Papers of Jan Schilt, 1931-1963
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
Columbia University
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r0313j (corporateBody)
The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...
Schilt, Jan, b. 1894.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m34mds (person)
BIOGHIST REQUIRED Astronomer and administrator. Schilt was Rutherford Professor Emeritus at Columbia, invented the Schilt photometer, and helped clarify the motions of stars in the Milky Way. He was director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Station in Johannesburg and Canberra, Australia. He served as chairperson of Columbia's department of astronomy from 1936 until 1962. From the guide to the Papers of Jan Schilt, 1931-1963, (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...
