Finding Aid for the Enrico Volterra Papers 1910-2009, bulk 1930-1973

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Enrico Volterra Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1910-2009, bulk 1930-1973

Collection number: 10235-MS

Creator: Volterra, Enrico 1905-1973

Extent: 3 linear feet

Repository: California Institute of Technology. Caltech Archives

Pasadena, California 91125

Abstract: The scientific and personal correspondence of Enrico Volterra (1905-1973) from the collection known as the Papers of Enrico Volterra in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. He was the son of the distinguished Italian mathematician Vito Volterra. He emigrated from Italy circa 1937, first to England, and finally to the US. He was trained as an engineer and taught at several universities, ultimately settling at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was professor of engineering mechanics and aerospace engineering. The papers contain the autograph collection assembled by Vito Volterra.

Physical location: California Institute of Technology, Institute Archives

Languages represented in the collection: EnglishItalianFrench

Access

The collection is open for research. Researchers must apply in writing for access.

Publication Rights

Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Enrico Volterra Papers, 10235-MS, Caltech Archives, California Institute of Technology.

Acquisition Information

The autograph collection of Vito Volterra, which originally passed to his son Enrico Volterra, was donated by Enrico's daughter, Virginia Volterra, in 2003. Edith L. Duenk Volterra, Enrico's widow, donated the remainder of the papers--which constitutes the bulk of the collection--to the Caltech Archives on November 9, 2006.

Biography

Enrico Volterra was born June 11, 1905 in Rome, shortly after his father's appointment as Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. The family belonged to Italy's intellectual elite. His mother, Virginia Almagià, was an accomplished pianist and astute businesswoman, and his father, Vito, was professor of mathematics at the University of Rome and the undisputed head of the Italian school of mathematics until Mussolini became dictator in 1925. Enrico was one of six children, two of whom died shortly after birth. After graduation from the city's prestigious Liceo Classico Torquato Tasso, Volterra entered the University of Rome, where he received the degree of civil engineer with highest honors in 1928. That same year he also obtained his professional abilitazione in bridges and roads at the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Naples.

In the period 1930-1938, Volterra held a variety of industrial, research, and academic positions at home and abroad. After serving as assistant to the Chair of Marine Construction at Rome in 1930, he hastened to Paris and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he did research on using photoelastic methods to analyze materials. Later that year, Volterra returned to Rome to start working as a civil engineer in the technical office of the Italian concrete and iron firm Ferrobeton; he worked there for five years and designed many bridges and buildings for this company. In the meantime, the Ministry of Public Instruction had awarded him a postdoctoral fellowship, which allowed him to study rational mechanics under the Roman mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita's direction.

In January 1933, he obtained the libera docenza in the science of structures from the University of Rome. Awarded an Italian government fellowship for study abroad, Volterra spent 1933 in Switzerland, where he worked in Professor Mirko Ros's materials testing laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, doing research on concrete and reinforced concrete. He also collaborated with Ros that year testing the structures for the new Palace of Nations in Geneva, the headquarters of the League of Nations.

Following his return to Rome in January 1934, Volterra became Levi-Civita's assistant. He also served as lecturer in graphical statics (1934-1938) and rational mechanics (1936-1938) for engineering students at Rome, and lectured on structures (1937-1938) as well in the university's school of architecture. Volterra remained active as a project engineer during these years, working on road construction in Sicily and various Egyptian construction projects in Alexandria.

The 1938 anti-Jewish racial laws ended Volterra's Italian university career. In February 1939, he left Italy and went to England. That September, when Britain declared war on Germany, Volterra was interned for several months on the Isle of Man. Later, with the help of colleagues at Cambridge University, Volterra became a member of King's College, Cambridge, joined the university's engineering laboratory as a research student, and received a PhD in Mechanics from Cambridge University in December 1941. Between 1943 and the end of World War II, he carried out research on plastics and rubber-like materials, under the direction of the versatile Trinity College applied mathematician G. I. Taylor.

