Theses — 1949

• Allen, Charles W. — Structure of the Northwestern Puente Hills, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
• Andrew, Alan — The Concentration of the Isotope Helium 3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arrington, Charles Hammond, Jr. — Studies on the Structural Properties of Actin, Myosin, Actomyosin, and the Interaction with Adenosine Triphosphate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bacon, John William — An Investigation of Blowing as a Method of Increasing the Maximum Lift of a Double-Wedge Airfoil (Engineer's thesis)
• Baker, Joe Dee — The Design of a Combination Food Cutter for Home and Restaurant Use (Engineer's thesis)
• Basham, William L. — Geology of the Pacoima Hills (Senior thesis (Major))
• Benezra, Joseph Nissim — Supersonic Flow in a Two-Dimensional Asymmetric Channel (Engineer's thesis)
• Benitez, Louis Eugenio — Studies of Radiant Heat Transfer from Pure Gases (Engineer's thesis)
• Bennett, Edward Leigh — I. Studies on the Synthesis, Resolution, and Properties of Some Fluorinated Amino Acids. II. Studies on Blood Group-A-Specific Substance. III. Systematic Qualitative Tests for Certain Acidic Elements in Organic Compounds. IV. Isolation of Compounds Toxic to Tomato Plants from Thamnosma montana (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bennett, Robert Royce — Electric Analog Computer Techniques Applied to Certain Mechanical Vibration Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bevernick, Richard Alexander — The Effect of Reynolds Number on the Flow Field About a 70° Cone (Engineer's thesis)
• Biehl, Arthur Trew — Statistical Studies of Cosmic Rays at High Altitudes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Billheimer, John S. — The Generalized Phase Behavior of Paraffin-Tetralin-Bitumen Systems (Engineer's thesis)
• Blenkush, Philip George — A Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of High-Lift Devices on Supersonic Wings at Low Subsonic Speed (Engineer's thesis)
• Bottenberg, William Robert — Effect of Reynolds Number on the Flow About a Finite Cone of 70 Degrees (Engineer's thesis)
• Bowen, John Thomas — Some Viscosity Effects in Axial Flow Compressors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, John R. — A Critical Study of Spin-Up Drag Loads on Aircraft Landing Gears (Engineer's thesis)
• Brown, Raymond Allen — The Fractionation of Serum Proteins by Electrophoresis-Convection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buff, Frank Paul — A Statistical Mechanical Theory of the Coefficients of Shear and Bulk Viscosity of Monatomic Liquids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burke, James Donahue — Sounding Rocket Performances Analysis (Engineer's thesis)
• Carter, William Walton — Measurement of f-Values in the Iron Spectrum and Applications to Solar and Stellar Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandler, Ralph Stewart — An Investigation of the Stresses and Deflections of Swept Plates (Engineer's thesis)
• Chu, Tao Hung — Determination of Buckling Loads by Frequency Measurements (Engineer's thesis)
• Clancy, Albert Harrison — Experimental Investigation of Pressure Drop in Helical Coils (Engineer's thesis)
• Cohen, Emanuel Richard — Angular Distributions in the Elastic Scattering of Protons by Light Nuclei. Analysis of the Reactions Li⁷(pp)Li⁷ and Be⁹(pp)Be⁹ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cole, Julian David — Problems in Transonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cooley, James Siggins — Reversed Bending Fatigue Properties of 25 S-T, 75 S-T, and 76 S-T Aluminum Alloys (Engineer's thesis)
• Crate, James Harvey — The Design of a Commercial Coffee Maker (Engineer's thesis)
• Cutsforth, David Harrison — The Geology of a Portion of the San Jose Hills (Master's thesis)
• Densmore, James Edward — Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of High Lift Devices on Supersonic Wings at Low Subsonic Speed (Engineer's thesis)
• Dhawan, Satish — On the Design and Use of a Flexible Nozzle for the GALCIT Transonic Wind Tunnel (Engineer's thesis)
• Dickey, Frank Host — Walden Inversions Involving the Isomeric 2, 3-Butanediamines and Related Compounds. The Preparations of Specific Adsorbents. The Role of Peroxides in Mutagenesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dwire, Oliver Scott — A Study of Pressure Drop in Helical Coils (Engineer's thesis)
