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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd papers
Creator:
Dodd, Lawrence Ellsworth
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1345
Physical Description:
61.0 Linear Feet
(61 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1919-1975
Abstract: Collection consists of personal papers of Dr. Lawrence E. Dodd, professor of physics at UCLA, including correspondence, research
notes and materials, photographs, and printed material.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd Papers (Collection 1345). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942329473606533
Dodd was born on July 16, 1886 in Cascade, IA; BS, Cornell College, 1910; MS (1914) and Ph.D (1918), Univ. of Iowa; worked
for three years at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.; joined the physics dept. of the Southern Branch of
the Univ. of CA, and remained at UCLA, retiring as professor in 1954; president of the Southern CA section and member of the
national executive council, American Assn. of Physics Teachers; research interests included measurements on the properties
of matter and geometrical optics; publications include
Laboratory experiments in fluids and heat (c1947); he died on Sept. 14, 1975 in Port Angeles, WA.
Collection consists of personal papers of Dr. Lawrence E. Dodd, professor of physics at UCLA, including correspondence, research
notes and materials, photographs, and printed material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Physicists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Dodd, Lawrence Ellsworth, 1886- --Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Physics--Faculty -- Archives