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American Institute of Physics
Papers or Records of Alternate View
American Association of Physics Teachers. Executive Office. Bernard Khoury, 1985-2002 No Frames | EAD File
American Association of Physics Teachers. David L. Webster, 1930-1958 No Frames | EAD File
American Astronomical Society, 1897-1988 No Frames | EAD File
American Astronomical Society. Historical Astronomy Division. Records of the Secretary/Treasurer, 1980-1994 (bulk 1985-1992) No Frames | EAD File
American Center for Physics. Board of Directors. Bernard Khoury, 1990-2005. No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Project on the History of Recent Physics, 1952-1982 (bulk 1960-1965) No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations, 1987-2001 No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Education and Manpower Division, 1940-1973 (bulk 1953-1964) No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. H. William Koch and Kenneth Ford, 1966-1992 No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. H. William Koch, 1932-1988 (bulk 1966-1987) No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Assistant to the Executive Director. Andrzej Herczynski, 1989-1994 No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Elmer Hutchisson, 1948-1966 (bulk 1957-1964) No Frames | EAD File
American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Henry A. Barton, 1931-1964 No Frames | EAD File
American Physical Society, 1899-1987 No Frames | EAD File
American Physical Society. Astrophysics Division. Records of the Secretary/Treasurer, 1970-1992 No Frames | EAD File
American Physical Society. Records of the Directed Energy Weapons Study, 1983-1988 No Frames | EAD File
American Vacuum Society, 1953-2007 No Frames | EAD File
Brillouin, Léon, 1877-1972 No Frames | EAD File
Bromberg, Joan. Materials Collected for Writing the Book Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source, 1922-1982 (bulk 1958-1979) No Frames | EAD File
Commission on College Physics, 1960-1971 No Frames | EAD File
Darrow, Karl Kelchner, 1872-1978 (bulk 1917-1972) No Frames | EAD File
Dodge, Homer Levi, 1852-1994 (bulk 1910-1960) No Frames | EAD File
Ehrenhaft , Felix, 1914-1981 (bulk 1939-1957) No Frames | EAD File
Goudsmit, Samuel A., 1921-1979 No Frames | EAD File
Hoag, J. Barton, 1914-1963 (bulk 1917-1962) No Frames | EAD File
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 1922-2000 (bulk 1955-1998) No Frames | EAD File
Johnson, Hugh, 1946-1999 No Frames | EAD File
Kennard, Earle Hesse, 1912-1967 (bulk 1941-1967) No Frames | EAD File
Knapp, David, 1884-1973 (bulk 1930-1973) No Frames | EAD File
Kowarski, Lew, 1907-1981 (bulk 1930-1981) No Frames | EAD File
Meggers, William F. (addition), 1870-1973 No Frames | EAD File
Meggers, William F., 1917-1966 No Frames | EAD File
Minkowski, Herman, Notebooks, 1882-1906 No Frames | EAD File
Phillips, Melba, 1922-1999 (bulk 1950-1985) No Frames | EAD File
Reiche, Fritz, 1907-1998 No Frames | EAD File
Roman, Nancy Grace, 1931-1993 (bulk 1950-1980) No Frames | EAD File
Roman, Nancy Grace, Additions, 1934-2006 No Frames | EAD File
Rosenberg, Paul, 1916-1994 No Frames | EAD File
Schwartz, Brian, 1966-1977 No Frames | EAD File
Tonks, Lewi, 1921-1967 No Frames | EAD File
Van Vleck, J. H., 1853-1981 (bulk 1920-1980) No Frames | EAD File
Zweifel, Paul F. (Physics Notebooks), 1949-1980 No Frames | EAD File

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Birmingham City Archives
Papers or Records of
Threlfall, Sir Richard, 1885 - 1932

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California Institute of Technology
Papers or Records of
Anderson, Carl D.,1923-1987
Anderson, John A., 1914-1951
Bacher, Robert F.,1924-1994
Bateman, Harry, 1906-1947
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1916-1961
Caltech Synchrotron Laboratory, 1949-1970
Davis, Leverett G., 1946-1975
Delbrück, Max, 1906-1981
DuBridge, Lee A. 1932-1986
Epstein, Paul Sophus, 1911-1966
Feynman, Richard Phillips, 1933-1988
Fowler, William A., 1917-1994
Gell-Mann, Murray, bulk 1955-1993
Greenstein, Jesse, 1923-1992
Hale, George E., 1882-1938
Langmuir, Robert Vose, 1941-1990
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1927-1977 (bulk 1946-1973)
Lauritsen, Thomas, 1922-1974
Leighton, Robert B., 1938-1988
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1847-1953
Owens Valley Radio Observatory, 1956-1967
Patterson, Clair C., 1937-1995
Richter, Charles F., 1913-1984
Tolman, Richard Chace, 1735-1958
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1871-1963
Walker, Robert L., 1937-1994
Zachariasen, Fredrik, 1941-1990

