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Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995. Papers, 1928-1995.

Title: Papers, 1928-1995.

Contains personal and professional correspondence, notes, manuscripts, offprints, lecture notes, scientific writings, records of the Astrophysical Journal, awards, honorary degrees, biographical material, photographs, and sound and video recordings. Papers span Chandrasekhar's career and document his student years at Cambridge University, his teaching career at the University of Chicago, scientific research and writing in astrophysics, editing of the Astrophysical Journal, and connections with family members and friends in India. Because of his long tenure at the University of Chicago, Chandrasekhar's papers constitute an important source for documenting the development of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Yerkes Observatory, and provide much information on colleagues and students from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Correspondents include Lawrence H. Aller, T.G. Cowling, George Gamow, Gerhard Herzberg, Gerard P. Kuiper, Norman Lebovitz, Paul Ledoux, C.C. Lin, J.E. Littlewood, William H. Reid, Pol Swings, John von Neumann, and others. Organizations represented include the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of London. Includes notes Chandrasekhar took while a student of Arthur S. Eddington, R.H. Fowler, P.A.M. Dirac and others. Also includes notes for courses taught at the University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 240 linear ft.

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Struve (Otto) Papers

Title: Struve (Otto) Papers

Correspondence, most of it prior to Struve's service in the Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, biographical materials, bibliographies of his writings, photographs, and some papers relating to various members of the Struve family. Also includes materials concerning his interest and activity in astronomy while at U.C. Berkeley and the International Astronomical Union.

ArchivalResource: 5 Linear Feet Number of containers: (4 cartons); Linear feet: 5.0

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Blaauw, Adriaan. Oral history interview with Adriaan Blaauw, 1979 August 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Adriaan Blaauw, 1979 August 19.

Early life and family in Amsterdam; childhood interest in astronomy and telescope-building; undergraduate at Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden (W. deSitter, J. Woltjer), works at Leiden Observatory; growing interest in galactic research (Ejnar Hertzsprung, Jan Oort); contact with others at Leiden (Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Kramers). Assistantship at Rijksuniversiteit te Gröningen, 1938; cooperative stellar catalog with Harvard University and Universität Hamburg. Life during the German Occupation, conditions in Leiden and Holland; the Resistance Movement; returns to Leiden, 1945. Begins work on thesis at end of war, continues Jacobus C. Kapteyn's interest in proper motion of helium star (Scorpio-Centaur association); compares Boss Catalog and FK Catalog for systematic errors (Oort). Discussion of postwar developments in time scale problem (Albrecht Unsöld, Victor Ambartsumian). To Yerkes Observatory, 1947; impressions of Yerkes and other American observatories: RR Lyrae variables (Otto Struve), 1947-1948; work on extension of cluster expansion (W. W. Morgan), 1952; work in Kenya on stellar positions (Maarten Schmidt), 1949-1950. Back to Yerkes, 1953-1957 (Bengt Strömgren, Gerard Kuiper, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Hiltner). Directorship of Kapteyn Laboratory, Groningen; organization of the Radio Foundation. Origins and development of European Southern Observatory; five-year term as Director. Views on development of astronomy in Holland (Antoine Pannekoek, Marcel Minnaert, Pieter van Rhijn); radio astronomy.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 6 sound cassettes (ca. 6.0 hrs.), 1 session.Final transcript: 89 pp.

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Joy, Alfred H. (Alfred Harrison), 1882-1973. Papers of Alfred Harrison Joy, 1910-1972.

Title: Papers of Alfred Harrison Joy, 1910-1972.

The collection consists of the professional papers of Alfred Harrison Joy. It includies both incoming and copies of going correspondence (3 boxes) and research files (manuscripts, lectures, notebooks, etc.) related to Joy's study of stellar radial velocities, variable stars, T Tauri stars, and galactic structure.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,150 items.10 boxes.

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Münch Galindo, Guido. Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7.

Title: Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7.

