Division Collections
Division of Physical Sciences, 1940-1974
ADMINISTRATION
INSTITUTIONS Associations Individuals
Acoustical Society of America
Membership Bylaws History: 1955
American Assoc for Advancement of Science
Annual Meeting: 1947
Cooperative Committee on Teaching of Science & Mathematics: 1949
American Assoc of Physicists
Request to Affiliate with Division: 1966-1968
American Assoc of Physics Teachers: 1949-1957
History & Activities: 1946-1948
Oersted Medal: 1946-1948
American Institute of Physics
Executive Committee Meetings: 1948-1956
Governing Board Meetings: 1948-1955
Policy Committee Meetings: 1945-1948
General: 1945-1956
American Standards Assoc: 1949-1957
Optical Society of America: 1949-1957
Society of Nuclear Scientists & Engineers
Proposed: 1954
Washington Biophysical Institute: 1940-1942
General: 1946-1954
INTERNATIONAL Relations
International Congresses: 1949-1961
PUBLICATIONS
Glossary of Nuclear Energy Terms
Index: 1949
Sections I-III: 1949
Sections V-VII: 1949
Glossary of Terms in Nuclear Science & Technology
Editions Approved by ASA: 1957
Interim Edition: 1955
Preliminary Edition Sections I-IX: 1950-1953
Proposed for Approval by ASA: 1957
Physics of the Earth Series
Copyright Assignments: 1949-1951
Republication & Revision: 1948-1949
General: 1947-1951
General: 1947-1955
DIVISIONS OF THE NRC
PHYSICAL Sciences
Activities: Reports: 1967-1973
Advisory Services to NBS (National Bureau of Standards)
Mathematical Tabulation Projects: 1948
Appointments: Members of Division: 1940-1955
Chairman: 1960-1965
Committee for Extra-Atmospheric Cosmic Ray Research
Proposed: 1958
Committee for NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Evaluation: 1964-1966 & 1959-1963
Committee for Systems Evaluation Group: 1954-1956
Committee on Applied Mathematics: 1946-1947
Committee on Astronomy Advisory to ONR (Office of Naval Research)
Activities Summary: 1951
Appointments: Members: 1960-1971
Appointments: Members: 1952-1959
Beginning of Program: 1947
Contracts & Proposals: 1964-1970
Meetings: Minutes: 1963-1969
Meetings: Minutes: 1948-1962
Research Projects: 1955-1961
General: 1967-1969
General: 1952-1962
Committee on Automation of Optical Production Equipment: 1957-1959
Committee on Basic Research Advisory to AROD (Army Research Office (Durham))
Appointments: Members: 1961
General: 1961
Committee on Basic Research Advisory to OOR (Office of Ordnance Research)
Appointments: Members: 1954-1960
Referees: 1957-1959
General: 1953-1960
Committee on Bibliography of Mathematical Tables & Aids to Computation: 1940
Committee on Defense Projects & Personnel: 1940
Committee on Fellowships: 1940-1942
Committee on Fundamental Physical Constants: Joint with Division of Chemistry & Chemical Technology: 1947-1950 & 1961-1963
Committee on Geophysics
Advisory to President's Materials Policy Commission: 1951
Committee on Helium Vapor Pressure Scale of Temperatures
Joint with Division of Chemistry & Chemical Technology: 1955
Committee on High Speed Calculating Machines
Appointments: Members: 1946
General: 1946-1949
Committee on Infra-Red Absorption Spectra
Joint with Division of Chemistry & Chemical Technology: 1951-1952
Committee on Line Spectra of the Elements
Activities: 1940-1949
Appointments: Members: 1954-1957
Reconstitution of Committee: 1940
Reorganization of Committee: 1948-1949
General: 1946-1954
Committee on Mathematical Tables & Other Aids to Computation
Book of Tables: 1948-1949
Quarterly Journal: 1942-1950
Revolving Fund for Publication of Mathematical Tables: 1940
General: 1940-1949
Committee on Mathematics Advisory to ONR (Office of Naval Research)
Applications for Research: 1950
Appointments: Members: 1948-1949
Beginning of Program: 1947
General: 1948-1950
Committee on Naval Ships Characteristics & Design Procedures: 1966
Committee on Operations Research
Beginning of Program: 1948-1949
Chronology of Activities: 1949-1952
Conference on Operations Research: 1951
End of Program: 1955
Meetings: Minutes: 1951-1953
Operations Research Center: 1950-1951
Operations Research Program: 1952
Operations Research with Special Reference to Non-Military Operations: 1951
Supporting Data: 1949-1954
Symposium on Operations Research for Guidance of Management: 1951
General: 1950-1954
Committee on Pollution: 1965-1966
Committee on Radioactive Substances: 1946
Committee on Radioactivity
Beginning of Program: 1946
Meetings: Minutes: 1946-1947
Subcommittee on Shipment of Radioactive Substances: 1946-1947
General: 1947
Committee on Revolving Fund for Publication of Mathematical Books: 1940-1949
Committee on Semiconductor Particle Detectors