In June 1946 Volterra returned briefly to Rome. While there, he served as a consultant to the National Research Council's Institute for Applied Mathematics, resumed teaching architectural students at the university, and served as an advisor to the government's ministry of public works.

Volterra's move to the New World came in 1949. Appointed associate professor of mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology, he taught there for four years, followed by five years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He joined the engineering faculty as professor of engineering mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1957.

Enrico Volterra married Edith Duenk in 1952. They had two daughters. He died in Austin on June 29, 1973.

Biographical Note by Judith R. Goodstein.

Scope and Content

The Enrico Volterra collection is divided into four series, organized in eight archival boxes. Series 1, Correspondence, contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence organized in alphabetically ordered folders. It makes up over half of the collection. Most of the letters are written in Italian and English. The Italian correspondents are more closely related to Enrico Volterra's personal life, especially during the time when he lived in Italy, while the English correspondents are more related to Volterra's work as an engineer at University of Texas at Austin.

Series 2, Biographical, Scientific and Printed Material, groups a small amount of biographical documents together with a sampling of Volterra's scientific activity, such as patents, and the publishing of his textbook, Advanced Strength of Materials. The series also includes several printed materials such as news clippings, magazines and reprints of scientific works of Volterra's acquaintances.

Photos and Portraits, Series 3, contains mostly photos of Volterra's father, mathematician Vito Volterra, especially from the 1920s and 1930s. Photos related to Enrico are only a small portion and were taken when he was in his thirties.

Series 4, the Vito Volterra Autograph Collection, contains autographs mostly of famous nineteenth-century scientists, principally Italian and French, arranged in alphabetical order by name. The autographs are predominantly in the form of letters and were either sent to Vito Volterra as part of an exchange of correspondence or purposely purchased by him for his collection. The autograph collection was inherited by Enrico Volterra from his father and has been placed within this collection of Enrico Volterra papers for the purpose of convenience. It was originally donated separately by the Volterra heirs.

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1. Correspondence
Series 2. Biographical, scientific and printed material
Series 3. Photos and Portraits
Series 4. Vito Volterra Autograph Collection

Related Material

Vito Volterra Historical Files.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

California Institute of Technology

Levi-Civita, Tullio, 1873-1941

Nádai, Arpád, 1883-1963

Segrè, Emilio

Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram, Sir, 1886-1975

Volterra, Vito, 1860-1940

Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963

Whittaker, E. T. (Edmund Taylor), 1873-1956

Civil engineering

Mathematics--Italy

Genres and Forms

Autographs--collections--Italy

Occupations

Civil engineers

Mathematicians

Mathematicians--Italy

Series 1. Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 1

Accademia dei Lincei 1948, 1962

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 2

Amaldi, Edoardo 1957, 1970

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 3

Amaldi, Ugo 1950-1957

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 4

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (A.I.M.E.) 1957

Box 1, Folder 5

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1954-1955, 1966

Box 1, Folder 6

Applied Mechanics Reviews 1952-1959

Box 1, Folder 7

Artom, Eugenio 1940, 1963-1965

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 8

Ascoli, Max 1949-1953, 1958-1960, 1964, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 9

A Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Adcock, Frank undated
Albenghi, G. [?] 1947
Aliens War Service Department 1942
Allievi, Lorenzo undated
Almagià, Eleonora undated (Business card)
Almansi, Emilio undated
Amendola, Giorgio1926
Amendola, Giovanni 1923
Apostolic Delegation, London 1940
Argentina, Republic of, Consulates 1939, 1941
Associazione Elettronica Italiana 1946
Associazione Italiana per gli Studi sui Materiali da Costruzione 1931

Note

In English and in Italian.

