Descriptive Summary
DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman),
1923-
Bryce S. DeWitt Papers
1919,
1946-2006
Materials are written in English.
2005-006; 2006-071; 2006-109; 2010-056; 2010-232;
2011-243
10 ft.
Dolph Briscoe Center for
American History,The University of Texas at
Austin
Bryce S. DeWitt (1923-2004) was known
for his mathematical approach to physics and his work in quantum field theory,
supermanifolds, gauge theory, and relativistic astrophysics. These papers consist of
general research files containing handwritten notes, correspondence, and printed
material; as well as extensive documentation of the 1973 eclipse experiment.
Biographical Note
Bryce S. DeWitt (1923-2004) was known for his mathematical approach to physics and
his work in quantum field theory, supermanifolds, gauge theory, and relativistic
astrophysics. He received all three of his degrees in physics from Harvard
University (Ph.D. 1950). DeWitt was a dedicated teacher and researcher; he held
positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before beginning his
professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1972. At UT, DeWitt
served as the director of the Center for Relativity (1972-1987), Jane and Roland
Blumberg Professor of Physics (1986-2000), and Professor Emeritus (2000-2004).
DeWitt’s awards include a Dirac medal from the Salam International Center for
Theoretical Physics in Italy (1987), the Pomeranchuk Prize of the Institute of
Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow (2002), the Marcel Grossman Award
(with Cécile DeWitt-Morette, 2002), the Einstein Prize of the American Physical
Society (2005), and election to the National Academy of Sciences (1990) and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002).
In 1973 DeWitt and his wife, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, led a scientific expedition to
Mauritania to test Einstein’s general relativity theory of gravity during a total
solar eclipse. A series of photographic plates was taken during the eclipse and
compared with a set of plates taken six months later. Analysis of these photos later
proved that light rays from stars had been “bent” by the sun’s gravity, just as
predicted in Einstein’s theory.
Sources: Vertical file and Office of Public Affairs files at the Dolph Briscoe Center
for American History, including: http://www.utexas.edu/cons/news/dewitt2.html
Scope and Contents
The Bryce S. DeWitt papers (1946-2006) consist of extensive documentation of the 1973
eclipse experiment, including 85 glass photographic plates taken during the period
of the experiment and computer print-outs analyzing the data; course, lecture, and
research notes, as well as DeWitt’s notes taken while he was a student of Julian
Schwinger; his working files as they were kept at the time of his death;
correspondence; manuscript sections of DeWitt’s monograph,
The
Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory; and other materials, largely
documenting DeWitt’s career.
The glass plates are organized by size and generally include the inventory number
assigned to them at the time of the experiment. These include many practice plates
taken before the eclipse itself. The “suitcase plates” are the most valuable of the
glass plates and were carefully escorted from the experiment site by Cécile
DeWitt-Morette in a foam-padded, metal suitcase for analysis. Note that a complete
log of the glass plates is available in the “Eclipse reduction notes” folder. If the
dates following the plate number are in brackets, they were taken from the box in
which the plate was stored or written on the plate itself, unbracketed dates are
from the written log. Due to the fragile nature of the glass plates, they are
available by appointment only. Please contact the archivist to set up a research
time.
Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics
Related Material
Cécile DeWitt-Morette Papers
Access Restrictions
Restricted access to glass plates. All other materials unrestricted. Access to glass
plates arranged by appointment only. Contact archivist for details.
Preferred Citation
Bryce S. DeWitt Papers, 1919, 1946-2006, and undated, Archives of American
Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at
Austin.
Index Terms
Subjects (Persons)
DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-
DeWitt, Cécile M.
Schwinger, Julian Seymour,
1918-
Subjects (Organizations)
Ecole d’été de physique théorique (Les
Houches, Haute-Savoie, France)
University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of
Physics
Subjects
Astronomical photography
Physics experiments
Solar eclipses--1973.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Series 1. Field Work
Eclipse
4RM178
Correspondence, printed material, and note regarding
preparations [includes “Total Solar Eclipse of 30 June 1973” by
Julena S. Duncombe, United States Naval Observatory Circular No.
