Guide to the Herbert P. Broida Papers

Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter

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University of California, Santa Barbara

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Herbert P. Broida Papers, 1963-1979

Collection number: UArch FacP 3

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter
Date Completed:: Nov. 30, 2011
Encoded by:: A. Demeter

Descriptive Summary

Title: Herbert P. Broida Papers

Dates: 1957-1979

Collection number: UArch FacP 3

Creator: Broida, Herbert P.

Collection Size: 6.7 linear feet (16 document boxes, 1 half-sized document box and 1 flat oversize box).

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: The collection contains correspondence, teaching and research materials, and some files on science organizations from Herbert P. Broida, UCSB professor of Physics.

Physical location: Annex 2.

Languages: English

Access Restrictions

Boxes 14-16 restricted pending staff review. Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Herbert P. Broida Papers. UArch FacP 3. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Undetermined.

Biography

Herbert P. Broida was born in Aurora, Colorado in 1920. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado in 1944, and began graduate work at Harvard. During World War II he taught science at Wesleyan University to military students, then returned to Harvard, obtaining his Masters in 1945 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1949. In the 1950s he did extensive research and work for the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), and in 1963 he joined the physics faculty at UCSB. He was instrumental in the creation of the UCSB Quantum Institute and was director from 1973 to 1978. Broida was an active member of many scientific organizations. He died in Santa Barbara in 1978.

For more information see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11, and his obituary in the UC publication In Memoriam.

Scope and Contents of Collection

Arrangement

The Broida Papers are arranged in the following series:

Biographical material - Includes CV, a few photographs
Conferences and meetings
Correspondence - Includes UCSB, organization, project correspondence
Organizations
Research - Includes Air Force and Navy projects
Travel
UCSB - Includes teaching files, and files on the Broida Memorial Fund created after his death

Indexing Terms

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

Broida, Herbert P.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Dept. of Physics

Related Material

Collections with material relating to Broida:

UCSB Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
UCSB Office of the Chancellor, Chancellors' Records, UArch 17.

Collections with material relating to the Physics Department:

Walter Kohn Papers, UArch FacP 34.
UCSB Office of Public Information Subject Files, UArch 12.
UCSB Academic Senate Records, UArch 13.
University Archives Photographs Collection, UArch 112.

Elsewhere in the UCSB Library:

Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945, ed. Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida. Sciences Engineering Library QC791.96 .R44.
Formation and trapping of free radicals, ed. Arnold M. Bass and H.P. Broida. Sciences Engineering Library QD471 .B32.

Biographical Material

Box 1: 1

Biographical data resume

Box 1: 2

Bio-Bibliographies (UCSB), 1963-1977

Box 1: 3

Portrait proof sheets

Box 1: 4

Who's who information, 1974-1977

Box 1: 5

American Men and Women of Science, 1975

Conferences and Meetings

Box 1: 6

Attendee lists, 1974-1977

Box 1: 7

Free Radical Symposium, 1971-1977

Box 1: 8

Talk outlines, 1973-1977

Correspondence

Box 1: 9

A, 1969-1978

Box 1: 10

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1975-1976

Box 1: 11-12

B, 1973-1978

Box 2: 1

C, 1972-1978

Box 2: 2

D, 1975-1976

Box 2: 3

E, 1968-1976

Box 2: 4

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1971-1978

Box 2: 5

F, 1969-1978

Box 2: 6

G, 1971-1978

Box 2: 7

H (1 of 2), 1972-1978

Box 3: 1

H (2 of 2), 1972-1978

Box 3: 2

I, 1975-1978

Box 3: 3

J, 1975-1978

Box 3: 4

K, 1973-1978

Box 3: 5

L, 1968-1978

Box 3: 6

M, 1969-1978

Box 3: 7

Mc, 1973-1978

Box 3: 8

N, 1967-1978

Box 3: 9

O, 1974-1978

Box 3: 10

P, 1968-1978

Box 4: 1

R, 1971-1978

Box 4: 2-4

S, 1964-1978

Box 4: 5

T, 1965-1978

Box 5: 1

U, 1973

Box 5: 2

V, 1967-1977

Box 5: 3-4

W, 1969-1978

Box 5: 5

X, Y, Z, 1970-1977

Box 5: 6-7

Manuscript referee comments, 1974-1978

Letters of Reference [confidential]

Box 14: 1

Letters of reference (A-C)

Box 14: 2

Letters of reference (D-I)

Box 14: 3

Letters of reference (J-M)

Box 14: 4

Letters of reference (N-S)

Box 15: 1

Letters of reference (T-Z)

Organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Box 6: 1

Electorate Nominees Committee; Physics Section B, 1977-1978

Box 17: 1

Electorate Nominees Committee; Physics Section B, 1977-1978

Box 6: 2

Handbooks, 1976-1977

American Chemical Society

Box 6: 3

Prospective speakers, 1977

American Physical Society (APS)

