J. Irvin Swigart papers, 1918-1981
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Swigart, J. Irvin
- Title
- J. Irvin Swigart papers
- Dates
- 1918-1981 (inclusive)19181981
- Quantity
- 5.25 linear feet
- Collection Number
- ACCN 0969
- Summary
- The J. Irvin Swigart papers (1918-1981) consist of reprints of articles, scrapbooks, photos, notes, and some correspondence from years as professor of physics at the University of Utah, 1931-1978.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
J. Irvin Swigart was a University of Utah physicist, 1931-1978 and a senior physicist in Upper Air Research projects conducted by the University of Utah for the U.S. Air Force during the 1950s and 1960s.
Content Description
The J. Irvin Swigart papers (1918-1981) consist of reprints of articles, scrapbooks, photos, notes, and some correspondence from years as professor of physics at the University of Utah, 1931-1978.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Personal Papers
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Description: Personal, University of UtahContainer: Box 1, Folder 1
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Description: Physics Lecture Hall DedicationContainer: Box 1, Folder 2
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Description: Indiana University, Honor RollContainer: Box 1, Folder 3
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Description: News clippingsContainer: Box 1, Folder 4
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Description: "The Velocity of Sound in Solid Rods," Doctoral ThesisContainer: Box 1, Folder 5
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Description: "Comparison of Balance Methods Used in Determining the Surface Tension of Liquids," Master's ThesisContainer: Box 1, Folder 6
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Description: Distinguished Service CitationContainer: Box 1, Folder 7
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Description: CorrespondenceContainer: Box 1, Folder 8
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Description: ObituaryContainer: Box 1, Folder 9
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Description: Wesleyana, Yearbook of Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDates: 1928-1930Container: Box 1, Volume 1-3
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Articles and Research Material
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Description: Symposium on SoundContainer: Box 2, Folder 1
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Description: American Association of Physics Teachers, ProgramsContainer: Box 2, Folder 2
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Description: Upper Air Research Laboratory, "Rocket Techniques for Measurement of Atmospheric Density"Container: Box 2, Folder 3
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Description: Upper Air Research Laboratory, "Determination of the Particle Density of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Scattered Light Measurements"Container: Box 2, Folder 4
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Description: Upper Air Research Laboratory, "Rocket-Borne Instrumentation to Determine Air Density by Rayleigh-Scattered Light"Container: Box 2, Folder 5
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Description: "Rocket-Borne Rayleigh Scattering Instrumentation to Measure Atmospheric Density"Container: Box 2, Folder 6
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Description: "Electron Densities of the Ionosphere Utilizing High-Altitude Rockets"Container: Box 2, Folder 7
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Description: "The Fundamentals of Transients in Electrical Circuits"Container: Box 2, Folder 8
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Description: "Lecture Demonstrations for the High School Science Teacher"Container: Box 2, Folder 9
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Description: "A Navigation Training Device For Use in Teaching the Principles of Radio Navigation"Container: Box 2, Folder 10
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Description: Radio Navigation, CorrespondenceDates: 1949-1950Container: Box 2, Folder 11
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Description: "Polarized Waves in Vibrating Strings"Container: Box 2, Folder 12
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Description: Lunar ExplorationContainer: Box 2, Folder 13
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Description: Research MaterialContainer: Box 2, Folder 14-18
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Reprints from Scientific American
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Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Kamen, "Tracers;" Davis, "Low Temperature Physics;" Harlow, "Learning to Think;" and Hurley, "Radioactivity and Time."
Dates: 1949Container: Box 3, Folder 1 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Seaborg and Perlman, "Synthetic Elements I;" Einstein, "On the Generalized Theory;" Furth, "Limits of Measurement;" and Wald, "Eye and Camera."
Dates: 1950Container: Box 3, Folder 2 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Mayer, "Structure of the Nucleus;" Gray, "Ultracentrifuge;" Ittelson and Kilpatrick, "Experiments in Perception;" and Morrison, "Neutron."
Dates: 1951Container: Box 3, Folder 3 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Deevey, "Radiocarbon Dating;" Darrow, "Quantum Theory;" Wexler, "Volcanoes and World Climate;" McDonald, "Coriolis Effect;" Urey, "Origin of the Earth;" and Wannier, "Nature of Solids."
Dates: 1952Container: Box 3, Folder 4 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Nier, "Mass Spectrometer;" Dyson, "Field Theory;" Hughes, "Nuclear Reactor as a Research Instrument;" Landsberg, "Origin of the Atmosphere;" Schrödinger, "What is Matter?;" Bethe, "What Holds the Nucleus Together?;" Rossi, "Where Do Cosmic Rays Come From?;" and Piaget, "How Children Form Mathematical Concepts."
Dates: 1953Container: Box 3, Folder 5 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Wald, "Origin of Life;" Prener and Sullenger, "Phosphors;" and Panofsky, "Linear Accelerator."
Dates: 1954Container: Box 3, Folder 6 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Terman, "Are Scientists Different?;" Mausner, "Study of the Anti-Scientific Attitude;" Glaser, "Bubble Chamber;" Tuttle, "Origin of Granite;" Cluff and Schetky, "Dislocations in Metals;" Kay, "Origin of Continents;" Heiskanen, "Earth's Gravity;" and Weisskpof and Rosenbaum, "Model of the Nucleus."
