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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Otto Stuhlman Papers, #3728, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Florence Stuhlman Couch of Chapel Hill, N.C., February 1966, May 1970, and January 1977.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Biophysics--United States.
• College teachers--United States--History--20th century.
• Physicists--United States--History--20th century.
• Scrapbooks--North Carolina.
• State University of Iowa--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Stuhlman family.
• Stuhlman, Otto, 1884-1965.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of Pennsylvania. Faculty--History--20th century.
• West Virginia University--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Wilbur family.
• Wilson family.

Otto Stuhlman (1884-1965) was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1920-1965. Stuhlman was born in Germany to Otto and Elizabeth Hensman Stuhlman. He was educated in the United States at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the University of Illinois. He was an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1912-1917; the State University of Iowa, 1917-1919; and West Virginia University, 1919-1920; before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1921.

The collection includes scrapbooks, correspondence, and other materials relating to his activities as a scientist and a teacher at the University of North Carolina, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, the State University of Iowa, and West Virginia University. Also included are materials relating to the history of the Stuhlman, Wilbur, and Wilson families, and annotated copies of his book, An Introduction to Biophysics (1943).

Photographs and pictures (P-3728/Folders 1-2).