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Kohlschütter, Arnold, 1883-1969. Papers.

Title: Papers.

Handwritten lecture notes by Kohlschütter. Includes lecture by: Ernst Emil Hugo Becker on astronomy, Strassburg, 1903; Leo Königsberger, on differential and integral calculations, Heidelberg, 1902; Ernst Becker, on orbits of planets, comets, and meteors, Winter, 1903/1904; Christian Felix Klein on elliptical functions, Gottingen, Winter 1906/1907; Martin Disteli on analytical geometry of the universe, Strassburg, Summer, 1902; Johannes(?) Knoblauch, analytical mechanics I and II, Berlin, Winter 1902/1903. Also notebooks, 1916-1954 (14 volumes) on such topics as: radiation, astronomical observations, sun and solar eclipses, astronomy, astrophysics, stellar astronomy, photometry, and Bolivia and Tihuanacu. The collection also has information on Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916) and Walter Sydney Adams (1876-). Also includes an album entitled: Luminosity Curve for K Stars.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 meter.

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Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-1993. Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1976 June 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1976 June 3.

Family, early education, attendance at University of California at Berkeley, 1924-1928, and change to major in astronomy. Influence of William F. Myer, Charles D. Shane, Seth Nicholson, Armin O. Leuschner. Research at Mt. Wilson Observatory with Walter Adams, Alfred Joy, Roscoe F. Sanford, John E. Merrill, Gustav Stromberg, Theodore Dunham, 1929-1930; work with Nicholson on Pluto, with Milton Humason on specta of stars, with Edwin Hubble on red shift. Return to Berkeley, 1930-1934; marriage, research at Lick Observatory for thesis, 1932. Career at Lick, association with Hubble, work on spectrum of crab nebula, direct rotation of galaxies, redshifts, gaseous nebulae. Work with Walter Baade and Horace Babcock, with Jerzy Neyman in statistics; position at Berkeley. War work at MIT Radiation Laboratory and Kellogg Laboratory, and Caltech. Return to Lick, 1945-1960; large telescope project. Director of Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1960; Lick moves to Santa Cruz; difficulties for directors of observatories, operation of Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo. Social and scientific relations with Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason. Topics include early work on redshifts, preservation of his papers, thoughts on theories of the universe, ground and space based astronomy, his work on Mt. Wilson, his move to Kitt Peak, and public relations of astronomy. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles Donald Shane, and Adriaan van Maanen.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 46 p.

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Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop. Papers of Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop, 1911-1966.

Title: Papers of Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop, 1911-1966.

The Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop Papers comprise 8 boxes of material relating to the operation of the department from 1911 to 1963. This material is divided into four general categories: research and procedural notes, correspondence, inventories and requisition slips, and job lists and employee time sheets. Various scientific manuals, brochures, and unidentified notes have been gathered into a folder of ephemera. Shop notebooks form the bulk of the research material. These notebooks outline various procedures for grinding and polishing mirrors, drilling glass, and configuring lenses. Several notebooks track the construction of the observatory's 100" Hooker telescope as well as the 200" Hale telescope housed at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory. Declassified research on aerial photography for the National Defense Research Committee is included in several progress reports. The majority of correspondence is between Optical Shop technicians and astronomers both at Mount Wilson and elsewhere around the country. These letters are generally technical in nature with the various interlocutors trying to solve specific optical problems. Several manufacturing firms solicit the Optical Shop personnel about their products. Walter S. Adams and Don O. Hendrix participate in the bulk of the correspondence. Included is Hendrix's signed "Pledge of Secrecy" and commission from the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Inventory notebooks detail the supplies used in the Optical Shop: everything from towels and paper goods to slabs of optical glass and chemical solvents. Lists of lenses, mirrors, and prisms record material in stock and material lent out to other institutions. Requisition slips and shipping invoices illustrate the broad network of suppliers the shop needed for their highly specialized work. A number of notebooks chart the myriad jobs the Optical Shop performed for both the Mount Wilson Observatory and other institutions. These notebooks assign each job a number, outline the work, and list the employees working on it. Separate employee time charts are also included with address and contact information for each. Notable participants include: Walter S. Adams, who succeeded Hale as director of the observatory, Don O. Hendrix, the Shop's chief optician and Ira Sprague Bowen, Bannevar Bush, Robert E. Hopkins, Brian O'Brien, Frank E. Ross, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mount Wilson Observatory Optical Shop papers. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

ArchivalResource: 931 items.

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Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956. Papers, 1923-1956. [microform].

Title: Papers, 1923-1956. [microform].

