Guide to the Ronald Bracewell Papers SC0896
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Title: Ronald Bracewell papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0896
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Date (inclusive): 1958-2007
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Biographical / Historical
Ronald Newbold Bracewell (July 22, 1921 – August 12, 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and
Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University.
He was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1921, and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He
graduated from the University of Sydney in 1941 with the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and
physics, later receiving the degrees of B.E. (1943), and M.E. (1948) with first class
honours, and while working in the Engineering Department became the President of the
Oxometrical Society. During World War II he designed and developed microwave radar equipment
in the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation, Sydney under the direction of Joseph L. Pawsey and Edward G. Bowen and from
1946 to 1949 was a research student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, engaged in
ionospheric research in the Cavendish Laboratory, where he received his Ph.D. degree in
physics under J. A. Ratcliffe.
From October 1949 to September 1954 Dr. Bracewell was a Senior Research Officer at the
Radiophysics Laboratory of the CSIRO, Sydney, concerned with very long wave propagation and
radio astronomy. He then lectured in radio astronomy at the Astronomy Department of the
University of California, Berkeley from September 1954 to June 1955 at the invitation of
Otto Struve, and at Stanford University during the summer of 1955, and joined the Electrical
Engineering faculty at Stanford in December 1955. In 1974 he was appointed the first Lewis
M. Terman Professor and Fellow in Electrical Engineering (1974–1979). Though he retired in
1979, he continued to be active until his death.
Professor Bracewell was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (1950), Fellow and life
member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1961), Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1989), and was a Fellow with other
significant societies and organisations.
For experimental contributions to the study of the ionosphere by means of very low
frequency waves, Dr. Bracewell received the Duddell Premium of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, London in 1952. In 1992 he was elected to foreign associate membership of the
Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1992), the first Australian
to achieve that distinction, for fundamental contributions to medical imaging. He was one of
Sydney University's three honourees when alumni awards were instituted in 1992, with a
citation for brain scanning, and was the 1994 recipient of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers' Heinrich Hertz medal for pioneering work in antenna aperture synthesis
and image reconstruction as applied to radio astronomy and to computer-assisted tomography.
In 1998 Dr. Bracewell was named Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to
science in the fields of radio astronomy and image reconstruction. At CSIRO Radiophysics
Laboratory, work that in 1942-1945 was classified appeared in a dozen reports. Activities
included design, construction, and demonstration of voice-modulation equipment for a 10 cm
magnetron (July 1943), a microwave triode oscillator at 25 cm using cylindrical cavity
resonators, equipment designed for microwave radar in field use (wavemeter, echo box,
thermistor power meter, etc.) and microwave measurement technique. Experience with numerical
computation of fields in cavities led, after the war, to a Master of Engineering degree
(1948) and the definitive publication on step discontinuities in radial transmission lines
(1954).
While at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1946–1950) Bracewell worked on observation
and theory of upper atmospheric ionisation, contributing to experimental technique (1948),
explaining solar effects (1949), and distinguishing two layers below the E-layer (1952),
work recognised by the Duddell Premium.
At Stanford Professor Bracewell constructed a microwave spectroheliograph (1961), a large
and complex radio telescope which produced daily temperature maps of the sun reliably for
eleven years, the duration of a solar cycle. The first radio telescope to give output
automatically in printed form, and therefore capable of worldwide dissemination by
teleprinter, its daily solar weather maps received acknowledgement from NASA for support of
the first manned landing on the moon. Many fundamental papers on restoration (1954–1962),
interferometry (1958–1974) and reconstruction (1956–1961) appeared along with instrumental
and observational papers. By 1961 the radio-interferometer calibration techniques developed
for the spectroheliograph first allowed an antenna system, with 52" fan beam, to equal the
angular resolution of the human eye in one observation. With this beam the components of
Cygnus A, spaced 100", were put directly in evidence without the need for repeated
observations with variable spacing aperture synthesis interferometry.
