Papers, 1946-1999.

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Papers, 1946-1999.

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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.

4.25 linear feet (9 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Osterbrock, Donald E.

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Chairman, Astronomy Department, University of Wisconsin, 1969-1972; director and professor of astronomy, Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1972-. From the description of General files, 1950-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155004605 Osterbrock was born in 1924. From the description of Further links in the California-Wisconsin Astronomical connection, 1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84317753 From the description of The Cal...

Bateson, Frank M.

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Lockheed Missiles and Space Company

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Abt, Helmut A.

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Astronomer. Born in Germany, 1925. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1953-1955; Assistant Professor, 1955-1959; Astronomer at Kitt Peak National Observatory from 1963; became editor of The Astrophysical Journal from 1971-1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Helmut Abt, 1999 October 28 and 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80923379 ...

Aller, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hugh), 1913-2003

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Lawrence H. Aller was born Sept. 24, 1913 in Tacoma, WA; BA, astronomy, UC Berkeley; MA and PhD Harvard University; became professor of astronomy at UCLA Dept. of Astronomy, 1962. From the description of Papers, 1928-2001. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 320037653 ...

Strömgren, Bengt (1908-1987).

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Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was an astrophysicist who died in 1987. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83299855 Died 1987. From the description of The development of astrophysics as a research field in the 20th century: paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's George Ellery Hale Centennial Symposium, Dallas, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78201727 Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (1908-...

Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983

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Astronomer. Bok (1906-1983) was Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia 1956-1966 and Director of the Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona from 1966. From the description of Oral history interview, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006177 Bok taught astronomy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Bart J. Bok, 1930-1957 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972980 Died 1983. From the description of...

Giacconi, Riccardo.

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Giacconi (1931-) taught astronomy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Riccardo Giacconi, 1980-1981 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973249 Astronomer (astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, fields and particles); executive vice-president, American Science and Engineering (ASE), 1959-1973. He left to become Associate Director of the High Energy Astrophysic Division of the Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and Professsor of Astronomy at Harvard University...

International Astronomical Union.

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Hogg, Helen Sawyer, 1905-

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Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-1993

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Astronomer. Astronomer, Lick Observatory, 1945-1960; director, Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1960-1971. From the description of Nick Mayall talking about AURA's acquiring and developing Cerro Tololo [videorecording] / recorded by W. A. Hiltner; 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82211153 ...

American astronomical society

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Founded in 1899 as the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, in 1914 the name was changed to the American Astronomical Society. Its purpose is the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science. The Society became an Associate Member of the American Institute of Physics in 1958, and has been a full Member Society since 1966. It is also affiliated with the International Astronomical Union. From the description of Records of the Education Office, 1962-198...

Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973

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Hiltner, W. A. (William Albert), 1914-....

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Astronomer, professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, later at the University of Michigan. From the description of William A. Hiltner papers, 1942-1991. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80618779 From the description of William A. Hiltner papers, 1958-1991. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422649 William A. Hiltner was born in North Creek, Ohio on August 27, 1914. He received a B.S. in math and physics from the Univ...

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

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Astrophysicist. B.A., Presidency College, Madras University, 1930. Ph. D., Cambridge University, 1933; Sc. D., 1942. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1937. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1938; Associate Professor, 1942; Professor, 1944; Distinguished Service Professor, 1946; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, 1952. Managing editor, Astrophysical Journal, 1952-1971. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983. From t...

Luyten, Willem Jacob, 1899-1994

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Luyten died in 1994. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79918246 Willem J. Luyten was born on 7 March 1899 in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (now Java, Indonesia). He earned his B.A. in 1918 from the University of Amsterdam and his M.A. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1921 from the University of Leiden, Holland (now Leiden University, the Netherlands). Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Dr...

Johnson, Hugh M.

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Astronomer with the National Radio Astronomical Observatory and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. From the description of Hugh M. Johnson papers, 1936-1986. (New Mexico State University). WorldCat record id: 50593322 Hugh Johnson was born on March 4, 1923 in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned his AB in 1948 and his SB in 1949 from the University of Chicago. In 1953 he received his Ph. D. in astronomy from the University of Chicago. Johnson worked as an Assistant Astronomer at Ye...

Swings, P. (Polydore), 1906-1983

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Astrophysicist. From the description of Curriculum vitae: Liste et analyse des publications, ca. 1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83850060 Astrophysicist (comets, interstellar medium, stellar spectroscopy, shell stars, nebulae). On the astrophysics faculty at Universite̕ de Liege from 1927; on the faculty at University of Chicago, 1939-1942; and president, International Astronomical Union, 1964-1967. From the description of Correspondence with Otto Struve [mi...

Terzian, Yervant

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