Correspondence (chiefly 1946-1956), relating primarily to Adams work at Mount Wilson Observatory, California; together with photos and other papers. Includes correspondence, reports and photos relating to the development of Palomar Observatory; and correspondence with Immanuel Velikovsky.

ArchivalResource: 9 microfilm reels.

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Harwood, Margaret, 1885-1979. Letters, 1930-1938 (inclusive).

Title: Letters, 1930-1938 (inclusive).

Photocopies of autograph letters by Harwood to Walter S. Adams, director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122561829 View

Adams, Walter Sydney, 1876-1956. Correspondence, 1881-1939.

Title: Correspondence, 1881-1939.

Primarily professional correspondence with Arthur S. Eddington, George Ellery Hale, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Jacobas C. Kapteyn, Hugh Frank Newall, and H.H. Turner.

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

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Wilson, Olin, C., 1909-1994. Papers of Olin C. Wilson, 1930-1990.

Title: Papers of Olin C. Wilson, 1930-1990.

The collection deals primarily with the professional activities of Olin C. Wilson, who was most active from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the twentieth century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and CalTech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.

ArchivalResource: 4,372 pieces.34 boxes.

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Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956. Conversation about early days at Mt. Wilson, ca. 1918, [sound recording] date unknown.

Title: Conversation about early days at Mt. Wilson, ca. 1918, [sound recording] date unknown.

Walter Sydney Adams and Milton Humason discuss the early days at Mt. Wilson observatory, ca. 1918.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 1 hr.) : 7.5 ips, analog, mono.

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Adams, Walter W. The poetry of H. Phelps Putnam.

Title: The poetry of H. Phelps Putnam. 1949.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938. Mount Wilson Director's papers, 1901-1925.

Title: Mount Wilson Director's papers, 1901-1925.

The collection consists of the Director's papers of George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) during his tenure at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes.

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Babcock, Harold Delos, 1882-1968. Fiftieth anniversary dinner for Walter Sydney Adams [sound recording] / 1954 December 20.

Title: Fiftieth anniversary dinner for Walter Sydney Adams [sound recording] / 1954 December 20.

Addresses given at the Fiftieth Anniversary dinner for Walter Sydney Adams on December 20, 1954. Speakers included: Lee DuBridge, Edward Bowen, Paul Willard Merrill, Walter Sydney Adams, and Harold Babcock.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel : analog, mono.; 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83554989 View

Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-1993. Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1977 February 13.

Title: Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1977 February 13.

This focussed interview treats the social and scientific relationships among Mayall, Edwin Hubble, and Milton L. Humason. Topics include Mayall's early work on redshifts, the preservation of his papers, thoughts on theories of the universe, ground- and space-based astronomy, his work at Mt. Hamilton, his move to Kitt Peak National Observatory, and public relations in astronomy. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Adams, Wilhelm Baade, Charles D. Shane; California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Lick Observatory, and Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 38 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80710073 View

Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956. Autobiographical notes, 1954.

Title: Autobiographical notes, 1954.

Adams describes his childhood in Syria and secondary education, college, work at Yerkes and Mount Wilson Observatories, influences on career in astronomy, preference for exact subjects, association with George E. Hale, his work on sunspots and stellar spectra, and honors and memberships.

ArchivalResource: 10 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78951177 View

Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-. Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

Title: Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

The collection consists of the correspondence files of Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10,000 items.21 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443796 View

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931. Addition to papers.

Title: Addition to papers.

Collection includes material relating to the Michelson family; Michelson's career at the Naval Academy and subsequent relations with the Navy; there are files on Clark University and other institutions including the University of Chicago, the Bureau of Standards, and the Case Institute. Subject files include: ether experiments, gravity meter experiment, the history of light and the interferometer, the Michelson-Morley experiment, spectroscopy, star diameter measurements, vacuum tube experiment, velocity of light measurements, the Mount Wilson experiment, the Nobel Prize, Lick Observatory, and the Bureau of Ordinance range finder. There are also interviews concerning Michelson, honors, memorials, biographies, bibliographies, and correspondence. Correspondents include: W. S. Adams, Niels Bohr, H. Crew, Albert Einstein, George Ellery Hale, R. A. Millikan, E. M. Morley, Rayleigh, and E. A. Sperry. There is a separate file for the correspondence of Dorothy Michelson Livingston; correspondents include: Donald Nelson, Lucius Beebe, R. T. Birge, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Ira S. Bowen, P. W. Birdgman, Arthur H. Compton, H. G. Gale, Charles W. Gilkey, Herbert Hoover, Leonard S. Loeb, Simon Newcomb, Paul Nitze, Robert Oppenheimer, F. G. Pease, and Adlai Stevens.

