Theses — 1951

• Angelo, Raymond Louis — I. Experimental Determination of Selected Accommodation Coefficients. II. Experimental Determination of the Heat of Iodine (Engineer's thesis)
• Auer, Peter Louis — Part I. The Kinetics and Mechanism of Addition of Hydrogen Chloride to 2,3-Dimethyl-Butadiene-1,3 in Systems of Aprotic Solvents. Part II. A Theory of Visco-Elastic Behavior and Flow Birefringence in Solutions of Rigid Rod-Like Macromolecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bass, Manuel Nathan — A Vertebrate Fauna from Late Tertiary Beds Near Frazier Mountain, California (Master's thesis)
• Bergman, B. Gunnar — I. A Structural Investigation of the Mercury-Tin System. II. The Determination of the Crystal Structure of the Sigma Phase by Application of X-Ray Diffraction Methods to This Phase in the Iron-Chromium and Iron-Molybdenum Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berry, Virgil Jennings — Temperature and Velocity Distribution in Non-Uniform Turbulent Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bleviss, Zegmund Oscar — Interference Effects in Supersonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, James Roy — Gamma-Ray Wavelength Measurements of Gold 198, Iodine 131, Cobalt 60, and Tantalum 182 Using a Curved Crystal Focusing Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bryson, Arthur Earl — An Experimental Investigation of Transonic Flow Past Two-Dimensional Wedge and Circular Arc Sections Using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buck, Richard Pierson — Studies on the Use of Coulometric and Amperometric Analysis (Master's thesis)
• Campbell, Richard Bradford — Continental Glaciation in the Glenlyon Area, Pelly River District, Yukon, Canada (Master's thesis)
• Clarke, Donald Walter — I. Attempts to Isolate the Rh Antigen from Red Blood Cells. II. The Fractionation of an Anti-Rh Antiserum. III. A Comparison of the Vasoconstrictor Actions of Adrenaline and Noradrenaline (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clayton, Roderick Keener — Studies in the Phototaxis of Rhodospirillum rubrum (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cleland, George Horace — I. An Investigation of the Dakin-West Reaction. II. The Role of Peroxides in Mutagenesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dacey, George Clement — Design and Calibration of a New Apparatus to Measure the Specific Electronic Charge (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dankworth, Edwin George — An Investigation of the Effects of a Sharp Velocity Gradient of the Flexure-Torsion Flutter Speed of an Airfoil (Engineer's thesis)
• Davidson, Harold William — Lift Increase Obtained with Boundary Layer Suction on a 10% Double Wedge Airfoil with a 20% Chord Leading and Trailing Edge Flaps (Engineer's thesis)
• Day, Robert Briggs — Angular Distributions of Some γ-rays Produced in Nuclear Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deutsch, Daniel Harold — I. The Synthesis of Spiro(3,5)Nonane. II. The Presumed Synthesis of 1,3-Cyclobutanedicarboxylic Acid by Markownikoff and Krestownikoff. III. The Synthesis of Cis and Trans-1,3-Cyclobutanedicarboxylic Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dhawan, Satish — Direct Measurements of Skin Friction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Diamond, Robert James — A Type of Pseudo-Norm (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixon, Howard Henry — Stresses and Deflections of Unswept and Swept Thin-Walled Beams (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Douglas, David Lewis — I. The Magnetic Susceptibility of Europium(III) and Europium(II) Ions and the Photochemical Reduction of Water by Europium(II) Ion. II. The Magnetic Susceptibility of Europium and Samarian Amalgams. III. Observations on the Chemistry of Europium. IV. Age Determination from Carbon-14 Content: Ionization Chamber Techniques. V. The Volume Change Due to Hydrogen Bonding of Methanol in Carbontetrachloride Solution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duncan, Donal Baker — A Study of the Transmutation of Nitrogen by Protons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ellis, Harry McPhee — Factors Affecting the Rate of Dielectric Recovery of Power Arcs in Long Gaps (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Felt, Gaelen Lee — A Measurement of the Value of h/e by the Determination of the Short Wavelength Limit of the Continuous X-Ray Spectrum at 25 Kilovolts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Foote, Royal Stuart — The Geology of the Houser Canyon Pegmatite with an X-Ray Analysis of Monazite (Master's thesis)
