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Call Number: SC0197
Creator:
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.
Title: David Locke Webster papers
Dates: 1911-1973
Physical Description:
21 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence (1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g.
Klystron Tube, compton effect), research notebooks (1916-1970) and correspondence
relating to the Physics Department during the 1940's. Also includes glass plates for
printing graphs, photographs, and maps.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
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
Transferred by the Department of Physics, 1978.
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.
David Locke Webster Papers (SC0197). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman
of the Physics Department at Stanford (1920-1942), was born in Boston November 6, 1888.
He recieved his B.A. (1910) and Ph.D. (1913) from Harvard University.
Correspondence (1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g. Klystron Tube, compton
effect), research notebooks (1916-1970) and correspondence relating to the Physics
Department during the 1940's. Also includes glass plates for printing graphs,
photographs, and maps.
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.
Compton effect.
Klystrons.
Physics --History.