Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the C.F. Quate Papers
SC0347
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Call Number: SC0347
Creator:
Quate, C.F.
Title: C.F. Quate papers
Dates: circa 1961-1984
Physical Description:
13.5 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, contracts, grants, course materials and other records pertaining to his research
and teaching at Stanford, including work at the Ginzton Laboratory; and offsets, glossies, and slides from the acoustic microscope
project.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Calvin F. Quate, 1987.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
C.F. Quate Papers (SC0347). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Calvin F. Quate earned his degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Utah (B.S., 1944) and Stanford University
(Ph.D., 1950). He joined the Stanford faculty in 1961 as professor in the applied physics and electrical engineering departments,
serving two terms as chair of the department of applied physics. He was Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences from 1972-1974
and 1982-1983. In 1988 he received the IEEE's Medal of Honor for the invention of the scanning acoustic microscope.
Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, contracts, grants, course materials and other records pertaining to his research
and teaching at Stanford, including work at the Ginzton Laboratory; and offsets, glossies, and slides from the acoustic microscope
project.
Quate, C.F.
Stanford University. Department of Applied Physics. Faculty.
Stanford University. Department of Electrical Engineering. Faculty.
Acoustic microscopes.
Electrical engineering
Physics--Research.
Slides.
See also AM 2004-002, medals awarded to Quate:
IEEE Third Mellenium Medal, 2000
IEEE Medal of Honor 1988
National Medal of Science, 1992
National Medal of Technology
Aspen Highlands Silver Nastar