Early life in Mexico; Civil Engineering school, 1938, physics in Mexico; University of Mexico; study group; visitors from the United States, 1941; McDonald and Yerkes Observatories, 1942; work with Otto Struve; modern physics at University of Mexico; contact with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Solomon Lefshetz's influence on mathematics in Mexico; Yerkes courses and general atmosphere after 1944; Struve's administration; work with Chandrasekhar; postdoctoral work in Mexico; return to Yerkes, staff reorganization; research at Yerkes, including radiative transfer, stellar envelopes, and Jupiter (Gerhard Herzberg); Mt. Wilson and work there; Caltech position; general research in 1950s and 1960s; limitations of present day research; teaching at Caltech; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); decision to accept position in Germany; Caltech and Carnegie Institute of Technology; role of Kitt Peak Observatory in Federal Funding for Astronomy; reflections on past work. Also prominently mentioned are: Camilo Arguello, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Robert Hutchins, Gerard Peter Kuiper, William Wilson Morgan, Luis Münch, Satero Prieto, Olin Chaddock Wilson; Hale Observatories, and Tonantzintla Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 74 p.

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Wylie, C. C. (Charles Clayton), b. 1886. Papers of C.C. Wylie, 1910-1960 (bulk 1950-1955).

Title: Papers of C.C. Wylie, 1910-1960 (bulk 1950-1955).

Astronomical charts, correspondence, reports, rock chips, and travel forms on calendar reform, meteor and meteorite sightings, unidentified flying objects, and Lincoln LaPaz. Correspondents include George E. Collins, W.D. Frankforter, Moses Jung, Gerard P. Kuiper, Peter M. Millman, James R. Naiden, H.H. Nininger, J. Hugh Pruett, Harlow Shapley, and Otto Struve.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft.

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Ebbighausen, E. G. (Edwin George), 1911-. Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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

Questionnaire with brief, typed responses and four double-sided pages of addendum. The first addenda is entitled Impressions of Some Astronomers, in which Ebbighausen reminiscences about his years at Yerkes Observatory with Otto Struve, William W. Morgan, Philip Keenan, Gerard Kuiper, Bengt Stomgren, Gordon Wares, George Van Biesbroeck and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, from whom he took classes. There is a much shorter autobiographcal addenda called The Discovery of the large Proper Motion Star B.D.+5 1668 in which Willem J. Luyten also figures prominently. 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 extraterrrestrial intelligence.

ArchivalResource: 19 pp.

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Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007. Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1984 February 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1984 February 15.

Wartime uranium project, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut, Kurt Diebner, von Weizsäcker's and his father's attitude; Werner Heisenberg's political motives in the Hitler era. Niels Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, 1941. Origin of planetary system, the age of the sun. Physics and astronomy studies in Universität Göttingen and elsewhere (Heisenberg, Max Born, Hans Kienle, Ludwig Biermann). American contacts at and visits to Lick, Mt. Wilson, Yerkes Observatories (Gerard Kuiper) after the war. Charles P. Snow's Two Cultures. The 1957 Göttingen Manifesto. The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Living Conditions of the Scientific-Technological World. Comments on 1955-1958 work Grundlagen der Quantentheorie und die Sogenannte Hypothese der Uralternativen. Hans Bethe's Nobel Prize; some thoughts on the future of astrophysics.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 31 pp.

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Dollfus, Audouin. Oral history interview with Audouin Dollfus, 1986 September 2 and 14 January 1987.

Title: Oral history interview with Audouin Dollfus, 1986 September 2 and 14 January 1987.

Recollections of parents, early schooling, German occupation of Paris, early 1940s. Involvement with the Pic-du-Midi Observatory (Bernard Lyot), impressions of French and German astronomy, late 1940s to 1950s; polarimetric and polarization studies of sun and planets at Meudon Observatory. Communications and interactions with astronomers active in solar system research (G.P. Kuiper); extensive picture of efforts by Dollfus to study sun and planets through manned balloons (August Piccard, John Strong), 1950s and 1960s; attempts to measure water vapor in atmosphere of Mars. Develops planetary data center at Meudon Observatory, early 1960s; competition for telescope time at Meudon and Pic-du-Midi observatories; involvement in U.S. (Mariner 10) and Soviet (Mars-5) planetary missions; compares American, Soviet administration of science. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles Boyer, G. De Mottoni, John Strong, Otto Winzen, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, International Astronomical Union and NASA.

