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Physics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Anna Akeley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 496
Abstract

The collection contains photographs, awards, and a bound copy of Akeley’s memoirs. The materials document her life and career as a physics instructor at Purdue University

Dates: circa 1890-2003; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2005

Arnold Tubis Collection of Purdue Physics Department records

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20190710.2

Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings

 Collection — Box FF 4
Identifier: MSP 326
Abstract

The Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings (1 flat case file; 1662) contains 15 engravings (all on paper) that were once pages from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas maior, siue, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, cœlum, accuratissime describuntur.  The engravings illustrate Brahe’s astronomical instruments and observations from his observatories, Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, in Hven, Sweden.

Dates: 1662; Majority of material found in 1662; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/2013

Fan, H. Y., June 29, 1972

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSO 2, Series 1, Sub-Series 9
Scope and Contents

One oral history interview with H. Y. Fan by Robert B. Eckles.

Dates: June 29, 1972

William A. Wallenmeyer papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20170202
Dates: circa 1950 - 1993; Majority of material found in 1989 - 1989