135],
September 1971-June 1973 and undated
4RM228
Chinguetti eclipse: rehearsals, audiocassette,
undated
Eclipse?, audiocassettes [3],June 9-30
[1973]
4RM178
Eclipse reduction notes and printed material, [includes
detailed log of glass plates],ca. 1973 and
undated
Reports and articles
Solar Eclipse 1973 Bulletin,
Number 5, National Science Foundation, Program for Observations
of the Solar Eclipse,1973
4RM183
Includes “The Story of McDonald Observatory East,” by
Bryce DeWitt; “Report on the Relativity Experiment at The Solar
Eclipse of 30 June 1973” by Bryce DeWitt, Richard A. Matzner,
and A. H. Mikesell; and “A Relativity Experiment Refurbished,”
by Bryce DeWitt et al. in Sky and
Telescope article, with related
correspondence,1973-1974
Includes “Gravitational deflection of light: Solar
eclipse of 30 June 1973,” Parts one and two, by the Texas
Mauritanian Eclipse Team and Burton F. Jones, from The Astronomical Journal; and
National Geographic Society report for NGS grant number 1186,
with related
correspondence,1973-1976
Sky and Telescope, vol. 47,
no. 5, see “A Relativity Experiment Refurbished,” pages 301-306,
May 1974
Manuscript of “Gravitational Deflection of Light, Solar
Eclipse of 30 June 1973,” Parts one and
two,undated
Harlan’s Globetrotters: The Story of an
Eclipse, by David S. Evans and Karen I.
Winget,2005
Letter from Alfred Mikesell to Cécile DeWitt-Morette with
comments on Harlan’s Globetrotters and
the eclipse experiment,February 20,
2006
4RM237
[Note: the order of these files (accession 2011-143) has been
maintained as received per Cécile DeWitt’s guidance.]
4RM237
Correspondence, 1972-1973
4RM237
Essay, articles, memo:
4RM237
“The Story of McDonald Observatory East,” by Bryce
DeWitt
4RM237
Memo from DeWitt to eclipse team: “Life and work at
Chinguetti,” 1973
4RM237
“Gravitational Deflection of Light. Solar Eclipse of 30
June 1973,” photocopy and reprint,
1972-1976
4RM237
Memo from DeWitt to eclipse team: “Decisions and
agreements reached at meeting on Saturday 30 September 1972, at
Princeton,” 1972
4RM237
Photographs: Mauritania (4 photographs),
1973
4RM237
Articles:
4RM237
“A Relativity Experiment Refurbished,” by Bryce DeWitt et
al., 1974
4RM237
Johann Georg von Soldner and the Gravitational Bending of
Light…” Stanley L. Jaki, 1978
4RM237
Photographic printouts (2), notes, correspondence, article:
“Gravitational Deflection of Light. Solar Eclipse of 30 June 1973,”
1973-1976, 2001, 2005
4RM237
Paper: “Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington and the
Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition,” by Daniel Kennefick
– article printout, 2007
4RM237
Printouts of photographs “Matzner’s collection,”
1973
4RM237Correspondence, articles, notes, 1970-1975
4RM133
Photographs, four 8 X 10 black and white photos from the site
of the experiment,[1973]
2.116/OD1199
Eclipse plate finding charts, [computer
print-outs]
Data sheets from binder [Note:
these sheets were originally together in a blue ledger-style
binder with the oversized sheets folded and slipped in. The
sheets have been removed from the binder and refoldered into
sections that correspond to the oversized sheets. Each section
includes the oversized star field and the datasheets that
followed it in the original binder. The lettering convention was
adopted by the archives and was not used for the original data.]
