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Call Number: SC0450
Creator:
Buneman, Oscar, 1913-
Title: Oscar Buneman papers
Dates: 1913-1989
Bulk Dates: 1941-1989
Physical Description:
17 Linear feet
Summary: Research notes, papers, reprints, correspondence, lectures, and
class materials from his teaching career and research while at Stanford University, with
some materials from the 1940s and 1950s relevant to his work on magnetrons. Subjects
include plasma physics, fourier transformations, Cray computers, and poisson solvers.
Papers also include films of computer simulations, tetrahedron models, and one file of
personal documents.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Ruth Buneman, 1993.
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:
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Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Oscar Buneman Papers (SC0450). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Oscar Buneman, prominent scientist in the fields of plasma electrodynamics, fundamental
electromagetic theory, and numerical anaylsis, was Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University from 1960 until he reached emeritus status in 1984. While at
Stanford he worked on laboratory applications of plasma phys ics to cross-field
microwave devices , stability analysis, and other phenomena. He also developed, with a
series of collaborators, a three-dimensional electromagnetic particle simulation code
(TRISTAN) for Cray supercomputers.
Buneman, born in Italy in 1913 to German parents, was imprisoned by the Nazis for
political resistance in 1934. Upon his release in 1935 , he went to Manchester
University in England where he received his bachelor's , master's, and doctoral degrees
in mathematics. He continued postdoctural work there on the magnetron. In 1944 he was a
member of the British mission to the Manhattan project at Berkeley, Calfornia. From 1950
to 1960 he was a member of Peterhouse College, Cambridge.
Buneman died on January 24, 1993.
Research notes, papers, reprints, correspondence, lectures, and class materials from his
teaching career and research while at Stanford University, with some materials from the
1940s and 1950s relevant to his work on magnetrons. Subjects include plasma physics,
fourier transformations, Cray computers, and poisson solvers. Papers also include films
of computer simulations, tetrahedron models, and one file of personal documents.
Buneman, Oscar, 1913-
Stanford University. Dept. of Electrical
Engineering--Faculty.
Cray computers.
Fourier transformations.
Magnetrons.
Motion pictures.
Plasma (Ionized gases).
Poisson's equation.