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20 ● History Newsletter Fall 1999
Center for History of Physics Newsletter
Volume XXXII, No. 2 Fall 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Work of the "Cooperation on the Archives of Science in Europe"
(CASE) Group............................................................1
Increased Funding for History of Science from NSF...................1
AIP History Center Awards Grants to Eight Archives...............2
Freeing the Wild Ducks: IBM's Committment to the Historical
Record..................................................................................3
Center Leads Consortium to Create Web Database of Archival
Finding Aids.........................................................................4
The Archive of the German Physical Society................................5
Recent Acquisitions of the Niels Bohr Library............................6
Recent Publications of Interest..................................................8
Other News of Interest...............................................................10
Supplement: Bibliography..................between pages 10 and 11
Documentation Preserved: Report from the International
Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied
Sciences..............................................................................13
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