Charles H. Townes papers, 1898-2014 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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BOX 457-468	Part II: Writings, 1921-2011
BOX 457-468		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BOX 457				"Astronomical Masers," unfinished and unpublished, 1972-1974
BOX 457					(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BOX 457				"Considerations on Allocation of Money with Application to Research, Development and Production," unpublished, circa 1960s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BOX 457				"Photodesorption or Photoejection as an Astronomical Process," unpublished, 1968-1969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BOX 458			Books, unpublished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
BOX 458					(8 folders)
BOX 458				No. 135
BOX 458					(2 folders)
BOX 459					(1 folder)
BOX 459				No. 139
BOX 459					(5 folders)
BOX 460					(7 folders)
BOX 460				Nos. 144, 190-191, 280, 300
BOX 460					(5 folders)
BOX 461				No. 301 See also Digital Files, same heading
BOX 461					(3 folders)
BOX 461				Nos. 302, 311
BOX 461					(2 folders)
BOX 461				No. 313
BOX 461					(1 folder)
BOX 462					(2 folders)
BOX 462				No. 314
BOX 462					(2 folders)
BOX 463					(1 folder)
BOX 463				Nos. 348, 356, 358, 363, 395
BOX 463					(7 folders)
BOX 464				No. 398
BOX 464				Nos. 399-410
BOX 464					(14 folders)
BOX 465				Nos. 411-440
BOX 465					(30 folders)
BOX 466				Nos. 441-461, 463-473
BOX 466					(32 folders)
BOX 467				Nos. 474-481, 483-484, 489
BOX 467					(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
BOX 467						(4 folders)
BOX 468					2009-2010
BOX 468						(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
BOX CL 2		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
BOX OV 4		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
DF		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

Charles H. Townes papers, 1898-2014

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