Donald Holcomb papers, 1952-2004.
Collection Number: 14-22-3426

Various external activities (mostly physics education or AAPT-based; more in Box #2),

Education conference notes

Miscellaneous notes from various evaluation or study committees

Public lectures - AIP Visiting Scientist, IUPP, Conferences, etc.

Various external activities (mostly physics education or AAPT-based),

External visiting committees - mostly physics departments of various colleges

Editorial Boards - Physical Review and Physical Review Letters

Introductory University Physics ProjectNational development effort supported by NSF; John Rigden, original stimulator and PI of first grant, Holcomb and Larry Coleman Cop-PI's in latter stages, 1987-1995 Steering Committee NotesSome information on various course modelsInteractions with NSF

Personal college and grad school lab course notebooks

Miscellaneous research lab notebooks from Holcomb and other workers in Holcomb Lab, 1952-1992 This assortment of lab books is very incomplete - in some cases because notebooks left Cornell with the primary contributors, in some because the notebook fit more clearly into Boxes 7 or 8. In the case of lab notebooks from Holcomb work as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, the ratio of useful material to bulk was simply too small to justify saving. This work is quite fully described in Holcomb's Ph.D. thesis, "Nuclear magnetic resonance in alkali metals," 1954. A copy of this is held in the Cornell library.

Misc. research correspondence,

Sabbatical leaves - correspondence and other informationCentral Institute for Industrial Research, Oslo, 1962 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 1968-1969 University of St. Andrews,

Notes from research conferencesMetal-Insulator Transitions - San Francisco, 1968 Metal-Insulator Transitions - Aussois, France, 1971 International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors - Stuttgart, 1974 International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors - San Francisco, 1984 International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors - Stockholm, 1986 Mid-Winter Solid State Conference - Laguna Beach, CA, 1977 Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics - St. Andrews, 1978 and 1986 IBM - Heavy doping and the M-I transition in semiconductors - Santa Cruz, CA, 1984 "Localization 1999" - Hamburg,

Research-based public lectures,

Research grant informationONR, 1959-1969 Materials Science Center, 1960-1984 Army Research Office - Durham, 1965-1972 National Science Foundation,

Misc. non-research correspondence,

Notes from various internal to Cornell activities

Notes from preparation of My Father's Watch: Aspects of the Physical World, with Philip Morrison,

Holcomb's running notebooks of non-research activities (Cornell-based and various external education oriented activities)

NMR in Alkali Metals from Illinois with R. E. Norberg,

NMR in Alkali Metals from Cornell,

F-centers in BaO,

Double resonance in Al metal

Correspondence with Tomita, Redfield, etc.

Sliker info on ESR of impurities AgCl

F-center relaxation times in KCl - W. D. Ohlsen,

F-centers in NaF,

NMR of Pb in glass - J. H. Strange,

Hydrate crystals - McGrath and Silvidi, gypsum, etc. - Pedersen data,

Semiconductors (work of R. K. Sundfors, Jack Kaeck, Gary Carver, M. Iwasawa, Gifford Irown),

Silicon Carbide - M. Alexander,

Data and Analysis in NaxWO3, LixWO3, 1970-1978 and NaxTayW1-yO3, 1982-1986 Work of Paul Lightsey, Rick Zumsteg, David Tunstall, David Lilienfeld, Bob Weinberger, Jean Dumas, Mike Dubson

Data on Alkali-graphite intercalculated materials by Gary Carver,

Data, notebooks, graphs on Cu-Au and Rb-Au compounds (work of Gerard Tinelli and Wayne Phillips),

Miscellaneous information on the second wave of major emphasis on heavily-doped Si - both singly-doped with P, As, Sb, double-doped with P and As, compensated with P and B, 1978-1992 Research planning folder, 1978-1980 Work of Paul Newman, Mark Hirsch, Uwe Thomanschefsky, Professor M. J. R Hoch of University of the Witwatersrand, undergraduates Mohan Namboodiri and Dimitry Reznik

Correspondence with Andrei Zabrodskii - small Cornell conference,