ArchivalResource: Session one preliminary transcript, session two transcript, 55 p.

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Oort, Jan Hendrik. Papers, 1919-1975.

Title: Papers, 1919-1975.

The collection includes research files, notes on research projects, general correspondence files from 1945-1975, and personal correspondence files from 1922 onwards (e.g. with Bok, Van de Kamp, Kuiper, Van Rhijn, Baade, Struve, Blaauw); correspondence and papers on the organization of astronomy and on the establishment of the Leiden Southern Station at Hartebeespoortdam (South Africa), the radio observatories at Dwingeloo and Westerbork, the European Southern Observatory; the establishment of "Astronomy and Astrophysics, a European Journal." Agendas, minutes and correspondence concerning the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Senate of Leiden University, the Leiden Academic Arts Centre, the Leiden Observatory Fund, the Committee for Geodesy and Space Research (GROC), the Board of Curators of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Academic Council, and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. Also lecture notes (both University and Popular Lectures), preparatory notes for symposia etc., records and diaries of foreign visits, and notes on discussions with colleagues, etc.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 cu. ft.

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Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-. Letter to Gerard Peter Kuiper congratulating him on his recent astronomical discovery, 1944.

Title: Letter to Gerard Peter Kuiper congratulating him on his recent astronomical discovery, 1944.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Nicholson, Seth B. (Seth Barnes), 1891-1963. Papers of Seth Barnes Nicholson, 1914-1963.

Title: Papers of Seth Barnes Nicholson, 1914-1963.

The collection contains Seth Barnes Nicholson's astronomical research and correspondence. The majority of Nicholson's research material deals with his study of Jupiter and its moons (Box 1). His other research (Box 2) includes his study of magnetic activity, the asteroid Icarus, Trojan asteroids, Pluto, Venus, the Sun and Sun spots (there is one item dealing with both Jupiter and the Sun in Box 1). There are some pieces of correspondence in the research folders. Most of the correspondence (Box 3) is between Nicholson and other astronomers throughout the world; the majority of it is also about Jupiter and its moons, asteroids and sun spots. Notable participants in the collection include: Giorgio Abetti, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Robert Grant Aitken, Joseph Ashbrook, Ira Sprague Bowen, Leland E. Cunningham, Sturla Einarsson, Charles Federer, Paul Herget, Samuel Herrick, Theodor S. Jacobsen, Vladimir Kourganoff, Karl Otto Kiepenheuer, Gerard Kuiper, Willem Luyten, M. G. J. Minnaert, Yngve Öhman, Jan Oort, William Henry Pickering, Frederick Hanley Seares, Harlow Shapley, Otto Struve, Alexander N. Vyssotsky, Fred L. Whipple and Fritz Zwicky. The collection also includes several photographs.

ArchivalResource: 445 items.3 boxes.

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Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-1994. Oral history interview with W.W. Morgan, 1978 August 8 and 9.

Title: Oral history interview with W.W. Morgan, 1978 August 8 and 9.

Childhood and father's influence; high school in Washington, DC. Enters Washington & Lee University, 1923; becomes assistant at Yerkes Observatory, 1926, while continuing courses; B.S., 1927. Marriage to Helen Barrett. Contacts with Otto Struve, Mario Schoenberg, Dmitri Mihalis. Invention of UBV system; work on A-type stars, MK system, Ph. D. Work during 1930s on effects of metals in spectra; revision of HR Diagram, work on "spottedness" of stellar surface; changes of interest, paper on two-dimensional arrays, 1937. Problems of promotion and tenure at University of Chicago. Struve's administration, departure, and experiences at National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Decision to stay at Yerkes; effects of World War II, including Yerkes Optical Bureau and Greenstein-Henyey camera. Work on spiral arms, work with Walter Baade, William Pendry Bidelman, Jason Nassau; use of Case Schmidt telescope, and Case Survey for OB stars; paper on "natural groups"; recognition of spiral arms, 1951; physical collapse, 1952. Yerkes administration under Struve, Bengt Strömgren, 1950-1957, and Gerard Kuiper. Problems at Kitt Peak. Editor at Astrophysical Journal until 1952. Work with William Pendry Bidelman, Harold Johnson on UBV system. Associate at Lick, 1955; interest in forms of galaxies and classification schemes. Visiting professor at Caltech, 1956; contacts at Mt. Wilson; Edwin P. Hubble. Recognition of supergiant galaxies, 1960. Alfred. Joy's review of Yerkes Spectral Atlas. Director of Yerkes, 1960-1963; creation of Astronomy Department at University of Texas; plans for Southern Hemisphere Observatory, eventually taken over by Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy. Younger staff departs Yerkes, courses moved to Chicago. Chairman of Astronomy Department, 1960-1966. Wife's illness and death; own illness in 1966. Also prominently mentioned are: Nathaniel Apter, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, G.K. Chesterson, Agatha Christie, Louis Henyey, Lou Hobbs, Henry James, Phillip Keenan, Oliver J. Lee, Aden Meinel, H.R. Morgan, Henry Norris Russell, Alice Weatherspoon, Benjamin Wooten; Marvin College, McDonald Observatory, and Sky and Telescope.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 105 p.

