Guide to the John Dirk Walecka Notebooks and Papers SC0424
Daniel Hartwig & Jenny Johnson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
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Stanford 94305-6064
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Dirk Walecka notebooks and papers
creator:
Walecka, John Dirk
Identifier/Call Number: SC0424
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1960-1986
Abstract: Notes, lectures and reports on nuclear theory, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics. Collection
also includes reprints and some correspondence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of John D. Walecka, 1990.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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Cite As
John Dirk Walecka Notebooks and Papers (SC0424). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Walecka, a.b. Harvard 1954 and Ph.D. MIT 1958, joined the Stanford faculty in 1960; he was chair of the Physics Department
from 1977 to 1982. He left Stanford in 1987 to be the scientific director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
(CEBAF) in Newport News, VA.
Description of the Collection
Notes, lectures and reports on nuclear theory, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics. Collection
also includes reprints and some correspondence.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Quantum theory -- Study and teaching.
Nuclear physics -- Study and teaching.
Walecka, John Dirk
Walecka, John Dirk
Stanford University. Department of Physics
Stanford University. Department of Physics. Faculty
box 1
241-243 : Nuclear Theory, 1960-61
box 1
338 : General Relativity, undated
box 1
Lectures on Dispersion Theory, undated
box 1
330-332 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1962-63
box 1
340 : M. B. Theory, 1964-65
box 2
341 : Nuclear Theory, 1964-65
box 2
342 : Nuclear Theory, 1964-65
box 2
340 : M. B. Theory, 1965-66
box 2
341 : Nuclear Theory, 1965-66
box 2
342 : Nuclear Theory, 1965-66
box 2
330 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1966-67
box 2
331 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1966-67
box 3
332 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1966-67
box 3
330 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1967-68
box 3
331 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1967-68
box 3
332 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1967-68
box 3
270 : Statistical Mechanics, 1967-68
box 3
210 : Advanced Mechanics, 1970-71
box 3
211 : Mathematical Physics, 1970-71
box 3
370 : Theory Condensed Matter, 1970-71
box 4
210 : Advanced Mechanics, 1971-72
box 4
211 : Mathematical Physics, 1971-72
box 4
210 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1972-73
box 4
331 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1973-74
box 4
332 : Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 1973-74
box 4
230 : Quantum Mechanics, 1974-75
box 4
231 : Quantum Mechanics, 1974-75
box 5
232 : Quantum Mechanics, 1974-75
box 5
230 : Quantum Mechanics, 1975-76
box 5
231 : Quantum Mechanics, 1975-76
box 5
232 : Quantum Mechanics, 1975-76
box 6
Various Physics reprints, notes and correspondence 1
box 6
Various Physics reprints, notes and correspondence 2
box 6
Various Physics reprints, notes and correspondence 3
box 6
Various Physics reprints, notes and correspondence 4
box 6
Various Physics reprints, notes and correspondence 5
box 7, folder 1
Report of Task Force #1 Ad Hoc Panel on the Future of Nuclear Science. Subnuclear aspects of the nucleons in the nucleus.
Fourth draft, April 4, 1976
box 7, folder 2
Electron Scattering and Nuclear Structure. Talk for the L. I. Schiff Memorial Session A. P. A. Meeting, San Francisco, California,
Feb. 3, 1972
box 7, folder 3
Memo from Walecka: Report of the Subpanel on the State of Development of Nuclear Physics. undated
box 7, folder 4
NSF proposal (renewal) for “Studies in Theoretical Physics” 1983
Additional Papers Accession ARCH-2019-050
Box 1
Walecka, J.D., "Theory of Many-Particle Systems" (Physics 340)
1965 Fall
Box 1
Walecka, J.D., "Nuclear Theory III" (Physics 342)
1965 Spring
