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Alfvén, Hannes, 1908-1995. Papers, 1945-1991.

Title: Papers, 1945-1991.

Correspondence, subject files, reprints of scholarly publications, and teaching and biographical materials which span the years 1945-1991 and document Hannes Alfven's career as a research physicist and faculty member of UCSD's engineering school. Significant correspondents include Syun Ichi Akasofu, Victor C. Anderson, Halton Arp, Per Carlqvist, Gunnar Johanson, Zdenek Kopal, Bo Lehnert, Linus Pauling, Anthony L. Peratt, Harold Urey, and Herbert York.

ArchivalResource: 12 lin. ft. (30 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34893569 View

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Sources for the History of Modern Astrophysics Project. Responses to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Title: Responses to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Responses to a 1980 survey of eminent astronomers and astrophysicists selected by project advisors to the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. File includes responses from: Arthur Adel, Howard Lucius Andrews, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, Emily Hughes Boyce, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Gilbert Douglas, Edwin G. Ebbighausen, Richard Maury Emberson, Clinton Banker Ford, Louis Craig Green, Francis Joseph Heyden, Theodor Siegumfeldt Jacobsen, Herbert Jehle, Philip Childs Keenan, Zdenêk Kopal, Israel Monroe Levitt, Sarah Lee Lippincott, Willem Jacob Luyten, Freeman Devold Miller, Gerard Francis William Mulders, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Thornton Leigh Page, Daniel Magnes Popper, William A. Rense, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Alice Marguerite Risley, Walter Orr Roberts, George Shortley, Albert Melvin Skellett, Thomas Richard Nelson, Lois Keener Thome, Clyde William Tombaugh, Nicholas Emory Wagman, Balfour Stanley Whitney, Raymond Hiram Wilson Jr., Edith J. Woodward, and Frances Woodworth Wright.

ArchivalResource: 38 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79107009 View

Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993. Papers, ca. 1950s-1980s.

Title: Papers, ca. 1950s-1980s.

Papers include a very large quantity of correspondence, including letters from fellow astronomers in the United States and the Soviet Union; early lunar charts and glass-plate photographs of the moon; numerous drafts of papers by Kopal; and a large collection of offprints and copies of articles by other scientists on satellite programs, lunar exploration, and cooperation between British, American and Russian astronomers.

ArchivalResource: 3.41 cu. meters

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83770241 View

Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993. Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968.

Title: Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968.

Questionnaire with brief, typed responses, in which Kopal refers often to his published memoir, Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer (UK: Adam Hilger, 1986). Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosoophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

ArchivalResource: 10 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84429774 View

Pettit, Edison, 1889-1962. Papers of Edison Pettit, 1920-1969.

Title: Papers of Edison Pettit, 1920-1969.

The correspondence is chiefly with other astronomers in the United States and deals with astronomy in general including Pettit's work at Mount Wilson, telescopes and ultraviolet light research. The rest of the collection is made up of manuscripts, notes, notebooks and printed items. The majority of the manuscripts are by Edison Pettit (two are co-written with Seth Barnes Nicholson and there is one abstract by Harold D. Babcock). The manuscripts deal with astronomy including thermocouples, Pettit's ultraviolet research, the Sun, the Moon and telescope lenses. One notable manuscript is a rather lengthy typed manuscript with handwritten edits (facsimile copy) regarding the moon and which is probably written by Edison Pettit (but never published?). There are also miscellaneous notes related to astronomy in general and more specifically the moon and nebulae including galley proofs for the book Physics and astronomy of the Moon, edited by Zdenĕk Kopal. The twelve Nebular Photometry notebooks in boxes 8 and 9 were kept by Pettit while at work observing the sky. There are also three reprints of articles (one by Pettit). The albums in box 10 include one with photographs (nebulae) but the other three contain handwritten notes and lists kept by Pettit. The collection has several photographs scattered throughout the collection.

ArchivalResource: 3,348 items.10 boxes.

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Alfvén, Hannes, 1908-1995. Papers, 1945-1991.

Title: Papers, 1945-1991.

Papers include correspondence, subject files, reprints of scholarly publications, and teaching and biographical materials which span the years 1945-1991 and document Hannes Alfven's career as a research physicist and faculty member of UCSD's engineering school. Significant correspondents include Syun Ichi Akasofu, Victor C. Anderson, Halton Arp, Per Carlqvist, Gunnar Johanson, Zdenek Kopal, Bo Lehnert, Linus Pauling, Anthony L. Peratt, Harold Urey, and Herbert York. Cite as: Hannes Alfven Papers. MSS 225, Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

ArchivalResource: 12 lin. ft (30 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303350 View

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997. Oral History interview with Lyman Spitzer, 1991 November 27.

