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Distinguished Visitors Program records
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger
- Finding Aid Date
- December 2019
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Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Hans Rademacher was a German-American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1916 from Georg-August University of Göttingen and immigrated to the United States in 1934. He worked at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 1962 and held the Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics from 1956 to 1962. He was a Phillips Visitor, part of Haverford College's Distinguished Visitor Program, during Fall 1952.
The Distinguished Visitors Program was greatly strengthened by a bequest from William Pyle Philips, of the Class of 1902, who in 1950 left much of his estate to Haverford, a portion of which was specified to underwrite the expenses of bringing "distinguished scientists and statesmen'' to Haverford. The Philips Fund is the largest of several currently supporting the entire Distinguished Visitors Program.
This series consists of typescript lectures given by mathematician Hans Rademacher while a Phillips Visitor as part of Haverford College's Distinguished Visitors Program during Fall 1952. Rademacher lectured on several topics related to calculus, including exponential and logarithmic functions, the Riemann Integral, and the Peano Curve.
Physical Description0.1 linear ft.
The materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Linus Pauling was an American chemist, chemical engineer, and peace activist. He was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, making him the only individual to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. He is best known for his work on the nature of the chemical bond and the structures of biological molecules.
The Distinguished Visitors Program was greatly strengthened by a bequest from William Pyle Philips, of the Class of 1902, who in 1950 left much of his estate to Haverford, a portion of which was specified to underwrite the expenses of bringing "distinguished scientists and statesmen'' to Haverford. The Philips Fund is the largest of several currently supporting the entire Distinguished Visitors Program.
Photocopied materials pertaining to Linus Pauling's time as a Phillips Visitor, part of Haverford College's Distinguished Visitor Program, in Fall 1957.
The materials include a schedule of Pauling's lectures, which pertained to interatomic and intermolecular forces. There is also a photocopied clipping about one of Pauling's lectures from the Haverford News and a letter to Pauling about one of his lectures from Alburt M. Rosenberg, lecturer in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Physical Description0.05 linear ft.1 box