[A], DEL ANP, ALF AND 44, SIG PSC, ZET AND, [four
sheets taped together],July 14, 28, 30, 31,
1973
4RM55a
[A], corresponding data
sheets,1973
[B], EPS PSC 44,July 28,
1973
[C], NOV REF (2 copies), MAY REF, NOV REF 3, [four
sheets],May 8, 9, 28,
1973
[D], DEL PSC,July 20,
1973
[E], TEX 45,August 7,
1973
[F], TXE 45,July 20,
1973
[G], ECLIPSE DEC COMPAR,January 10,
1974
[H], JUN 73 ECLIPSE,January 10,
1974
[I], MOO JUN 12 UT 23,May 23,
1973
[J], MOO JUN 13 UT 23,May 23,
1973
[K], MOO JUN 14 UT 23,May 23,
1973
[L], MOO JUN 15 UT 23,May 23,
1973
[M], MOO JUN 16 UT 23,May 23,
1973
[N], MOO JUN 17 UT 23,May 23,
1973
4RM178
Plates
Paper material,ca. 1973
4RM173
Glass plates
8” X 10” plates
#?, [part broken
off],undated
#1,undated
#2,undated
#3,undated
#TXE 1,June 11,
1973
#TXE 5,June 12,
1973
#TXE 6,June 13,
1973
#TXE 8, June 13,
1973
#TXE 9,June 14,
1973
#TXE 10,June 14,
1973
#TXE 11,June 14,
1973
#TXE 19,June 19,
1973
#TXE 27,June 23,
1973
#TXE 39,June 27,
1973
4RM140
12” X 12” plates
#?, [Eclipse, first
series],undated
#?,undated
#?,undated
#1, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
12, 1973
#2, [22.15 written on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 12, 1973
#2, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
12, 1973
#3, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
12, 1973
4RM141
#4, [April 28, 1973 on box],November
12, 1973
#5?, [11/11 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 12,
1973
#6, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
12, 1973
#7, [12/11 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 13,
1973
#11, [2/11 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 13,
1973
#12, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
13, 1973
#13, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
14, 1973
4RM142
#15, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
15-16, 1973
#16, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
15-16, 1973
#18, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
16, 1973
#19,November 16,
1973
#19?, [October 29, 1973 on
box],November 16,
1973?
#20, [6/11 on plate, October 29, 1973 on
box],November 16,
1973
#21, [6/11 on plate, October 29, 1973 on
box],November 16,
1973
4RM143
#23, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
16, 1973
#24, [6/11 on plate, October 29, 1973 on
box],November 16,
1973
#32, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
17, 1973
#33, [October 29, 1973 on box],November
17, 1973
#TP 2,undated
#TXE 2,June 11,
1973
#TXE 3,June 12,
1973
4RM144
#TXE 4,June 12,
1973
#TXE 7,June 13,
1973
#TXE 12,June 14,
1973
#TXE 13, [thin plate],June 15,
1973
#TXE 18, [April 28, 1973 on plate],June
19, 1973
#TXE 20,[June 19,
1973?]
#TXE 21,June 21,
1973
4RM145
#TXE 22, [positive?, April 28, 1973 on
box],June 21, 1973
#TXE 22, [negative? July 25, 1973 written on
plate, April 28, 1973 on box],June 21,
1973
#TXE 23, [thin plate, part broken off],
June 21, 1973
#TXE 24,June 21,
1973
#TXE 25,June 22,
1973
#TXE 26, [April 28, 1973 on box],June
23, 1973
#TXE 30,June 25,
1973
#TXE 31,June 25,
1973
4RM170
#TXE 32, June 26,
1973
#TXE 35, [thin plate],June 26,
1973
#TXE 36,June 26,
1973
#TXE 37,June 27,
1973
#TXE 38,June 27,
1973
#TXE 39, [thin plate],April 28,
1973
#TXE 42, [thin plate],June 28,
1973
#TXE 44, [April 28, 1973 on box],June
28, 1973
4RM171
#TXE 45, [marked up plate],June 28,
1973
#TXE 47, [Eclipse, first
series],undated
4RM55a1
14” X 17” plates, negatives of 1973 eclipse field
from Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
#4783, [blue],April 3,
1972
#4784, [blue],April 3,
1972
#4785, [red],April 3,
1972
4RM178
From “suitcase”
Paper material,ca.