Baire, René See: Dugac, Pierre

Box 1, Folder 10

Baker, John 1946, 1967

Box 1, Folder 11

Belluzzi, Odone 1947, 1967, undated

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 1, Folder 12

Biot, Maurice A. 1953-1957, 1963-1965

Box 1, Folder 13

Bonfante, Giuliano 1925-1926, 1966- 1970

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 14

Buckland, W. W. 1943-1944

Box 1, Folder 15

Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Jassy (Rumania) 1959-1960

Box 1, Folder 16

B Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Bachi, Roberto 1972
Belluzzo, Giuseppe 1931, 1935
Besicovich, A. S. 1946
Bonomi, Ivanoe 1932, undated
Bordoni, Ugo 1934
Borel, Emile 1944
Bousfield Junior School, London 1962
Bragg, William 1940
British Association for the Advancement of Science 1941
Brugnola, Vittorio 1940
Burgers, J. M. 1961

Note

In English and in Italian

Box 1, Folder 17

Cassinis, Gino 1946-1950, 1955-1958, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 18

Castelnuovo, Guido and Elbina 1935-1938, 1945-1953, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 19

Colonnetti, Gustavo 1930-1931, 1946-1961, 1966-1968, 1972, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 20

Coen Cagli, Enrico 1930-1945, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 21

Coker, Ernest George 1928-1933

Box 1, Folder 22

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) ( See also: Colonnetti, Gustavo) 1946-1948

Note

In Italian.

Box 1, Folder 23

Conti, Luciano 1930-1933

Note

In Italian.

Corbino, Orso Mario See: Segrè, Emilio Gino

Box 1, Folder 24

C Miscellaneous correspondence

Scope and Content Note

California Institute of Technology 1969
Camichel, C. 1930
Canevet, Georges 1969
Cantelli, Francesco Paolo 1952
Caquot, A. 1936
Casal, Pierre 1969
Cassuto, Umberto 1936
Chapman, Alan J. 1968
Chapman, Sidney 1942, 1970, undated
Corbino, Epicarmo 1946
Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Andrea 1964
Crocco, Luigi 1952
Croce, Elena ca. 1964
Crombie, Alistair 1968

Note

In English, Italian and French.

Box 2, Folder 1

Den Hartog, Jacob P. 1949, 1954-1965

Box 2, Folder 2

Donnan, Frederick George 1939-1953, undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Dryden, Hugh L. and Libbie 1955-1969

Note

Includes two clippings dated 1969 and 1973.

Box 2, Folder 4

D Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Danusso, Arturo 1933, 1948, undated ( See also: Series 2, Miscellaneous reprints and articles)
Daube, David 1945, 1946
Davis, R. M. 1958
De Bosis, Adolfo undated (Contains a writing in Italian dialect and a draft of a play)
De Bosis, Lauro undated
De Marchi, Giulio 1921, undated (Business cards)
De Ruggiero, Guido undated (Business card)
de Viti de Marco, Antonio 1916(Certificate)
Donnell, Lloyd 1960
Dugac, Pierre 1973

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 2, Folder 5

Egypte, Légation Royal de 1947-1948

Note

In French.

Box 2, Folder 6

Eringen, Cemal A. 1958-1966

Box 2, Folder 7

Eyring, Henry 1958-1960

Box 2, Folder 8

E Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Egerton, Alfred Charles G. 1940
Enciclopedia Italiana 1934
Engel, Runie [?] 1942
Enriques, Anna Maria undated (Business card)
Enriques, Federigo ca. 1937 (Business card)
Etherington, J. M. H.1941
Evangelisti, Giuseppe 1948, 1951
Ezekiel, Moisé1910, 1913

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 2, Folder 9

Fancello, Francesco 1952, 1968

Note

In Italian.

Box 2, Folder 10

Fantoli, Gaudenzio 1930-1932, 1937-1938

Note

In Italian.

Box 2, Folder 11

Favre, Henry 1931-1938, 1946, 1952-1964

Note

In French.

Box 2, Folder 12

Fermi, Enrico and Laura ( See also: Segrè, Emilio Gino) 1932,1949-1956, 1961, 1971

Note

In Italian.