The nucleus of the extragalactic source Centaurus A was resolved into two separate
components whose right ascensions were accurately determined with a 2.3-minute fan beam at
9.1 cm. Knowing that Centaurus A was composite, Bracewell used the 6.7-minute beam of the
Parkes Observatory 64 m radiotelescope at 10 cm to determine the separate declinations of
the components and in so doing was the first to observe strong polarisation in an
extragalactic source (1962), a discovery of fundamental significance for the structure and
role of astrophysical magnetic fields. Subsequent observations made at Parkes by other
observers with a 14-minute and wider beams at 21 cm and longer wavelengths, though not
resolving the components, were compatible with the λ2 dependence expected from Faraday
rotation if magnetic fields were the polarising agent.
A second major radiotelescope (1971) employing advanced concepts to achieve an angular
resolution of 18 seconds of arc was designed and built at Stanford and applied to both solar
and galactic studies. The calibration techniques for this leading-edge resolution passed
into general use in radio interferometry via the medium of alumni.
Upon the discovery of the cosmic background radiation: a remarkable observational limit of
1.7 millikelvins, with considerable theoretical significance for cosmology, was set on the
anisotropy in collaboration with Ph. D. student E.K. Conklin (1967), and was not improved on
for many years; the correct theory of a relativistic observer in a blackbody enclosure
(1968) was given in the first of several papers by various authors obtaining the same
result; the absolute motion of the Sun at 308 km/s through the cosmic background radiation
was measured by Conklin in 1969, some years before independent confirmation.
With the advent of the space age, Bracewell became interested in celestial mechanics, made
observations of the radio emission from Sputnik 1, and supplied the press with accurate
charts predicting the path of Soviet satellites, which were perfectly visible, if you knew
when and where to look. Following the puzzling performance of Explorer I in orbit, he
published the first explanation (1958-9) of the observed spin instability of satellites, in
terms of the Poinsot motion of a non-rigid body with internal friction. He recorded the
signals from Sputniks I, II and III and discussed them in terms of the satellite spin,
antenna polarisation, and propagation effects of the ionised medium, especially Faraday
effect.
Later (1978, 1979) he invented a spinning, nulling, two-element infrared interferometer
suitable for space-shuttle launching into an orbit near Jupiter, with milliarcsecond
resolution, that could lead to the discovery of planets around stars other than the sun.
This concept was elaborated in 1995 by Angel and Woolf, whose space-station version with
four-element double nulling became the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), NASA's candidate for
imaging planetary configurations of other stars (Scientific American, April 1996).
Imaging in astronomy led to participation in development of computer assisted x-ray
tomography, where commercial scanners reconstruct tomographic images using the algorithm
developed by Bracewell for radioastronomical reconstruction from fan-beam scans. This corpus
of work has been recognized by the Institute of Medicine, an award by the University of
Sydney, and the Heinrich Hertz medal. Service on the founding editorial board of the Journal
for Computer-Assisted Tomography, to which he also contributed publications, and on the
scientific advisory boards of medical instrumentation companies maintained Bracewell's
interest in medical imaging, which became an important part of his regular graduate lectures
on imaging, and forms an important part of his 1995 text on imaging.
Experience with the optics, mechanics and control of radiotelescopes led to involvement
with solar thermophotovoltaic energy at the time of the energy crisis, including the
fabrication of low-cost solid and perforated paraboloidal reflectors by hydraulic
inflation.
Bracewell is also known for being the first to propose the use of autonomous interstellar
space probes for of communication between alien civilisations as an alternative to radio
transmission dialogs. This hypothetical concept has been dubbed the Bracewell probe after
its inventor.
As a consequence of relating images to Fourier analysis, in 1983 he discovered a new
factorisation of the discrete Fourier transform matrix leading to a fast algorithm for
spectral analysis. This method, which has advantages over the fast Fourier algorithm,
especially for images, is treated in The Hartley Transform (1986), in U.S. Patent 4,646,256
(1987, now in the public domain), and in over 200 technical papers by various authors that
were stimulated by the discovery. Analogue methods of creating a Hartley transform plane
first with light and later with microwaves were demonstrated in the laboratory and permitted
the determination of electromagnetic phase by the use of square-law detectors. A new
elementary signal representation, the Chirplet transform, was discovered (1991) that
complements the Gabor elementary signal representations used in dynamic spectral analysis
(with the property of meeting the bandwidth-duration minimum associated with the uncertainty
principle). This advance opened a new field of adaptive dynamic spectra with wide
application in information analysis.