Meetings: Report: 1966
Committee on Solids
Appointments: Members: 1950-1958
Beginning of Program: 1947
Conferences: 1950-1960
Meetings: Minutes: 1947-1951
Symposia: 1948-1959
General: 1948-1961
Committee on Solid State Sciences
Advisory Panel: Membership: 1970-1974
Meetings: 1974-1975
Meetings: 1971-1973
Membership: 1971-1974
General: 1974
Committee on Spectral Absorption Data
Joint with Division of Chemistry & Chemical Technology: 1952-1958
Committee on Standards of Radioactivity
Activities: 1941-1943
Meetings: Minutes: 1938-1942
Research Projects: 1939-1942
General: 1945-1946
Committee on Standards Units & Constants of Radioactivity: Interdivisional: 1947-1956
Committee on Symbols Units & Nomenclature: 1957-1967 & 1954-1957
Committee on Training & Research in Applied Mathematics
Applied Mathematics Program: 1941-1942
Appointments: Members: 1941
Beginning of Program: 1941
Program of Policy & Action: 1941-1942
General: 1941-1943
Committee on Undersea Warfare
Appointments: Members: 1972-1973
Appointments: Members: 1955-1959
Contract Correspondence & Proposals: 1970-1974
End of Program: 1975
Future Status: 1972
Future Status: 1964
Meetings: 99th: Feb 1972
Meetings: General: 1972
Meetings: 1971
Meetings: 1955-1959
Naval & Maritime Affairs Board: Proposed: 1972
Panels: DD-963 Class Destroyer: 1971-1972
Panels: Underwater Swimmers: 1955
Panels: US Torpedo Program: 1963-1964
Panels: General: 1972
Project NOBSKA: 1956-1957
Project NOBSKA: BBC-TV Queries Regarding: 1975
Summer Studies: Advanced Sea-Based Deterrence [Project Sea Bed]: 1964
Summer Studies: Countermeasures for Fleet Defense: 1972-1974
Summer Studies: Information Processing & Display: 1971
Summer Studies: Ocean Surveillance: 1966
Workshops: Numerical Hydrodynamics: 1974
General: 1963-1974
General: 1953-1959
Committee on Underwater Telecommunications
Coast Guard Briefing: 1968
Comments on HR 246 Submersible Vessel Safety Act: 1969
Conferences: Present & Future Civil Uses of Underwater Sound: 1968-1969
Contract Correspondence & Proposals: 1968-1970
Meetings: 1968-1969
Membership: 1968-1970
Report: Correspondence re: 1969-1970
General: 1968-1973
Committee to Study Advisability of a Division of Mathematical Sciences: 1949-1950
Conference on Post-War Physics: 1943-1945
Conference on Transport Theory: 1962-1963
Conference on UHF-TV Project: Jun 1960
Directory of Division: 1940-1958
Executive Committee
Appointments: Members: 1940-1954
Meetings: Minutes: 1948-1957
Glossary of Terms in Nuclear Science & Technology
Conference on Glossaries of Terms in Nuclear Science & Technology: 1948-1950
Working Committees: 1948
General: 1947-1958
International Activities
Cooperation between US & USSR in Field of High Energy Physics: 1971
Inter-American Program in Biophysics: 1960-1962
Joint US-USSR Projects: Suggested: 1972
Visiting Scientists: 1956-1963
Volcanoes in Mexico (Vacquier): 1960
General: 1959-1962
Mathematical Problems to be Solved for Use in Theoretical Physics: 1947
Meetings: Annual: 1940-1957
Meetings: NASA Inter-University Research Project: Proposed: 1962
Mine Advisory Committee
Appointments: Members: 1960-1975
Appointments: Members: 1955-1959
Funding: 1969-1972
Meetings: Agenda: 1955-1957
Panel on Command & Control: 1971
Studies: Pollution of Oceans by Abandoned Explosive Ordnance: Proposed: 1970
Summer Studies for Defense Science Board: 1971-1972
General: 1968-1969
General: 1966-1967
General: 1951-1959
Name Change Proposed: 1947
NAS-ARDC Study on Long-Range Scientific & Technical Trends
Committees: Facilities: 1959
Participants: 1957-1958
General: 1957-1958
Nuclear Data Project
Activities: 1953-1961
Associates in Project: 1955-1962
General: 1953-1962
Personnel Listings: 1940-1945
Physical Sciences Research Evaluation Panels
Advisory to AFOSR: Proposed: 1964-1965
Physics Survey Committee
Membership: 1969-1971
Panels: Earth & Planetary Physics: Meetings: Minutes: 1969-1970
Panels: Earth & Planetary Physics: Papers: Education: Draft: 1971
Panels: Earth & Planetary Physics: Report: 1972
Panels: Earth & Planetary Physics: Report: General: 1970-1972
Panels: Earth & Planetary Physics: General: 1969-1972
General: 1969-1971
Planning Committee on Production of Physicists
Appointments: Members: 1954
Conference on Production of Physicists: 1954-1955
Improvement of Science Teaching: 1955
Meetings: Minutes: 1954
Review of Chamber of Commerce Report on Basic Research: 1961
Site Evaluation Committee: Advisory to AEC
Activities: Chronology: 1965-1966
AEC Site Visit Program: 1965
Contract & Related Correspondence: 1965-1966
Correspondence with AEC: 1965-1966
Meetings: 1965-1966
Membership: 1965