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Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-. Dedication of McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Texas [motion picture] / taken by Peter Van de Kamp.

Title: Dedication of McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Texas [motion picture] / taken by Peter Van de Kamp. 1939.

Van de Camp's film of the celebration (including a Texas barbecue) commemorating the dedication of McDonald Observatory in 1939. Among the attendees were: Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Edwin F. Carpenter, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Heber Doust Curtis, Christian Thomas Elvey, Edwin Powell Hubble, Gerald Peter Kuiper, C.A. Robert Lundin, Robert Raynolds McMath, Edward Arthur Milne, Jason John Nassau, Jan Hendrik Oort, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, John Stanley Plaskett, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Jan Schilt, Carl K. Seyfert, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Slocum, Otto Struve, Robert Julius Trumpler, and William Hammond Wright. The film also includes scenes of the town of Fort Davis, Texas.

ArchivalResource: 1 film reel (11 min.) : si., b&w and col. ; 16 mm.

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Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967. Correspondence, 1903-1966.

Title: Correspondence, 1903-1966.

Includes correspondence with a large number of astromers and physicists. Some of the names included in the correspondce are: Robert G. Aitken, A. Blaauw, Niels Bohr, Bart J. Bok, Frank K. Edmonson, P. Ehrenfest, the International Astronomical Union, Hamilton M. Jeffers, Gerard P. Kuiper, J. H. Oort, Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, Frank Schlesinger, K. Schwarzschild, H. Shapley, O. Struve, and B. Strömgren.

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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.

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Spinrad, Hyron, 1934-. Oral history interview with Hyron Spinrad, 1977 July 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Hyron Spinrad, 1977 July 19.

Early life in New York and California, and decision to do undergraduate work in astronomy at University of California at Berkeley. Decision during army service, 1955-1957, on a career in astronomy; return to Berkeley, 1957, for graduate work. Professional career: work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 1961-1964; return to Berkeley as professor in 1964, and research in galaxy-related problems. General problems in cosmology. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Jerry Brown, Armin Deutsch, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Louis Henyey, Alfred H. Joy, Lou Kaplan, Richard Kron, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, William Wilson Morgan, Guido Münch, George Preston, Ronald Reagan, Allan Sandage, Emanuel B. Spinrad, Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, Otto Struve, George Wallerston, Joe Wampler, Harold Weaver, Albert Edward Whitford; California Institute of Technology, Hayden Planetarium, International Astronomical Union, Lick Observatory, San Diego State University, Sky and Telescope, United States Army Map Service, and Yale Conference on Cosmology (1977).

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 4.0 hr.), 1 session.Transcript: 95 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80830951 View

Goldberg, Leo. Oral history interview with Leo Goldberg, 1978 May 16 to 1982.

Title: Oral history interview with Leo Goldberg, 1978 May 16 to 1982.

