David B. Fischbach papers, 1944-2013

Notes and transparencies for "Connecting Threads: Carbon Materials Science from Fibers"

Cartoons, comic strips, and clippings used as source material and inspiration, and sometimes posted on his office door in Roberts Hall: "Shoe," "Frank & Ernest," "Peanuts," "Doonsbury," "Potshots," "Bizarro," "Eureka!" among others. Themes: include office clutter, computer technology, academia, science-based jokes, midlife, aging and memory, cigarette smoking.

Corning, Materials for the Design Engineer, Properties of Corning’s Glass and Glass Ceramic Families, no author; Corning Glass Works 12/79. Engineering with Glass. Corning, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62-19567

Reproduced in papers co-authored by D.B. Fischbach and Kunio Komaki: "Experimental Observations on Carbon Fiber Piezoresistance Behavior" (n.d.) and "Electrical Resistance of Carbon Fibers" (14th Biennial Conf. on Carbon, June 1979); and D.B. Fischbach "Observations on the Properties and Structure of Carbon Fibers (Carbon ’80 Int’l Conf., Baden-Baden, 1980)

Dated 5 Avril 1984 and 28 Juin ’84, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Talence Cedex, France

Correspondence and notes

Photographs of UW campus and research slides

Donor note: "Likely from JPL years (most recent date noted is 1964). Includes carbon copy of typescript "The Relationship Between the Preferred Orientation Parameters n and (Greek character "B") by D. B. Fischbach, JPL/Cal Tech, 24 October 1963."

"Exploratory Research on Silicon Nitride Composites" Final Report typescript, Proposal for Renewal (2nd year), correspondence and grant and contract paperwork. D. B. Fischbach, Principal Investigator, and D. McLaren, Research Assistant

Research Proposal to U.W. Ceramic Structural Materials Program, correspondence, report. NASA Grant NASW 199. Abstract data for 35th Pacific Coast Regional Meeting of the American Ceramic Society.

Curriculum vita, biographical data, and documents and correspondence related to post-JPL job search

Includes published papers

Article about Professor D. B. Fischbach’s research

Donor note: "DBF was eighteen at the time of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, concerned about the destructive (as well as productive) potential of "pure" scientific research the questions it raised about scientific ethics in the formative years of his life as a researcher."

Yale University Diplomas, Kappa Sigma Fraternity photographs (1947-1950); Naval Research Laboratory class photograph (1945)

Donor note: "From the mid-1970s—late 1980s, Pat and Dave Fischbach hosted international grad students through the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS). Some of the friendships that resulted were long lived. This file includes requests for host family sponsorship and correspondence with students from Pakistan, Norway, Denmark, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, Thailand, and Brazil. FIUTS was founded in the 1940s. Note: The UW cancelled FIUTS’ contract in June 2022 and shifted its services for international students to an "integrated UW unit" called CIRCLE. A letter from FIUTS Executive Director Era Schrepfer to "UW Campus Partners and Friends" (March 10, 2022) announcing the change is included."

Lyrics and music for "I Did it Their Way," a parody of the song "My Way," performed on The Prairie Home Companion Show, NPR/KUOW

Series of photographs showing the collapse of the Husky Stadium Expansion by John Stamets

Some portions are in original orders, other portions have been partially disordered. Begun during Fishbach's time at JPL, he maintained it during his time at the UW. The cards are annotated, in some cases providing a synopsis along with his assessment of the content of cited articles.