Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Booker (Henry G.) papers
MSS 0093
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Description
Professional papers of Henry G. Booker, mathematician and physicist trained at Cambridge University in the 1930s. His research
focused on radio wave propagation, during a long teaching career first at Cambridge University (1936-1947) and, subsequently,
at Cornell University (1948-1964), and the University of California, San Diego where he founded the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (1965-1988).
Background
Henry George Booker was born in England in 1910 and became a U.S. citizen in 1952. He earned his degrees from Cambridge University
(B.A. 1933, pure and applied mathematics; Ph.D. 1936, ionospheric physics). Booker became a Fellow of Christ's College in
1935, where he studied radio wave propagation. He later took a leave of absence to continue this research as a Visiting Scientist
at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.
Extent
20 Linear feet
(50 archives boxes, 12 oversize folders)
Availability
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.