Abstract: Dr. Richard Madey is a professor emeritus of physics
at Kent State University. This collection of materials, dating from 1963 to
2000, contains primarily collaboration meeting reports, laboratory notebooks,
logbooks, NASA reports, research papers, periodicals, and theses. All of these
materials pertain to the study of physics.
Biography: Dr. Richard Madey was born in Brooklyn, NY, on
February 23, 1922. He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1944 to
1946. Madey earned a bachelor of electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (Troy, NY) in 1942 and a Ph.D. in physics from University of California
at Berkeley in 1952. He worked at as professor of physics (1971-1989), chair
of the Department of Physics (1971-1983), director of the Center for Nuclear
Research (1988-1992), university professor (1989-1992), and research scientist
and emeritus university professor (1992-present). His primary fields of research
are nuclear physics and gaseous absorption. One of his most significant and
recent research projects involved probing the cahrege structure of the neutron.
Madey has received many honors and distinctions throughout his career, including
the Meritorious Service Award from the New York Metropolitan Section, American
Nuclear Society and the President’s Medal from Kent State University. He
has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemists, the New
York Academy of Sciences, and the Ohio Academy of Sciences. Additionally, he
is an honorary lifetime member of the American Nuclear Society. He remains an
active researcher in the field of physics.
Scope and Content: The Richard Madey papers contain laboratory
notebooks and logbooks from experiments that he or his students performed, reports
from collaboration meetings which he co-wrote, NASA reports for which he was
the principal investigator, research papers, periodicals, theses, and correspondence.
Statement of Arrangement: The Richard Madey papers are arranged
alphabetically by series, then chronologically by date. The collection contains
the following series:
Preferred Citation: Richard Madey papers. Department of Special
Collections and Archives. Kent State University Libraries and Media Services.
Acquisition Information: The Richard Madey papers were transferred
to Special Collections and Archives by Kent State University Department of Physics
in July 2007.
Article, "Calculating Gamma Heating in Reactor Structures," Nucleonics,
October 1957
Article, "Calculations of the penetration of gamma rays through the
edges of a ½-inch diameter lead collimator," Nuclear Instruments
and Methods 4, December 12, 1958
Article, "Cerenkov Radiation from Protons and the Measurement of Proton
Velocity and Energy," The Physical Review, June 25, 1951
Article, "A Dispersion Model Approach to the Preliminary Design of
Adsorber Beds for Trace Contaminants," The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, undated
Article, "Energy Spectrum Resulting from Electron Slowing Down,"
Physical Review, March 15, 1954
Article, "An Experimental Study of Adsorption Interference in Binary
Mixtures Flowing through Activated Carbon," undated
Article, "The 51st Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus,"
Phys. Med. Biol., 1967
Article, "The Fundamentals of Differential Radiation Measurements,"
Nondestructive Testing, January-February 1958
Article, "Gamma-Ray Absorption Coefficients," Reviews of Modern
Physics, April 1952 (5 copies)
Article, Gamma-ray Locating Device," International Journal of Applied
Radiation and Isotopes, 1959
Article, "LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Absorption equations for active carbons
with in homogeneous microporous structures," Carbon, June 28,
1979
Article, "LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Adsorption at low concentrations of
acetylene and methane on activated carbon at 25ºC," Carbon,
February 14, 1978
Article, "Monte Carlo Calculation of Transport of Fast Electrons,"
The Physical Review, June 1, 1962
Article, "The Multiple Scattering of Electrons," Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society, March 1938
Article, "New Gamma-Ray Radioactivity Standards," NBS Technical
News Bulletin, April 1959
Article, "Range-Energy Relation for Protons in Various Substances,"
Indian Journal of Physics, 1958 (2 copies)
Article, "Range Energy Relation for 340-Mev Protons," The Physical
Review, 1951
Article, "The Range-Energy Relation in Emulsion," Il Nuovo
Cimento, 1958
Article, "Range-Energy Relations for Electrons and the Determination
of Beta-Ray End-Point Energies by Absorption," Reviews of Modern Physics,
January 1952
Article, "Range-Energy Relations for Protons in Be, C, Al, Cu, Pb,
and Air," The Physical Review, 1959
Article, "Range-Energy Relations for Protons in Be, C, Al, Cu, Pb,
and Air," The Physical Review, 1961
Article, "Range-Energy Relations for Protons in Various Substances,"
Reviews of Modern Physics, 1960 (2 copies)
Article, "The Range in Aluminum of 14-7 MeV Protons," undated
Article, "The Range of 5-50 keV Heavy Ions in Various Gases,"
Phys. Med. Biol., 1967
Article, "Stopping Power and Energy Loss for Ion Pair Production for
340-Mev Protons," The Physical Review, February 15, 1951
Article, "TECHNICAL NOTES: The Volume Adsorption Capacity of 0.98 mol%
Argon on Activated Carbon at 20ºC," Nuclear Science & Engineering,
1978
Article, "Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Energy Loss of
Relativistic Heavily Ionizing Particles," Reviews of Modern Physics,
January 1980
Article, "Theorie der Streuung schneller geladener Teilchen I Einzelstreuung
am abgeschirmten Coulomb-Feld," September 1946
Article, "Theory of Electron Penetration," The Physical Review,
June 15, 1955
Article, "Thermal-Neutron Data for the Elements," Nucleonics,
March 1958
Article, "The Volume Adsorption Capacity of Activated Carbon at 25ºC
for 100 ppm Acetylene, Methane, Methanol, and Toluene," Carbon,
October 31, 1977
Article, "The Volume Adsorption Capacity of Activated Carbon for Selected
Trace Contaminants," Carbon, 1978
Article, "The X- or Gamma-Ray Energy Absorption or Transfer Coefficient:
Tabulations and Discussion," Radiation Research, July 1961 (2
copies)
Article, "X-Ray Critical-Absorption and Emission Energies in kev,"
Nucleonics, March 1955 (2 copies)