Infrared spectroscopy

Research files, manuscripts, correspondence, patents, reports, data, presentations, and publications belonging to American analytical chemist Abraham Savitzky.

Photographs and slides of early infrared spectroscopists taken and assembled by Foil A. Miller.

Professional organization notes, trip reports, agenda, attendance lists, workshop hand-outs, and event programs belonging to spectroscopist Howard Mark.

Instruction manual, two instruction bulletins, and a user manual page pertaining to infrared spectroscopy instruments collected by Joy Haarstick.

Training materials, technical materials, reprints, and sales materials collected by American chemist Thomas J. Porro. Much of the materials in this collection concern Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). Also contains some materials produced by Porro’s longtime employer Perkin-Elmer Corporation, which concern analytical instruments manufactured by the firm.

The Paul A. Wilks Jr. Collection consists of materials created and compiled by Paul A. Wilks Jr. related to the Joint Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physical Data. Materials include internal correspondence to and from Paul Wilks Jr., news releases, meeting minutes, and handwritten notes by Wilks.

Publications, reprints, correspondence, reports, event programs, conference agendas, news releases, and manuals belonging to Paul A. Wilks, Jr.

Print photographs and slides depicting the staff, facilities, and instrumentation of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation dating from the 1930s through the 1980s.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1063366~S6

The bulk of the collection consists of the reprints of Ferraro's papers. There is also some material from the Argonne National Laboratory and some personal papers.

Print photographs and slides depicting the instrumentation and staff of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation predominately dating from the 1950s and the 1980s.