University of Wyoming
Emerson M. Pugh (1896-1981) was a physicist and professor of Physics who taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1930, retiring in 1965. He specialized in solid state physics and in the physical properties of ferro-magnetic materials particularly the Hall Effect. His wartime research involved lined cavity charges, as related to explosives weapons such as the bazooka. He worked on several ordnance research projects for the War Department during World War II and later was a consultant to U.S. Army Ballistic Research Labs at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He published "Electricity and Magnetism" (1960), "The Analysis of Physical Measurement" (1966) as well as an autobiography "Wyoming Scientist, Horses to Spaceships: Memoirs" (1979) which describes his boyhood in Evanston, Wyoming as his roots. Pugh was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
The collection contains the manuscript of Pugh's memoirs, "Wyoming Scientist, Horses to Spaceships: Memoirs" (1979), with family photographs. Reprints of his scholarly articles, 1928-1971, are included as enumerated in his publication list to be found in the collection. Sparse correspondence is scattered throughout. A scrapbook prepared at his retirement from Carnegie Institute of Technology with photographs, testimonies, and diplomas and certificates is included.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Emerson M. Pugh at the date of processing.
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