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David P. Stern archives
Collection
Identifier: MS-0718
Abstract
Born in Czechoslovakia, David Stern grew up in Israel, studying physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on an underground experiment on cosmic rays. Until his retirement in 2001, Stern was associated with Goddard Space Flight Center, studying theoretical aspects of the Earth's magnetosphere, in particular its large-scale electrodynamics, global description of its magnetic fields, and...
Dates:
1973-2010
Found in:
Special Collections
Edward E. Ayer typescript memoir
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0719
Abstract
Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century's fast-growing railroad industry. The collection contains a bound volume of a memoir written by Ayer, titled Reminiscences and Travels of Edward E....
Dates:
circa 1924
Found in:
Special Collections
Frank Tenney Stockton papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0133
Abstract
The collection consists of pamphlets, reprints, a list of Stockton's publications, Curriculum Vitae and various memoirs of Stockton.
Dates:
1908-1970
Found in:
Special Collections