Finding Aid to the Lillian Hoddeson addition to papers, 1913-2006Publisher:American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives Encoding Information:Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Amanda Nelson in 2012. 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 CollectionRepository:American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. Title and dates of collection:Lillian Hoddeson addition to papers 1913-2006 Papers created by:Hoddeson, Lillian. Size of collection:1.25 linear feet Short description of collection:Addition to the professional papers of Lillian Hoddeson that include interviews she conducted and working files of published articles, as well as research material and correspondence. Language(s) of material:English Selected Search TermsThese 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. Biographical NoteLillian Hoddeson was a professor of the history of science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1989, as well as a research physicist, an affiliate of the Beckman Institute, and a Campus Honors Program professor who holds a doctorate in physics. She specializes in the history of 20th century science and technology, including modern physics, electronics, atomic weapons, "big science," and oral histories. During her career she has written no less than seven books and over 50 articles in refereed journals and collections in the history of science of technology. Between 1975 and 1980 she explored the roots of industrial research and solid state physics at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where the first transistor was developed. In 1980, she was research director of the American section of the International Project on the History of Solid-State Physics where she organized the writing of "Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters From the History of Solid-State Physics" with Ernest Braun, Jurgen Teichmann and Spencer Weart. Later she worked on "Crystal Fire" which chronicles the invention of the transistor and "True Genius" that discusses the life and work of physicist John Bardeen. She has helped found the Los Alamos archives and history program during her studying of the history of the atomic bomb and co-wrote the first technical history of the building of the A-bomb. Additionally, she established a national archives and history program focusing on particle accelerators and particle physics at Fermilab. With her extensive use of oral history interivews in her research she became interested in individual and collective memory and explored this idea through an interdisciplinary collaboration with other historians. In 2010, she retired from her position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Scope and Contents of CollectionThe addition to the Lillian Hoddeson papers extend from 1913 to 2006. Most of the collection contains Hoddeson's working files (Series II) that are comprised of correspondence, notes, published articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and research materials on topics such as the American Institute of Physics, John Bardeen, Bell Telephone Laboratory, Walter Brattain, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Clinton Davisson, Conyers Herring, Nick Holonyak, Howard Huff, Mervin J. Kelly, Francis Wheeler Loomis, Robert Millikan, John Mills, Gordon Moore, Rudolf Peierls, Hans Queisser, radar, Chih-Tang Sah, Frederick Seitz, William Shockley, Morgan Sparks, and transistors. The other two series include a transcript of her interview (Series I) with John R. Pierce on transistors and an audio cassette recording (Series III) with Vernon Hughes. Organization and Arrangement of CollectionCollection is arranged into three series: Series I: TranscriptsSeries II: Working filesSeries III: TapesEach series is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. Access to CollectionResearchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html. Provenance and Acquisition InformationGift from Lillian Hoddeson, 2012 Processing InformationThis collection was processed by Amanda Nelson in 2012. Preferred Citation of CollectionBox [number], Folder [number], Lillian Hoddeson addition to papers. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA. Container List
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