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June 17, 2015 - Marlene Renz

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

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… read more

February 9, 2012 - Alexandra Herzog

Fellows Find: Finding humanity in the Isaac Bashevis Singer correspondence

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Alma Singer, correspondence, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish studies, literature, Nobel Prize

Alexandra Tali Herzog, PhD candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2011 on a dissertation fellowship to investigate the Isaac Bashevis Singer collection. In her dissertation, she examines the interplay between demonology, libertinism, and religion in Singer’s work. Drawing… read more

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