• Enenstein, Norman Harry — Angle of Arrival Measurements of 3.2-Centimeter Radio Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finkbeiner, Daniel Tabot, II — A General Dependence Relation and its Application to Lattice Imbeddings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fisher, Robert Lloyd — The Pacoima Area (Senior thesis (Major))
• Ford, Warren Woodrow — Design of a Six Component Internal Strain Gage Balance System (Engineer's thesis)
• Foster, Francis Cecil — Investigation and Design of a Portable Evaporative Cooler (Engineer's thesis)
• Francis, Donald Lowell — An Experimental Investigation of Blocking in a High-Speed, Closed Wind Tunnel Using the Wall Pressure Method (Engineer's thesis)
• Garner, Harold Karl — The Mechanisms of Some Reactions of Optically Active 2,3-Butanediol and its Derivatives (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garrett, Joseph — Experimental Deflection Survey of Cantilever Sectors of Uniform Thickness (Engineer's thesis)
• Geldart, Lloyd Philip — Periodic Variations of the Gravitational Force. A Gravity Survey in the Monk Hill Area. Transmission of Shot Impulses in Shallow Water (Engineer's thesis)
• Gilkeson, Fillmore Bolling — An Investigation of the Stresses and Deflections of Swept Plates (Engineer's thesis)
• Goebel, Thomas Parker — An Investigation of the Deformation of a 3S-O Sheet Specimen During Tensile Failure (Engineer's thesis)
• Goff, Gordon Henry — Volumetric and Phase Behavior of Propane 1-Butene System (Engineer's thesis)
• Gompf, George Edward — Supersonic Nozzle Design for Viscous Fluids (Engineer's thesis)
• Gruenberg, Harry — A Resonant Cavity Method of Measuring the Velocity of Light (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guthrie, George Boardman, Jr. — Part I. The Standard Entropies of Several Compounds. Part II. Theory of the Thermal Diffusion of Electrolytes in a Clusius Column. Part III. A Study of the Structure of Sulphur-Monochloride by Electron Diffraction. Part IV. A Study of Factors in the Design and Use of an Electron Diffraction Camera (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hardy, Donald James — The Effect of Surface Roughness upon 25 ST Aluminum Alloy Subjected to Repeated Tensile Stresses Above the Proportional Limit (Engineer's thesis)
• Harmon, Kent Midgley — Studies on: The Specific Activity and Inhibition of Urease; Trypsin and Chymotrypsin Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Simple Peptides; Isomeric Transitions of Radioactive Tellurium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harmon, Leonard Edward — Stress, Distribution in Two Circular Cylinders Intersecting at Right Angles Under the Influence of Internal Pressure (Engineer's thesis)
• Head, Richard Moore — Investigations of Spontaneous Condensation Phenomena (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Henry, William Earl — Experimental Deflection Survey of Cantilever Sectors of Uniform Thickness (Engineer's thesis)
• Hindall, Lawrence D'Arle — An Investigation of the Permeability of Iron at Ultra-High Frequencies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hornyak, William Frank — Applications of Beta Ray Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Howell, Benjamin Franklin, Jr. — Ground Vibrations Near Explosions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Howell, Benjamin Franklin, Jr. — Structural Geology of the Region Between Pacoima and Little Tujunga Canyons, San Gabriel Mountains, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ismail, Hassan Mohamed — Study of Suspended Sediment in Closed Channels (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knopoff, Leon — Multipath Interference of Modulated Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krauss, Max — Lytic Agents of the Sperm of Some Marine Animals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lamb, William Emerson — Fatigue Strength of Metal Sandwich Type Construction (Engineer's thesis)