Professor Bracewell was interested in conveying an appreciation of the role of science in
society to the public, in mitigating the effects of scientific illiteracy on public decision
making through contact with alumni groups, and in liberal undergraduate education within the
framework of the Astronomy Course Program and the Western Culture program in Values,
Technology, Science and Society, in both of which he taught for some years. He gave the 1996
Bunyan Lecture on The Destiny of Man.
Among colleagues at Stanford, Bracewell also was known for his insatiable appetite for
knowledge in general, whether it was regarding local flora or foreign languages. The
Stanford Alumni Association often called on Bracewell to lecture on topics related to space,
Renaissance technology and scientific illiteracy; through the alumni association, Bracewell
published a book titled The Galactic Club: Intelligent Life in Outer Space.
In 2005, the Stanford Historical Society debuted a 300-page book by Bracewell that catalogs
the more than 350 species of trees on campus, titled
Trees of
Stanford and Environs
. Over the years, Bracewell led many tree tours around campus
and, in the late 1970s, taught an undergraduate seminar titled I Dig Trees.
Bracewell was also a designer and builder of sundials. He built one on the South side of
the Terman Engineering Building. He built one at the home of his son, Mark Bracewell. He
built another on the deck of professor John Linvill's house. As his seminar "I Dig Trees"
indicated, Dr. Bracewell was known for having a tremendously keen, intelligent sense of wry,
science-infused humor. One of his treasured family photos showed him sitting on the ground,
legs akimbo, with a beer bottle in front of him that he had neatly balanced on one of its
bottom edges—his proof that even that thin edge had 3 balance points.
Professor Bracewell was survived by his wife, a son, Mark, a daughter, Wendy, and two
grandchildren.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Ronald Bracewell Papers (SC0896). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Related Materials
The Archives at The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is the repository for Ronald N.
Bracewell's papers on radio astronomy:
http://www.nrao.edu/archives/Bracewell/bracewell.shtml
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Papers Accession ARCH-2000-031
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Correspondence
1998
Language of Material: English.
Addenda, 2008-135 Accession ARCH-2008-135
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Assorted bundles from "desk top"
Box 3
Tau Beta material (course review)
Box 3
Solar reprints, technical reports, proposals (mostly not by RNB)
Box 3
Print outs of sun map data
Box 3
SU Computation Center "Subalgol Reference Manual" October 1965
Box 4
Binder: "Solar 60 day avge (?) maps 1965"
Box 4
Binders: information on solar energy 1974-77
Box 4
Files on solar concentrator
Box 4
Binder: Photovoltaic Solar Energy System, CBC Laboratories
Box 4
Binder: Solar TPV Glints, by RNB
Box 4
Lab notebook of RNB, 1978
Box 5
Assorted publications on solar
Box 5
Assorted publications on sea ice
Box 5
ENG25, Astronomy lectures 1975-79
Box 5
More astronomy lectures, exams
Box 6
Binder: D. S. Evans programs 1984
Box 6
Binder: "The Hartley Transform" by RNB 1986
Box 6
The Nucleus (Univ. of Sydney publication) 1970s
Box 6
Sydney Sussex College Annual 1970s
Box 7
Notebook: Committee on Investment Responsibility [CIR] 1977
Box 7
Folder: Pierre Noyes – articles, some correspondence
Box 7
2 bundles to be sorted: "Corner Window" – clippings, articles,
etc.
Box 8
Files, publications on "Concentrator"
Box 8
Pubs for possible discard: Annual Review of Energy and 1 v. from Encyclopedia
of Art
Box 9
780 Mc. Tube #182R
Language of Material: English.
