Faculty Department: Physics, 1927 - 1952

File — Box: N-05

Identifier: N:055

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating appointments/promotions/changes, awards, deaths, faculty committees, faculty departments, grants, sabbaticals, Memorial Fund, individual faculty and staff members, policy/handbook, professorships, recruitment, retirement/resignation, salary, scholarship, schedules, visiting professors, tuition exchange/remission.

Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, handbook, and brochures.

Dates

1927 - 1952

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Proposal for physics dept. to meet post-war demands; courses offered; problems with chapel amplification system; 2 pieces of equipment are donated to college for use in electronics course; status and plans for future department 1950 ** Physics department; Mattoon, R.; Deck, L.J.; Allen, C.S.; Zartman, I.F.; Boyer, R.A.; Raub, H.L. Radio Corporation of America donates a WE-82A Dynamic Demonstrator and a WR-53A Sweep Generator to be operated from the Physics Dept. office R. Ransome Mattoon appointed instructor in Physics 1946 Physics instructors: R. Ransom Mattoon, Bernard W. Neumeyer

Reports of the Department of Physica include statistics, method of teaching and aim, courses, equipment, advancement and research

A Proposal for a Physics Department at Muhlenberg College to meet the Post-War Demands

Letter from R. A. Boyer to President Tyson for future of Physics Department, 3/13/1950

Physics Department - Data and Plans