Collection: George Preston Bacon Papers

Scope and Contents

This collection includes notebooks, notes, a leatherbound scrapbook, and one VHS videotape from Bacon's time as a student and faculty member at Tufts in the Department of Physics, the College of Engineering and the Bromfield Pearson School.

Dates

Creation: 1930 -- 1939

Creator

Bacon, George Preston (Person)

Language of Materials

English

Access

This collection is open for research. This collection may require review before it is available for use. Please contact DCA for further details.

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

George Preston Bacon (1866-September 17, 1941) was Professor of Physics (1919-1929), Dean of the Engineering School (1929-1936), and Professor of Physics Emeritus (1936) at Tufts University. The Bacon High Energy Physics Laboratory, a former cheese factory, was acquired by the University in the late 1960s and named in honor of Professor Bacon. He had two daughters, Dorothy Bacon (economics professor at Smith College) and Ruth E. Bacon, the first female officer of a State Department geographical bureau, one son, and one granddaughter, Hanna Bacon Chace, married to Thomas Angell Chace.