Box 10
U-222, RNB, Sperial trig & cross surveying, 1955-60
Box 10
U-310, S. Harris, 23 Oct. 1956
Box 10
U-308, RNB, 7-19-56 "Equipment book"
Box 10
Reprints of R. H. T. Bates, 1982
Box 10
Microwave product information
Box 10
Pensée; Student Academic Freedom Forum; "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered" 10
issues 1972-74
Box 10
Folder: clippings, 3 books and other items on Immanuel Velikovsky
Box 10
Small box: Bill Parker Archives (S.U. Arborist) – planting maps (some may be
copies), articles
Box 11
Corrected proofs for "The Fourier Transform and Its Applications"
1966
Box 11
Books and pamphlets on scientific writing and guidelines issued by specific
journals or publishers
Box 11
Folder of miscellaneous notes
Box 11
2 Russian Atlases (world – but in small format)
Box 12
Tree correspondence 1972-2003 and assorted other materials on
trees
Box 13
Notebook from/for his tree walks
Box 13
Leaf prints (mostly in printed form)
Box 14
Old aerial photos of Stanford land
Box 14
Leaf prints, mostly photocopied
Box 14
Assorted files on trees (articles, correspondence, maps, a few photos,
etc.)
Box 15
3 notebooks of tree research
Box 15
2 notebooks of his publication "Trees of Stanford and Environs
Box 16
Dried leaves and other tree parts
Addenda, 2008-291 Accession ARCH-, 2008-291
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Personnel files [contains some confidential/restricted materials]
Box 1
Files from work with Committee of Fifteen
Box 2
Binder: Program in Structured Liberal Education, Syllabus Winter
1982
Box 2
Binder: Western Culture 1980
Box 2
Binder: VTS 2, Winter 1982
Box 2
Binder: Western Culture – Galileo [sources] 1980
Box 2
Binder: EE278 Autumn 1989
Box 2
Binder: VTS 2, January 1981
Box 2
Several folders on Western Culture Program Committee 1985-86
Box 2
1 folder on nominees for Boothe Essay prize for work done in Autumn
1985
Box 3, folder 2
EE262 and miscellaneous items
Box 3, folder 3
Problem 9.21 of Fourier Transform and Its Applications, correspondence and
notes 1977-78
Box 3, folder 4
Assorted articles, possibly for EE262
Box 3, folder 6
Correspondence 1970 and materials re student unrest
Box 3, folder 7
Tau Beta Pi – student course evaluations 1988-89; 1990-91
Box 3, folder 8
Science Responsibility [formerly in a notebook]
Box 3, folder 9
Western Culture – VTS 2 – Projects, 1980-82
Box 3, folder 10
"A Proposal for a Program in Values, Technology and Society; Toward Modern
General Education for Undergraduates, Stanford University," February 1972
Box 3, folder 12
Western Culture 1978-80 [formerly in a notebook]
Box 3, folder 15
Agenda 98 [mostly printed emails of 1997]
Box 3, folder 16
The Bush order [re post 9/11 tribunals]
Box 3, folder 17
Decision Advisory Board, Stanford University in the Matter of Professor H.
Bruce Franklin, January 5, 1972
Box 3, folder 18
EE249 final exam Autumn 1985
Box 3, folder 20
Western Culture Decisions January 1980
Box 3
Bundle of technical reports from Stanford Electronics Laboratory by Bracewell
and others
Box 4
Folders on Ph.D. qualifying exams
Box 4
Bd. Item: D. Wells, Guide to GPS Positioning
Box 4
Bd. Item; Clark E. Cohen, Attitude Determination Using GPS, Ph.D. thesis
1992
Box 4
Loose materials pertaining to courses 1989-1997
Box 4
Notebook: EE252 1989 Handouts Antennas
Addenda, 2010-078 Accession ARCH-2010-078
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 11, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 13, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 18, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 20, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 23, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 25, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 27, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
January 30, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 1, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 3, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 6, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 8, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 13, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 1
EE 262 lecture
February 15, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
February 17, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
February 22, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
February 24, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
February 37, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 1, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 3, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 6, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 8, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 10, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 13, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 15, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 262 lecture
