Physical Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Collections

Physical Sciences, Astronomy, and Astrophysics:
Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections

Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.

For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

• A. Adrian Albert. Papers.
  
• Samuel King Allison. Papers. Finding Aid
• Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Serials. HTML Guide
• Association of Cambridge Scientists. Records. Finding Aid
• Association of Los Alamos Scientists. Records. Finding Aid
• Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists. Records. Finding Aid
• Association of Pasadena Scientists. Records. Finding Aid
• Association of Scientists for Atomic Education. Records. Finding Aid
• Atomic Scientists. Miscellaneous Records. Finding Aid
• Atomic Scientists of Chicago. Records.
• Atomic Scientists Printed and Near-Print Material. Records
• Edward Emerson Barnard. Papers. Finding Aid
• Harlan H. Barrows. Papers.
  
• Walter Bartky. Papers.
  
• Seymour Bernstein. Papers. Finding Aid
• Niels Bohr. Collection. Cataloged as: oblQC16.B67A3 Rare
  
• J Harlan Bretz. Papers.
  
• Rachel Fuller Brown. Student Notes.
  
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Records.
• Thomas C. Chamberlin. Papers.
  
• S. Chandrasekhar. Papers.
  
• Arthur Holly Compton. Papers.
  
• Charles D. Coryell. Papers.
• Michael Danos. Papers.
• Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Records. Finding Aid
• Federation of American Scientists. Records.
• Enrico Fermi. Papers. Finding Aid
• Humberto Fernandez-Moran. Papers.
  
• James Franck. Papers.
  
• Henry Gordon Gale. Papers. Finding Aid
• General Archival Files. HTML Guide
• George Ellery Hale. Papers. Finding Aid
• William D. Harkins. Papers.
  
• William Rainey Harper. Papers. Finding Aid
• Gertrude E. Harris. Papers. Finding Aid
• Paul S. Henshaw. Papers.
• Thorfin Hogness. Papers.
  
• Frank Webster Jay. Collection of Scientists' Letters.
  
• Wellington D. Jones. Papers. Finding Aid
• Lawrence H. Lanzl. Papers.
  
• Adaline De Sale Link. Papers. Finding Aid
• Kirtley F. Mather. Papers.
  
• Albert A. Michelson. Papers. Finding Aid
• George Wilbur Moffitt. Papers.
  
• Eliakim Hastings Moore. Papers.
  
• Robert S. Mulliken. Oral History Interview.
  
• Robert S. Mulliken. Papers.
  
• John U. Nef, Sr. Papers.
  
• Robert S. Platt. Papers.
  
• Robert L. Platzman. Papers.
  
• Michael Polanyi. Papers. Finding Aid
• Eugene I. Rabinowitch. Papers.
  
• Carl Ritter. Letters. [Ms. 839]
  
• J. H. Rush. Papers. Finding Aid
• Rollin D. Salisbury. Papers.
  
• Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection of Scientific Manuscripts
  
• Marcel Schein. Papers.
  
• Benjamin E. Shackelford. Papers.
  
• John A. Simpson. Papers.
  
• Francis W. Test. Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography. Goode Base Map Collection. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography. Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Geology. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Mathematics. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Mathematics. Mathematical Club. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Dept. of Physics. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Division of the Physical Sciences. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Innominates/X-Club. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Institute for Nuclear Studies. Cyclotron. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Louis Slotin Memorial Fund. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Nuclear Pile and Plutonium 20th Anniversary. Records.
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Tuesday Club. Records. Finding Aid
• Uranium Committee. Laboratory Records.
• Washington Association of Scientists. Records.
• J. Marvin Weller. Papers.
  
• Stuart Weller. Papers.
  
• Ernst J. Wilczynski. Papers.
  
• Marvin Wilkening. Papers.
  
• Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler. Papers.
  

See also: Manhattan Project, Atomic Scientists