ArchivalResource: 71 files.

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Robert R. McMath Papers, 1916-1962

Title: Robert R. McMath Papers 1916-1962

Detroit, Michigan industrialist and director of the McMath-Hulbert Observatory of University of Michigan (located on Lake Angelus near Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.). Correspondence concerning astronomy, particularly celestial photography, and the development of the McMath Observatory, financial records, plans for telescope equipment, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

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Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-. Oral history interview with Albrecht Unsöld, 1984 February 24.

Title: Oral history interview with Albrecht Unsöld, 1984 February 24.

Munich during the 1920s, working with Arnold Sommerfeld and Gregor Wentzel. Comments on fellow students: Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, and Helmuth Hönl. Comments on Karl Schwarzschild (Gustav Mie and Hendrik van de Hulst) and Peter Debye. Comments on work with Henry N. Russell, Walter S. Adams relating to the chemical composition of the sun, spectra of the stars and on abundance of hydrogen in stars; Rupert Wildt's work in 1938 on the negative hydrogen ion. Guest professorship at Yerkes Observatory working with Otto Struve on Tau Scorpii; publication of his book, Physik der Sternatmosphären in 1938. Impressions of other astronomers: Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin, Edwin Milne, Harlow Shapley, Ernest Öpik, Fred Hoyle; reminiscing about his meeting with Arthur Eddington at University of Cambridge; the Chandrasekhar-Eddington confrontation; editor of Zeitschrift für Astronomie (Walter Grotrian, Emanuel J. von der Pahlen). Work on radio astronomy in Kiel, Theorie der Thermischen Radiofrequenzstrahlung article published after the War. Establishment of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Discussion of the controversial article in Physikalische Blätter (1980).

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 30 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81803354 View

Wilson, Olin, C., 1909-1994. Oral history interview with Olin C. Wilson, 1978 July 11.

Title: Oral history interview with Olin C. Wilson, 1978 July 11.

Early life in San Francisco and first contacts with astronomy in 1920; Public Lectures under auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; college years at University of California at Berkeley, 1926-1930; interests in physics and astronomy; contact with Donald Menzel; move to Caltech and graduate studies; work with Paul Merrill; Mount Wilson in the 1930s; limitations of spectroscopic equipment; recollections of Edwin Hubble; job offers and decision to remain at Mt. Wilson; origins of research interests and early work leading to Wilson-Bappu Effect; stellar chromospheres and first use of 100-inch telescope in 1938; work on rocket project during World War II; recollections of Walter Baade and Walter S. Adams; postwar years at Mount Wilson; Ira Bowen; Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding; research on planetary nebulae; instrumentation for the 200-inch telescope; internal peer review system; Halton C. Arp's work; continued work on Wilson-Bappu Effect and need for theoretical understanding; study of the solar cycle; teaching and graduate students; work with Rudolph Minkowski; recalibration of Cepheid period/luminosity; Paul W. Hodge's and George Wallerstein's paper of 1967; Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky; the operation of Hale Observatories; kinematics of the Orion Nebula; origin of southern station at Las Campanas; Hale Observatories and Caltech; Bowen's retirement. Also prominently mentioned are: Helmut Abt. Lawrence H. Aller, Horace W. Babcock, Raymond Thayer Birge, William W. Campbell, Theodore Dunham, Jr., Hyades, Donald Howard Menzel, Dimitri Mihalis, Joseph H. Moore, Guido Münch, F. Pease, George Preston, Rayet, Allan Sandage, Garritt P. Serviss, Charles Donald Shane, Stanislaus Vasilevskis, Wolf; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Hale Observatories, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Lick Observatory, University of California at Berkeley, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 119 p.

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Walter Sydney Adams Papers, 1881-1939

Title: Walter Sydney Adams Papers 1881-1939

An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956, APS 1915) made important empirical contributions to the analysis of the physical conditions of stellar and planetary atmospheres, determining the distances to extragalactic objects, and understanding stellar evolution. Adams succeeded his mentor George Ellery Hale as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, serving in that capacity from 1923 to 1946. The Adams Papers contains approximately 100 letters addressed to the astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, dating primarily from the period after his move to Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904. Much of the correspondence is relatively perfunctory, however a few letters include interesting scientific content, including Harlow Shapley discussing his photometric study of HV 3435 and interest in Alpha Circini, Arthur Compton's comments on Keener's photoelectric method, Svante Arrhenius on the possibilities of constructing a new observatory for the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Arthur Eddington discussing the implications of the spectrum of the companion to Sirius. Among Adams' other correspondents are J. C. Kapteyn, James H. Jeans, Henry Norris Russell, Elihu Thomson, and Willem de Sitter.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet

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McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962. Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1912.