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Georgia Institute of Technology
Papers or Records of
Ford, Joseph, 1953-1995 (bulk 1980-1994)

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Harvard University
Papers or Records of
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Bridgman, Percy Williams, 1905-1982
Brooks, Harvey, 1930s-1980s
Cambridge Electron Accelerator, 1952-1974
Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1978
Goldberg, Leo, 1933-1987
Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. Records of the Underwater Sound Laboratory, 1941-1949
Harvard University Department of Physics records, 1879-1983
Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory. Records of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1940-1972
Hunt, Frederick V., 1927-1970
Kemble, Edwin Crawford, 1913-1983
Kistiakowsky, George B., circa 1928-1982
Menzel, Donald Howard 1931-1986
Oettinger, Anthony, 1955-1973
Stevens, Stanley Smith, 1931-1973
United States. Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard Unviersity. Records of the Radio Research Laboratory, 1942-1946

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Papers or Records of
Einstein, Albert, 1712, 1859-1860, 1869, 1871, 1878-1887, 1891-present (bulk 1901-1955)

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Imperial War Museum, UK
Papers or Records of
Egerton, Brian, 1950-1968
Rowe, Albert Percival, 1941-1974

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Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK
Papers or Records of
Boot, Henry Albert Howard, 1939-1979

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Library of Congress
Papers or Records of
Abelson, Philip Hauge, 1939-2002 (bulk 1970-1989)
Bush, Vannevar, 1901-1974 (bulk 1932-1955)
Eckart, Carl H., 1921-1973 (bulk 1935-1970)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1921-1980 (bulk 1947-1967)
Rabi, I. I., 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968)
Tuve, Merle A., 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966)
Von Neumann, John, 1912-1993 (bulk 1935-1957)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Bitter, Francis 1925-1967 No Frames | EAD File
Charney, Jule Gregory, 1936-1981 No Frames | EAD File
Feld, Bernard Taub, 1943-1990 No Frames | EAD File
High Voltage Engineering Corporation, 1933-1969 No Frames | EAD File
Hill, Albert Gordon, 1943-1981 No Frames | EAD File
International Polymode Program, 1973-1981 No Frames | EAD File
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, 1930-1959 No Frames | EAD File
Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment, 1970-1796 No Frames | EAD File
Morse, Philip McCord, 1927-1980 No Frames | EAD File
Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison, 1928-1948 No Frames | EAD File
Wiener, Norbert, 1898-1966 No Frames | EAD File

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Papers or Records of
Findlay, John W., 1956-1990
Kraus, John D., 1916-2004
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1951-
Reber, Grote, 1910-1999
Thompson, A. Richard, 1972-2001

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Niels Bohr Archive, Denmark
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Bohr, Aage, 1950-1980 No Frames | EAD File
Mackintosh, Allan, 1966-1995 No Frames | EAD File

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Northwestern University
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Cashman, Robert J., 1906-1988 No Frames | EAD File
Crew, Henry, 1833-1975 No Frames | EAD File
Klopsteg, Paul E., 1905-1991 No Frames | EAD File

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Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library
Papers or Records of
Harwood, Margaret, 1891-1971
Harwood, Margaret, 1902-1974
Hoffleit, Dorrit, 1906-2005
Radcliffe " Women in Science" Exhibit Records, 1935-1940
Salzman, Freda Friedman, 1927-1981
Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1917-1982
Thomas, Helen Meriwether Lewis, 1890-1997

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Rice University
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Houston, William V., 1925-1968 (bulk 1941-1968) No Frames | EAD File
Michel, F. Curtis, 1951-1981 (bulk 1963-1974) No Frames | EAD File

