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UArch FacP 33
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Title: Lawrence Badash Papers
Dates: ca. 1921-1987
Collection Number: UArch FacP 33
Creator:
Badash, Lawrence
Extent:
3 linear feet
(2 records cartons)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Primarily auction, company, dealer, and exhibit catalogs relating to scientific instruments, publications, and the history
of science, from a UCSB history faculty member.
Physical Location: Annex 2.
Language:
English.
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice is required for retrieval.
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.
Lawrence Badash Papers. UArch FacP 33. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of Lawrence Badash, 2002.
Lawrence Badash (1934-2010) was a UCSB Professor of History and author of several works on the history of science in the nuclear
age, including
Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity (1969),
The Rutherford Correspondence Catalog (1974),
Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decayof a Science (1979),
Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 (1980),
Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin (1985),
Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939 (1985), and
Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963 (1995).
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection primarily contains auction, company, dealer, and exhibit catalogs relating to scientific instruments, publications,
and the history of science. These generally are arranged by name of company or repository. There also are some items pertaining
to Badash's interest in astrolabes, clocks, scientific instruments, Sumerian clay tablets, sundials, and telescopes.
Some monographs and other published materials have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries
online catalog.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Badash, Lawrence