Theodore von Kármán collection of offprints and reprints, 1903-1963
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Theodore von Kármán collection of offprints and reprints
- Subtitle:
- Von Kármán (Theodore) collection of offprints and reprints
- Dates:
- 1903-1963
- Creators:
- Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963 and Zephyr
- Extent:
- 21.5 Linear Feet (15 boxes)
- Language:
- Material is in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, and other languages.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Approximately 3000 scientific offprints, reprints, typescripts, reports, dissertations and extracts collected by Theodore von Kármán. Some items are inscribed by their authors; all are labeled by Von Kármán for filing in and retrieval from his working files; some are briefly annotated by Von Kármán. The collection spans the 60 year period of von Kármán's professional life. The collection is particularly rich in non-English language papers published in central and eastern Europe between the World Wars. Organized alphabetically by author, as indicated by Von Kármán, including extensive files from: K.O. Friedrichs; Tullio Levi-Civata; E. Orowan; C.W. Oseen; Mauro Piccone; William Prager; George Sachs; F.R. Shanley; G.I. Taylor; Henri Villat; Enrico Volterra; Karl Wieghardt; and Hans Ziegler. Also includes typescript of John von Neumann's 1949-50 papers, Recent theories in turbulence.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Zephyr
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-17 15:18:50 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940