Box 3
Container
Contains 14 Collections and/or Records:
Moon's Origin: Donald Wise -- NOTE: SGB's letter to him (3/6/81) with handwritten reply, with Wise's recollections of Harold Urey., 1981
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1981
Newton's Principia Tercentenary Conference at UMCP, 1987. -- NOTE: Correspondence about publication of the Proceedings. Includes letter from Peter F. Cannell of Smithsonian Institution Press (1990), reneging on previous agreement to publish the Proceedings., 1986-1995
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1986-1995
Origin of the Solar System (1956-1985) [Correspondence about SGB's draft of paper on "Theories of the Origin of the Solar System 1956-1985" published in Reviews of Modern Physics and later in volume 3 of History of Modern Planetary Physics.] -- NOTE: Includes letters from Hannes Alfven, Edward Anders, Gustaf Arrhenius, William A. Fowler, Alan Harris, Chris Russell, M.M. Woolfson. Also correspondence on publication of paper with David Pines, editor of Reviews of Modern Physics, 1976-1989
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1976-1989
Physics of liquids and gases [Survey of opinions of about most significant advances in physics of gases and liquids during past year, conducted in Spring 1965, for an invited article in Science Year: The World Book Science Annual. ] -- NOTE: SGB notes, article draft, cut out World Book articles, correspondence with World Book Science Year editor Wade Tilleux. Also includes response of survey participants Ryuzo Abe, Frank C. Andrews, Baxter Armstrong, Mario Bauer, David Buckingham, C.A. Coulson, Ben Chu, S.F. Edwards, Michael E. Fisher, S.R. de Groot, Eugene Helfand, J.O. Hirschfelder, Gunter Kelbg, Margaret Kivelson, Howard B. Levine, P.E. Liley, S.C. Saxena, A.J.F. Siegert, H.N.V. Temperley., 1965
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1965
Planetary science: biographical data and interviews. [Prepared in 1984 before SGB visit to Los Angeles where SGB had a short-term appointment at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (UCLA), attended a conference on Origin of the Moon in Hawaii, and had several opportunities to interview planetary scientists. ] -- NOTE: Biographical data on planetary scientists (living and deceased), A-Y by last name; includes 1984 interviews (and correspondence in some cases) with William Alfred Fowler, Alan William Harris, Clair Cameron Patterson, Gerald Joseph Wasserburg. Also includes 1986 interview with Alfred Nier at U. of Minnesota, and notes on a 1987 letter from Evgenia Ruskol; 1992 letter from Charles J. Peterson with biographical information about Thomas Jefferson Jackson See. The list of questions for the interviews in all three folders is located in this folder.
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1955-2002
Planetary science: biographical data and interviews. [Prepared in 1984 before SGB visit to Los Angeles where SGB had a short-term appointment at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (UCLA), attended a conference on Origin of the Moon in Hawaii, and had several opportunities to interview planetary] -- NOTE: Biographical data on planetary scientists (living and deceased), A-L by last name; includes 1984 interviews (and correspondence in some cases) with Ann Beachey, David C. Black, Bruce Bolt, Friedrich Hermann Busse, Patrick Michael Cassen, Kraus Keil, Inge Lehmann [information from Lisa A. Rossbacher]. Also notes on Beno Gutenberg papers at Caltech.
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1955-2002
Planetary science: biographical data and interviews. [Prepared in 1984 before SGB visit to Los Angeles where SGB had a short-term appointment at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (UCLA), attended a conference on Origin of the Moon in Hawaii, and had several opportunities to interview planetary] -- NOTE: Biographical data on planetary scientists (living and deceased), M-Z by last name; includes 1984 interviews (and correspondence in some cases) with Morris Podolak, John Reynolds, Ray Thomas Reynolds, David J. Stevenson. Also 1986 interview with Varanasi Rama Murthy at U. of Minnesota.
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1955-2002
Prayer Test. [Correspondence about SGB's 1974 article in American Scientist.] -- NOTE: Includes info relating to the publishing of the article, as well as responses from various religious organizations and individuals, requests for reprints; news clippings., 1974-1975
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1974-1975
Prediction project. [Later work appeared under the title "How theories became knowledge"] -- NOTE: Correspondence with Finn Aaserud, George Gale, Dudley Shapere, John Wheeler, 1989-1991
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1989-1991
Random Number Society. [SGB's interest in random numbers began when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, and continued at Oxford and Livermore. SGB thus helped found an organization dedicated to random numbers. It seems to have been somewhat satirical in nature.] -- NOTE: Includes copies of Proceedings of the Random Number Society, notes on testing random numbers, SGB 1956 paper on Random Guessing; SGB and R.J. Plock 1962 paper on "Genesis Isotherms for Hydrogen, Beryllium, Argon, and Plutonium" Behavior; postcard, news clippings; large circuit diagram labeled in Spanish. -- For circuit diagram, see Oversize Material , 1955-1962
File — Box: 3, Folder: 10.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Topic)
Dates:
1955-1962