Box 2, Folder 13

Finzi, Bruno 1959-1967, 1971-1973

Note

In Italian.

Box 2, Folder 14

Ford, Hugh 1956-1963

Box 2, Folder 15

F Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, France 1969
Fasci Italiani all'Estero 1934
Fehr 1940
Ferrari, Carlo 1969
Ferrero, Guglielmo 1941
Folsom, Richard Gilman 1956, 1967
Frechet, Henry undated
Frechet, Maurice 1939, 1948
Freda, Elena ca. 1938-1940
Fubini, Guido undated (Cards)

Note

In English, Italian and French.

Gentile, Giovanni See: Enciclopedia Italiana

Box 2, Folder 16

Goodier, Norman 1954-1964

Box 2, Folder 17

Great Britain, British Admiralty -- Department of Scientific Research and Experiment 1943-1945

Note

Includes notes.

Box 2, Folder 18

Gross, Bernhard 1952-1956

Box 2, Folder 19

G Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Giovannoni, Gustavo 1930-1933, undated (Business cards)
Goodstein, Judith R. 1972
Graffi, Dario 1959
Graham-Campbell, Archibald Rollo 1947-1948
Gray, James 1945
Griffis, LeVan 1959
Grioli, Giuseppe 1956-1960, undated
Great Britain, Government of -- Home Office 1939
Guidi, Camillo 1934, 1937, undated
Guidi, Michelangelo 1940

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 3, Folder 1

Heiskanen, Weikko Aleksanteri ( See also: Series 2, Talks and speeches) 1956-1959

Box 3, Folder 2

Hill, Archibald V. 1940-1945, 1952

Box 3, Folder 3

Hodge, Philip G. Jr. 1954-1958

Box 3, Folder 4

Hodge, William V. D. 1942

Box 3, Folder 5

Hopkins, H. Geoffrey 1962-1964

Box 3, Folder 6

Houston, William Vermillion 1959

Box 3, Folder 7

Imperial College of Science and Technology, London 1962

Box 3, Folder 8

Illinois Institute of Technology 1949-1951

Box 3, Folder 9

Jones, John P. 1959

Box 3, Folder 10

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1958

Box 3, Folder 11

Journal of Applied Mechanics 1952-1954

Box 3, Folder 12

H-K Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Hambloch, Ernest 1941
Hardy, Godfrey Harold 1939
Heald, Henry T. 1950
Henry, T. Held 1950
Herrmann, George 1957
Higgins, Thomas J. 1954-1958 (Thank you cards)
Hoff, Nicholas J. 1968
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) 1959
King's College (University of Cambridge) 1955
Kline L. V. 1959

Box 3, Folder 13

Lee, Erastus H. 1950, 1959, 1963-1965

Box 3, Folder 14

Lensky, V. S. 1963-1966

Box 3, Folder 15

Leon, Eva 1949-1950, 1954, undated

Box 3, Folder 16

Levi, Alessandro ca. 1938-1940, 1940-1947, 1952-1953, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 17

Levi, Beppo 1939-1943

Note

In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 18

Levi-Civita, Tullio (1) 1916-1917, 1927-1938

Note

Contains a Levi-Civita notebook on analytical mechanics. In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 19

Levi-Civita, Tullio (2) 1939-1940, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 20

Levi-Civita, Tullio -- Obituaries and Commemorations 1941-1942

Note

Includes talks and news clippings. In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 21

L'Hermite, Robert 1968-1971

Note

In French.

Box 3, Folder 22

Lincoln, Jack 1968

Box 3, Folder 23

Lombardi, Luigi 1929-1936, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 24

Lovett, Edgar Odell 1939, undated

Box 3, Folder 25

Lussu, Emilio 1938, 1948-1957,1970-1973, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 3, Folder 26

L Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

La Pira, Giorgio undated
Lely, Cornelis 1929
Lessels, John M. 1957
Levi, Carlo undated
Lombardi, Renato 1929-1934
Luria, Salvatore 1937, 1940
Lindsey, Paul 1960

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 4, Folder 1

Majorana, Ettore ( See also: Segrè, Emilio Gino) 1973

Note

In Italian.