Dates: 1955Container: Box 3, Folder 7 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Morrison, "Neutrino;" Yagoda, "Tracks of Nuclear Particles;" Segrè and Wiegand, "Antiproton;" Hofstadter, "Atomic Nucleus;" Miller, "Information and Memory;" Sietz and Wigner, "Effects of Radiation on Solides;" Fowler, "Origin of the Elements:" Hoyle, "Steady-State Universe;" Gamow, "Evolutionary Universe;" Sandage, "Red-Shift;" De Benedetti, "Mesonic Atoms;" Starr, "General Circulation of the Atmosphere;" and Seaborg and Ghiorso, "Synthetic Elements II."
Dates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 8 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Marshak, "Pions;" Lyons, "Age of the Solar System;" Morrison, "Overthrow of Parity;" Gell-Mann and Rosenbaum, "Elementary Particles;" Ivey, "Electroluminescence;" Bèkèsy, "Ear;" Matthias, "Superconductivity;" and Post, "Fusion Power."
Dates: 1957Container: Box 3, Folder 9 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Gamow, "Principle of Uncertainty;" Wilson, "Particle Accelerators;" Michels, "Teaching of Elementary Physics;" Burbidge and Hoyle, "Anti-Matter;" Rosenbaum, "Teaching of Elementary Mathematics;" Lifshitz, "Superfluidity;" Pake, "Magnetic Resonance;" Rock, "Repetition and Learning;" Spitzer, "Stellarator;" Joffe, "Revival of Thermoelectricity;" and Gordon, "Maser."
Dates: 1958Container: Box 3, Folder 10 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Peierls, "Models of the Nucleus;" Greenstein, "Dying Stars;" Witkin, "Perception of the Upright;" Kettlewell, "Darwin's Missing Evidence;" Van Allen, "Radiation Belts Around the Earth;" Treiman, "Weak Interactions;" Wittreich, "Visual Perception and Personality;" Land, "Experiments in Color Vision;" Gamow, "Exclusion Principle;" Wallach, "Perception of Motion;" Jastrow, "Artificial Satellites and the Earth's Atmosphere;" Westerhout, "Radio Galaxy;" Alder and Wainwright, "Molecular Motions;" and Reiner, "Flow of Matter."
Dates: 1959Container: Box 3, Folder 11 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Buchhold, "Applications of Superconductivity;" Marshack, "Nuclear Force;" De Benedetti, "Mössbauer Effect;" Gibson and Walk, "Visual Cliff;" Derjaguin, "Force Between Molecules;" Bernal, "Structure of Liquids;" Soewenstein, "Biological Transducers;" Butterfield, "Scientific Revolution;" Deevey, "Human Population;" Reynolds, "Age of the Elements in the Solar System;" and Reif, "Superfluidity and 'Quasi-Particles.'"
Dates: 1960Container: Box 3, Folder 12 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Benzinger, "Human Thermostat;" Wilson, "New Scale of Stellar Distances;" Gamow, "Gravity;" Fantz, "Origin of Form Perception;" Schawlow, "Optical Masers;" Pritchard, "Stabilized Images on the Retina;" and Penman, "Muon."
Dates: 1961Container: Box 3, Folder 13 -
Description: Scientific American reprints
Includes: Broadbent, "Attention and the Perception of Speech;" Ericson and Wollin, "Micropaleontology;" Anderson, "Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle;" Feder and Spencer, "Telephone Switching;" Hammond, "Effects of Smoking;" Kaufman and Rock, "Moon Illusion;" Morrison, "Neutrino Astronomy;" O'Neill, "Spark Chamber;" Von Frisch, "Dialects in the Language of the Bees;" Dietz, "Sea's Deep Scattering Layers;" Crary, "Antarctic;" Wright, "Antarctic and the Upper Atmosphere;" Rubin, "Antarctic and the Weather;" Murphy, "Oceanic Life of the Antarctic;" Kort, "Antarctic Ocean;" Robin, "Ice of the Antarctic;" Woollard, "Land of the Antarctic;" and Llano, "Terrestrial Life of the Antarctic."
Dates: 1962Container: Box 3, Folder 14
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Course Materials
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Description: Course MaterialsContainer: Box 4-7
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Description: Index Cards with Physics ProblemsContainer: Box 8, Folder 1-9
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Description: Index Cards with Physics ProblemsContainer: Box 9, Folder 1-9
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Oversize Materials
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Description: Diplomas
Public School Diploma, Douglas County, Illinois (1918); Sidell Township High School (1922); Chicago Engineering Works (1924); Bachelor of Science, Illinois Wesleyan University (1929); and Master of Arts, Indiana University (1930).
Dates: 1918-1930Container: Box 10, Folder 1
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Lecture Presentation Materials
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Description: Graphs and DiagramsContainer: Box 11, Folder 1-13
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Description: Lecture Cards: “The Impact of the “Weightless” Space Age upon the Definition of Weight”Container: Box 11, Folder 14
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Atmosphere, Upper--Rocket observations
- Physics--Study and teaching--Utah--History--Sources
Personal Names
- Swigart, J. Irvin--Archives
Corporate Names
- University of Utah. Faculty
Form or Genre Terms
- Articles
- Instructional materials
- Reprints