1973
4RM171
Glass plates [all 12” X 12”]
#8, [12/11 on plate, May 24, 1973 on
box],November 13,
1973
#9, [12/11 on plate, May 24, 1973 on
box],November 13,
1973
#10, [?/11 on plate, May 24, 1973 on
box],November 13,
1973
#17, [?/11 on plate, April 18, 1973 on
box],November 15-16,
1973
#22, [16/11 on plate, April 18, 1973 on
box],November 16,
1973
4RM172
#28, [1?/11 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 17,
1973
#29, [?/11 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 17,
1973
#30, [17/1 on plate, April 28, 1973 on
box],November 17,
1973
#31, [17/11, with inked in labels on stars on
plate, May 24, 1973 on box],November 17,
1973
#TXE 46, [“Eclipse plate,” April 28, 1973 on
box],June 30, 1973
#TXE 47, [April 28, 1973 on box],June
30, 1973
#TXE 48, [April 28, 1973 on box],June
30, 1973
4RM178
Broken plates
Paper material,ca.
1973
4RM55h
Glass plates [10.5” X 10.5”]
[Note: Very
Fragile]
#?,undated
#?, [lots of marking on plate, very broken, not
taped],March 29,
1973
#3, [thin plate, 3/21/[7]3 on plate, plate taped
together, one corner broken loose],March 21,
1973?
4RM233
Chinguetti children singing,
audiocassette,undated
Chinguetti Meteorite
4RM183
Correspondence and printed
material,1975-1982
OD1199
Two maps,undated
Series 2. Notes
Course notes
4RM232
Les Houches
“Problems,” Les Houches, handwritten
notes,1963
4RM183
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“QFT – Bryce’s Notes,” [handwritten notes, probably from
UNC],undated
“193 PROB,” [191-192 Cécile?], [handwritten
notes],undated
“Physics 260,” [handwritten
notes],undated
4RM184
“260-261 PROB,” Quantum Mechanics [?], [handwritten notes
and printed material],undated
“Physics 262/263 – QED,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“QFT 263,” [Quantum Field Theory?], [handwritten
notes],undated
University of Texas at Austin
“Analysis,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Bryce/Jeffreys 308,” [Astronomy course], handwritten
notes and printed
material],1972
4RM196
“Quantum Geometrodynamics,” [photocopies of student
notes],1972-1973
4RM185
“Classical Mechanics,” PHY385K, [photocopy of handwritten
notes],spring 1994
“DIFF GEOM/REL,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Point-Set Topology,” course on Topology R-Index
Theorems, taught jointly with ? [see note], [photocopy of
handwritten notes],undated
“Quantum Field Theory I,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Quantum Field Theory II,” [handwritten notes and
photocopies of handwritten
notes],undated
4RM186
“QTE II,” [second quantization?], [photocopied notes in
students’ handwriting],spring
1973
“Renormalization theory,” PHY393T, [handwritten notes and
printed material],fall 1993
“Renormalization,” [PHY393T], [handwritten notes,
photocopies of handwritten notes, and printed
material],fall 1993
[Renormalization theory], PHY393T, [photocopy of
handwritten notes],undated
“SR,” Special relativity and general relativity,
[handwritten notes],undated
4RM187
“Topology,” [handwritten notes in Bryce DeWitt’s
hand],undated
Unknown location
“Quantum Theory,” pp. 101-116, [copy of handwritten
notes],undated
“Advanced Mechanics,” [handwritten notes in BSD’s
hand],undated
“Classical Mechanics,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Electromagnetic Theory,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Quantum Mechanics I,” [handwritten notes in DeWitt’s
hand],undated
“Quantum Mechanics II,” [handwritten notes in DeWitt’s
hand],undated
4RM188
“Advanced Quantum Mechanics I,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Advanced Quantum Mechanics II,” [handwritten
notes],undated
“Quantum Mechanics Supplement,” includes three pages of
notes on “Transformation from one Hilbert Space to another,”
[handwritten notes],undated
4RM196
“Group Reps” [?],undated
Lecture notes
By Bryce DeWitt
Les Houches (École de Physique des Houches)
4RM230
“Quantum Mechanics,” bound,July
1953
Chapters I-III, Errata
Chapters IV-X
Chapters I-X
Appendix, Errata
4RM231
Stanford University
“Lectures on Relativity,” by Bryce
DeWitt,fall 1993
Institute for Theoretical Physics, unidentified title,
negatives, transparencies,1993
Drexel University?, overhead
transparencies,undated
Unidentified locations
“Quantum Theories of
Gravity,”undated
“Now returning to quantum mechanics…,” pages 145-158,
Physics 393T
“r-forms: Antisymmetric
covariant,”undated
Unidentified title, transparency
photocopies,undated
“Quantum Gravity, Yesterday and
Today,”undated
Unidentified title, overhead transparencies,
handwritten notes,undated
4RM232
By Others
Les Houches
“Mécanique Statistique,” L.