Title: Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1912.

Correspondence concerning astronomy, particularly celestial photography, and the development of the McMath Observatory, financial records, plans for telescope equipment, and printed materials. Correspondents include: Randolph G. Adams, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, E.F. Barker, Junius E. Beal, Kevin Burns, George L. Burr, Vannevar Bush, Manuel Avila Camacho, Heber D. Curtis, R.H. Curtiss, A.E. Dale, F. Trubee Davison, Helen Dodson, Allen Dulles, Theodore J. Dunham, Carl Eckart, John R. Effinger, J. W. Fecker, Clyde Fisher, Erle Stanley Gardner, W.S. Gilmore, Leo Goldberg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Melville Grosvenor, Roger Heyns, Henry S. Hulbert, N.C. Johnson, Louis C. Karpinski, Remington Kellogg, Hayward Keniston, Edward H. Kraus, F.H. Learer, Roy D. McClure, C.S. McDowell, Tracy W. McGregor, Francis C. McMath, George Malesky, Donald H. Menzel, Paul W. Merrill, Orren C. Mohler, Seth Nicholson, William Norton, Charles E. Odegaard, Jesse Ormondroyd, R.M. Petrie, Edison Pettit, Alfred J. Pyke. Donald A. Quarles, Harrison G. Reynolds, Warner G. Rice, Henry N. Russell, Alexander G. Ruthven, Samuel Sass, H.E. Sawyer, Charles H. Schauer, B.A. Schriever, Harlow Shaply, Joseph W. Shirley, Shirley Smith, E. Blythe Stason, Joel Stebbins, Harlan Stetson, Julius F. Stone, T. Hawley Tapping, Alan Waterman, Alfred H. White, Charles E. Wilson, and Clarence S. Yoakum.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

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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.

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Struve, Otto, 1897-1963. Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945.

Title: Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945.

This correspondence with major astronomers and prominent University of Chicago physicists and administrators is a selection from the total correspondence covering the period 1932 to 1947 when Struve was director of the Yerkes Observatory and chairman of the department of astronomy at the University of Chicago. During this time, Struve also founded the McDonald Observatory in Texas and was editor of the Astrophysical Journal. Topics include theoretical and observational astrophysics, stellar spectroscopy, double stars, stellar rotation, novae, spectral classification, interstellar medium, the Stark Effect, variable stars, and World War II. Correspondents include Walter S. Adams, Bart J. Bok, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Christian Thomas Elvey, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Jesse L. Greenstein, Gerhard Herzberg, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Philip C. Keenan, Gerard P. Kuiper, Willem Jacob Kuyten, Donald H. Menzel, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Bengt Strömgren, Polydore Swings, and Albrecht Unsöld as well as the International Astronomical Union, the National Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 16 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82625986 View

Roster of guests at Edgewood Tavern, dedication of Palomar Mountain Road from Crestline to the Two Hundred Inch Telescope site, 1935, August 18.

Title: Roster of guests at Edgewood Tavern, dedication of Palomar Mountain Road from Crestline to the Two Hundred Inch Telescope site, 1935, August 18.

Guest book from the dedication ceremony of Palomar Mountain Road running from Crestline to the site of the Hale Telescope. Signed by a variety of prominent astronomers, including Walter Sydney Adams, John August Anderson, and Francis Gladheim Pease.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript, 11 pages.

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Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy records, 1953-1974.

Title: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy records, 1953-1974.

Correspondence files of Robert R. McMath, Leo Goldberg, and Orren C. Mohler, reports, minutes, financial and budgetary materials, and technical reports relating to the development of AURA and its predecessor organization, the Advisory Panel for the National Astronomical Observatory, and concerning observatories at Kitt Peak, Arizona, and Cerro Tololo, Chile; also material concerning political developments in Chile; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423049 View

Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-. Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.

Title: Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.

