Paul Hartman papers, 1944-1995.
Collection Number: 14-22-3294

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Paul Hartman papers, 1944-1995.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-22-3294
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, laboratory and course notebooks, talks, and publications, relating to Hartman's teaching career and the histories he wrote on the Materials Science Center and the Physics Dept. at Cornell University.
Creator:
Hartman, Paul, 1913-
Jauch, Josef M. (Josef Maria), 1914-1974.
Nordsieck, Arnold.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor Emeritus, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Paul Hartman papers, #14-22-3294. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Includes correspondence, laboratory and course notebooks, talks, publications, and photographs relating to Hartman's teaching career and the histories he wrote on the Materials Science Center, the Physics Department, and Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. Also, unpublished lecture notes on quantum mechanics by Josef M. Jauch and A. Nordsieck.

Scope and content

Includes a letter from Richard Feynman discussing interplanetary travel, December 5, 1945.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University. Department of Physics -- : History.
Cornell University. Department of Physics -- : Anecdotes.
Cornell University. Materials Science Center
Cornell University. School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Subjects:
Quantum theory.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Materials -- Research.
Materials -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- New York (State) -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Notebooks.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Physics Dept. History
Box 1 Folder 1
Dept. Reorganization - formation of LASSP
1959-1960
Box 1 Folder 2
Physics Dept. History
Box 1 Folder 3
Material Science Center History
Box 1 Folder 4
Physics ARPA Building
1960
Box 1 Folder 5
Physics Dept. Minutes/Memos
1946-1964
Box 1 Folder 6
Lab of Nuclear Studies - Circuit Manual
1949-1950
Series II. Hartman Material - Biographical Information and Publications
Box 1 Folder 7
Hartman Biographical material
Box 1 Folder 8
Publications by Hartman
1950s-1970s
Box 1 Folder 9
Publications by Hartman
1950s-1960s
Box 1 Folder 10
Dispersion Relations - Logothetis - by Hartman
no date
Box 1 Folder 11
Record of the Tribulations Gone Through in Naming the Dept. Chairman and the Reorganization of the Research of Rockefeller Hall - by Hartman
1959
Box 1 Folder 12
New Measurements of the Fluorescence Efficiency of Air Under Electron Bombardment - by Hartman
1968
Box 1 Folder 13
Summary of Work Done with Group J-10 During 1973-1974 - by Hartman
1974
Box 1 Folder 14
Report of Work Done on Focusing Febetron Electron Beam to Small Target - Hartman
1980
Box 1 Folder 15
Early Experimental Work on Synchrotron Radiation - by Hartman
1988
Box 1 Folder 16
A Brief History Over the Formative First Decade and a Half of the Materials Science Center at Cornell - by Hartman
1992
Box 1 Folder 17
Impact of the ARPA Program in the Area of Materials Science at CU - by Henri Sack and Paul Leurgans
Box 1 Folder 18
The Future of Engineering Physics at Cornell - by H.S. Sack
Series III. Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 19
Letter from Harley Howe to Newell Gingrich - concerns Howe's career
1944
Box 1 Folder 20
Correspondence
1940s-1950s
Box 1 Folder 21
Correspondence
1960s
Box 1 Folder 22
Correspondence
1970s
Box 1 Folder 23
Correspondence
1980s
Box 1 Folder 24
Correspondence - letters to Hartman from former Physics Professors/Family
1980s-1990s
Box 1 Folder 25
Correspondence
1990s
Series IV. Talks, Notes, Reports, Plans Concerning Various Topics
Box 1 Folder 26
Talks/Reflections by Hartman
1988
Box 1 Folder 27
Talks/Thoughts by Hartman concerning Bethe and Corson
Box 1 Folder 28
Notes taken by Hartman
Box 1 Folder 29
Notes/Diary on work
Box 1 Folder 30
Report on summer work
1972
Box 1 Folder 31
Report on summer work
1977
Box 1 Folder 32
Notebook
1980
Box 1 Folder 33
Notes concerning Optics
Box 1 Folder 34
Correspondence concerning CHESS
1980s
Box 1 Folder 35
Plans concerning the Synchrotron and CHESS
Box 1 Folder 36
Plans - Synchrotron
1987
Box 1 Folder 37
Plans - Synchrotron
1981
Box 1 Folder 38
Synchrotron notes
Box 1 Folder 39
Synchrotron notes
1983-1984
Box 1 Folder 40
Synchrotron articles and correspondence
1970s-1980s
Box 1 Folder 41
Radar - articles and correspondence
1990s
Box 1 Folder 42
Vacuum Furnace Brazing of Windows - notes
1980
Box 1 Folder 43
Plans - concerning the Cyclotron plaque
Box 1 Folder 44
Sketches by Hartman
Box 1 Folder 45
Krumhansl Report
Box 2
Notebooks from courses Hartman took in Physics and Math at Cornell
Series V. Photographs and Exhibit Material
Box 1 Folder 46
Photographs
Box 1 Folder 47
Photographs of Prof. Siegel's Electron Microscope Lab
1955
Box 1 Folder 48
Photocopies of archival material used in exhibits
Box 1 Folder 49
Exhibit material used for Physical Review Centenary in Washington
1993