Rosenfeld,1952
“Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Supplement” F.
Dyson,1954
“The Quantum Mechanical Theory of Collisions,” R.
Glauber,1954
“Notes on the Theory of Phase Transitions,” G.
Uhlenbeck,1955
“The Statistical Mechanics of Non-Equilibrium
Phenomena,” G.
Uhlenbeck,1955
“I. Scattering Problems,” “II. Elementary Particles,”
L. Rosenfeld,1957
Research notes
4RM196
Research notes
“Radiation Damping in a Gravitational Field,” publication
number 11, [handwritten notes in DeWitt’s
hand],1960
4RM197
“Quantization of Geometry Worksheets,” publication number
22, [handwritten notes in DeWitt’s
hand],1962
“Linearized Gravitation,” publication number 22,
[handwritten notes in DeWitt’s
hand],1962
“Black Hole Handbook I (copy 4),” notes by BSD and
students for Num. Rel. calculation of black
collisions,1972-1975
“First notes on the theory of constraints,” [handwritten
notes in DeWitt’s hand, likely related to publication number 51,
preliminary],[ca. 1975?]
“Second notes on the theory of constraints,” [handwritten
notes in DeWitt’s hand, likely related to publication number 51,
preliminary],[ca. 1975?]
“Quantization of nonlinear theories with constraints,”
[manuscript for article, signed Bryce DeWitt, likely related to
publication number 51, preliminary],[ca.
1975?]
Calculation for “Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space,”
publication number 51, [noted as very important by John
Stachel],1975
“S U 3,” University of North
Carolina?,undated
4RM198
“Faddeev,” [handwritten
notes],undated
4RM229
[Note: these files are in the order established by DeWitt
and has been maintained per Cécile DeWitt-Morette’s guidance.
They are all handwritten originals.]
“Quantum theory of gravity II, III (work
sheets),”undated
“Superspace,” [“The Geometry and Topology of
“Superspace”]undated
“Quantization of action-at-a-distance
theories,”undated
“Quantization of arbitrary
machines,”undated
“Nonrelativistic composite
particle,”undated
“World function and Van Vleck determinant on a
4-sphere,”undated
“Virbein quantization of
gravity,”undated
“Thomas
precession,”undated
“Hilbert transforms,”
undated
“Superconductors as detectors of gravitational drag
(first version),”undated
“Geometrical realization of
symmetries,”undated
“Charged vector
boson,”undated
“Quantum theory of gravity I (work
sheets),”undated
“Functional,”undated
“Gauge invariant Quantum
Electrodynamics,”undated
“The quantum theory of interacting gravitational and
spinor fields,”undated
4RM234
“Klein Paradox,” article photocopies, handwritten notes,
1939, undated
4RM234
“Hawking Effect,” handwritten notes,
undated
4RM234
“A Gauge Invariant Effective Action,” handwritten notes,
undated
4RM234
“Miscellaneous Notes by Bryce,” handwritten notes,
article photocopies, 1980,
undated
4RM234
“Casimir Effect, Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
(notes),” undated
4RM234
“General Relativity Peratization,” reprint (in Russian),
handwritten notes, 1965,
undated
4RM234
“Miscellaneous Worksheets,” handwritten notes,
1987
4RM234
“Model,” handwritten notes,
undated
4RM234
“Functional Integral from Peierls Bracket,”
transparencies, February 27,
2006
4RM234
“Calculations for String Theory,”
2004
4RM234
“Given by Bryce to Cécile”: “Two Loop Calculations,”
photocopy and handwritten notes,
undated
4RM234
Unfoldered notes,
undated
4RM234
“Bryce’s notes,” handwritten and photocopied notes,
undated
4RM234
“Notes for Supermanifolds,” photocopied notes,
