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| Title: | Shaw, Albert E. Papers |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1921-1940 |
| Size: | 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Albert E. Shaw (1899-1981) University of Chicago graduate student and Assistant Professor of Physics. Includes correspondence and Shaw's student research and course notes. |
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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Shaw, Albert E. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Albert Edward Shaw was born in Rutherford, New Jersey on February 5, 1899. He graduated from the EE Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in New York, in 1923, and entered the University of Chicago in 1936.
Shaw received his S.M. in Physics in 1928, with a Master's thesis on "Cold Cathode Rectification." He was award his PhD in 1934 for his dissertation "Electron Orbits in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields." He served for several year as an assistant and later as an instructor in the University of Chicago's Department of Physics, before being named Assistant Professor in 1942. Shaw appears to have left University's faculty in 1946, and to have been affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in subsequent years. He died in Chicago in 1981.
This collection is divided into two series. Series I, Correspondence, primarily contains letters sent by Shaw to supply companies in search of materials, such as glass, gases, and light polarizing materials, for research. Letters to and from colleagues and students are also included. Series II, Notes, contains handwritten notes on articles, laboratory experiments, classes, and the work of other researchers, dating from Shaw's undergraduate and graduate student years, and his early teaching career.
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Department of Physics. Records
Series I: Correspondence |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Correspondence - A |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Correspondence - B |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Correspondence - C-D |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Correspondence - E-F |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Correspondence - G |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Correspondence - H-I |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Correspondence - J-L |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Correspondence M-P |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Correspondence - R-S |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | Correspondence - T-Z |
Series II: Notes |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Notes, Cold Cathode Rectification |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Notes, Experiments, Physics 262 |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Notes, Geometrical Optics |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Notes, K - Angstrom |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Notes, Liquids, Viscosity |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Notes, Platinum Resistance Thermometer |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Notes, Pressure |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Notes, Radiation Constant |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Notes, Thermal Conductivity |
| Box 1 Folder 20 | Physics 349, X-Ray notes taken by A. E. Shaw, June 1929 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Physics 251, Mathematical Physics, notes taken by A. E. Shaw |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Physics 252, Heat, A. E. Shaw |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Experiments at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Electrical Measurement Laboratory, 1 - 8, 1920s |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Experiments at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Electrical Measurement Laboratory, 11 - 24, 1920s |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Loschmidt’s Number, dissertation by S. E. Virgo |
| Box 3 Folder 4-6 | Miscellaneous notes, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Miscellaneous mathematical notes, undated |
| Box 3 | Notebook, A. C. Laboratory Experiments, 1922-1923 |
| Box 3 | Notebook, Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, March 21, 1927 |