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BOX 457-468 | Part II: Writings, 1921-2011 | ||||||||||||
Correspondence, articles, books, speeches, interviews, lectures, editorials, drafts, notes, calculations, contracts, background information, illustrations, photographs, and printed matter. | |||||||||||||
Arranged into writings by Townes and by others and therein alphabetically by type of material and title of work with the numbered works largely arranged by Townes in chronological order. | |||||||||||||
BOX 457 | By Townes | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | Articles | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "Astronomical Masers," unfinished and unpublished, 1972-1974 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "The Birth of the Laser," 1999 | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "Considerations on Allocation of Money with Application to Research, Development and Production," unpublished, circa 1960s | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | Foreword to Masers and Lasers by M. Brotherton, 1964 | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "Fundamental Limitations on the Use of Maser Amplification for Image Intensification," technical note number 61-20, 1961 | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "Masers," draft on astronomical masers for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 2000 | ||||||||||||
BOX 457 | "Photodesorption or Photoejection as an Astronomical Process," unpublished, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | "Radio Spectroscopy," 1946 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Books, unpublished | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | "Maser History," 1967 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | "Selected Papers on Masers and Lasers," 1962-1963 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Miscellaneous abstracts, 1980-1984, 1991 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Numbered, 1939-2011 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Index | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Nos. 3-5, 7-18, 20-24, 26-29 | ||||||||||||
BOX 458 | Nos. 6, 30, 32, 64, 67, 75, 93, 102 | ||||||||||||
(8 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 458 | No. 135 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 459 | (1 folder) | ||||||||||||
BOX 459 | No. 139 | ||||||||||||
(5 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 460 | (7 folders) | ||||||||||||
BOX 460 | Nos. 144, 190-191, 280, 300 | ||||||||||||
(5 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 461 | No. 301 See also Digital Files, same heading | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 461 | Nos. 302, 311 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 461 | No. 313 | ||||||||||||
(1 folder) | |||||||||||||
BOX 462 | (2 folders) | ||||||||||||
BOX 462 | No. 314 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 463 | (1 folder) | ||||||||||||
BOX 463 | Nos. 348, 356, 358, 363, 395 | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 464 | No. 398 | ||||||||||||
BOX 464 | Nos. 399-410 | ||||||||||||
(14 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 465 | Nos. 411-440 | ||||||||||||
(30 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 466 | Nos. 441-461, 463-473 | ||||||||||||
(32 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 467 | Nos. 474-481, 483-484, 489 | ||||||||||||
(11 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 467 | By others | ||||||||||||
BOX 467 | Chiao, Raymond Y., ed. | ||||||||||||
BOX 467 | Amazing Light: A Volume Dedicated to Charles Hard Townes on his 80th Birthday, 1996 | ||||||||||||
BOX 467 | Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, dedicated to Townes for his ninetieth birthday | ||||||||||||
BOX 467 | 2005-2008 | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 468 | 2009-2010 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 468 | "Scarce and valuable papers" | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | List, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Casimir, H. G. B., 1936 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Everett, Hugh, III, 1957 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Herzberg, G., and L. L. Howe, circa 1960 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Michaelson, A. A., 1921, 1927 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Miscellany, 1925 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Purcell, Edward, 1960 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Van Vleck, J. H., 1942 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Weber, J., 1953 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Wesson, L. G., 1947 | ||||||||||||
BOX 468 | Wichmann, Eyvind, and Norman M. Kroll, 1956 | ||||||||||||
BOX CL 2 | Part II: Classified, 2002 | ||||||||||||
Charter. | |||||||||||||
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the item was removed. | |||||||||||||
BOX CL 2 | Alphabetical File | ||||||||||||
BOX CL 2 | Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, D.C., JASON Defense Advisory Group, 2000-2002 | ||||||||||||
BOX CL 2 | JASON Defense Advisory Group charter attached to email of 30 July 2002 (Container 428) | ||||||||||||
BOX OV 4 | Part II: Oversize, 1982-2010 | ||||||||||||
Posters and a blueprint. | |||||||||||||
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. | |||||||||||||
Alphabetical File | |||||||||||||
Masers and lasers | |||||||||||||
History and the future, 2010 | |||||||||||||
BOX OV 4 | Posters of timelines (Container 431) | ||||||||||||
Grants and Projects | |||||||||||||
Office of Naval Research | |||||||||||||
N00014-82-C-0700, infrared spatial interferometer | |||||||||||||
Proposals, budgets, and awards, 1982 | |||||||||||||
Folder 1 of 3 | |||||||||||||
BOX OV 4 | Blueprint of 60-inch infrared telescope attached to approval form (Container 444) | ||||||||||||
DF | Part II: Digital Files, 1995-2008 | ||||||||||||
Text files and audiovisual files relating to Townes's speeches and engagements and text files of draft chapters of his book How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist. | |||||||||||||
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. | |||||||||||||
Speech and Engagement File | |||||||||||||
2005-2006 | |||||||||||||
2006, Apr. 18 | |||||||||||||
Max Planck Research Group, Visiting Committee meeting, Erlangen, Germany, scientific report reprints (Container 453) | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_002 | |||||||||||||
2007 | |||||||||||||
2007, May 22 | |||||||||||||
"The Laser: Origin, Development and Future." Optical Society of Northern California, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif. (Container 453) | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_003 | |||||||||||||
2008 | |||||||||||||
2008, Sept. 10 | |||||||||||||
"Science in My Life, and the Unpredictabiltiy of Discovery," talk given to SETI, location unknown (Container 454) | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_004 | |||||||||||||
2008, Oct. 31 | |||||||||||||
Dedication of Charles H. Townes Center for Science, Furman Univeristy, Greenville, S.C. (Container 455) | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_001 | |||||||||||||
Writings | |||||||||||||
By Townes | |||||||||||||
Numbered | |||||||||||||
No. 301, How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist | |||||||||||||
Chapters 1-8, partial drafts, 1995 (Container 461) | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_006 | |||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss84413_174_007 |