Roscoe Braham Papers 1931-2009

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Roscoe Braham Papers, 1931-2009

Roscoe Braham Papers 1931-2009

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00397

This collection ranges in dates from 1931-2009 and contains class notes, correspondence (some handwritten), office files, research notes and proposals. Also included are black and white photographs and negatives, newspaper articles, pamphlets, bound research projects, slides, floppy discs, reel-to-reel tapes, and annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council Meeting correspondence. Roscoe R. Braham Jr., a pioneering meteorologist, educator, noted expert in cloud precipitation physics, and visiting professor at NC State. He earned a bachelor's degree in geology in 1942. Braham completed his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago and joined the University of Chicago staff in 1952 as a research meteorologist and retiring in 1991 after thirty-seven years - twenty-six of them as a full professor. Braham has published more than eighty scientific reports, books, and monographs during his academic career. Braham joined the American Meteorological Society in 1945 and served as its president in 1988.

57.0 Linear feet, 38 cartons

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