March 17, 1989
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
Radiowave Scattering from Discrete Surface Structure, J. Baron
February 1997
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Box 2
EE 350 Peterson #3407
November 6, 1991
Physical Description: 1
videotape(s) (vhs)
Addenda, 2011-068 Accession ARCH-2011-068
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
EE 262 materials, including Unix sheeets, Kayak PC, FTA
1980s-2000s
Box 2
Bunyan lectures, One Ohm Network, Fourier Tarnsforms reprints
1990s
Box 3
College in Italy materials, 1984 Trees at Stanford, Trade warships,
Nativations exploration, Leonardo technology, Galileo materials, Wavelet manuscript,
Wavelet transparencies
1980s
Box 4
Flicker Newell paper, Beam theory, Galileo, Heron, Wavelet programs, Chirplet
programs
1980s-1990s
Box 5
Reviews for the Times Higher Education Supplement, papers on architecture,
art, painting, and mathematics, Jose program information, earthquake data, files on
Western Culture and Technology course, Petroski, photocopies of reference materials,
Bracewell publications, one idiosyncratic "report" on the history of an oak table in
the faculty club
1990-2007
Box 6
Ptolemy Project files, computer programs working with data, handwritten and
typed draft of papers on Ptolemy's Trigonometrical Table, talks given at University of
Cambridge, American Mathematical Society article and editorial notes, transparencies
in Latin and cuneiform, patent, Simon Fraser University thesis from 1988 (page
bookmarked on astrologers' celestial tables), Mobius strip information and other files
on tiling the Mobius strip
1998-2004
Box 7
Imaging Vol. II 6-11; Imaging Vol. III, Peak Spacing Problem
Box 7a
63x5.25" floppy disks; 120 x 3.5" floppy disks
1981-1991
Box 8
75 x HP200 Data Cartridge 9800 series
1979-1985
Addenda, 2011-124 accession ARCH-2011-124
Box 2, folder 3-4
Stanford Faculty Club bylaws, finances
Box 2, folder 5
Senior Center of Palo Alto - Humanities in Western Culture
Box 2, folder 7-10
Lewis M. Terman Professorship
Box 2, folder 11
Stanford commencement program
1992 June 14
Box 2, folder 13
Stanford Women in Science and Engineering
1981 September
Box 2, folder 14
Satellite Seminar notes
1957
Box 2, folder 16
AHCIR Report to Trustees and Final Statement Approved by Trustees
Box 2, folder 17
EE252 midterm exam Spring 1990
Box 2, folder 18
EE102 Circuits II Spring 1978
Box 2, folder 19
Lists of reports, papers, publications
1946-1960
Box 2, folder 20
Stanford University Electronic Research Review
1971
Box 2, folder 21
Bibliographies of publications and technical reports
1962-1964
Addenda, 2012-020 Accession ARCH-2012-020
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Binder labeled "metal basic"; binder labeled "Omikron Basic"; binder labeled
"Vax II Fortran"'; binder labeled VMS and folders related to VMS; EDT binders; vax/ums
folders
Box 2
Peebles and Partridge, Stanford Radio Propagation Laboratory, contract
history of the Stanford Radio Astronomy Institute, research on sunspots,
correspondence, includes floppy disk
1955-2007
Box 3
Research files on Halley's Comet, research and correspondence on the Stanford
University motto
Box 4
11 back-up tapes, circa 1970-1990; 13 high density floppy disks, undated; 2
CD-Rs, 2005; 2 Iomega Zip drives,1998; folder containing loose material from the box,
including a potential inventory of the backup tapes
Box 5
Research files relating to Trees at Stanford; binder containing Tree
Silhouettes labeled "Leaves and Prints" from 2003; folders labeled
"museum"
Box 6
articles, reports, newspapers, Star Lab, Stanford Summer Alumni College
binder, printouts of emails
1987-2007
Box 7
Items taken from Bracewell's desk, folders marked by locations in the office;
Physics III 1949
Box 8
History of the Faculty Club, photographs, interstellar search for
extraterrestrial life, Barney Oliver history, Russian interrogations of the research
scientists, 2001 Kyoto prizes - Advanced Technology in Electronics,
reprints
1974-2005
Box 9
Reprints, University of Sydney School of Engineering information, lecture and
conference and course notes; Australia travel information
1982-2000
Box 10
Friday Lunch Bunch sign-in lists, fellowship forum bios, Earthquakes, Hartley
OUP Figures, Hartley Transform Research Summary binder, Hartley reprint
materials
1967-1996
Box 11
Scrapbook, slides, photos; Acting-sergeant Ronald Bracewell Australian Army
Ordnance Corps;proof sheets of satellite dishes;prints/negatyives of plants; 2 binders
of Stanford Radio Astronomy Institute slides; photo of "Bracewell Pot"; album of "News
Clippings Radio Astronomy Institute"
1941-2000
Box 12
Patents, notes, FORTRAN, correspondence, research, manuscripts on Hartley
Transform, FFT, and cosmic radiation. Primarily 1983-88.