Title: Oral History interview with Lyman Spitzer, 1991 November 27.

This interview centers around a discussion of Henry Norris Russell, and his influences as Director of the Princeton University Observatory. In this interview, Spitzer also addresses: his education at Yale University; the relationships between Russell, Sergei and Cecilia Gaposchkin, and Zdeněk Kopal; and his lifetime of research on stellar evolution. Other topics and affiliations discussed include: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekher, Ray Dugan, Newton Pierce, Martin Schwarzchild, and photometric research.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 22 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305733 View

Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-. Papers of Henrietta Hill Swope, 1923-1979.

Title: Papers of Henrietta Hill Swope, 1923-1979.

The collection contains approximately 2,400 items in 12 boxes. The correspondence (Parts 1 and 2) has been grouped together alphabetically by correspondent. The correspondence includes letters from a variety of astronomers from around the world as well as general astronomy questions from members of the public. The correspondence also deals with women in astronomy and in the Beverly T. Lynds folder is a list of women members of the Astronomical Association of America. The majority of the letters written by Swope are retained copies. The arrangement of her astronomical working papers, however, mirrors that of the collection when it was obtained by the Huntington. The folder titles for the working papers are, for the most part, those of Henrietta Swope herself. The majority of the working papers deal with Swope's research and work on the Milky Way, M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), variable stars, cepheids, Magellanic Clouds, and the Draco System (these folders include notes, photographs and charts.) There are also four black and white photographs that may be of Swope receiving the Annie Jump Cannon Prize in 1968 and several miscellaneous manuscripts, reprints, articles by Swope and others, journals, bulletins, notes, pieces of ephemera and several hundred IBM cards. Notable participants include: Helmut Abt, Gonzalo Alcaino, Joseph Ashbrook, Robert Atkinson, Walter Baade, Horace W. Babcock, Ludwig Biermann, Bart J. Bok, Ira Sprague Bowen, Frederick Brasch, Laszlo Detre, Armin Deutsch, David H. DeVorkin, Laurence Fredrick, Cecilia and Sergei Gaposchkin, Helen Gilberts, Otto Heckmann, Arthur and Helen Hogg, Roberta Humphreys, Alfred H. Joy, Zdenek Kopal, Gerald E. Kron, Arlo U. Landolt, William Liller, Beverly T. Lynds, George C. McVittie, Donald H. Menzel, Delo Mook, Jan Hendrick Oort, L. Plaut, George Preston, Vera Rubin, Allan Sandage, Jan Schilt, T. Schmidt-Kaler, Martin Schwarzschild, Harlow Shapley, Elske Smith, Hyron Spinrad, Sidney Van den Bergh, Alexander Vyssotsky, Merle F. Walker, Sir Richard Woolley, American Institute of Physics, Astronomical Journal, Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 2,400 items.12 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706834031 View

Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957. Correspondence [microform], 1890-1950.

Title: Correspondence [microform], 1890-1950.

The correspondence spans Russell's entire career, including his student years at Princeton University and Cambridge University. Primarily professional correspondence, the collection reflects his work with the International Astronomical Union on stellar spectra, with the American Astronomical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ordnance Ballistic Advisory Committee, the Meteor Crater Exploration and Mining Company, and Ginn and Company. Topics include virtually all aspects of stellar astronomy, from binary and variable star systems to stellar atmospheres and interiors. Much of the correspondence with Otto Struve and Edwin Frost constitutes Russell's reviews of papers submitted to the Astrophysical Journal of a broad range of topics in astronomy, spectroscopic astrophysics and theoretical astrophysics. Correspondents include Walter S. Adams, Robert G. Aitken, Edward E. Barnard, William W. Campbell, Theodore Dunham, Edwin B. Frost, George R. Harrison, Albert G. Ingalls, Arthur S. King, Zdenek Kopal, Willem Jacob Luyten, William F. Meggers, Donald H. Menzel, John E. Merrill, Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Edward C. Pickering, Alexander G. Russell, Gordon M. Russell, Frederick Albert Saunders, Frank Schlesinger, Frederick H. Seares, Harlow Shapley, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Joel Stebbins, and Otto Struve.

ArchivalResource: 41 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81094260 View