Box 4, Folder 2

Majorana, Luciano and Nunny 1950, 1957, 1967

Note

In Italian.

Box 4, Folder 3

Mandelbrojt, Szolem 1958-1965, 1969-1973

Note

In English and in French.

Box 4, Folder 4

Marchiafava, Ettore 1924, 1929-1930, 1935

Note

In Italian.

McGraw-Hill Book Company See: Belluzzi, Odone

Box 4, Folder 5

Mechanical Engineering 1963

Box 4, Folder 6

Mesnager, Augustin 1931

Note

In French.

Box 4, Folder 7

Miele, Angelo 1964-1966, 1970

Note

In English and in Italian.

Box 4, Folder 8

Mindlin, Raymond D. 1949-1951

Box 4, Folder 9

Minorsky, Nicolaj 1960-1968

Box 4, Folder 10

Moisil, Grigore C. 1959-1964, undated

Box 4, Folder 11

M Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Maggi, Gian Antonio 1931 (Business card)
Maurain, Charles undated (Business card)
Meissner, K. W. 1950, undated
Meyer-Peter, E. undated (Business card)
Milani, Aminta 1939, undated
Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici, Italy 1946
Momigliano, Attilio 1940
Montecorboli, Enrico 1971 (Includes news clippings)
Montel, Paul undated (Business card)
Moore, Robert and Margaret 1958-1959
Morell, J. D. 1960
Morse, Marston 1959

Box 4, Folder 12

Nàdai, (L.) Árpad (1) 1949-1955

Box 4, Folder 13

Nàdai, (L.) Árpad (2) 1956-1963, undated

Note

In English and in German.

Box 4, Folder 14

Nàdai, (L.) Árpad, Bingham Medal 1952, 1955, 1957

Note

The folder contains copy of Nàdai's instructions found in the medal box. The medal is located in the Archives Medals and Awards Series.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) See: Dryden, Hugh L. and Libbie

Box 5, Folder 1

Pennsylvania State University 1957-1959

Peres, Joseph See: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Box 5, Folder 2

Reid, Constance 1964-1965, 1970

Box 5, Folder 3

Reiner, Markus 1960-1968

Box 5, Folder 4

Reissner, Eric ( See also: Series 2, Talks and speeches) 1952-1954, 1964, undated

Box 5, Folder 5

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1953-1957

Box 5, Folder 6

Rivlin, Ronald 1952, 1958, 1965, undated

Note

Includes notes.

Box 5, Folder 7

Robson, J. D. 1968-1969

Box 5, Folder 8

Romita, Giuseppe 1936-1937, 1947, 1953, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 5, Folder 9

Roš, Mirko and Adele 1930-1941, 1946-1949, 1956

Note

In French, German, Italian and English.

Royal Society See: Hill, Archibald

Box 5, Folder 10

Ruffini, Edoardo 1945-1946, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 5, Folder 11

P-R Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Pakzad, Houchang 1969
Purdue University 1960
Rebecchini, Salvatore 1937
Reina, Vincenzo 1916
Reissner, Hans 1949
Ritter, Max 1931
Rohn 1935 (Thank you card)
Romita, Pier Luigi 1951, 1958
Rosselli, Amelia 1939
Rosselli, Marion 1947
Rossi, Bruno 1965, undated
Rice Institute, The 1959
Ricerche di Ingegneria (journal) 1934
Rijksbureau voor de Ontwatering (The Netherlands) 1929

Note

In French, English and Italian.