1976-2001
Box 13
Research files, correspondence, article drafts, re SETI, Sidelights on
circuit theory, Radio astronomy at Stanford
Box 14
Short history of Radio Astronomy (transparencies, notes, drafts), news
clippings, meeting minutes, presentations, internal correspondence related to
establishment of a department/lab devoted to solar system and space science studies;
correspondence w/ and chapter drafts from E. Prestini;
1978-2006
Box 15
Research, notes, publications, conference programming on astrophysics, misc.
topics. Primarily 1970s and 1980s.
1960-2001
Box 16
Terman sundial (correspondence, photos, installation ceremony, design plans);
research files and correspondence re sundial of Villa Il Salviatino, Florence; "Fallen
Leaf" sundial; PIERS signatures Site 515
1979-2004
Box 17
Helios documents, Heliopolis log books
1969-2007
Box 18
STAR Lab 1979-1990; Emeriti/Retirement; Site 515 (3185 Alpine Rd.) --
including details about ongoing vandalism and burglary
1991-1998
Box 19
Bracewell publications, Radio Science Lab papers bound volume signed, Paris
symposium on Radio Astronomy, Glint 700, Glint 600
1946-1968
Box 20
Technical reports, articles, thesis, news clippings, instructional television
network
1979-1991
Box 21
Ptolemy collection, sunspot, STARLAb, Hartley transform computer printouts,
Patent application, SOlar Cycle NASA grant, Sassoon corresp., proofs and drafts of
articles
1967-1994
Box 22
Notes for talks; 15th Bunyan Lecture on "The Destiny of Man"
1961-1996
Box 23
Correspondance for editorial reviews from Roland Khera, 1981 Alumni College
notes, draft chapter 1999 of F.E. Terman biography for National Academy of Sciences,
notes for lectures (VTS), Values Technology and Science previously called Cosmology
and Mechanics
1978-2006
Box 24
Hartley papers, draft letters, various correspondence, Communications,
Computing, Control and Signal Processing to honor the contributions of Profesor Thomas
Kailath (June 22-26, 1995) various clippings conference proceedings, Project Oasis:
the Design of a Signal Detector for The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligences
(1981),WHere are They (1979), conference proceedings related to extraterrestrials,
obituraries, donation letter for books, correspondence related to licensing
technologies (1984-1988)
1979-1998
Box 25
Correspondence, Transhorizon measurement Techniques, Transhorizon
Aperture-Medium Coupling Loss, Some Generalized Scattering Relationships in
Transhorizon Propagation, Action 321a, Internationally Monitored Retrivable Storage
System,
1977-1997
Box 26
Glint, 6 volumes plus index
1961-1973
Box 27
Correspondence, Observatory reports, Stanford Dish / Bracewell Observatory
rescue efforts, photos, book reviews, Robert Lash, R.N. Bracewell, Site 515,
correspondence,
1986-2005
Box 28
Correspondence and newspaper clippings late 1990's to early 2000's, CENA
(JAHH), notes on music, Dish, Global Warming, Fellowship Forum, Nodland-Ralston + VRE,
f [f(x)=x2-2
1997-2007
Box 29
News clippings, various obituaries, correspondence, lecture notes, Site 515,
homework notes, overseas director search committee, 1983 sabbatical
writings.
1956-1993
Box 30
Correspondence, articles, oral histories, bibliography, RNB publications
lists, biographical notes, charts, annual faculty reports, Retirement binder
1991
1955-2000
Box 31
Correspondence; SRAI history data; 22 Pic Dic; materials for textbook 3rd
edition;
1998-2004
Box 32
VLW Observations in Australia 1952 drawings; classroom posters
1952
Addenda, 2024-548 ARCH-2024-548
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Relations Between the Parameters of the General Four Terminal
Network
circa 1944
Language of Material: English.
Addenda, 2021-041 Accession ARCH-2021-041
Physical Description: .25 Linear
Feet
Box 1, folder 1
Trees of the Stanford Campus: an invitation to contribute by
Ronald Bracewell
1973
Box 1, folder 2
Related correspondence
1980-1993
