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Box 5

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Contains 10 Results:

Photograph album of conference activities, 1962

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1962

Photographs of participants, 1962

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1962

Public relations policy, 1962

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1962

Publicity, 1962-1994

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1962-1994

"The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature," Scientific American, 1963 May

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1963 May

Pamphlets on publishing articles, 1963-1964

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Content From the Collection: 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....
Dates: 1963-1964

40th anniversary commemoration of the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics materials, 1992-2004

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Contains 2 CDs of the transcript, which were digitized and converted to Portable Document Format by Joseph Brinkman in 2002. Brinkman corrected most insignificant spelling and grammatical errors but retained an emphasis on recreating the original document, including handwritten notes by the attendees and certain grammatical styles. Transcript includes articles published by Dirac and Werner as well as an introduction written by Hart in 2002.

Dates: 1992-2004

P. A. M. Dirac, Projective geometry: origin of quantum equations lecture, 1972, 2005

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Contains CDs of a sound recording made by Hart of Dirac speaking about projective geometry on October 30, 1972 at Boston University. This recording, according to Hart, includes the personal announcement by Dirac that he had never published his "secret" use of projective geometry in creating quantum mechanics. Roger Penrose offers concluding remarks at the end of the recording.

Dates: 1972; 2005

Heinz Pagels, Bell's Inequality, 1987

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Chapter published in The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present, volume 2, edited by Jefferson Hane Weaver. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Dates: 1987

Solomon Schwebel papers, 1964

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 12