Box 5, Folder 12

Sadowsky, Michael A. and Hilda 1952-1955, 1960-1961, 1966, undated

Box 5, Folder 13

Segre, Beniamino 1940, 1946-1952, 1957-1959, 1965-1969, 1972, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 5, Folder 14

Segrè, Emilio Gino 1925-1929, 1952, 1958-1963, 1970-1972, undated

Note

Includes a biographical note on Enrico Fermi by Segrè.

Box 5, Folder 15

Shove, G. Z. 1940-1941

Box 5, Folder 16

Siglienti, Stefano and Ines 1947-1952, 1959-1960, 1965-1966, 1971, undated

Note

In Italian.

Box 5, Folder 17

Somigliana, Carlo 1931-1935, 1940

Note

In Italian.

Box 5, Folder 18

Southwell, Richard V. and Isabella 1939, 1947, 1954-1963

Box 5, Folder 19

Southwest Research Institute 1958-1959, 1964

Box 5, Folder 20

Sternberg, Eli and Jean 1951-1953, undated

Box 5, Folder 21

S Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Salvadori, Massimo 1940
Scorza, G. 1932
Segni, Antonio 1960
Segrè, Gino 1940
Seth, B. R. 1960
Sheppard, John 1947
Signorini, Antonio 1962
Society for the Protection of Science and Learning 1958
Sokolnikoff 1949
Sraffa, Irma and Piero 1940
Symonds, P. S. 1950

Note

In Italian and in English.

Box 6, Folder 1

Tank, F. 1931-1932

Note

In French.

Box 6, Folder 2

Taylor, Geoffrey I. and Stephanie ( See also: Series 2, Miscellaneous reprints and articles) 1940-1948, 1952-1965

Box 6, Folder 3

Taylor, Geoffrey I. 1966-1973, undated

Note

Includes a summary of a lecture, a draft of article, notes and publications.

Box 6, Folder 4

Taylor, Geoffrey I. -- Visit to University of Texas at Austin ( See also: Series 2, Talks and speeches; ) 1968

Note

Includes biographical sketches of Taylor, programs and invitations.

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology See: Reiner, Markus

Box 6, Folder 5

Timoshenko, Stephen 1939, 1948-1949, 1956-1957, 1964-1965

Box 6, Folder 6

Treves, Piero and Janet ( See also: Series 2, Miscellaneous reprints and articles) 1932, 1939-1941, 1945-1946, 1967-1973

Note

Includes notes and two publications. In Italian and in French.

Box 6, Folder 7

Tricomi, Francesco Giacomo ( See also: Series 2, Reprints by Tricomi, Francesco Giacomo) 1950, 1958, 1965, 1972

Note

Includes a list of publications. In Italian.

Box 6, Folder 8

Truesdell, Carl A. 1953-1955

Box 6, Folder 9

T Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Tonolo, Angelo 1947
Treves, Paolo undated
Treves, Claudio 1969,1970
Turner, J. C. Robin 1973

Note

In Italian and in English.

Box 6, Folder 10

Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Rosario (Argentina) 1939-1943

Note

In Spanish, Italian and English.

Box 6, Folder 11

University of California: Los Angeles 1962-1964

University of Texas at Austin See: Taylor, Geoffrey

University of Nottingham (Great Britain) See: Warburton, G. B.

Box 6, Folder 12

Valensi, Jacques 1961, 1969, 1973

Note

In French and in English.

Box 6, Folder 13

Vivante, Cesare 1940s, 1946-1950, 1956, 1965

Note

In Italian.

Box 6, Folder 14

Vivante, Elena 1954-1961, 1969

Note

In Italian.

Box 6, Folder 15

Vivante, Paolo 1962-1968, 1973

Note

In Italian.

Box 7, Folder 1

Vogel, Theodore 1969-1971, undated

Note

Includes a paper by Vogel. In French and in English.

Box 7, Folder 2

Volterra Almagià, Virginia ( See also: Levi, Beppo; Mandelbrojt Szolem; Roš, Mirko; Von Kármán, Theodore) 1952, 1963-1964

Note

In Italian and in French.

