Wendell Holladay Collection
Dates
- Creation: 1949 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access
The physical materials from this collection may be viewed only in the reading room of Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives. Materials should be requested two to three days in advance to facilitate easier access. Contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu to schedule an appointment.
Biographical / Historical
Wendell Holladay was born in Huntingdon, Tennessee, on August 23, 1925. He entered the Navy at the age of 18 and attended Vanderbilt to complete his B.A. in 1949 and his M.A. in 1950. In 1950-51, he was appointed Alumni Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served as a National Science Foundation fellow from 1952 to 1954, at which time he received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics. In 1954, he returned to Vanderbilt to teach physics. He became chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1966, became dean of the College of Arts and Science in 1970 and provost in 1978. When he stepped down as provost in 1983, he returned for 10 more years to the physics faculty, which he first joined in 1954. Holladay died on December 9, 2004, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Full Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 Paige boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Wendell Holladay Collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave. S.
Nashville TN 37212 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
About this Site
This site contains collection guides, or finding aids, to the archival collections held by Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives, the History of Medicine Collection, and the Scarritt Bennett Center. Finding aids describe the context, arrangement, and structure of archival materials, allowing users to identify and request materials relevant to their research.
Requesting Materials
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