undated
4RM234
“Research notes, probably late,” handwritten notes,
undated
4RM234
“Section 13,” (Cécile note: research problems to be
worked on, with relevant literature”), circa
2000
4RM235
Unfoldered notes,
undated
4RM235
“Two loop calculations,” photocopied handwritten notes,
undated
4RM235
Unfoldered notes,
undated
4RM189
Bryce S. DeWitt's student notes
“An Outline of the Elementary Theories of Specific Heats,”
[term paper?],1946
Julian Schwinger
“Electromagnetic theory of
light,”1946
Notes on Schwinger lectures and reprints by Schwinger on
quantized fields,1951-1954 and
undated
“Quantum Field Theory
I,”undated
“Quantum Field Theory II,” “Meson Theories of Nuclear
Forces, expanded reading notes… Physics 20c, now
307,”undated
“Scattering
Theory,”undated
Series 3. Working Files
4RM174
[Note: The following were Bryce DeWitt’s working files at the
time of his death.]
Research files
Topology [?],undated
Bryce DeWitt
[Includes “Research Problems,” “Examples for Book,”
“The Zeta Function,” and notes on quantization of open
strings in Minkowski
operations],undated
[Includes reprints by Bryce S. DeWitt, drafts and
notes],1967, 1989-1998 and
undated
Early notes, [also includes correspondence with
Chun-Yen Wang, “Detonation Hydrodynamics,” and “’High Energy
Nuclear Events’ by Enrico Fermi, report by Bryce DeWitt,
winter 1950, Tata Institute, Bombay”],ca. 1950 and
undated
4RM55c
Oversized
graphs,undated
4RM174
Schwinger, Julian
[Printed material and notes],1951 and
undated
[Pre-prints and report],1952 and
undated
Feynman,
Richard,1961-1981
Coleman, Sidney,1973-1982 and
undated
Vilkovisky, G. A.,1983-1999 and
undated
4RM175
Vilkovisky, G. A.,1983-1999 and
undated
Avramidi, I.
G.,1990-1999
Dowker, J. S., et al, [papers by Dowker and
others],1970-1997 and
undated
DeWitt-Morette, Cécile, [including path
integration],1976-1983 and
undated
Isham, C. J.,August 1992
‘t-Hooft, G.,1973
Woodard, R. P.,1996-2001
λ φ4 (lambda phi – 4th model in four dimensions),
[includes grant proposal, printed material and
correspondence],1980-1989, 2002-2003 and
undated
Infrared
catastrophe,undated
Change of interpolating field,1961-1976,
1991-2001 and undated
Simple models,undated
Anomalies,1978-1995 and
undated
4RM176
Yang-Mills and topology, [includes I. M. Singer’s “The
Geometry of the Orbit Space for Nonabelian Gauge
Theories”],1978-1984
Two loops,1992 and
undated
Effective action and miscellaneous,1989-1997
and undated
Black hole evaporation,1985-1994 and
undated
Hawking
radiation,1993-1999
In-In, [correspondence with Tim
Gallivan],August 1994
Index theorem,1978-1994
4RM177
Index theorem,1978-1994
1/8 R, [includes handwritten calculations of 2 loop
effects],undated
No-ghost papers,1997 and
undated
No-ghost calculations, [work with Carmen
Molina-París],undated
No-ghosts, Vikovisky-DeWitt,1987-1988 and
undated
Worksheets for
book,undated
Geometry of
3-geometries,undated
Many histories,1971,
1991-1992
Positivity of
energy,1979-1983
Personal notes
Set theory, undated
4RM178
Semi-simple lie algebras and topological
groups,undated
Topology I and II, class
notes,undated
Series 4. Publications
By Bryce DeWitt
4RM228
The Global Approach to Quantum Field
Theory
“The Global Approach, Corrected Sections”- table of
contents, “Black Hole Vacua. Hawking Radiation,” note to Colleen
McMillan
Handwritten manuscript photocopy [Note: the order in
which the manuscript was found in the box has been maintained.
