Guide to the David Locke Webster Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
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
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Stanford, CA 94305-6064
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Phone: (650) 725-1022
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Administrative Information
Provenance
Transferred by the Department of Physics, 1978.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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Cite As
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.
Compton effect.
Klystrons.
Physics --History.
Collection Contents
Box 1
Research notebooks
1924-1939
Physical Description: In black binders
Box 2
Research notebooks
1927-1933
Physical Description: In black binders
Box 3
Research notebooks, reprints, and lectures notes
1928-1935
Physical Description: In black binders
Box 4
Research notebooks
1925-1933
Physical Description: In black binders
Box 5
Research notebooks, miscellaneous subject files
1915-1970
Box 6
Reprints, notes, data from work done for Ames Research
1967-1970
Box 7
Reprints, notes, data from work done for Ames Research
1967-1970
Box 8
Miscellanous glass plates for printing graphs, pictures, and a few
miscellaneous maps
Undated
Box 9
Miscellaneous correspondence, subject files
1939-1970
Scope and Content Note
Topics: Flying, Coulomb's Law, Compton Effect, Klystron papers
Box 10
Correspondence, material related to Stanford Physics (administration
of)
1940s
Box 11
PAS Programs, Reprints
1930-1960s
Box 13
Relativity, bulk of this work done before Ames Research work in the
late 1960s
1959-1973
