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Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

June 17, 2015 - Marlene Renz

O. W. Richardson. What the Nobel Prize has meant for me, October 8, 1933.

With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog cards. Enhanced collection housing was also part of the project, improving long-term preservation of the materials.

Recognized for his pioneering work on thermionics, Sir Owen Richardson was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for [Read more…] about Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

Filed Under: Conservation, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Albert Einstein, American Institute of Physics, Charles Darwin, Finding Aid, grant, Herschel Family, history of science, Lewis Carroll, Nobel Prize, O.W. Richardson, Owen Richardson, Photoelectricity, physics, preservation, Quantum Theory, Radiation, Richardson’s Law, Thermionics

Darwin Day: The fossil record of a friendship

February 12, 2015 - Richard Oram

Letter from Charles Darwin to Sir John Herschel, dated November 11, 1859. The letter was tucked inside a signed first edition of Darwin's "Origin of Species."

To mark Darwin Day today, we share one of the Ransom Center’s more interesting copies of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s most famous work, On the Origin of Species. The Center owns several first editions, but this particular one was sent by Darwin to Sir John Herschel, the most famous English scientist of his day, inscribed simply “From the author.” Herschel was a member of a great scientific family, which included the astronomers William and Caroline Herschel; the Herschel papers are the most consulted history of science resources at the Center. [Read more…] about Darwin Day: The fossil record of a friendship

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Origin of Species, Sir John Herschel

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