• Gates, Clarence Rollins — Probability Distributions of the Zeros of Random Noise (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gilmore, Forrest Richard — The Dynamics of Condensation and Vaporization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goeddel, Walter Van Norman — An Investigation of the Manganese Indium System (Master's thesis)
• Greenwood, Donald Theodore — Analog Methods of Nonlinear Vibration Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guy, William Thomas — Contributions to Tensor Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haskins, Francis Arthur — Biochemical Genetics of Neurospora Pertaining to Various Aromatic Metabolites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Helstrom, Carl Wilhelm — Production and Annihilation of Antiprotons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hipsh, Harold Marvin — Harmonic Oscillations of a Narrow Delta Wing in Supersonic Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holmquist, Carl Oreal — Effect of Small Variations of Parameters in the Turboprop Cycle (Engineer's thesis)
• Hoppin, Richard Arthur — The Geology of the Palen Mountains Gypsum Deposit, Riverside County, California. Oscillations in the Foraminifera of the Vicksburg Group from a Well in George County, Mississippi (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hughes, Richard Frank — Analytical Performance Study of Turbojet Cycle with Nearly Ideal Component Efficiencies (Engineer's thesis)
• Hull, Herbert Mitchell — The Effect of Temperature on Carbohydrate Translocation in the Tomato Plant (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen, Arnold Axtell — A Slender Cone Starting Impulsively (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Llewellyn Hosford — Infrared Studies of Hydrogen Bonding of Methanol with Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Infrared Spectrum and Molecular Structure of Nitrous Acid. Infrared Spectra and Molecular Structure of Isocyanic Acid, and Isothiocyanic Acid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaplun, Saul — Dimensional Analysis of the Inflation Process of Parachute Canopies (Engineer's thesis)
• Kendrick, James Benjamin — Automatic or Coupled Control Surfaces for Aircraft (Engineer's thesis)
• Klein, David Joseph — Precision Measurements of Gamma-Ray Wavelengths of the Radium and Thorium Series Using the Focussing Crystal Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lassen, Herbert Arthur — The Analytical Computation of Residual Thermal Stresses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Latta, Gordon Eric — Singular Perturbation Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leroux, Pierre Jean — Kinetics and Stereochemistry of the Hydrolysis of Esters of Nitric, Sulfuric and p-Toluenesulfonic Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Cheng-Wu — Nuclear Reactions with a Proton Magnetic Spectrograph (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lieber, Paul — Relaxation Phenomena and the Origin of Earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lo, Shih-Chun — Oscillating Airfoil in Parallel Streams Separated by an Interface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lobdell, John Henry — Determination of Temperature in a Low Pressure Flame (Engineer's thesis)
• McConnell, Harden Marsdon — I. Investigation of Possible Interactions Between Thallium (I) and Thallium (III) in Solution and in the Crystalline Thallium Sesqui-Halides. II. Spectrophotometric Investigations of the Copper (II) Chloro-Complexes in Aqueous Solutions of Unit Ionic Strength. III. Optical Interaction Between the Chloro-Complexes of Copper (I) and Copper (II) in Solutions of Unit Ionic Strength. Interpretations of the Spectral Absorption of a Copper (I) - Copper (II) Dichloro-Complex. IV. Spectrophotometric Investigation of the Interaction Between Iron (II) and Iron (III) in Hydrochloric Acid Solutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Michelson, Irving — I. On the Dust Devils. II. Linearized Theory of Conical Turbomachines (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Monroe, Gerald Morgan — A Study of Compressible Perfect Fluid Motion in Turbomachines with Infinitely Many Blades (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morgan, Antony John Andrew — A General Similarity Theory of Partial Differential Equations and its Use in the Solution of Problems in Aeronautics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muller, David Eugene — A Precision Measurement of the Wavelengths of Gamma and X-Radiation Following Decay of Iridium 192 and Tungsten 187, by Means of the Focusing Crystal Diffraction Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nielsen, Jack Norman — Supersonic Wing-Body Interference (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nitsch, Jean Paul — The Role of Plant Hormones in Fruit Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Norris, James Caspar — An Analysis of a Compound Pendulum Rocket Suspension (Engineer's thesis)