Box 7, Folder 3

Von Kármán, Theodore ( See also: Series 2, News clippings miscellaneous) 1947-1962, 1992

Note

Includes the 1962 AGARD General Information, some notes and printed material. In English, in French and in Italian.

Box 7, Folder 4

Von Kármán, Theodore -- Award 1959-1961

Volterra, Vito See: Hill, Archibald V.; Levi, Beppo; Levi-Civita, Tullio; Mandelbrojt, Szolem; Milani, Aminta; Southwell, Richard and Isabella; Nàdai, (L.) Árpad; Taylor, Geoffrey I.; Reid, Constance; Treves, Claudio; Weil, André; Whittaker, Edmund

Volterra Duenk, Edith L. See: Nàdai, (L.) Árpad; Sadowsky, Michael; Taylor, Geoffrey I.; Von Kármán, Theodore

Box 7, Folder 5

Von Mises, Richard 1939

Note

In French and in English.

Box 7, Folder 6

V Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Valette, Jean Roubaud 1949
Vallauri, Giancarlo 1932, undated (Thank you cards)
Vandiver, Harry S. 1958-1960
Vermolen, Jan Th. W. J. 1928
Van Konynenburg 1928
Veblen, Oswald 1959
Vivante, Leone 1963-1967
Von Mises, Hilda 1956

Note

In French, Italian and English.

Box 7, Folder 7

Warburton, Geoffrey B. 1959-1960, 1968-1971

Box 7, Folder 8

Whittaker, Edmund T. 1940-1947, 1951-1954, undated

Box 7, Folder 9

W-Z Miscellaneous Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Weil, André 1940
Wortman, H. 1929
Zazhmanoglou, E. C. 1957

Note

In French and in English.

Box 7, Folder 10

Miscellaneous unsigned business cards undated

Box 7, Folder 11

Unidentified correspondence 1931, 1951

Series 2. Biographical, scientific and printed material

Biographical material

Box 7, Folder 12

Curricula and biographical information 1943, 1971, undated

Note

In French, English and Italian.

Box 7, Folder 13

Personal miscellaneous 1924, 1932-1933, 1938 undated

Note

In Italian, French, German and English.

Scientific material

Box 7, Folder 14

Radio interviews 1941, 1946

Note

In Italian.

Box 7, Folder 15

Talks and speeches 1946, 1957, 1968, undated

Note

In French and in English.

Box 7, Folder 16

Conferences 1931, 1955, 1960

Note

In French and in English.

Box 7, Folder 17

Patent specifications and scientific certificates 1932-1938

Note

In Italian and in English.

Box 7, Folder 18

Advanced Strength of Material, photos of scientists published in the book (1) 1971

Note

Reproductions from prints in the Vito Volterra collection in Ariccia (Rome).

Box 7, Folder 19

Advanced Strength of Material, photos of scientists published in the book (2) 1971

Note

Reproductions from prints in different societies and organizations.

Printed material

Box 7, Folder 20

News clippings miscellaneous on Volterra's acquaintances 1956, 1961, undated

Box 7, Folder 21

Reprints and articles miscellaneous on or by Volterra's acquaintances 1953, 1962, 1972

Note

In Italian and in English.

Box 7, Folder 22

Reprints by Tricomi, Francesco Giacomo 1968-1972

Note

In Italian.

Box 7.1, Folder 1

Magazines and brochure miscellaneous 1941, 1955, 1981

Note

In Italian and in English.

Box 7.1, Folder 2

Nozioni di Statica Grafica, Volterra, Enrico. Rome: Libreria Politecnica. 1937

Note

Handwritten notes by Tullio Levi-Civita. In Italian.

