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Guide to the Oliver Reynolds Wulf Papers, ca. 1917-1987
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Container List

List of contents in box 1

 

Miscellaneous Files

Box Box 1

"On the Mechanisms of the Production of Geomagnetic Activity. The Activity of the Years 1941 and 1942," manuscript drafts by O. Wulf and Seth B. Nicholson

 

Thomson Effect

 

Joule Thermo

 

Plasma

 

Computer related

 

Unlabelled file containing an article, various notes, and an undated group photo

 

Notebooks

Box Box 1

"Engineers' Field Book," leather bound, with added surveying notes 1919 Oct - 1920 Jan [includes misc. later additions]

 

2 small hand made black covered notebooks with quadrille paper

 

1 hand made black covered notebook containing handwritten lists of journal article citations

 

1 hard cover notebook, notes only on one page 1950 Jan -Feb

 

Course Notebooks

Box Box 1

Quantum Theory. Book 1, Dr. Epstein (includes table of contents)

 

Quantum Theory. Book 2, Dr. Epstein

 

Kinetic Theory, Dr. Millikan

 

Chemical Principles, paginated, contains problems and solutions

Supplement 1994

 

Section I: Correspondence

Box Box 2, Folder 1

Correspondence, general 1926-1962

 

American Physical Society 1931

 

California Institute of Technology 1967, 1977, 1987

 

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1925-1935

 

National Research Council 1926-1931

 

Ohio State University 1928-1929

 

Smithsonian Institution 1932

 

United States Department of Agriculture 1928-1932

 

University of California 1926-1927

 

University of Chicago 1943

 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1962

Folder 2

Correspondence, personal 1927-1946, n.d.

 

Eberhardt, W. H. 1946

 

McGlynn, John n.d. [early 1930s]

 

Moe, Henry Allen 1940

See also: Smithsonian Institution

 

Noyes, Arthur Amos 1922, 1930

 

Tolman, Richard Chace 1927, n.d.

Folder 3

Hillebrand Prize 1936

Folder 4

McMinn, George 1961-1972, n.d.

Folder 5

National Academy of Sciences 1949

Folder 6

Wulf, Beatrice, correspondence and documents (including Caltech and Linus Pauling)

 

Biographical Material

 

Trip Notes

Box Box 2, Folder 7

Beatrice Wulf

 

Coast to Coast 1928

 

Europe 1938

 

Mexico 1941

Folder 8

Oliver Wulf

 

Caribbean [undated]

Folder 9

Fiftieth anniversary and misc.

Folder 10

Biographical material, misc.

Folder 11

Memoir of Norwich, Connecticut, by Helene Knup (O. R. Wulf's sister)

 

Photos

Folder 12

Oliver Wulf

 

Family and youth

Folder 13

Adult

Folder 14

Wedding gift register

Folder 15

Beatrice Wulf, oral history interview for Caltech Archives 1982

Box Box 3

[oversize]

Awards, diplomas, memorabilia

 

Diploma, Norwich Free Academy 1915

 

Certificate (humorous), Follower of Boyle, Society of Sceptical Chemists 1917

 

Certificate of initiation, Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1917

 

Certificate of election, Tau Beta Pi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1918

 

Certificate of membership, The Skull, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1919

 

Diploma, Naval Officer School 1919

 

Certificate of election, Sigma Xi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1920

 

Thesis, "The Action of High Frequency Silent Discharge on Gases," Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1920

 

Honorable discharge, Navy 1922

 

Master's degree, American University 1922

 

Certificate of election, Fellow of National Research Council 1926

 

Certificate of election, Washington Academy of Sciences 1932

 

Certificate of award, Hillebrand Prize 1936

 

Certificate of election, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 1949

 

Certificate of award, Robert H. Goddard Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1962

 

Award, bronze, shape of building, Robert H. Goddard Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1962

 

Certificate of election, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union 1962

 

Certificate of service, U. S. Department of Commerce 1967

 

Certificate of esteem, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1970

 

Caltech degrees and memorabilia

 

Ph.D. degree, 1926

 

Fifty Year Certificate, Caltech Alumni Association 1976

 

Certificate of membership, Torchbearers 1985

 

A. A. Noyes, "A Laboratory Procedure" (cocoa recipe) 1968 [2 copies]