Box 6: 4

General, 1977-1978

Box 6: 5

Division of Electron & Atomic Physics (DEAP), 1977-1978

Box 6: 6-7

Astronomy Committee (UC), 1972-1976

Box 6: 8

Cosmos Club

Box 6: 9

Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), 1973-1975

Box 6: 10

Optical Society – Ives Medal Committee, 1977-1978

Box 6: 11

Western Spectroscopy Association, 1971-1978

Research

Air Force

Box 6: 12

Purchase Orders - Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Contract Number AF04(611) - 11369, 1966

Box 6: 13

Purchase Orders - AF-04(611)11538, 1966-1970

Box 6: 14

AFOSR 70-1851 correspondence, 1968-1977

Box 7: 1

AFOSR - 74-2724A-B; 1 September 1974-31 August 1975, 8044063-22516-, 1973-1975

Box 7: 2

ATEK Industries, 1971-1978

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Box 7: 3

EPA Account Number 21, 1973-1974

Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA)

Box 7: 4

ERDA June 1976-May 1978; Broida, PI, Schofield, Steinberg, Muller, c. 1977

McGraw-Hill Information Systems Company

Box 7: 5

General, 1974-1978

Box 7: 6

Literature search, 1977

NASA

Box 7: 7

General, 1969-1972

Box 7: 8

NASA NGR-044, 1969-1971

Box 7: 9

National Academy of Science, National Research Council (NAS/NRC), 1974-1978

National Bureau of Standards (NBS)

Box 7: 10

General, 1957-1977

Box 7: 11

National Bureau of Standards (NBS 2/25-26), 1974-1975

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Box 8: 1

NSF GP 14011, 1969-1975

Navy

Box 8: 2

General, 1973-1977

Box 8: 3

Navy N00014-69-8013 - 8-488765-25844, 1974-1976

Box 8: 4

Stanford Research Institute (SRI), 1974-1978

Box 8: 5

Misc. research, 1971-1972

Travel

Box 8: 6

Brazil, 1974-1975

Box 8: 7

General, 1970-1973

Box 8: 8-10

Travel planners/notebooks, ca. 1962-1970

USSR/Russian travel

Box 8: 11

General, 1976

Box 8: 12

Russian correspondence, 1972-1976

UCSB

Box 8: 13

Academic Senate, 1968-1978

Box 8: 14

College of Creative Studies

Courses

Box 8: 15

Atomic Structure and Spectra, Fall 1967

Box 8: 16

CSC I, Scientist and Society, Spring 1969

Box 9: 1

CSC II, Winter 1969

Box 9: 2

General, 1971-1978

Box 9: 3

Physics 2, Fall 1965

Box 9: 4

Physics 3, Spring 1966

Box 9: 5

Physics 4A, Spring 1964

Box 9: 6

Physics 4B, Fall 1964-1965

Box 9: 7

Physics 4C, Spring 1965

Box 10: 1

Physics 6A, 1978

Box 10: 2

Physics 6C, Fall 1977

Box 10: 3

Physics 7A, Fall 1975

Box 10: 4

Physics 8 (A-B-C), 1966-1967

Box 10: 5-6

Physics 8A, 1970-1971

Box 11: 1-2

Physics 8B, 1971-1972

Box 11: 3-4

Physics 8C, 1971-1972

Box 11: 5

Physics 112 - Heat and Thermodynamics, Fall 1963

Box 11: 6

Physics 142L, 1967, 1975

Box 11: 7

Physics 240 (A-B-C), 1972-1973

Box 12: 1

Physics 240 - MSI Group Projects, 1973

Box 12: 2

Physics 260C, 1972, 1978

Box 12: 3

New problems

Employment

Box 15: 2

Employed students [confidential]

Box 15: 3

Employment [confidential]

Box 15: 4

Individuals Seeking Employment [confidential]

Box 12: 4

Equipment inventory, 1966-1978

Box 12: 5

Faculty Legislature, 1975

Box 12: 6

Faculty Research Lecture, Spring 1976

Memorial

Box 12: 7-8

Broida Memorial Fund, 1978-1979

Box 12: 9

Memorial fund receipts, 1978-1979

Box 13: 1

Memorial Fund correspondence, 1978-1979

Box 13: 2

American Physical Society (APS) Prize correspondence (memorial fund), 1978-1979

Box 13: 3

Broida Hall dedication, 1979

Box 13: 4-5

Physics Department, 1967-1978

Post-doc. Applications/Appointments

Box 16: 1

Postdoctoral applicants (A-J), 1970-present [confidential]

Box 16: 2

Postdoctoral applicants (K-Z), 1972-present [confidential]

Box 16: 3

Postdoctoral individuals, 1963-present [confidential]

Box 13: 6

Quantum Institute, 1975-1978

Box 13: 7

Undergraduate president fellowship, 1970-1976