This collection documents the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, which the Xavier University Department of Physics hosted from October 1 to 5 in 1962. Materials include conference planning documentation, correspondence, publicity, and photographs. The collection contains sound recordings of public lectures and transcripts of the conference proceedings. In addition, there is also a small amount of papers and lectures on other physics-related topics.

Series I, Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 1961-2003, contains conference proposals, grant materials, financial records, correspondence, invitations, registrations, event schedules, publicity, and photographs. Included is a photograph album documenting conference events, most of which took place in Alter Hall or Logan Hall on the campus of Xavier University. There were six main participants: Boris Podolsky, Xavier University; P. A. M. Dirac, Cambridge University (England); Nathan Rosen, Technion (Haifa, Israel), W. H. Furry, Harvard University; Eugene Wigner, Princeton University; and Yakir Aharonov, Yeshiva University. The series contains correspondence from these six and the sixteen other participants including Eugene Merzbacher, William Band, Oldwig von Roos, Solomon Schwebel, Abner Shimony, and Kaiser Kunz. The series also contains sound recordings of public lectures by Dirac, Furry, Wignar, and Aharonov and transcripts of the conference proceedings. While the conference proceedings were not formally published, Dirac's lecture, "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature," delivered on the second evening of the conference, was published in Scientific American (May 1963). Frederick Werner published a summary of the conference in Physics Today (January 1964). Both articles are in the collection.

Series II, Physics Publications and Lecture, 1964-2005, contains CDs of a sound recording of a lecture titled, "Projective Geometry: Origin of Quantum Equations" given by Dirac at Boston University on October 30, 1972. The series also includes two papers by Solomon Schwebel that were sent to John B. Hart in 1964.