Early years; undergraduate at Harvard University, 1930-1934, and growth of interest in astronomy; graduate student and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, 1934-1941; social and scientific life, atomic physics work; Robert McMath and character of McMath-Hulbert observatory; mechanical engineering work in World War II; chairmanship of University of Michigan Astronomy Department, 1946-1960; optical and radio telescopes and funding; work on solar infrared and element abundances; Chairman and Director at Harvard, 1960-1971; relations with Smithsonian Institution, other politics, fund-raising; work on orbiting solar observatories; relations with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Space Science Board, Apollo Telescope Mount, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force (Scientific Advisory Board, Project West Ford), and National Science Foundation (NSF); International Astronomical Union (IAU) and Chinese membership; editorial positions. An addendum dictated by Goldberg describes his six years as Director of Kitt Peak Observatory, particularly his relations with the Users Committee. Also prominently mentioned are: Lawrence Hugh Aller, Lloyd Viel Berkner, Victor Blanco, Bart Jan Bok, Wilbur Bolton, Wallace Brode, David Crawford, Leland Cunningham, Heber D. Curtis, Alex Dalgarno, Armin Deutsch, James Fletcher, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Christian Archibald Herter, W.A. Hiltner, Harry Hulbert, Gerard Peter Kuiper. Francis McMath, Donald Howard Menzel, James E. Miller, Marcel G. Minnaert, George Mueller, Homer Edward Newell, Edward Ney, Randall Robertson, Frank Schlesinger, Harlow Shapley, George H. Shortley, Otto Struve, James Webb, Richard Wheeler, Fred Whipple, John Wolbach, S.B. Wolbach; Apollo Telescope Mount, Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy, Associated Universities, Inc., Ball Brothers, Goddard Space Flight Center, Green Bank Observatory, High Energy Astronomy Observatory, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Orbiting Solar Observatory, United States Navy, and University of Michigan.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 171 p.

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Kuiper, Gerard Peter, 1905-1973. Papers, 1927-1974.

Title: Papers, 1927-1974.

Correspondence, research, notebooks, reprints. Reminiscences of Kuiper (both written and taped), other tape recordings, photographs, films, etc. Also, many boxes of books, dictaphone tapes, some pieces of apparatus, numerous plates, films, recorder rolls, and other similar items. Also contains material pertinent to the origin and development of Mauna Kea Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 80 ln. ft.

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Edmondson, Frank K. (Frank Kelley), 1912-. Oral history interview with Frank K. Edmondson, 21 April 1977 and 2 February 1978.

Title: Oral history interview with Frank K. Edmondson, 21 April 1977 and 2 February 1978.

Early home life in Indiana, and early schooling. Origins of his interest in astronomy and the influence of both family and teachers. College years at Indiana University and contacts with members of the astronomy department there (E.C. and Vesto M. Slipher). Discussion of history of Indiana University Astronomy Department, and its contact with the Lowell Observatory. Graduate school at Harvard University, Peter van de Kamp's influence, work in stellar kinematics, impressions of atmosphere at Harvard. Faculty position at Indiana University, 1937 to present. Origins of Goethe Link Observatory, and the growth of the department. Organizational work in the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Work at National Science Foundation (NSF) as scientific officer for astronomy, 1956, and development of National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO); NSF and AUI; NRAO directors; Sputnik; Kitt Peak Observatory site survey, NSF and Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA); Aden Meinel; John B. Irwin's proposal for a photoelectric observatory; Flagstaff Conference; Robert McMath Panel; structure of Kitt Peak staff; Chilean observatory and development of Cerro Tololo; Gerard Kuiper's role in southern observatory; European Southern Observatory (ESO), Carnegie Southern Observatory (CARSO) and AURA joint Paris meeting; Russian interests in southern observatory; CARSO application to Ford Foundation; agreements between AURA and. CARSO; building telescopes at Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololoth︣e WISCO dispute; policy problems; AURA Board meetings; demise of Space Division at Kitt Peak; Whitford Panel; White Sands rocket project; astronomy and teaching at Indiana. Also prominently mentioned are: Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, Lawrence Hugh Aller, Bart Jan Bok, William A. Cogshall, James Cuffey, H.T. Davis, Arthur Foley, Paul Herget, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Virgil Hunt, Geoffrey Keller, C.O. Lampland, Robert Reynolds McMath, Edward Arthur Milne, Samuel A. Mitchell, William Wilson Morgan, Jason John Nassau, Henry Norris Russell, Frederico Rutllant, Charles Donald Shane, Harlow Shapley, Jurgen Stock, Otto Struve, Merle Antony Tuve, Herman B. Wells, K.P. Williams, Marshall Wrubel; Associated Universities, Inc., Ford Foundation, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System, Lick Observatory, McDonald Observatory, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 148 p.