Family background and early interest in astronomy (Elis Strömgren). Undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Copenhagen, late 1920s; studies at Niels Bohr Institute, 1927-1929; thesis work in classical astronomy (orbits of comets). Development of photoelectric photometry and observations; early electronics, 1925; conflicting results in calculations of opacities (Arthur Stanley Eddington, Gaunt, Thomas T. Sugihara, Svein Rosseland, J. R. Oppenheimer, Meghnad N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E. Arthur Milne, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin); assistant at University of Copenhagen, 1929; LaSilla Observatory. To University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve), 1936-1939; starts work on formation of H #II regions, 1939; work at Mt. Wilson Observatory on absorption lines (Walter S. Adams, Theodore Dunham); estimates of ages of stars (Hans Bethe); Hubble Constant; comparison of astronomy in Europe and U.S.; European astronomers in U.S. (Gerard Kuiper, Polydore Swings, Carl Osbourne, Ejnar Hertzsprung); comments on history of Yerkes (Struve), teaching at Chicago; discussion of work on equation of ionization and calculations of opacities (Carl von Weizsäcker, Struve, S. Chandrasekhar); comments on W. W. Morgan. Discussion of work on stellar evolution, ionization of interstellar hydrogen (Struve). Effects of World War II on astronomy; influence of European astronomers on Americans; Ludwig Biermann; European Southern Observatory; views on radio-astronomy after World War II (Grote Reber). Astronomy in Denmark during war; stellar evolution (Anders Reitz, George Gamow); Strömgren becomes director of Copenhagen Observatory; developments in astrophysics during the war; optical studies. Nazi occupation of Niels Bohr Institute (Werner Heisenberg); contacts with German astronomers; development of Brorfelde Observatory. Becomes director of Yerkes and McDonald Observatory (Robert Hutchins), 1950-1957; American astronomy after World War II; relation of scientific community and government (Office of Naval Research); stellar classification work. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Oppenheimer), investigation of intermediate population II and extreme population II, 1957; establishment of Kitt Peak Observatory; return to Denmark, 1967. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Bohr, Werner Bolton, George Ellery Hale, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Lev Landau, and Harlow Shapley.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 55 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83368016 View

Shane, Charles Donald, 1895-1983. Oral history interview with Charles Donald Shane, 1967, 11 and 14 July.

Title: Oral history interview with Charles Donald Shane, 1967, 11 and 14 July.

Family ancestry; childhood, education; interests and teachers in grammer and high schools; undergraduate teachers and courses at University of California, Berkeley; B.S., 1915; Lick Fellow, 1916-1917; influence of Campbell and Moore in spectroscopy interest, leading to Ph.D. thesis on the spectra of carbon stars; comments on Campbell, Tucker, Hubble, and Russell; marriage and children; note on teaching positions at Berkeley, serving on university committees; solar spectra work on Fabry-Perot interferometer, 1932; work with F. Spedding in separation of heavy water; contact with R. W. Wood; associates at Mt. Wilson Observatory, Edwin S. Hubble, Harlow Shapley, Walter Adams and Wilhelm Baade; administrator for Manhattan Project, details on project work, personnel, associations with E. O. Lawrence and J. R. Oppenheimer; description of Alamagordo explosion; director of Lick Observatory, 1945-58: comments on staff, staff projects, circumstances of Vasilevskis joining staff, recollections of William Wright, 20-inch telescope program, 150-inch telescope, relation to Berkeley Astronomy Dept., Lick-Mt. Wilson annual conferences, life on Mt. Hamilton; AURA and Kitt Peak Observatory Projet, 1950s; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Project; organizing IAU International Meeting at Berkeley; developing astronomy in New Zealand; comments on astronomical societies and organization, recent trends in astronomy, personal politics and sons' careers.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 5-inch reels (ca. 8.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 210 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82558797 View

Babcock, Horace W. Oral history interview with Horace W. Babcock, 1977, July 25.

Title: Oral history interview with Horace W. Babcock, 1977, July 25.

This interview begins with a discussion of Babcock's childhood and youth around Mt. Wilson Observatory, with comments on father (Harold D. Babcock), Walter S. Adams, and Edwin P. Hubble. Also discussed in this interview: education at Caltech, University of California at Berkeley and Lick Observatory (1934-1939), and at Yerkes and MacDonald Observatories; work at MIT and Caltech on World War II hardware; astronomical instrumentation work, especially postwar Mt. Wilson-Palomar diffraction gratings; discovery of magnetic stars and studies of variations; work on solar magnetic fields (with father) and theory of solar cycle; comments on cosmology; discussion of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories since the 1920s, especially under Ira Bowen's and Babcock's directorship (1963); internal administration; staff relations; dealings with Carnegie Institution and Caltech; discussion of Hale Observatories, 1930-1977; role of government funding in astronomy; guest investigators; allocation of telescope time; planning, funding, and construction of the Carnegie Southern Observatory at Las Campanas, 1963-1977. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Ed Ackerman, Carl David Anderson, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Vannevar Bush, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Crawford Greenewalt, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, George Ellery Hale, Caryl Haskins, Louis Henyey, Armin O. Leuschner, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Edgar Nichols, Elmer Prall, Bruce Rule, Frederick H. Seares, Sinclair Smith, Otto Struve, Charles Hard Townes, George van Biesbroeck, H.A. Wood, Fritz Zwicky; Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astrophysical Journal, Bausch and Lomb Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Ford Foundation, Hale Observatories, Hale Solar Laboratory, Inyokern Project, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Las Campanas Observatory, Lick Observatory Bulletin, McDonald Observatory, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, National Science Foundation (U.S.), 48-inch Schmidt Telescope, 100-inch Telescope, 120-inch Telescope, 200-inch Telescope, and University of California at Berkeley, CA.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 95 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154302815 View

