Guide to the Stanford University, Department of Physics, Records
SC0158
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Title: Stanford University, Department of Physics, records
Identifier/Call Number: SC0158
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1937-1949
Abstract: Correspondence and news clippings
regarding the Klystron Tube Research Project, 1937-1945; correspondence between department
chairman Paul Kirkpatrick and Stanford President Donald B. Tresidder regarding budget and
faculty matters, 1943-1947; and statements of William W. Hansen and Robert L. Wathen, 1944,
regarding the physics department and research on microwave devices, with a statement by
David L. Webster on Hansen's memo, 1949. The Webster and Wathen statements may have been
prepared in relation to a patent case.
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Cite As
Stanford University, Department of Physics, Records (SC0158). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Associated Materials
Related materials: William W. Hansen Papers, David L. Webster Papers, Donald B. Tresidder
Papers in the Stanford University Archives.
Description of the Collection
Correspondence and news clippings regarding the Klystron Tube Research Project, 1937-1945;
correspondence between department chairman Paul Kirkpatrick and Stanford President Donald B.
Tresidder regarding budget and faculty matters, 1943-1947; and statements of William W.
Hansen and Robert L. Wathen, 1944, regarding the physics department and research on
microwave devices, with a statement by David L. Webster on Hansen's memo, 1949. The Webster
and Wathen statements may have been prepared in relation to a patent case.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Klystrons.
Wathen, Robert L.
Webster, David Locke
Stanford University. Department of Physics. Klystron
Project
Stanford University. Department of Physics.
Faculty
Stanford University. Department of Physics
Stanford University. Department of Physics.
Finance
Kirkpatrick, Paul.
Tresidder, Donald Bertrand
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster)
Box 2, folder 1
Western Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
2012 January
Box 2, folder 2
Doug Osheroff and Sandy Chang Award
1998-1999
Box 2, folder 3
Women in Physics
1990-1995
Box 2, folder 4
Black Physics Students conferences and lectures
1989-2001
Box 2, folder 6
Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics at Stanford
2004 December
Box 2, folder 8
"Frontiers in Physics" Industrial Affiliates Program of the Department of
Physics at Stanford
Box 2, folder 9
American Way magazine featuring Sally Ride
1983 March