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Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK
Papers or Records of
Bragg, William Henry, 1889-1960s, part 1
Bragg, William Henry, 1889-1960s, part 2
Bragg, William Henry, 1889-1960s, part 3
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 1
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 2
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 3
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 4.1
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 4.2
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 4.3
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 5
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.1
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.10
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.11
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.2
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.3
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.4
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.5
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.6
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.7
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.8
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 6.9
Bragg, William Lawrence, 1890-1971, part 7
Davy, Humphry, 1780 - 1832
Dewar, Sir, James, 1845-1975, part 1
Dewar, Sir, James, 1845-1975, part 2
Faraday, Michael, 1780 - 1967

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Royal Society, UK
Papers or Records of
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 1.1
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 1.2
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 1.3
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 1.4
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 1.5
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1812-1871, part 2
Larmor, Joseph, 1881 - 1939
Lubbock, William, 1812 - 1860
Sabine, Edward, 1818 - 1875
Schuster, Arthur, 1873-1974
Simon, Francis, 1921-1956
Stuart, Patrick Maynard, 1897-1974

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Scripps Institutions of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Papers or Records of
Dietz, Robert S., 1905-1994
Eckart, Carl H., 1902-1973
Frieman, Edward A., 1959-2000
Menard, Henry W., 1938-1986
Namias, Jerome 1932-1990
Nierenberg, William A., 1932-1986
Revelle, Roger D., 1928-1979
Revelle, Roger R. D., 1909-1991
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Biographical Files, 1903-1981
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Contracts and Grants Office- Volume I, 1959-1996
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Office of the Director (Nierenberg), 1904-1992
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Office of the Director (Sverdrup), 1936-1948
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Office of the Director, 1943-1955
Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Subject Files, 1890-1981

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University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Chapman, Sydney, 1860-1972 No Frames | EAD File
Roach, Franklin E., 1931-1994  

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University of Bath, UK
Papers or Records of
Rotherham, Leonard, 1913-2001

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University of Birmingham, UK
Papers or Records of
Moon, Philip Burton, 1929-1996
Skyrme, Tony Hilton Royle, circa 1943 - 1988
Thompson, Sir, Michael Warwick, 1931-

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University of Bristol, UK
Papers or Records of
Burch, Cecil Reginald, circa 1852-1983
Collar, Arthur Roderick, FRS, 1935-1987
Fowler, Peter Howard, 1940-2002
Frank, Sir Frederick Charles Kt, OBE, FRS, 1905-1988
Keller, Andrew, 1944-2001
London, Heinz, 1886-1972
Merrison, Alec (Alexander Walter), 1931-2001
Powell, Cecil Frank, 1919 - 1972
Powell, Cecil Frank, 1919 - 1972, Supplementary catalogue
Powell, Cecil Frank, 1941-2002, Second supplementary catalogue

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University of California, Berkeley
Papers or Records of
Birge, Raymond Thayer, 1909-1969
Bridgman, Lilian, 1881-1977
Davidson, George, 1945-1911
Exploratorium Records, 1957-ongoing
Fischer, Emil, 1886-1919
Jaffé, George C., 1902-1962
Jones, Hardin, 1937-1978
Lawrence, Ernest O., circa 1920-1968
Lawrence, John Hundale, 1935-1987
Lenzen, Victor, circa 1904-1975
Leuschner, Armin Otto, Portraits, before 1966
Litton, Charles Vincent, 1912-1972
Loeb, Leonard Benedict, 1916-1970
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1902-1985
Ritter, William E., 1879-1944
Silver, Samuel, 1939-1976
Slate, Frederick, 1862-1937
Struve, Otto, 1837-1966 (bulk 1953-1956)

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University of California, Irvine
Papers or Records of
Reines, Frederick, circa 1931-1999

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University of California, Los Angeles
Papers or Records of
Carnap, Rudolf, 1920-1968
Holstein, Theodore D., 1940-1990 (bulk 1965-1989)
Kaplan, Joseph, circa 1940-1978
Knudsen, Vern O., 1922-1974
Leonard, Robert W., 1928-1967 (bulk 1955-1964)
Lingenfelter, Richard E., 1957-1988
Minkowski, H., Mathematical Notebooks, 1886-1905
Physics Department, Publications, 1950-1989
Sakurai, J. J., 1950-1982
Schwinger, Julian S., 1920-1994
Warren, Stafford L., 1917-1980 (bulk 1943-1980)