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Records, 1953-1974

Title: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Records, 1953-1974

Records of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Tucson, Arizona. Correspondence files of Robert R. McMath, Leo Goldberg, and Orren C. Mohler, reports, minutes, financial and budgetary materials, and technical reports relating to the development of AURA and its predecessor organization, the Advisory Panel for the National Astronomical Observatory, and concerning observatories at Kitt Peak, Arizona, and Cerro Tololo, Chile; also material concerning political developments in Chile; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

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Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973. Oral history interview with Ira Sprague Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 26 August 1969.

Title: Oral history interview with Ira Sprague Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 26 August 1969.

Early life and education; research on spectroscopy with Robert A. Millikan at University of Chicago and Caltech; early teaching career at Caltech; work on forbidden lines, 200-inch telescope project; visitors to Caltech during the 1930s include Albert Einstein and Arnold Sommerfeld; effects of the Depression and World War II on astronomy; postwar reorganization, staff and funding at Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories; Edwin P. Hubble's role at the observatory; educational aspects of the observatory program (professional and public); research groups and research interests; theorists and observationalists, Jesse Greenstein, Guido Münch, Jan Oort, radio astronomy; recollections and evaluations of own work after retirement. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Sydney Adams, Harold Delos Babcock, William Alvin Baum, Wilhelm Bjerknes, T. Bowen, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge, Vannevar Bush, J. Carroll, Lee Alvin DuBridge, Theodore Dunham Jr., Edlén, Robley Dunglison Evans, William Alfred Fowler, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, George Ellery Hale, John L. Hall, Don Hendrix, Alfred H. Joy, Thomas Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Max Mason, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Merriam, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, R. Otis, Henry Norris Russell, John Donovan Strong, Richard Chase Tolman, Merle Antony Tuve; Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 5-inch sound reels (ca. 5.75 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 83 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80781593 View

Mount Wilson Observatory. Legal papers of Mount Wilson Observatory, 1903-1938.

Title: Legal papers of Mount Wilson Observatory, 1903-1938.

The Mount Wilson Observatory Legal Papers comprise one box of material relating to the founding, construction, and operation of the institution dating from 1903 to 1939. The bulk of the papers are legal documents: deeds, leases, utility contracts, and permits. Two folders contain documents relating to legal actions taken against Mount Wilson and the Carnegie Institution. Also included are three letters from John D. Hooker, a Los Angeles industrialist, philanthropist, and founder of the California Academy of Science, announcing his donation to fund the 100" telescope that would bear his name. Other participants include: George Ellergy Hale, Walter S. Adams and Francis G. Pease. The papers are arranged alphabetically according to the person, company, or institution that created them.

ArchivalResource: 84 items.1 box.

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Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931. Papers, 1803-1989 ; (bulk: 1861-1965).

Title: Papers, 1803-1989 ; (bulk: 1861-1965).

The collection documents Michelson's long career, but also includes materials relevant to Michelson that were created before and after his lifetime. Subjects covered include the Michelson family; his career at the Naval Academy and subsequent relations with the Navy; his relationship with other institutions such as Clark University, University of Chicago, the Bureau of Standards, and the Case Institute. Subject files include: ether experiments, gravity meter experiments, the history of light and the interferometer, the Michelson-Morley experiment, spectroscopy, star diameter measurements, vacuum tube experiment, velocity of light measurements, the Mount Wilson experiment, the Nobel Prize, Lick Observatory, and the Bureau of Ordinance range finder. Correspondence concerning Michelson's experiments, awards, and society memberships, notebooks, data sheets, etc. and on such topics as the velocity of light, relative motion of earth and ether, determination of the standard meter in wavelengths of light, and other applications of interference methods of metrology, metallic colors in birds and insects, measurement of stellar diameters, elasticoviscous phenomena, and earth tides; scientific manuscripts and reprints by Michelson and other scientists whose work related to Michelson's; critiques and biographical material about Michelson; apparatus (some models), such as the interferometer, gravity meter, ruling engine, and ether. Drift equipment; photos; and medals. The Publications Series includes all of Michelson's published works, as well as most of the materials published about him. Among the many associates of Michelson's represented in the collection are: W.S. Adams, Niels Bohr, H. Crew, Albert Einstein, Henry Gordon Gale, George Ellery Hale, R.A. Millikan, E.M. Morley, Simon Newcomb, Thomas J. O'Donnell, Francis G. Pease, and Lord Rayleigh.

