11

Correspondence and photographs 1991-1999

box 6, folder 1

Correspondence and photographs 2000-2006

 

Series 3: Personal files 1951-2005

Scope and Content

The series includes subject material reflecting Byers' personal life, including her physics qualifying exams as a student, datebooks, curriculum vitae, biographical materials, research on Austrian-Swedish physicist Lisa Meitner, correspondence regarding the great-granddaughter of Peter Carl, Fabergé, Tatiana Fabergé, and research, notes and correspondence related to her book Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics.
box 6, folder 2

Physics qualifying exams circa 1951

box 6, folder 3

Calendar and personal documents 1967-1974

box 6, folder 4

Lisa Meitner notes 1994-1996

box 6, folder 5

Out of the Shadows book materials 1999-2005

box 6, folder 6

Curriculum vitae and biographical materials undated

box 6, folder 7

Eulogies 1995-2001

box 6, folder 8

Tatiana Fabergé 1992-1995

Collection Contents
Series 1: Academic files
Series 2: Correspondence and photographs
Series 3: Personal files
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