Finding Aid to the Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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2009 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in 2007. 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 CollectionPetersen, Aage Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts 1922-1976 American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 1 linear feet1 records box(s) AR373 English Contains article reprints and papers collected by Aage Petersen, on the subject of quantum mechanics. Selected Search Terms

These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.

Bell, J. S. Bohm, David Bohr, Aage Breit, Gregory, 1899- Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962. DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923- . Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 Feyerabend, Paul K., 1924- Heilbron, J. L. Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952. Kuhn, Thomas S. Margenau, Henry, 1901- Mottelson, Ben R. Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974 Tisza, Laszlo, 1907- Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988- Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902- Quantum theory. Biographical Note

Aage Petersen was born in 1927, and was educated at the University of Copenhagen. He was Niels Bohr's assistant from 1952-1962, and after Bohr's death, he worked at the Belfer Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University. His 1966 doctoral thesis was published in 1968 as Quantum Physics and the Philosophical Tradition by The MIT Press.

Scope and Contents of Collection

This collection contains article reprints and papers collected by Aage Petersen, some on the subject of quantum mechanics. Authors include: John S. Bell, David Bohm, Aage Bohr, Gregory Breit, Charles G. Darwin, Bryce S. DeWitt, P.A.M. Dirac, Paul K. Feyerabend, John L. Heilbron, Werner Heisenberg, Thomas S. Kuhn, Hendrik A. Kramers, Henry Margenau, Ben R. Mottelson, Leon Rosenfeld, Laszlo Tisza, George E. Uhlenbeck, John A. Wheeler, Eugene P. Wigner.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

This collection is arranged alphabetically, by author last name.

Series I: Reprints and manuscripts

This series is arranged alphabetically, by author last name.

 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 Troels Petersen, 1990.

 Processing Information

Lara D'Agaro 2007.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: 11 Bell, John S., undated 12 Bohm, David, 1968-1969 and undated 13 Bohr, Aage, 1960 14 Bohr, Aage & Mottelson, Ben R., 1976 15 Breit, Gregory, 1923, 1927, 1957 and undated 16 Darwin, Charles G., 1927-1932 17 Dirac, P.A.M., 1926-1927, 1931, 1964-1965 18 Exploratory research session on the quantization of the gravitational field, June-July 1957 19 Feyerabend, Paul K., 1957, 1960 and undated 110 Heilbron, John L. & Kuhn, Thomas S., undated 111 Heisenberg, Werner, undated 112 Kramers, Hendrik A., 1922 113 Naïve concept of knowledge and reality in physics, undated 114 Philosophy of Science, volume 4, number 3, Margenau, Henry , Jul-37 115 Recent papers on the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, undated 116 Rosenfeld, Leon, 1952, 1960 and undated 117 Tisza, Laszlo, undated 118 Uhlenbeck, George E., 1954 119 Wheeler, John A., 1954 120 Wigner, Eugene P., 1963