Lillian E. Hoddeson Papers, 1900-2006, 2010 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Lillian E. Hoddeson (1940- ), Associate Professor of History (1989 - ), Senior Research Physicist (1980 - ), include administrative files, correspondence (1971-2006) relating to conference activity, research projects, publications, teaching and presentations; History Department course materials; grant/fellowship applications; and proof/manuscripts of publications relating to science history such as biographies on John Bardeen and the invention of the Transistor at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Crystal Fire (1997) and True Genius (2002); the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Los Alamos atomic program during the Oppenheimer years.  Extensive research materials relating to scientist John Bardeen, including photographic images, historical correspondence, and digital and audio interviews of Bardeen contemporaries.  Correspondents include Nicholas Holonyak, Jr., Michael Riordan, and Frederick Seitz.