• Ostrander, Max Howell — Emissivity Calculations for Carbon Monoxide (Engineer's thesis)
• Oswald, Telford Wilbert — The Influence of Variable Air Density and of Nonlinear Aerodynamic Characteristics on Dynamic Behavior at Supersonic Speeds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paigen, Kenneth — Studies on the Source of Urea Carbon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parker, Eugene Newman — The Interstellar Dust and Gas Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parkinson, Geoffrey Vernon — Unit-Step Motion of a Wide Delta-Wing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Petracek, Francis James — A Study of Some Plant Carotenoids and of Certain Colorless Fluorescing Compounds of Marine Origin (Master's thesis)
• Phipps, Rodney Thirsk — Geology of the Monte Cristo Mining Area (Master's thesis)
• Pounder, Edwin — Investigation of Blockage Effects on Circular Cylinders in a Two-Dimensional Wind Tunnel (Engineer's thesis)
• Rannie, William Duncan — Heat Transfer in Turbulent Shear Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rattray, Maurice — Perturbation Effects in Cavitation Bubble Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roberts, William Brian — Geology of a Part of the Rosamond Hills Area, Kern County, California (Master's thesis)
• Robertson, Donald Sage — A Study of Viviparous Mutants of Maize (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosen, Harold Alvin — Applications of the Potential Analogy in Network Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruderman, Malvin Avram — I. Electron Decay of the π-Meson. II. A Non-Linear Field Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schardt, Alois Wolfgang — The N¹⁵ + H¹ Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seagrave, John Dorrington — Radiative Capture of Photons by C¹² and C¹³ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seriff, Aaron Jay — Cloud Chamber Observations of the New Unstable Cosmic Ray Particles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, San-Chiun — Genetics and Biochemistry of the Cysteine-Tyrosine Relationship in Neurospora crassa (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siegel, Albert — I. Irradiation Experiments with Neurospora crassa. II. An Electrophoretic Comparison of the Soluble Proteins of Normal and Virus-Infected Escherichia coli (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skinner, George Tolmie — Mean-Speed Measurements in Two-Dimensional, Incompressible, Fully-Developed Turbulent Channel Flow (Engineer's thesis)
• Smith, George Irving — The Geology of the Cache Creek Region, Kern County, California (Master's thesis)
• Solomon, Salim Sion — An Absolute Method for the Determination of the Noise Figure of Radio Receivers (Engineer's thesis)
• Steenson, Bernard Owen — Radar Methods for the Exploration of Glaciers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Struble, Arthur Dewey — Preliminary Design Study of a Centrifugal Jet Engine with a Supersonic Propeller (Engineer's thesis)
• Stuart, Jay William — Spectra of the Velocity Fluctuations in the Wake of Stalled Airfoils (Engineer's thesis)
• Swanson, Wilbur Milton — Complete Characteristic Circle Diagrams for Turbomachinery (Engineer's thesis)
• Talmadge, Richard Bennett — The Representation of Baire Functions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Dudley Watson — Studies on the Purification and Properties of L-Leucine. Studies on the Mode of Action of Trypsin and Chymotrypsin (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Robert G. — I. Spectrometer Measurements of the Rates of Gamma Radiation and Internal Pair Formation from Some Nuclear Reactions in Light Nuclei. II. Theory of the Energy Levels of the Mirror Nuclei, C¹³ and N¹³ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walker, Donald Petrilla — An Experimental Investigations of the Oscillations of an Airfoil Near a Sharp Velocity Gradient (Engineer's thesis)
• Windsor, Emanuel — α-Aminoadipic Acid as a Constituent of a Natural Protein (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, William Wayne — Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on Optical Rotatory Power (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Woodbury, Eric John — Capture Cross Section of C¹³ for Low Energy Protons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wright, Lauren Albert — An Invertebrate Assemblage From the "Modelo" Formation of Reynier Canyon, Los Angeles, California. Geology and Origin of Talc Deposits of Eastern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wylly, Alexander — A Second-Order Solution for an Oscillating, Two-Dimensional, Supersonic Airfoil (Dissertation (Ph.D.))