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Clinton Joseph Davisson papers, 1908-1962

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BOX 1-3 Correspondence, 1916-1957
Mostly personal and family correspondence.
Arranged by name of person and therein chronologically by year.
BOX 1 Davisson, Clinton Joseph
BOX 1 1916-1937
(5 folders)
BOX 2 1938-1955
(14 folders)
BOX 3 1956-1957, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 3 Davisson, Charlotte Sara (wife), 1913, 1926, 1934-1958, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 3 Davisson, Owen (son), 1936, undated
BOX 3 Unidentified, 1944
BOX 4-10 Scientific Papers, 1928-1952
Articles, memoranda, and reports, in both holograph and typescript form, on scientific research written and cowritten by Davisson and accompanied by research notes, statistics, drawings, graphs, blueprints, and photographs.
Arranged alphabetically by title or subject matter.
BOX 4 "Are Electrons Waves?", 1928
BOX 4 "The Arrangement of Atoms in α-Quartz," undated
(4 folders)
BOX 4 "Calculation of the Force Acting on a Charged Insulating Slab Situated between the Plates of a Charged Parallel Plate Condenser," 1936
BOX 4 "Calculation of System of Coils of Rectangular Cross-Section for Gyromagnetic Experiment," 1952
BOX 4 "Coefficients of Reflections of Metals," undated
BOX 4 Crystal physics, 1948
BOX 4 "Destruction of Symmetry Axes in Structure of Crystal of Symmetry P3," 1946
BOX 4 Determination of reflection coefficient, undated
BOX 4 Diffraction, undated
BOX 4 "The Diffraction of a Divergent Beam of Waves by a Plane Grating," undated
BOX 4 "Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel" 1928
BOX 4 "Diffraction of Plane Waves by Space Arrays of Scattering Elements," 1929
BOX 4 "The Discovery of Electron Waves," 1937-1938
BOX 4 "The Dispersion of β-Rays in Energy by a Uniform Magnetic Field," 1938
BOX 4 "Distribution of Current and Voltage in Ladder Network," 1942
BOX 4 "Double Bragg Reflections in Quartz," 1944
(3 folders)
BOX 5 (2 folders)
BOX 5 "Double Bragg Reflections of X-Rays in a Single Crystal," 1944-1945
BOX 5 Electro-magnetic theory, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 5 Electron images of 200 mesh wire gauze and double crosswires, undated
BOX 5 "Electron Lenses," 1931-1932
(4 folders)
BOX 5 "Electron Microscope," 1944-1945
BOX 5 "Electron Optics," 1934-1935
(2 folders)
BOX 5 "Electron Scattering Coefficients of Metals," 1941
BOX 5 "Electrons and Quanta," 1929
BOX 5 "Equilibrium of Electrons in Potential Field," 1930
BOX 5 "Fourteen Crystal Lattices in Terms of Primitive Vectors," 1946
BOX 5 "Generalized Curvilinear Orthogonal Coordinates," circa 1942
BOX 5 "An Hypothesis of Crystal Detwinning," 1947
BOX 5 Lattices, 1948
BOX 6 "Laue Reflection of Divergent X-Rays by a Thin Crystal Plate," 1944
BOX 6 "Liouviller's Theorem and Electric Current Densities," undated
BOX 6 Magnetism Theory, III, undated
BOX 9 "Modulation in Television Receiving Tube, T9," 1937-1938
BOX 6 "A New Consequence of Electron Diffraction," 1952
BOX 6 "A New Experimental Arrangement for Measuring Coefficients of Secondary Electron Emission," 1941-1942
(12 folders)
BOX 7 (5 folders)
BOX 7 "A New Variation of the Rotation-by-Magnetization Method of Measuring Gyromagnetic Ratios," undated
BOX 7 "New Ways of Using Electrons in the Laboratory," 1936
BOX 8 "The Non-Existence of Intensity Maxima in Electrostatic Fields," 1943
BOX 8 "A Note on Space Current Densities," 1937
BOX 8 "A Note on the Design of Television Receiver Tubes," 1936-1938
BOX 8 "On the Relation between Structure and Handedness in α-Quartz," 1945
BOX 8 "The Orientation of Certain Reeves Crystal Plates," 1944
BOX 8 Orthogonal directions, undated
BOX 8 "Oscillating Cylindrical Electro-Magnetic Fields," undated
BOX 8 "A Proposed Electric Velocity Selector," 1942
BOX 8 Radiographic screen, undated
BOX 8 "Random Occurrences," 1945
BOX 8 "The Reciprocal Lattice of Quartz and Its Uses," 1944
BOX 8 "Reciprocal Lattices," 1946
BOX 8 "The Reflection and Transmission of Light Incident Obliquely on an Optical Flat," 1948
BOX 8 "The Reflection of Light by a Transparent Dielectric Slab (Normal Incidence)," 1942
BOX 8 "Reflection of Low-Energy Electrons from Metal Surfaces," undated
BOX 8 "Reflection of Low Speed Electrons from Polycrystalline Platinum," 1948
BOX 8 "The Reflection of X-Rays by a Perfect Crystal," 1945
BOX 8 "Repulsion in Cylindrical Beam of Electrons," 1936
BOX 8 "The Rotational Axes of a Hexagonal Lattice," 1946
BOX 8 "Rotational Symmetry of Planar Arrays of Points," 1946
BOX 8 "The Scattering of Electrons by Crystals," 1927-1929
BOX 8 "Secondary Electron Emission Measurements," 1941
BOX 8 "Solution of the General Cubic with Real Coefficients," 1936
BOX 9 "Standing Waves in Cylindrical Cavities," 1942-1943
(2 folders)
BOX 9 The structure of quartz, undated
BOX 9 Television receiver tube T-1, 1935-1938
BOX 9 Television receiver tube T-9-2, 1936
BOX 9 "Testing the Resolving Power of Television Receivers by Sinusoidal Modulation," 1936
BOX 9 "A Theory of the Piezoelectric Effect in Quartz," 1945-1946
(7 folders)
BOX 10 (3 folders)
BOX 10 "Theory of Secondary Measurements at Low Bombarding Potentials," 1941
BOX 10 "The Theory of the Transverse Doppler Effect," 1938
BOX 10 "Transmission of Waves through a Set of N Equally Spaced Reflecting and Absorbing Planes," 1942-1945
BOX 10 "Venable's Experiment," 1949-1950
BOX 10 "The Wave Properties of Electrons," 1930
BOX 10 "What Electrons Can Tell Us about Metals," 1937
BOX 10 Loose items, undated
BOX 11-13 Miscellany, 1908-1962
Nonscientific articles by Davisson, biographical material, certificates and awards, financial records, lecture notes, photographs, printed matter, speeches, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 11 Articles, 1936-1937, 1956, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 11 Biographical material, 1934-1940, 1956, 1962, undated
BOX 11 Certificates and awards, 1908, 1929-1940, 1947-1948 See also Oversize
(3 folders)
BOX 11 Financial records, 1921, 1937, 1943-1948, 1954-1955
BOX 11 General, 1926, 1942-1947, undated
BOX 11 Lectures in physics, 1947-1948
(2 folders)
BOX 12 (11 folders)
BOX 13 Photographs and silhouette, 1937-1941, 1946, undated See also Oversize
BOX 13 Printed matter, 1941, 1946-1956
BOX 13 Speeches, 1937-1938, 1948-1952
(2 folders)
BOX OV 1 Oversize, 1935-1946
Award and photograph.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
BOX OV 1 Certificates and awards
BOX OV 1 Award, 1935 (Container 11)
BOX OV 1 Photographs and silhouette

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