Sections that were found clipped together are indicated.]
Pages 206-277, 1-23f (clipped
together),undated
“Part VII: Special
Topics,”undated
Pages 24-455,undated
Pages 535-539,
70-149,undated
Pages 126-143,
1-38,undated
Appendix C; “35. The Yang-Mills and gravitational
fields,”undated
“35. The Yang-Mills and gravitational fields,” pages
691-756,undated
“9. The relativistic
particle…”,undated
Corrections to manuscript
4RM178
“God’s Rays,” and “Readers Respond to ‘God’s Rays,’” from
Physics Today online, published
posthumously,January, June
2005
Sopra un Raggio di Luce, by
Bryce S. DeWitt [a memoir], published by Di Renzo
Editore,2005
By Bryce DeWitt and Cécile Morette-DeWitt
4RM237
Falling Charges
Worksheets “handwritten by Bryce and Cécile,”
1964
Computations and correspondence,
1960s
4RM189
Translations by DeWitt
Bohr-Rosenfeld Paper (translation by Bryce Dewitt), The
Quantization of Geometry, “On the Question of the Measurability of
the Electromagnetic Field
Strengths,”undated
4RM233
By others, related to DeWitt’s work [Note: Some of the documents
were compiled after DeWitt’s death by Cécile DeWitt-Morette]
Articles, papers,1944-2007
4RM232
Letter to H. J. Treder concerning The
Meaning of Quantum Gravity,December 6,
1988
Series 5. Institutes
UNC Institute of Field Physics
4RM196
From binder, [including material on Agnew Hunter Bahnson,
Jr.],1955-1965
3W111
Photograph, [from Agnew Hunter Bahnson, Jr. Professorship
of Physics program?],March 13, 1965?
4RM196
1955-1965, 1985 and undated
4RM235
“Early plans,” 1955-1964
4RM235
“Bahnson correspondence,”
1955-1956
4RM235
“Bahnson-Memoranda,”
1956-1963
4RM235
Correspondence with and about Agnew H. Bahnson, photograph of
Bahnson, 1958-1971, undated
4RM235
“IFP Historical” – memoranda, correspondence, progress
reports, 1955-1958
4RM235
“Bahnson-Experiments” – correspondence, Bahnson drawings,
1958
4RM236
Various (2 folders): correspondence, Bahnson professorship,
reports, Bahnson death, foundational documents,
1955-1964
4RM198
Unfiled material from Scrapbook [see Personal for other
material]
UNC Institute of Field Physics,1956-1983 and
undated
Battelle Memorial Institute’s Seattle Research
Center,1967
Les Houches Physics
School,undated
Institute for Advanced Study
4RM236
Letter to DeWitt from Robert Oppenheimer inviting him to be a
member, February 1, 1966
Series 6. Interviews
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Interview: DeWitt and John Wheeler talking in Mazagón, Spain,
audiocassette, note,1991
Series 7. Conferences
4RM232
Conferences: programs, participant list,
correspondence,1994-1998, 2007
Series 8. Work by Others
4RM232
"Everett [Hugh]" – documents related to DeWitt’s
work,2000-2001, undated
Letter from Robert Herman to Jean Leray,September 19,
1981
Series 9. Professional Documentation
4RM196
Annual faculty report,1979
Curriculum vitae [working copy, annotated by John Stachel,
includes publication numbers],2004
Series 10. Personal
4RM198
Unfiled material from Scrapbook
Cécile DeWitt-Morette, 1961
4RM233
Emails, printouts made by family members concerning
DeWitt,2007
Restricted. Oral history: DeWitt
interviewed by Nicolette DeWitt, mini-digital video cassettes, circa
2004 [currently, these tapes cannot be viewed due to lack of playback
equipment]
2.351 (Math office)
Restricted. Scrapbook [currently
restricted for preservation]: newspaper clippings, conference
program,1955-1957