Finding Aid for the Theodore von Kármán Collection of Offprints and Reprints Biomed.0419

Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections

Title: Theodore von Kármán collection of offprints and reprints

Creator: Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963

Source: Zephyr

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0419

Physical Description: 21.5 Linear Feet (15 boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1903-1963

Language of Material: Material is in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, and other languages.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6465492 

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.