Box 7.1, Folder 3

Sur L'équilibre des Corps Élastiques Multiplement Connexes, Volterra, Vito. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1907

Box 7.1, Folder 4

L'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Picone, Mario. Rome: Tipografia del Senato 1957

Box 7.1, Folder 5

L'Archivio di Enrico Volterra allo CSAC di Parma 2008-2009

Note

University thesis by Rossella Romito. In Italian.

Series 3. Photos and Portraits

Box 8, Folder 1

Vito Volterra family on a city trip ca. 1935

Box 8, Folder 2

Enrico Volterra alone and with friends 1930s

Box 8, Folder 3

Vito Volterra and wife Virginia ca. 1937

Box 8, Folder 4

World War I ca. 1915

Box 8, Folder 5

Vito Volterra with unidentified people 1920s, undated

Note

May include photos with Marie and Irène Curie.

Box 8, Folder 6

Vito Volterra portraits undated

Box 8, Folder 7

Vito Volterra at the Accademia Pontificia 1930s

Box 8, Folder 8

Vito Volterra Medal, photo reproductions undated

Note

With negative.

Box 8, Folder 9

Josèph Pères, Geoffrey Taylor and Umberto Leoni (?) undated

Box 8, Folder 10

Drawings by G. Almagià 1853, undated

Box 8, Folder 11

Vito Volterra in New York 1909 August

Box 8, Folder 12

Group photo of participants at the 7th International Congress of Applied Mechanics 1948

Box 8, Folder 13

Villino Volterra in Ariccia undated

Box 8, Folder 14

Photo negatives undated

Physical Description: Some glass negatives.

Series 4. Vito Volterra Autograph Collection

Box 8, Folder 15

Betti, Enrico (1823-1892) 1855, undated

Box 8, Folder 16

Bianchi, Luigi (1856-1928) 1927-1928

Box 8, Folder 17

Boselli, Paolo (1838-1932) 1923

Box 8, Folder 18

Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826-1910) 1901-1907

Box 8, Folder 19

Canonico, Tancredi (1828-1908) 1904

Box 8, Folder 20

Cremona, Luigi (1830-1903) 1903, undated

Box 8, Folder 21

D'Ancona, Alessandro (1835-1914) 1903, undated

Box 8, Folder 22

Darboux, Jean Gaston (1842-1917) 1900

Box 8, Folder 23

De Broglie, Louis (1892-1987) undated

Box 8, Folder 24

Delisle, Léopold (1826-1910) 1903

Box 8, Folder 25

Ferraris, Galileo (1847-1897) undated

Box 8, Folder 26

Goursat, Édouard (1858-1936) 1935

Box 8, Folder 27

Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938) 1934

Box 8, Folder 28

Hermite, Charles (1822-1901) ca. 1850, 1899, 1900

Box 8, Folder 29

Hortis, Attilio (1850-1926) 1922

Box 8, Folder 30

Klein, Felix (1849-1925) 1900

Box 8, Folder 31

Kowalevski, Sophie (1850-1891) 1890

Box 8, Folder 32

Lampertico, Fedele (1833-1906) ca. 1903

Box 8, Folder 33

Le Châtelier, Henri (1850-1936) 1932

Box 8, Folder 34

Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul (1843-1916) 1904

Box 8, Folder 35

Lovatelli, Ersilia Caetani (1840-1925) undated

Box 8, Folder 36

Luzzatti, Luigi (1841-1927) undated

Box 8, Folder 37

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) 1902, 1906, undated

Box 8, Folder 38

Noether, Max (1844-1921) undated

Box 8, Folder 39

Pacinotti, Antonio (1841-1912) 1898, undated

Box 8, Folder 40

Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933) undated

Box 8, Folder 41

Schiaparelli, Giovanni (1835-1910) 1889, ca. 1901, 1902, 1905, 1907, undated

Box 8, Folder 42

Sella, Quintino (1827-1884) and Alfonso (1865-1907) 1873, 1883, 1902, undated

Box 8, Folder 43

Sgambati, Giovanni (1841-1914) and Costanza 1900-1901, undated