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| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX 22-38 | Part I: Personal File, 1948-2005 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, including letters of advice to students, letters of recommendation, and personal and family letters, biographical information, interviews, awards, appointment calendars, and lists of appointments to organizations and committees. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 22 | Appointment calendars, 1996-2005 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Appointments | |||||||||||||
| California University, Berkeley, Calif., 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||
| Consultant, 1982-1983 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 23 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., provost and resignation, 1961, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||
| 1964-1969 | |||||||||||||
| (20 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||||||
| (1 folder) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 24 | (3 folders) | ||||||||||||
| 1971-1978 | |||||||||||||
| (9 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1979 | |||||||||||||
| (1 folder) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 | (2 folders) | ||||||||||||
| 1980-1986 | |||||||||||||
| (7 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 26 | 1992 | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 27 | (2 folders) | ||||||||||||
| Biographical information | |||||||||||||
| Awards and honors, 1983-1998 | |||||||||||||
| Bio-bibliographies for California University, Berkeley, Calif., 1969-1998 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Chronological file, circa 1954-1998 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 28 | (3 folders) | ||||||||||||
| Forms for Who's Who and other publications, 1953-1984 | |||||||||||||
| Christmas card file, 1985 | |||||||||||||
| Committee rosters, 1976-1982, undated | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Family, 1959-1983 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 29 | (3 folders) | ||||||||||||
| Letters of advice to students, 1965-1983 | |||||||||||||
| Personal, miscellaneous, 1961-1997, undated | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 30 | (8 folders) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 31 | (3 folders) | ||||||||||||
| Political, 1983 | |||||||||||||
| Davenport, Homer C., donation of cartoons by, 1980, 1995-1997 | |||||||||||||
| Doodles, undated | |||||||||||||
| Dover Publications, 1974-1975, undated | |||||||||||||
| First Light Party, 1987 | |||||||||||||
| Fragments, circa 1980-1983, undated | |||||||||||||
| Genealogy, 1948, undated | |||||||||||||
| Gifts to the libraries of California University, Berkeley, Calif., 1974-1980 | |||||||||||||
| Interviews | |||||||||||||
| American Institute of Physics, Center for the History of Physics, 1987 | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| California University, Berkeley, Calif., oral history, 1993-1994, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 32 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| (6 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Laser Focus, 1982 | |||||||||||||
| Laser History Project | |||||||||||||
| Chronological file | |||||||||||||
| 1983-1984 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 33 | 1985-1986 | ||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||||||
| (1 folder) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 34 | (2 folders) | ||||||||||||
| circa 1987 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1988-1989 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous drafts and notes | |||||||||||||
| 1987-1989 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 35 | Undated | ||||||||||||
| Seidel, Robert, 1986, 1994-1995 | |||||||||||||
| Laser Pioneers Series, 1985 | |||||||||||||
| Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Nobel Voices Video History Project, 2001 | |||||||||||||
| University Explorer, 1969 | |||||||||||||
| Laser Compact Co., 1993-1994, undated | |||||||||||||
| Letters of recommendation, 1949-1983 | |||||||||||||
| "A-F" miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| (6 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 36 | "G-M" miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 37 | "N-V" miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| (7 folders) | |||||||||||||
| "Wa" miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| "We" miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| (1 folder) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 38 | (1 folder) | ||||||||||||
| "Wh-Wu" miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| "Y-Z" miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous historical documents, 1950-1951, 1957, undated | |||||||||||||
| Personal property, 1960-1961, 1971-1986 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Requests for biographical information, 1963-1975 | |||||||||||||
| Requests for reprints, 1969-1977, 1997 | |||||||||||||
| Requests to evaluate research papers, 1964-1971 | |||||||||||||
| Sixty-fifth birthday celebration, 1980 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 39-259 | Part I: Alphabetical File, 1929-2006 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, consulting contracts, speeches, writings, drafts and notes, photographs, blueprints, printed matter, and financial records. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged in three files and therein alphabetically by name of person, organization, or topic, roughly following the groupings established by Townes. A Columbia University file closely follows Townes's tenure at that institution from 1948 to 1961. Files titled Set A and Set B largely begin with Townes's move to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961 and continue through his years with the University of California at Berkeley. Overlapping years, organizations, topics, and persons are common among the three, but especially between Set A and Set B. Miscellaneous correspondence is interspersed within each letter of the alphabet under Columbia University and filed at the end of each letter in Set A and Set B. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 39 | Columbia University, New York, N.Y. | ||||||||||||
| "Aa-Ab" miscellaneous, 1949-1961 | |||||||||||||
| Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||
| Advisor to graduate students, 1952-1954 | |||||||||||||
| "Ad-Al" miscellaneous, 1949-1961 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| American Institute of Physics | |||||||||||||
| General, 1948-1960, undated | |||||||||||||
| Richtmyer lecture, 1958-1960 | |||||||||||||
| American Physical Society, 1950-1959, undated | |||||||||||||
| American Rocket Society, 1949-1954, undated | |||||||||||||
| "Am-As" miscellaneous, 1950-1960 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Atmospheric absorption, 1951-1954 See also Classified | |||||||||||||
| Atomic clock, 1954-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Atomic Energy Commission | |||||||||||||
| 1948-1952 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 40 | 1953-1957 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Barrett, Alan H., 1955-1958 | |||||||||||||
| Basov, N. G., 1955 | |||||||||||||
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