Panels: Accelerator Scientists [Climate Panel]: 1965-1966
Panels: Foundation Requirements: 1965-1966
Panels: Foundation Requirements: Report: 1966
Press Releases & Coverage: 1965-1966
Relationships: Universities Research Association: 1965
Report: 1966
Report: Draft: Comments: 1965-1966
Site Proposals: 1965-1966
Site Visits: Reports: 1965-1966
General: Aug 1965-May 1966
General: Mar-Jul 1965
Solid State Sciences Panel
Ad hoc Committee on Mission Operation & Structure: Report: Oct 1970
Beginning of Program: 1961-1963
Meetings: 1969-1970
Meetings: 1965-1968
Meetings: 1962-1964
Membership: Rosters: 1962-1970
Membership: General: 1958-1970
Reorganization: 1970-1971
Subcommittee on Federally Supported Basic Research on Materials: 1963-1964
General: 1964-1968
General: 1963
Studies
ARPA Nuclear Technology: Requested: 1968
Computer Facilities for Astronomy & Astrophysics: Proposed: 1973-1974
Sun & Earth Film Series [IQSY Films]
Broadcast Rights: National Educational Television (NET): 1967-1970
Distributor: McGraw-Hill: 1968-1971
Producer: Wolff L: 1967-1969
Scripts: 1969
General: 1967-1971
Symposium on Immediate & Low Level Effects of Ionizing Radiation: 1959
Symposium on Microseisms: 1951-1954
Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics
First: 1956
Second: 1958-1959
Symposium on Oceanographic Instrumentation: 1951-1954
Symposium on Plasma Dynamics
Advisory Committee: 1957-1958
Participants: 1958
Proceedings: 1958-1960
General: 1957-1958
Symposium on Saline Water Conversion
Abstracts of Papers: 1957
Beginning of Program: 1956-1957
Participants: 1957
Press Releases: 1957
Report on Symposium: 1957
General: 1956-1958
Uniform Tri-dimensional Color Scales
Proposed Study: 1946-1947
Very Large Array (VLA) Site Selection Review Panel: Ad hoc: 1972
General: 1940-1959
FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
CONTRACTS
Committee on Solids: 1948-1959
General: 1952-1957
FINANCE
Funds
General: 1957-1961
GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES & Departments
Army
Research & Development: 1958-1959
Atomic Energy Commission: 1946-1956
Commerce
NBS Committee on Infra-Red Punch Card System: 1949-1951
National Science Foundation
Support for Astronomy Proposed: 1951
Navy
ONR (Office of Naval Research): 1946-1952
General: 1947-1957
REPORTS
Division of Physical Sciences
Annual Report: 1950-1962
Committee on Fundamental Physical Constants: 1950
Committee on Geophysics
Advisory to President's Materials Policy Commission: 1951
Committee on Sound Control
Articulation Testing Methods: 1942
Effects of Noise on Psychomotor Efficiency Part I: 1941
Materials for Sound in Airplanes: 1941
NDCrc-52 Project Progress Reports: 1941
Committee on Sound Control in Vehicles
NDCrc-52 Project Progress Reports: 1941
Committee on Training & Research in Applied Mathematics
Advance Training in Applied Mathematics: 1941
Report to NRC: 1942
Committee on Undersea Warfare
History of Self-Contained Diving & Underwater Swimming: 1959
NAS-Air Research & Development Command Study on Long-Range Scientific & Technical Trends
Committee on Facilities Report: 1958
Committee on General Sciences Report: 1958
Working Paper on Acceleration & Dynamic Flight Simulation: 1958
Working Paper on Administration of Programmatic Research: 1958
Working Paper on Biological Effects of Nuclear Weapons: 1958
Working Paper on Contributions of Basic Research to Clinical Medicine: 1958
Working Paper on Design of Training: 1958
Working Paper on Detecting Undercover Agents: 1958
Working Paper on Evaluation of Effectiveness of Incendiary Weapon Against Personnel as Illustration of Mathematical Modeling: 1958
Working Paper on Improvement of Productivity of Basic Research in Life Sciences: 1958
Working Paper on Mechanized Data Processing Developments in Medicine & Life Sciences: 1958
Working Paper on Neurophysiology & Behavior: 1958
Working Paper on Notes on Conference of Test Pilots: 1958
Working Paper on Physiology & Pharmacology of Extra-Atmospheric Flight: 1958
Working Paper on Problems of Aging: 1958
Working Paper on Psychological Warfare as Weapon System: 1958
Working Paper on Role of Hospital in Medical & Biological Research & Training: 1958
Working Paper on Selection Research: 1958
Working paper on Task Group & Organizational Effectiveness: 1958
Working Paper on Toxicological Research in US Air Force: 1958
Working Paper on Training Requirements for Flight Surgeons & Space Biologists: 1958
Working Paper on Use of Animals Plants Microorganisms & Tissue Culture in Space Research: 1958
Working Paper on Weightlessness: 1958
Reports to Administrative Committee: 1940-1941
