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18. Physical sciences

 Record Group
Identifier: 18

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Ariel Bar-Sela collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0485
Abstract

This collection includes materials used by Ariel Bar-Sela in his work involving the translation of ancient medical texts such as correspondence, facsimiles of texts in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, medical vocabulary index cards in these languages, and publications of translated versions of medical texts from the Middle Ages.

Dates: 1935-1967

Richard Smalley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0490
Abstract: The papers of Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist Richard E. Smalley are comprised of the lectures, presentations and supporting materials leading to Smalley's discovery of fullerenes, which eventually lead to his Nobel Prize. Included are lectures and presentations, conferences attended, awards received, and articles written. Copies of Dr. Smalley's actual laboratory research notes and materials are included. The papers also include personal memorabilia. Smalley was affiliated with...
Dates: 1943 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2005

John L. Margrave academic papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0505
Abstract:

The academic papers of Chemistry Professor and Dean of Advanced Studies and Research John L. Margrave reflect the daily business of his career at Rice University, and his involvement with Gulf Universities Research Consortium (GURC), Houston Area Research Center (HARC), High Temperature Science, and Marchem, Incorporated.

Dates: 1952-1995 [Bulk 1970-1995]

Rice Institute Pamphlet and Rice University Studies records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0013
Abstract

This collection contains working drafts, business correspondence and receipts, and related material from "Rice University Studies," a university publication of scholarly works.

Dates: 1915 - 1981

Rice University Engineering Alumni records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0038
Abstract

The records consist of association by-laws, meeting minutes, correspondence, and awards. Included are lists of annual selections of Outstanding Engineering Student and Outstanding Engineering Alumni.

Dates: 1938 - 1995

Rice University Nobel Prize records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 123
Abstract

The collection consists of biographical sketches, invitations, news clippings, press releases and video clips relating to Nobel Laureates Robert Woodrow Wilson, Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl.

Dates: 1978-2006

Julian Huxley letter to G. W. N. Eggers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0057
Abstract:

Personal letter from biologist Sir Julian Huxley to his student G.W. Hordholtz Eggers regarding their time working together in the biology lab at Rice Institute.

Dates: 1916

Julian Huxley and Anita Loos correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0082
Abstract

Correspondence between biologist Julian Huxley to Anita Loos, American screenwriter, playwright, and author. Many of these are great in length and most with remarkable content, evidencing the intimacy of Huxley and Loos.

Dates: 1960 - 1966

Joseph I. Davies papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0286
Abstract:

The Davies papers include papers, lecture notes, glass slides, and transparencies produced by Joseph I. Davies, who came to Rice Institute (later Rice University) in 1914 with Julian Huxley as his lab assistant, later received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Rice, and from 1929 to 1966 served as a member of the Rice faculty. The glass slides and transparencies taken by Davies include scenes of the early development of the Rice campus as well as later campus scenes and individuals.

Dates: 1924 - 1966

Harold Albert Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0303
Abstract:

This collection contains the papers of Harold Albert Wilson who was the first professor of physics at Rice Institute. Included are: Wilson's scientific papers (off-prints only); manuscript of bibliography of the H. A. Wilson scientific papers; "Catalogue of Apparatus," photographs, certificates, and letters to Norman Hurd Ricker.

Dates: 1898 - 1965