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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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Brunk, William Edward, 1928-. Oral History interview with William E. Brunk, 1983J, July 21 and August 9.

Title: Oral History interview with William E. Brunk, 1983J, July 21 and August 9.

This interview traces Brunk's career in engineering with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Lewis Research Center (formerly Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory), NASA and NASA Headquarters. The discussion begins with an overview of his family background and his education at Case Institute of Technology, followed by his work in supersonic aerodynamics for NACA. The interview primarily examines Brunk's role in and perceptions of the development of planetary ground-based astronomy during his tenure at NASA Headquarters, as Program Chief of Planetary Astronomy. Topics discussed include: telescope innovations at different observatories; problems and techniques in ground-based observation; exploration of Mars; the Planetary Patrol program at Lowell Observatory; his membership to the American Astronomical Society; and general perceptions of NASA's role in ground-based astronomy. Other affiliations and contacts discussed include: Jason Nassau, Nancy Roman, Urner Liddel, and Gerard Kuiper.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 80 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305625 View

Johnson, Hugh M. Papers, 1946-1999.

Title: Papers, 1946-1999.

The collection is centered on Johnson's time at Lockheed Space & Missile Company (1963-1986), but there is also material pertaining to his work before and after this period. The bulk of the research is on x-ray astronomy, but there is also material on Johnson's other research interests (x-ray astronomy, nebulae, galaxies, galactic structure, and interstellar matter). The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, with lesser amounts of notes, newspaper clippings, and notebooks. The correspondence is both personal and professional. The correspondents include: Helmet A. Abt, Lawrence H. Aller, Frank M. Bateson, Bart J. Bok, Riccardo Giacconi, David S. Heeschen, George Herbig, William Hiltner, W.E. Howard III, Helen Hogg, Willem Luyten, N.U. Mayall, Donald Osterbrock, Stuart Pottasch, Arcadio Poveda, Frederick D. Seward, Lindsey Smith, Theodore Snow, Bruce Stephenson, Polydore Swings, Yervant Terzian, and Gart Westerhout. Some correspondence related to specific research subjects, observatories, meetings and programs is accompanied by research notes and photographs. The collection also contains notebooks from courses at the University of Chicago (taught by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Gerard Peter Kuiper, and Bengt Stromgren), the 1964 Hamburg IAU meeting, Yerkes Observatory Colloquia, and an NSF conference for teachers of astronomy at Berkeley in 1954.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303330 View

Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002. Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1982 February 25, and March 16 and 23, 1982.

Title: Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1982 February 25, and March 16 and 23, 1982.

Years at Yerkes, 1937-1948; importance of Otto Struve, Groti Reber, Louis Henyey, Ger ard Kuiper and James G. Baker. Staff work at Mount Wilson/ Palomar, 1948, California Institute of Technology, 1948-. Impressions of Fritz Zwicky, Howard Percy Robertson, Edwin Hubble, and Lee DuBridge. Educational cooperative with Carnegie Institution. Relationship of radio astronoomy to optical astronomy; memories of John Bolton and E.G. Bowen. Importance of general relativity in astronomy. Influence of Richard C. Tolman and Earnest Watson. Relationship between nuclear physics and astronomy; collaboration with Leverett Davis, Charlie Lauritsen, Bob Christy, Fred Hoyle, and the Burbidges. G's view of honors and awards. Role of Henry Dreyfuss in founding the DuBridge chair. G's administratvie work at Caltech. Development of the humanities program. G's view of the role of women in astronomy; opinions of Annie Jump Cannon, Jane Werner Watson, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Virginia Trimble, and Sandra Faber. Challenges of 200-inch telescope. Technical innovations by Ira S. Bowen and J.B. Oke. Effect of computers on astronomy.

ArchivalResource: 3 sound cassettes.