• Lance, John Franklin — Phylogeny of the Later Tertiary Equidae in the Light of New Pliocene Horses from Chihuahua, Mexico. Origin of the Pioneer Pyrophyllite Deposit, San Diego County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Latter, Richard — A Study of the Two-Meson Hypothesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leighton, Freeman Beach — Contributions to the Glaciology of the Seward Ice Field, Canada, and the Malaspina Glacier, Alaska (Master's thesis)
• Leroux, Pierre Jean — Studies on the Rate of Hydrolysis of Sec-Butyl P-Toluenesulfonate (Master's thesis)
• MacKinnon, Neil Allan — Flow Field Around a Finite Cone with Shock (Engineer's thesis)
• MacNeal, Richard Henri — The Solution of Partial Differential Equations by Means of Electrical Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandelbrot, Benoit B. — Some Potential Problems Arising in the Theory of Axial Turbomachines (Engineer's thesis)
• Martner, Samuel Theodore — Observations on Seismic Waves Reflected at the Earth's Core Boundary. Geology of the Manila-Linwood Area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming and Daggett County, Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marx, Michael Ferdinand — Low Speed Wind Tunnel Investigation of High Lift Devices on a 65° Swept-Back Supersonic Wing of 3.44 Aspect Ratio (Engineer's thesis)
• Mason, David Malcolm — Temperature and Velocity Distribution in the Wake of a Heated Cylinder (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maun, Eugene Kingery — I. The Iodometric Determination of Zinc. II. Investigations in the Chemistry of Rhenium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McElligott, Richard Hardy — Investigation of Pressure Drop Through Helical Coils (Engineer's thesis)
• McIntosh, James Alexander — The Design of a Combination Projector and Viewer for Use with Colored Transparencies (Engineer's thesis)
• McKenney, John Dill — An Investigation of Flow Separation in an Overexpanded Supersonic Nozzle (Engineer's thesis)
• Mettler, Ruben Fred — The Anemometric Application of an Electrical Glow Discharge in Transverse Air Streams (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mirza, Rafat — Some Synthetical Experiments with 4-Quinazolone (Master's thesis)
• Monroe, Emmett Paul — I. Derivatives of Spiro (3,3) Heptanetetra Carboxylic Acid. II. Attempted New Synthesis of Cis-2 Butene-1, 4-Diol (Master's thesis)
• Monroe, Gerald Morgan — Higher Order Approximate Solutions for the Flow in Axial Turbomachines (Engineer's thesis)
• Morikawa, George Kiyoshi — The Wing-Body Problem for Linearized Supersonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muehlberger, William Rudolf — Mode of Emplacement of the Barre Granite, Vermont (Master's thesis)
• Muirhead, Vincent Uriel — Flow Field Around a Finite Cone with Shock (Engineer's thesis)
• Nagamatsu, Henry Takeshi — Theoretical Investigation of Detached Shock Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nevenzel, Judd Cuthbert — I. The Apparent Acid Dissociation Constants of Phenylalanine and Some of its Nuclearly Substituted Derivatives. II. The Isolation of Sphingosine from Bovine Spinal Cord. III. The Ultraviolet Absorption of Some O-Benzoyl Compounds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ogilvie, Douglas Clark — Correlation of Existing Design Information on Sandwich Construction (Engineer's thesis)
• Ordway, Fred Delancy, Jr. — Studies in X-ray Crystallography : I. Calcium Chloride Hexahydrate. II. Hexamethylene Tetramine Complexes with Metal Halides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peterson, Norman Charles — Noncircular Fuselages in Supersonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pfeiffer, Heinz Gerhard — An X-Ray Diffraction Investigation of Silver Azide and Boric Oxide and an Electron Diffraction Investigation of Some Three-Membered Rings and Some Halogenated Methanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pinkerton, Charles C. — Experimental Determination of the Thermal Conductivity of Porous Copper (Engineer's thesis)
• Puckett, Allen Emerson — Supersonic Wave Drag of Thin Airfoils (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quinlan, Patrick Michael — A Fourier Integral Approach to an Aeolotropic Medium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reed, Irving Stoy — Quadratic Differential Equations in Banach Spaces and Analytic Functionals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ringness, William Merritt — The Effect of Surface Roughness upon 25 ST Aluminum Alloy Subjected to Repeated Tensile Stresses Above the Proportional Limit (Engineer's thesis)
