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		Dodge, Homer Levi, 1887-

	Subjects
		Acoustical engineering -- Patents.
		Camping.
		Canoes and canoeing.
		Electric rheostats -- Patents.
		Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
		Environmental protection.
		Outdoor recreation.
		Physics -- Societies, etc.
		Physics -- Study and teaching.
		Physics -- Study and teaching -- Soviet Union.
		Science -- Study and teaching.
		American Association of Physics Teachers.
		American Institute of Physics.
		American Institute of Physics. War Policy Committee.
		American Society for Engineering Education.
		National Research Council (U.S.). Office of Scientific Personnel.
		Sigma Pi Sigma.
		University of Oklahoma.
		University of Oklahoma. Research Institute.
		Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954.
		Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-
		Manley, Atwood.
		Plumley Charles Albert, 1875-1964.
		Richtmyer, F. K., (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939.
		Roller, Duane Emerson, 1894-
		White, Marsh W. (Marsh William), 1896-
		Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983.
		Bailey, Alfred.
		Dodge, Carroll.
		Dodge, Fletcher.
		Dodge, Isabella Donaghue.
		Dodge, Margaret Wing.
		Hazen, Harold.
		Hutchisson, Elmer, 1902-1983.
		Kent, Fred W.
		Schriever, William.
		Smith, Clyde.
		Waterfall, Wallace.
		Webb, William S.
		Glass negatives.
		Lecture notes.
		Photographic prints.
		Physicists.
		American journal of physics.

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Homer L. Dodge papers, 1852-1994 (bulk 1910-1960).

by Dodge, Homer Levi, 1887-

41.5 linear feet (79 boxes).

Owning Repository:

American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

http://www.aip.org/history/ead/browse.html#aip_dodge (Online finding aid)

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Biography/History:

Physicist (electrical measurements) and educator. On faculty of the University of Oklahoma: head of physics department, 1919-1942, dean of graduate school, 1926-1944, and organizer and director of Oklahoma Research Institute, 1941-1944; a founder, first president, and member of Governing Board of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 1933-1939; director, Office of Scientific Personnel, National Research Council, 1942-1944; president of Norwich University, 1944-1950. Died 1983.

Scope of Material:

Correspondence, reports, lectures and research notes, educational materials, minutes, published matter, photographs, glass plate negative, slides, ephemera, artifacts, newspaper clippings, postcards, and wire sound recordings. The collection encompasses the wide range of Dodge's interests and activities. The material from 1910 through the 1920s is primarily technical and scientific including lecture and research notes, classroom materials, work on patents, and writings based on his research. From the mid-1920s the papers reflect Dodge's contributions to the teaching of physics and promotion of its significance in education and in society. Detailed topics include his work at the University of Oklahoma; the founding of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in 1930 and the American Insitute of Physics (AIP) in 1931, the establishment of the American Physics Teacher (later the American Journal of Physics), the development of programs in engineering physics, the improvement of graduate education and college teaching, and the establishment of the University of Oklahoma Research Institute in 1941. Dodge's notes, reports and correspondence document his work on the two patents he was granted, one in 1920 for an improved rheostat, and the other in 1924 for a porous damper for acoustical instruments; his administrative work during World War II in ensuring the optimum utilization of scientists for the war effort as Director of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council; the growth of Sigma Pi Sigma; the findings of the ASEE engineering education mission to Japan in 1951; and his trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1955 to survey Soviet scientific education. Much of the personal materials relate to Dodge's enthusiasm for camping, canoeing, and conservation. Among his correspondents were: Henry A. Barton, Alfred Bailey, Karl T. Compton, Carroll Dodge, Harold Hazen, Elmer Hutchisson, Fred Kent, Paul Klopsteg, Atwood Manley, Charles A. Plumley, Floyd Richtmyer, Duane Roller, William Schriever, Wallace Waterfall, William S. Webb, and Marsh White. Dodge's papers also include correspondence and other materials from friends Fred W. Kent and Clyde Smith, son Fletcher Dodge, mother Isabella Donaghue Dodge, and wife Margaret Wing Dodge.

Received from Alice Dodge Wallace, 1984 to 1998.

See also Homer L. Dodge addition to papers, 1905-1994 - also available from the repository.

Finding aid available at repository, 68 pp. (also available on microfiche at repository),

Glass negatives.

Photographic prints.

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