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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: 1890 - 2003

Arnold Tubis Collection of Purdue Physics Department records

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20190710.2

Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 326
Scope and Contents

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 Major.  The engravings illustrate Brahe’s astronomical instruments and observations from his observatories, Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, in Hven, Sweden.  Some of the paper contains two different watermarks: an elephant and Christ.

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