Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Kivelson, M. G.(Margaret Galland)
- Abstract:
- Margaret G. Kivelson is a professor of Space Physics, Emerita in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. This collection, spanning 1950–2008, focuses on Kivelson’s research on magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn; interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons; and ultra-low frequency waves. Included are research notes; drafts and final copies of manuscripts; correspondence with colleagues at the University of California, Harvard, JPL, NASA, and other research institutions; Kivelson’s course notes and syllabi from UCLA; correspondence with colleagues at the University of California, Harvard, JPL, NASA, and other research institutions; and documentation of events and conferences attended.
- Extent:
- 7.8 linear feet (19 document boxes and 1 half box)
- Language:
- and Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Margaret Galland Kivelson Papers (Collection 1790). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of materials related to the teaching career and professional research of UCLA Professor of Space Physics, Emerita in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Margaret Kivelson. The papers include research notes, drafts and final copies of manuscripts, correspondence, presentation slides and notes, and grant proposals and documentation. This collection includes research correspondence, notes, and publications related to Kivelson's work for the Galileo Jupiter Mission, as well as materials related to her work on the Status of Women in Science efforts.
- Biographical / historical:
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Margaret Galland Kivelson is an astrophysicist and professor emerita at UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. She was born in New York, NY in 1928. Her father was a physician and her mother studied physics in college and became a high school math teacher. Kivelson graduated from Radcliffe College with an AB in Physics in 1950, an AM in Physics in 1951, and a PhD in Physics in 1957 (Radcliffe College functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. A merger with Harvard began in 1977). She met and married her husband, Daniel Kivelson, while in undergraduate studies. As a doctoral student, she specialized in in quantum electrodynamics and wrote her thesis on "Bremsstrahlung of Extreme Relativistic Electrons" under the direction of Julian Schwinger.
In 1955, Kivelson's husband joined the UCLA faculty as a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. At that time, Kivelson accepted a part-time position with the RAND Corporation, splitting her time between raising her children and her research on equations of state at high pressure and on theoretical plasma physics. In 1965, she became an Assistant Research Geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics at UCLA (now the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics), working on problems of space physics and becoming increasingly interested in magnetospheric physics. Kivelson began teaching in the Department of Physics in 1971 and then in in the Department of Geophysics and Space Physics in 1975 (now the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences). Her work focused on the magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. She was principal investigator for the Orbiter Magnetometer for the Galileo Jupiter Mission, 1977-2003.
Kivelson participated and chaired faculty and administrative groups charged with identifying and resolving issues of special concern to women at UCLA, including affirmative action, child care, women's studies, and scientific careers for women in science. She served as chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women from 1974 to 1976 and as president of the Association of Academic Women from 1976 to 1978. Kivelson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her husband, Daniel Kivelson passed away in 2003. They had two children who also entered academia. Their son, Steven Kivelson is professor of physics at Stanford. Their daughter, Valerie Kivelson is an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Margaret Kivelson, 2013.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Angel Diaz, 2017.
- Arrangement:
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This collections been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Subject and administrative files, 1955-2005
- Series 2: Status of Women in Science files, 1970-2008
- Series 3: Presentations, 1965-2008
- Series 4: Publications, 1953-1982
- Series 5: Research files, 1950-2008
- Subseries 5.1: Graduate and fellowship notes, 1950-1967
- Subseries 5.2: Professional research files, circa 1952-2006
- Series 6: Grant proposals, 1972-2008
Materials are arranged alphabetically by topic within their series, then chronologically.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through out electronic paging system using the "Request items" button.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through our electronic paging system, using the "Request items" button.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where UCLA Library Special Collections does not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Margaret Galland Kivelson Papers (Collection 1790). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988