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Series I. Notebooks, 1955-1971

 Series
Identifier: I

Scope and Content

From the Collection:

The Weston Anderson Papers contain the personal papers of American physicist and inventor Weston Anderson. The collection is arranged into the following six series:

From the Collection:
  1. Notebooks
  2. Printed Materials
  3. Miscellaneous
  4. Audio-Visual Materials
  5. Artifacts
  6. Photographic Materials

Dates

  • Creation: 1955-1971

Series Description

Arranged numerically by notebook number, this series consists of Weston Anderson’s laboratory notebooks. The notebooks in this series mainly document research conducted by Anderson at Varian Associates between 1955 and 1971. Anderson’s research on NMR technology is well represented in this series. A small amount of documentation concerning research conducted by Anderson’s Varian colleagues Robert H. Pullen, Bernhard L. Fleuselke, and Alfred Prommer is also found here.

The contents of this series consist of seven bound notebooks. A large amount of accompanying materials attached to the notebooks’ pages, including, but not limited to, photographs, graphs, blueprints, report pages, and tables, are also found in this series. A small amount of loose accompanying materials, including a patent, a photograph, a letter, and a report are found inside the notebooks as well.

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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