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Title: Margaret Galland Kivelson papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1790
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
7.8 linear feet
(19 document boxes and 1 half box)
Date (inclusive): 1950-2008
Abstract: Margaret G. Kivelson is a professor of Space Physics, Emerita in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. This collection, spanning 1950–2008, focuses on Kivelson’s research on magnetospheric
plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn; interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons; and ultra-low frequency
waves. Included are research notes; drafts and final copies of manuscripts; correspondence with colleagues at the University
of California, Harvard, JPL, NASA, and other research institutions; Kivelson’s course notes and syllabi from UCLA; correspondence
with colleagues at the University of California, Harvard, JPL, NASA, and other research institutions; and documentation of
events and conferences attended.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through out electronic
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Creator:
Kivelson, M. G.(Margaret Galland)
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance through our electronic paging system, using the "Request items" button.
Conditions Governing Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to 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 UCLA Library Special Collections does not
hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Margaret Galland Kivelson Papers (Collection 1790). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8168206
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Margaret Kivelson, 2013.
Processed by Angel Diaz, 2017.
Margaret Galland Kivelson is an astrophysicist and professor emerita at UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. She was born in New York, NY in 1928. Her father was a physician and
her mother studied physics in college and became a high school math teacher. Kivelson graduated from Radcliffe College with
an AB in Physics in 1950, an AM in Physics in 1951, and a PhD in Physics in 1957 (Radcliffe College functioned as a female
coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. A merger with Harvard began in 1977). She met and married her husband,
Daniel Kivelson, while in undergraduate studies. As a doctoral student, she specialized in in quantum electrodynamics and
wrote her thesis on "Bremsstrahlung of Extreme Relativistic Electrons" under the direction of Julian Schwinger.
In 1955, Kivelson's husband joined the UCLA faculty as a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. At that
time, Kivelson accepted a part-time position with the RAND Corporation, splitting her time between raising her children and
her research on equations of state at high pressure and on theoretical plasma physics. In 1965, she became an Assistant Research
Geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics at UCLA (now the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics), working on problems
of space physics and becoming increasingly interested in magnetospheric physics. Kivelson began teaching in the Department
of Physics in 1971 and then in in the Department of Geophysics and Space Physics in 1975 (now the Department of Earth, Planetary,
and Space Sciences). Her work focused on the magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. She was principal
investigator for the Orbiter Magnetometer for the Galileo Jupiter Mission, 1977-2003.
Kivelson participated and chaired faculty and administrative groups charged with identifying and resolving issues of special
concern to women at UCLA, including affirmative action, child care, women's studies, and scientific careers for women in science.
She served as chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women from 1974 to 1976 and as president of the
Association of Academic Women from 1976 to 1978. Kivelson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her husband, Daniel
Kivelson passed away in 2003. They had two children who also entered academia. Their son, Steven Kivelson is professor of
physics at Stanford. Their daughter, Valerie Kivelson is an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.
This collection consists of materials related to the teaching career and professional research of UCLA Professor of Space
Physics, Emerita in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Margaret
Kivelson. The papers include research notes, drafts and final copies of manuscripts, correspondence, presentation slides and
notes, and grant proposals and documentation. This collection includes research correspondence, notes, and publications related
to Kivelson's work for the Galileo Jupiter Mission, as well as materials related to her work on the Status of Women in Science
efforts.
This collections been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Subject and administrative files, 1955-2005
- Series 2: Status of Women in Science files, 1970-2008
- Series 3: Presentations, 1965-2008
- Series 4: Publications, 1953-1982
- Series 5: Research files, 1950-2008
- Subseries 5.1: Graduate and fellowship notes, 1950-1967
- Subseries 5.2: Professional research files, circa 1952-2006
- Series 6: Grant proposals, 1972-2008
Materials are arranged alphabetically by topic within their series, then chronologically.
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics: Records of the UCLA Website, 1912-2001. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
But you don't look like a physicist oral history transcript, 1988-92: Margaret G. Kivelson. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kivelson, M. G.(Margaret Galland) -- Archives
University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics--Faculty--Archives.
Galileo Project.
Women in science.
Women physicists--United States--Archives.