Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships Announced for 2012

The University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term
research fellowships for use during 2012. Any visiting researcher
residing more than 100 miles from Chicago, and whose project requires
on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections,
primarily archives, manuscripts or printed materials in the Special
Collections Research Center, is eligible. Support for beginning scholars
is a priority of the program. Applications in the fields of late
nineteenth- or early twentieth-century physics or physical chemistry, or
nineteenth-century classical opera, will receive special consideration.

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George Platzman, University of Chicago Professor Emeritus in Geophysical Sciences,
specialized in dynamical meteorology and oceanography, including
investigations of numerical weather prediction and storm surges.

In the 1960s, Platzman established the Rose K. Platzman Memorial Collection at the University of Chicago Library in honor of his mother, a piano teacher. The collection consists of early editions of works by romantic composers.

Chopin soon became the focus of the collection, which grew to include nearly 500 items. The Library's Web site, Chopin Early Editions, includes digitized versions of all scores in the Chopin Collection.