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Call Number: SC0761
Creator:
Chodorow, Marvin
Title: Marvin Chodorow papers
Dates: 1929-1993
Bulk Dates: 1943-1974
Physical Description:
12 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes technical reports, articles, class files,
memoranda, drafts and text for lectures, proposals and contracts, notes, correspondence,
and minutes. Collection largely pertains to his research in linear accelerators,
klystrons, and microwaves; professional activities; classes he taught at Stanford; and
administrative duties at Stanford. There are also some materials pertaining to his
classes as a student in the 1930s.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Marvin Chodorow Papers (SC0761). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Chodorow received his B.A. in 1934 at the University of Buffalo, and his Ph.D., 1939, at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at Pennsylvania State College and
College of the City of New York and worked with the Sperry Gyroscope Company (1943-47),
before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1947. He served as Chair of the Department of
Applied Physics from 1962-69 and Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, 1959-78.
He held a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, 1962-63, and was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering, 1967, and the National Academy of Sciences, 1971.
Collection includes technical reports, articles, class files, memoranda, drafts and text
for lectures, proposals and contracts, notes, correspondence, and minutes. Collection
largely pertains to his research in linear accelerators, klystrons, and microwaves;
professional activities; classes he taught at Stanford; and administrative duties at
Stanford. There are also some materials pertaining to his classes as a student in the
1930s.
Chodorow, Marvin
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
Klystrons.
Linear accelerators
Microwave tubes.
Physics.