ArchivalResource: 63.28 linear feet : (includes a variety of media)

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Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002. Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1974 July 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1974 July 31.

Childhood in New York; high school experience at Horace Mann; Harvard undergraduate at the age of 15. Impressions of ordeal with Harlow Shapley. Depression years in the family business, return to a very changed Harvard in 1934. Thesis work on Interstellar Absorption (Bart Bok), Ph.D. 1937. Postdoc at Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve) working on Upsilon Sagittarius. Develops the 140-degree camera (the Greenstein-Louis G. Henyey camera); work with Fred Whipple on radio signals from space (Karl Jansky, Grote Reber), Greenstein's and Reber's review article on classified radio detection work during World War II. Founding of the Astrophysics Department at Caltech. Radio astronomy in the mid-1950s. Work on white dwarfs from 1957 on. Own accomplishments as scientist and in personal life. Impressions of Martin Schwarzschild, Shapley, Reber, Fred Hoyle. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Sydney Adams, Lloyd Viel Berkner, John Bolton, Leverett Davis, William Alfred Fowler, Leo Goldberg, Louis Henyey, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Milton Lasell Humason, Robert Hutchins, Karl Jansky, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Tom R. Matthews, Robert Reynolds McMath, Donald Howard Menzel, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, William Wilson Morgan, Guido Münch, Beverly Oke, Donald Osterbrock, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Robert Richardson, Allan Sandage, Jan Schildt, Shklovsky, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Lyman Spitzer, Edward Teller, Richard Chace Tolman, Robert Julius Trumpler, Merle Antony Tuve, Albrecht Otto Johannes Unsöld, Immanuel Velikofsky, Fred Whipple; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Hale Observatories, Harvard College Observatory, Lick Observatory, McDonald Observatory, McDonald Observatory Nebular spectrograph, National Science Foundation (U.S.), 100-inch Telescope, University of Chicago, and Vista Project.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 45 pp.

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Wright, F. E. (Frederic Eugene), 1877-1953. Papers of Frederic Eugene Wright, 1924-1961.

Title: Papers of Frederic Eugene Wright, 1924-1961.

The collection contains material ranging from correspondence to various types of research materials to clippings and reprints of articles of newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. The majority of the collection deals with the history of science and Wright's research of the physical features of the moon. The collection is composed of four sections in accordance with the types of sources: correspondence, manuscripts, research materials, and ephemera. The correspondence is contained in Box 1, while the manuscripts are housed in Boxes 1 and 2. Research materials occupy Boxes 2-5, divided into five sub-sections: unbound research materials, research materials in folders, bound research materials, photographs, and negatives. The Ephemera section is contained in Boxes 5 and 6. The items in each section and sub-section are placed in chronological order. Correspondence indicates the ways in which Wright advanced the research project of the Committee on Study of Surface Feature of Moon as well as in which he shaped his ideas and conducted his research in relation to other scholars; he asked other scholars research questions and was asked by them. Wright regularly corresponded with administrators at the Carnegie Institution, such as W.M. Gilbert and John Merriam, and the committee members in California, updating each other on the project. Also he communicated with other scholars in the field including R.A. Daly at Harvard, W.H. Pickering at an observatory in Jamaica, George Hale at the California Institute of Technology, Harlow Shapley at the Harvard College Observatory, C.P. Oliver at the University of Pennsylvania, Ernest Brown at Yale, Jesse L. Greenstein at the Harvard College Observatory, Otto Struve at the University of California, Berkeley, and Henry Norris Russell at Princeton. Manuscripts and research materials tell us exactly what Wright thought and did in terms of his research project. Manuscripts include the reports of the committee and drafts of talks he gave to various audiences. Research materials are a nice collection of research data (graphs and tables), research notes, and visual sources such as photographs and negatives. The ephemera section also contributes to tracing the trajectory of Wright's ideas, composed of clippings of articles regarding the moon from newspapers and magazines and reprints of his own published papers.