• Robinson, Charles Franklin — The Production of Positive Ions in Resonant Cavities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roesch, William Carl — Studies of the Cosmic Ray Latitude Effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosicky, Fred George — An Improved Synthesis of 2-Nitro-6-Aminotoluene (Master's thesis)
• Sabersky, Rolf Heinrich — Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on the General Flow Patterns in Axial Flow Compressors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Safonov, George Michael — A Momentum Spectrum for High Energy Mesotrons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlinger, Warren Gleason — Thermodynamic and Mass Transfer Studies: I. An Apparatus to Determine the Volumetric Behavior of Nitrogen Oxides. II. Isobaric Heat Capacity of I-Butane and I-Pentene at Bubble Point. III. Mass Transfer in a Turbulent Air Stream (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schneider, Arthur John Rudolph — Some Compressibility Effects in Cavitation Bubble Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schurmeier, Harris McIntosh — An Investigation of the Interference Effects of a Sting Support System on the Pressure Distribution over a Body of Revolution (Engineer's thesis)
• Schwarz, Robert, Jr. — The Design of an Indoor Electric Barbecue Stove (Engineer's thesis)
• Shonerd, David Edwin — Winged Rocket Performance Analysis (Engineer's thesis)
• Showell, John Sheldon — Studies on the Kinetics of the Addition of Acetic Acid to Isobutene (Master's thesis)
• Smith, Theodore Beaton — Interruptions in the Normal Westerly Flow of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teig, Vernon Ellwood — Stress Distribution in Two Intersecting Cylinders Under Pressure (Engineer's thesis)
• Thomas, Blakemore Ewing — Geology and Ore Deposits of the Wallapai District, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, John William — Low Speed Wind Tunnel Investigation of High Lift Devices on a 65° Swept-Back Supersonic Wing of 3.44 Aspect Ratio (Engineer's thesis)
• Van Dyke, Milton Denman — A Study of Second-Order Supersonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vaughan, Philip Alfred — I. Preparation and Description of Some Derivatives of Molybdenum Dichloride. II. Structure Determination of Complex Molecules or Ions by X-Ray Diffraction by Solutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waldron, Robert Edwards — Design of a Household Electric Ironing Machine (Engineer's thesis)
• Wallace, Richard Alfred — The Design of a Portable Pipe Threading Machine (Engineer's thesis)
• Wayne, Lowell Grant — Kinetics of the Gas Phase Reaction Between Nitric Oxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and Water Vapor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weatherup, Robert Alexander — An Experimental Investigation of the Pressure Loss in Flow Through Helical Coils (Engineer's thesis)
• West, William Junius — A Precision Study of the Molybdenum and Tungsten Kα₁ X-Ray Lines, and a Measurement of the Reflecting Properties of the (310) Planes of Quartz, by the Method of the Two Crystal X-Ray Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Mathew Kent — I. A Reinvestigation of the Vibration Spectra of Several Triatomic Molecules. II. The Infrared Spectrum and Configuration of Hydrogen Persulfide. III. Some Observations on the Spectrum of "Sulfur Monoxide" (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolf, Leo — The Development and Design of the "Visual Street Indicator": an Improved Means for Conveying Route Information to Passengers on Public Transportation (Engineer's thesis)
• Wood, David Shotwell — The Influence of Stress and Temperature upon the Time to Initiate Plastic Deformation in an Annealed Low Carbon Steel (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Sien-Chiue — A Genetic and Cytological Study of Some X-Ray Induced Mutations and Reverse Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zieman, Clayton Melvin — On the Arrival Angle of Microwaves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))