The Alpheus Wilson Smith Papers contain publications, administrative and department files, and class notes.

The Alva W. Smith Papers contain notes and diagrams from two notebooks and a binder made by Alva Smith while he was a graduate student at Ohio State University.

The David O. Edwards Papers contain lectures, correspondence, reports, department information, publications, prizes, research and conference files.

The Marion Llewellyn Pool Papers contains materials on the history of the cyclotron, reports, exhibits, correspondence, and transcripts and audiocassettes documenting complaints made by Professor Pool and the response of the faculty Advisory Sub-Committee formed to hear them.

The Ohio State University, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Office of the Dean Records contains meeting agendas, reports, committee notes, curricula materials, correspondence, publications, and promotion and tenure files. Much of the material relates to individual departments within the college, including physics, geology and mineralogy, chemistry, astronomy, geodetic science, and mathematics. The collection materials date from 1946 to 2009.