ArchivalResource: 865 items.6 boxes : plus 3 oversize folders.

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Merrill, Paul W. (Paul Willard), 1887-1961. Papers of Paul W. Merrill, 1922-1961.

Title: Papers of Paul W. Merrill, 1922-1961.

The collection consists of Paul Willard Merrill's correspondence files from the years 1922-1961 during his time at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Correspondents include: Walter Sydney Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Leon Campbell, George Ellery Hale, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the U.S. Bureau of Standards.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes.

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Sargeant, Moses M. (Moses Motley), 1876-1946. Correspondence, 1895-1897.

Title: Correspondence, 1895-1897.

Letters to Sargeant (Dartmouth College Class of 1899) from his uncle Cyrus Sargeant and his undergraduate roommate Walter Sydney "Pete" Adams (Dartmouth College Class of 1898). Transcripts are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

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McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962. Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1962.

Title: Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1962.

Correspondence concerning astronomy, particularly celestial photography, and the development of the McMath Observatory, financial records, plans for telescope equipment, and printed materials. Correspondents include: Randolph G. Adams, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, E. F. Barker, Junius E. Beal, Kevin Burns, George L. Burr, Vannevar Bush, Manuel Avila Camacho, Heber D. Curtis, R. H. Curtiss, A. E. Dale, F. Trubee Davison, Helen Dodson, Allen Dulles, Theodore J. Dunham, Carl Eckart, John R. Effinger, J. W. Fecker, Clyde Fisher, Erle Stanley Gardner, W. S. Gilmore, Leo Goldberg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Melville Grosvenor, Roger Heyns, Henry S. Hulbert, N. C. Johnson, Louis C. Karpinski, Remington Kellogg, Hayward Keniston, Edward H. Kraus, F. H. Learer, Roy D. McClure, C. S. McDowell, Tracy W. McGregor, Francis C. McMath, George Malesky, Donald H. Menzel, Paul W. Merrill, Orren C. Mohler, Seth Nicholson, William Norton, Charles E. Odegaard, Jesse Ormondroyd, R. M. Petrie, Edison Pettit, Alfred J. Pyke, Donald A. Quarles, Harrison G. Reynolds, Warner G. Rice, Henry N. Russell, Alexander G. Ruthven, Samuel Sass, H. E. Sawyer, Charles H. Schauer, B. A. Schriever, Harlow Shaply, Joseph W. Shirley, Shirley Smith, E. Blythe Stason, Joel Stebbins, Harlan Stetson, Julius F. Stone, T. Hawley Tapping, Alan Waterman, Alfred H. White, Charles E. Wilson, and Clarence S. Yoakum.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

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History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are C.G. Abbot, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, Paul Gough Agnew, Thomas Alexander, Leroy R. Alldredge, Fred Allison, IA. L. Alpert, Howard Andrews, Norman Austern, Harold Babcock, Lewis Balamuth, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, N.P. Barabashov, E. Scott Barr, H.H. Barschall, Carl Barus, Michael Bass, Robert Harold Bassel, Bath, Markus, Louis Andrew Beach, Linn Yardley Beers, Norman Carl Beese, William E. Bell, David Fulmer Bender, Walter Benenson, Harold E. Bennett, Ralph Decker Bennett, Robert Thomas Beyer, Ludwig Biermann, S. Biswas, John Paul Blewett, Arnold Lapin Bloom, David Bohm, Bertram Bordon Boltwood, Ludwig Boltzmann, Arnold Aaron Bondi, Max Born, Ira Bowen, Emily Hughes Boyce, Constance Doraine Boyd, D.B. Brace, James J. Brady, Walter H. Brattain, Aubrey Keith Brewer, Richard G. Brewer, William B. Bridges, Leon Brillouin, Herbert P. Broida, Frederick Lyons Brown, James William Broxon, Keith Allan Brueckner, Reid AJ. Bryson, Arthur Maynard Bueche, W.E. Burcham, J.M. Burgers, Robert L. Burman, Walter G. Cady, Jack Calvert A.G.W. Cameron, Lee Wendel Casperson, James MacDonald Cassels, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Britton Chance, Arnold Franklin Clark, Donald Clayton, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Robert Griffin Coleman, Daniel F. Comstock, Edward Uhler Condon, C. Sharp Cook, William David Coolidge, Richard Threlkeld Cox, William Henry Crew, Samuel Curran.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

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