Accession No.: 95-23  
PROCESSING RECORD  
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES  
Folsom, Theodore Robert, 1908-1989  
Theodore Robert Folsom Papers, 1941-1985  
Physical Description: 2 Record Center Cartons  
Description: The accession includes biographical files and photographs of  
physicist Theodore R. Folsom. The accession also includes slides, lecture  
notes for course 18.307 dated 1982, research notes, and laboratory  
research notebooks for Karl Helfrich, Ron J. Rapp and Jun Zhang dated  
1984 and 1985. The accession includes 1966-1975 drafts of annual  
contract reports for U.S. AEC Contract AT(11-1)-34 P.A. 71, entitled  
"Study of magnitude and distribution of radionuclides in the ocean."  
Folsom was the principal investigator for this contract.  
Marine radioecology  
Radioactivity  
Radioisotopes in oceanography  
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Environmental Radiation Studies Group.  
THEODORE ROBERT FOLSOM  
Papers, 1941-1985  
Accession Number 95-23  
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(2 unlabelled folders)  
Personal Records Robbed from Binder, 1941-1966  
Unknown Scientist on Capricorn  
Miscellaneous Personal [Photographs]  
Slides  
NARSHA Slides  
[Lecture Notes] 18.307  
Progress Report Feb 74 on Spectrometer  
Cesium Spectrometer Sys. Block Diagram  
Applied Spectroscopy Paper 28, 4, 74  
AOC and Interface for Wang Interactive Tech.  
Spectrometer  
Wang Interfaces for Old Photometer Systems  
Photon Counting Elec. Study Interactive Tech.  
Spectrometer  
Photometer Ideas  
Auto Sampler Electronics for Inter. Tech.  
Spectrometer  
Digital Peak Finder w/ Auto Scan  
Slit Height Test 20 Nov 72  
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Multiple Sweep Electronics Interactive Tech.  
Photometer  
Sea Water Composite 16 Oct 72 New Wide Interface  
Filter  
Sea Water w/ Narrow Cs Filt.  
Signal Ht. vs. Flow Rate 17 July 72  
Resolution Test 13 Oct. 72  
Slit Width Test 17 Nov 72  
Datel Digital Panel Meters  
Linearity and Resolution New Grating Installed 13  
Nov 72  
Miscellaneous Tests  
Resolution & Pk. Ht. with Exit Slit Varied, Entr.  
Constant 13 Oct. 72  
Linearity Test 11 Oct 72  
Curve Fitting for Na, K+ Spectrometer  
Real Time Proc/Tests, 1988  
Spinning Disk Theory, 1977  
Laboratory Research Notebook, Department of Civil  
Engineering, MIT, Subject: Internal Waves Towed  
Topography, Name: Karl Helfrich [Summer 1984]  
Computation Book, Ron Rapp and Eng Soon Chan, MIT Rm  
48-420, Course: Wave Breaking Experiments, 6/4/84  
Computation Book, Ron Rapp, MIT Rm. 48-420, 5/13/85  
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Computation Book, Jun Zhang, Nov. 1985  
4/21/83 to 5/31/84 Computation Book, E.S. Chan &  
R.J. Rapp, Course: Wave Breaking Flow Visualization  
& Velocity Measurements  
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Draft of Annual Report U.S. A.E.C. Contract AT(11-  
1)-34, P.A. 71, 26 May 1966  
Preliminary Draft of Final Report for  
Proposal Review - 1967  
Preliminary Draft of Annual Report July 1968  
Final Summary of Cesium-137 Profile Data,  
July 1965-April 1968 (3 March 1969)  
Preliminary Draft of Annual Report, July 1969  
Preliminary Draft of Annual Report June 1970  
Preliminary Draft of Annual Report September 1,  
1970-August 31, 1971  
Annual Reports...September 1, 1972-August 31,  
1973 and September 1, 1973-1974  
Study of the Distribution of Radionuclides in  
the Ocean...Progress Report Submitted July 1,  
1975