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University of Cambridge, Churchill Archives Center, UK
Papers or Records of
Bacon, Francis Thomas, 1917 - 1993
Bagnold, Brigadier Ralph Alger, 1896-1991
Bretscher, Egon, 1918-1973-
Bullard, Sir, Edward Crisp, 1916-1984
Hill, Sir John Mcgregor, 1921-
Jones, Reginald Victor, 1928-1998, part 1
Jones, Reginald Victor, 1928-1998, part 2
Jones, Reginald Victor, 1928-1998, part 3

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University of Cambridge, Trinity College Library, UK
Papers or Records of
Frisch, Otto Robert, 1899-1981
Frisch, Otto Robert, circa 1927 - 1979, supplementary catalogue
Thomson, George Paget, 1905-1977
Thomson, Joseph John, 1836-1956, supplementary catalogue
Thomson, Joseph John, 1906-1970

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University of Cambridge, UK
Papers or Records of
Lewis, Wilfred Bennett, 1926 - 1931
Linfoot, Edward Hubert, 1882-1967
Mitchell, Joseph Stanley, 1924 - 1988
Mott, Sir Nevill Francis, 1902-2003, supplementary catalogue
Mott, Sir Nevill Francis, 1905-1996
Richardson, Lewis Fry, circa 1920- 1954
Sutherland, Sir Gordon Brims Black Mclvor, FRS, 1921 - 1982
Sutherland, Sir Gordon Brims Black Mclvor, FRS, 1921 - 1982, supplementary catalogue

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University of Chicago
Papers or Records of
Allison, Samuel King, 1920-1965
Association of Cambridge Scientists, 1945-1946
Association of Los Alamos Scientists, 1945-1948
Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, 1945-1952
Association of Pasadena Scientists, 1945-1946
Association of Scientists for Atomic Education, 1945-1948
Atomic Scientists Miscellaneous, 1945-1964
Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1880-1916
Bartky, Walter, 1940-1947
Bernstein, Seymour, 1936-1977
Bohr, Niels 1909-1963
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 1928-1995
Danos, Michael 1950-2003
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, 1946-1952
Fermi, Enrico 1918-1974
Fermi, Laura, 1922-1977
Franck, James 1882-1966
Gale, Henry Gordon, 1899-1948
Hale, Georege Ellery, circa 1889-1950
Harris, Chauncy D., 1893-2003
Hilberry, Norman, 1961
Michelson, Albert, 1891-1969
Moffitt, George Wilbur, 1908-1965
Mulliken, Robert S., 1908-1985
Platzman, Robert Leroy 1944-1952
Plotnick, Harvey B., Collection of the History of Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity, 1911-1995
Polanyi, Michael, 1900-1975
Rabinowitch, Eugene, 1945-1972
Rush, Joseph H., 1945-1948
Schein, Marcel, 1948-1960
Shackelford, Benjamin, 1913-1915
Simpson, John A. 1940-1988
University of Chicago Innominates / X-Club, 1917-1982
University of Chicago Office of the President, Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations Records 1869-1925
University of Chicago Office of the President, Mason Administration Records 1910-1929
University of Chicago Tuesday Club, 1943-1988
University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies, Cyclotron, 1946-1952
Urey, Harold C., 1932-1953
Wilkening, Marvin, 1940-1992

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Argonne Universities Association Archives, 1945-1982 No Frames | EAD File
Axel, Peter, 1933-1983 No Frames | EAD File
Bardeen, John, 1910-1991 No Frames | EAD File
Bowhill, Sidney A., 1942-1985 No Frames | EAD File
Goldstein, Ladislas, 1947-1972 No Frames | EAD File
Kruger, P. Gerald, 1937-1970 No Frames | EAD File
Loomis, F. Wheeler, 1920-1976 No Frames | EAD File
Rabinowitch, Eugene, 1924-1973 No Frames | EAD File
Seitz, Frederick, 1935-1965 No Frames | EAD File
Tykociner, Joseph T., 1877-1969 No Frames | EAD File
Wattenberg, Albert, 1941-1996 No Frames | EAD File

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University of Iowa
Papers or Records of Alternate View
Mission Engineering, 1962-1980 No Frames | EAD File
Project Manager Mission, 1963-1984 No Frames | EAD File
University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, James Van Allen, 1951-1987 No Frames | EAD File
Van Allen, James, (additions) 1951-1985 (PDF)  
Van Allen, James, 1938-1990 No Frames | EAD File

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