Finding Aid to the George Zimmerman collection of lecture notes by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager, 1960-1961Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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2008 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Meghan Petersen in 2008. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English. Description of the CollectionZimmerman, George O. George Zimmerman collection of lecture notes by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager 1960-1961 American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 0.25 linear feet1 half manuscript box(s) AR2007808 English Lecture notes written by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager, provided to students of their phsyics lectures at Yale University. Selected Search Terms

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Breit, Gregory, 1899- Onsager, Lars, 1903-1976 Zimmerman, George O. Nuclear physics Lecture notes Biographical Note

Physicsist, magnetism, superconductivity. M.S. and Ph.D., Yale University (physics). Faculty, Boston University (1963-2000); established the Research Internship in Science and Engineering; affiliated with the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of California San Diego, and Harvard University.

Scope and Contents of Collection

Two volumes of lecture notes written by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager, provided to students of their phsyics lectures at Yale University. The lectures are titled Theorectical Nuclear Physics (Breit, 1960 [date provided by donor]) and Statistical Mechanics (Onsager, 1961).These notes were collected by George Zimmerman while he was a student at Yale. The notes do not contain annotations by Zimmerman.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

This collection is organized into a single series:

Series I: Lecture notes

This series is arranged chronologically.

 Access to Collection

Researchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html.

 Restrictions on Use of Collection

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Gift of George O. Zimmerman, Boston College Dept. of Physics, 2007.

 Processing Information

Melanie J. Brown 2008.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], George Zimmerman collection of lecture notes by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager, 1960-1961. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: Lecture notes 11 Theoretical nuclear physics (PY164A), Gregory Breit (1 of 2), 1960 12 Theoretical nuclear physics (PY164A), Gregory Breit (2 of 2), 1960 13 Statistical mechanics, Lars Onsager, 1961