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John Werner Abrams fonds [textual record, sound recording, graphic material]
Niveau hiérarchique :FondsContexte de cette notice :Fonds comprend :10 description(s) de niveau inférieurVoir description(s) de niveau inférieur -
Instrument de recherche Textual record (Électronique) This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 72 at the file level. MSS1344 (90: Ouvert)
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Notice descriptive John Werner Abrams fonds [textual record, sound recording, graphic material]
Date :1925-1994.Référence :R4188-0-3-E, MG31-J16Genre de documents :Documents textuels, Documents sonores, Documents photographiquesTrouvé dans :Archives / Collections et fondsNo d'identification :104300Date(s) :1925-1994.Lieu de création :Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminéÉtendue :14.08 m of textual records.
6 audio reels (ca. 4 h, 28 min, 30 s).
1 audio cassette (ca. 25 min).
35 photographs : 32 b&w and 3 col.
1 album.Langue du document :anglaisPortée et contenu :Fonds consists of biographical information and educational background material; teaching material on history of the philosophy of science and technology industrial engineering, linear programming, stochastics and probability, and operational research; correspondence, personal and academic; Learned Societies, conference reports, brochures, constitutions, etc.; operational research, manuscripts, writings and historical commentary; other material relating to University of Toronto administration, paper on astronomy, Ontario Science Centre and Ontario government committees; and restricted materials. The fonds also contains sound recordings of various interviews conducted by Dr. John W. Abrams on operational research and history and philosophy of technology, [ca. 1960-1974]. Included are photographs depicting participants in scientific conference, Kaluga, U.S.S.R., 1976; unidentified scientist with Sherman tank used for testing shells, [ca. 1949]; and a photographic portrait of Dr. H.P. Robertson, [ca. 1962].Provenance :Biographie/Histoire administrative :Abrams, John Werner, 1913-1981 : John Werner Abrams was born in San Francisco, California, in 1913. After completing Galileo High School, he went on to do undergraduate work at the University of California (Berkeley Campus) and, in 1933, received his BA with honours in astronomy and astrophysics. He continued his education with graduate studies at a number of institutions: at Harvard College Observatory in 1934-1935, at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and Tartu (Estonia) in 1935-1936, and at the University of California in 1937-1939, during which time he was a Lick Observatory Fellow and a Teaching Assistant. He was awarded a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California in 1939 and in 1940 signed on as an instructor at that university.
He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a navigational instructor in Canada in 1941-1942, prior to duty in the United Kingdom as an operational research officer with the Royal Air Force Coastal Command.
Abrams was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Manitoba, 1945-1946, and from 1946 until 1949, he was assistant professor of astronomy and physical science at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. While at Wesleyan, he introduced a course in the emerging field of the history of physical science. In 1949, he took a position with the Canadian Defence Research Board. Almost immediately, he was detached from the Board to work with the British Admiralty. While in London, he pursued post-graduate studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University College.
On his return to Canada in 1951, he was promoted to Superintendent of the Defence Research Board's Operational Research Group and by 1961 had become its chief. Dr. Abrams resumed his university teaching career as associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, 1962-1967, and chaired the University Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, 1965-1968. Dr. Abrams was Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from its inception in 1967 until 1973, while continuing his work in the Department of Industrial Engineering.Information additionnelle :Note générale :Received in 1982 from Mrs. Marjorie Abrams of Toronto, Ontario, and from Mrs. Jacqueline Elton of Toronto, Ontario in 2008.Vedette-matière :- Astronomy
- College teachers - Canada, [between 1945 and 1967] Ontario Science Centre , 1937-1981
- John Werner Abrams - Childhood and youth, 1926-1951 Canadian Operational Research Society, 1951-1981
- Galileo High School (San Francisco, Calif.) - Students, [between 1926 and 1951] Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1951-1981
- University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) - Students, [between 1926 and 1951] Society for the History of Technology, 1951-1981
- Harvard University - Students, [between 1926 and 1951] International Co-operation in the History of Technology Committee, 1951-1981
- University of London - Students, [between 1926 and 1951] International Council of Scientific Unions, 1951-1981
- University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Man.) - Faculty, 1945-1946
- Teachers - Canada - Biography, 1926-1951
- Wesleyan University - Faculty, 1947-1949
- Univerity of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.) - Faculty, 1959-1980
- Industrial engineering - History, 1944-1981
- Linear programming - History, 1944-1981
- John Werner Abrams - Manuscripts, 1944-1981
- John Werner Abrams - Correspondence, 1939-1982
- Learned institutions and societies - Canada, 1951-1981
- Operations research - Problems, exercises, etc., 1952-1981
- Operations research - History, 1952-1981
Source :PrivéAncien no de référence archivistique :MG31-J16 -
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