Restricted student records
Scope and Contents note
Dr. Minkowski was appointed lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of The Johns Hopkins University in 1961. After a distinguished career during which he was well regarded by students and colleagues, he retires in 1987 as Professor Emeritus. In Series 2: Course Material, are Dr. Minkowski's files from classes he taught at the University. The largest amount of material relates to the following classes- Quantum Electronics; Fields, Matter and Waves; Lasers & Optical Information Processing; Electricity and Magnetism.
In the files are examples of assignments, examinations, lecture notes, calculations, exercises, and some reference material. Notes not easily identified for a specific class have been assigned a heading of "lecture notes" and some chronological order has been established. Some Professional correspondence is contained along with students' addresses and a very small amount of secondary material related to the Department of Electrical Engineering: equipment orders, departmental memos, and university publications. Also in Series 2 are objects (mostly encased in test tubes and jars) from Dr. Minkowski's laboratory work including slides, tapers, and crystals.
Box 7 of Series 2 is closed to researchers because of personal nature of the files. Several files contain recommendations written by Dr. Minkowski. In Box 7 are also thesis proposals, course evaluations , and term papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1963-1987
Creator
- From the Collection: Minkowski, Jan Michael, 1916-1991 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
These files contain student records, which are subject to FERPA restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 10.97 Cubic Feet (7 record center cartons, 4 legal size document boxes, 1 custom box (14 x 10.5 x 4 inches))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
The Sheridan Libraries
Special Collections
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore MD 21218 USA
specialcollections@lists.jhu.edu