Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Descriptive Summary
Title: Oliver Reynolds Wulf Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1917-1987
Creator:
Wulf, Oliver Reynolds
Extent: Number of containers: 3 boxes
Repository:
California Institute of Technology. Archives.
Pasadena, California 91125
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All
requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing
to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the
California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item, Box and file number], Oliver Reynolds Wulf Papers, Archives,
California Institute of Technology.
Biography
Oliver Reynolds Wulf received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech in 1926 and returned to
the Institute in 1945 as a research associate in chemistry. Prior to this he had worked
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for the Weather Bureau and for the University of
Chicago's Institute of Meteorology during the war years. At Caltech Wulf conducted
research in solar-terrestrial magnetism, geomagnetism, and large-scale circulation of the
atmosphere. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949, and retired from
Caltech in 1967. Wulf died on January 11, 1987 at the age of 89.
In April 1989, a storage room in the Chemistry Division was being cleared of unwanted
items. Among the discards were various files and notebooks, which have been compiled
together by the Caltech Archives to form the contents of the first box in the collection.
In October 1994 the Caltech Archives received papers and memorabilia of Oliver R. and
Beatrice Wulf. These have been added to the material given to the Archives by the
Chemistry Division in 1989 under the heading "Supplement 1994."
The 1994 material was given by the Caltech Treasurer's Office, which was managing the
Wulf estate. Beatrice Wulf, at this time, had gone into a nursing home. This material had
been sorted and marked for the Caltech Archives, probably by Mrs. Wulf herself. An
inventory had been made by the Treasurer's Office.
The recent material has been processed and is described in the following pages. The
records date from 1917 (possibly earlier) to 1987 and are largely biographical in nature.