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Wilson, J. Tuzo (John Tuzo), 1908-. Oral history interview with J. Tuzo Wilson, 1993 February 16.

Title: Oral history interview with J. Tuzo Wilson, 1993 February 16.

John Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993). Early experiences in forestry with the Ottawa Field Naturalist Club; study of physics and geology at the University of Toronto (1926-1930, B.A. 1930), influence of Satterly; Massey fellowship to Cambridge University (1930-1932, M.A. 1932), contact with Jeffreys; work at Princeton in geology (1932-1936, Ph.D.) ; contacts with Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld, Scheidegger, and Feild. U.S. Geological Survey, (1936-1938). World War II Operational Research, Canadian Airborne (1943). Professor of Physics, University of Toronto (1946-1967). International Union of Geology and Geophysics involvement. National Research Council involvement. Scientific contacts with Communist countries, and political implications. Collaboration with Gerald Kuiper on "The Earth as a Planet". President of Erindale College (1967-1974). Collaboration with J. Jacobs and Robert Russell on "Physics and Geology". Religious beliefs. Discussion of geophysics and its relation to physics and geology.

ArchivalResource: 4 sound cassettes (4 hours).

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Planck, Max, 1858-1947. Correspondence, 1919-1948.

Title: Correspondence, 1919-1948.

These letters are to and from Planck. Correspondents include Hans Thacher Clarke, Gerard Peter Kuiper, and Raymond John Seeger.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

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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.

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Strand, K. Aage (Kaj Aage), 1907-2000. K. Aage Strand papers, 1875-1999 (bulk 1947-1977).

Title: K. Aage Strand papers, 1875-1999 (bulk 1947-1977).

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, notes, subject files, oral history, biographical material, printed matter, slides, photographs, and other papers relating to Strand's career as professor of astronomy at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; scientific director of the United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.; and director of the observatory's Astrometry and Astrophysics Division. Subjects include astrometry, astrometric instrumentation design, double star photography, and scientific research for the U.S. military during World War II. Correspondents include Arthur Beer, Bart J. Bok, Dirk Brouwer, William A. Fowler, W. Fricke, H.L. Giclas, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Arthur Allen Hoag, L. Houziaux, Carlos Jaschek, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Jan Hendrik Oort, Bengt Strömgren, Otto Struve, Arthur R. Upgren, Peter Van de Kamp, and the Strand family.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items.16 containers.16 linear feet.

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Wesselink, Adriaan J., 1909-. Oral history interview with Adriann J. Wesselink, 1977 September 23 and 1978 June 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Adriann J. Wesselink, 1977 September 23 and 1978 June 21.

Early life and family interests in Holland; study at the Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht; courses in mathematics, physics and astronomy; move to Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden in 1929 and contact with Ejnar Hertzsprung; work for Hertzsprung on variable stars; Hertzsprung's career; Jan Oort's lectures on galactic rotation; recollections of Willem de Sitter; Leiden in the 1930s; Paul Ehrenfest's colloquium series; continued research with Hertzsprung during the 1930s; contact with Gerard Kuiper; research on Delta Cephei, dynamical parallaxes, and energy distributions in stellar spectra; Leiden Ph.D. thesis, 1938; stellar pulsations; Lodewijk Woltjer; year at Yerkes Observatory, 1938-1939; relations with Kuiper; recollections of staff research at Yerkes; South Africa, 1939; recollections of Marcel Minnaert. Short discussion of Jacobus C. Kapteyn, including plans and execution of 1936 eclipse expedition to Russia; war years in Holland; Dutch astronomy in World War II; living conditions; postwar move to South Africa and various positions there; move to Yale University in 1964. Also prominently mentioned are: Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov, Bart Jan Bok, Dirk Brouwer, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Christie, Pierre Demarque, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein, Louis Henyey, Edwin Powell Hubble, Ivan Robert King, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Bertil Lindblad, Edward Arthur Milne, A. Nijland, L. S. Ornstein, Henry Norris Russell, Karl Schwarzschild, Martin Schwarzschild, Otto Struve, Thackeray, Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst; Bethany Observatory, Finsen Radiation Institute, Leiden Southern Station, and Radcliffe Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 85 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80170506 View