Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0450
Creator:
Buneman, Oscar, 1913-
Title: Oscar Buneman papers
Dates: 1913-1989
Bulk Dates: 1941-1989
Physical Description:
17 Linear feet
Summary: Research notes, papers, reprints, correspondence, lectures, and class materials from his teaching career and research while
at Stanford University, with some materials from the 1940s and 1950s relevant to his work on magnetrons. Subjects include
plasma physics, fourier transformations, Cray computers, and poisson solvers. Papers also include films of computer simulations,
tetrahedron models, and one file of personal documents.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Ruth Buneman, 1993.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
Oscar Buneman Papers (SC0450). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Oscar Buneman, prominent scientist in the fields of plasma electrodynamics, fundamental electromagetic theory, and numerical
anaylsis, was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1960 until he reached emeritus status in 1984.
While at Stanford he worked on laboratory applications of plasma phys ics to cross-field microwave devices , stability analysis,
and other phenomena. He also developed, with a series of collaborators, a three-dimensional electromagnetic particle simulation
code (TRISTAN) for Cray supercomputers.
Buneman, born in Italy in 1913 to German parents, was imprisoned by the Nazis for political resistance in 1934. Upon his release
in 1935 , he went to Manchester University in England where he received his bachelor's , master's, and doctoral degrees in
mathematics. He continued postdoctural work there on the magnetron. In 1944 he was a member of the British mission to the
Manhattan project at Berkeley, Calfornia. From 1950 to 1960 he was a member of Peterhouse College, Cambridge.
Buneman died on January 24, 1993.
Description of the Collection
Research notes, papers, reprints, correspondence, lectures, and class materials from his teaching career and research while
at Stanford University, with some materials from the 1940s and 1950s relevant to his work on magnetrons. Subjects include
plasma physics, fourier transformations, Cray computers, and poisson solvers. Papers also include films of computer simulations,
tetrahedron models, and one file of personal documents.
Access Terms
Buneman, Oscar, 1913-
Stanford University. Department of Electrical Engineering. Faculty.
Cray computers.
Fourier transformations.
Magnetrons.
Motion pictures
Plasma (Ionized gases).
Poisson's equation.