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

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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.

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

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Struve, Otto, 1897-1963

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Astronomer (astrophysics of stars, spectroscopy, interstellar studies, origin of universe) and administrator. On the staff of Yerkes Observatory, 1921-1932, director, 1932-1950; editor, ASTROPHYSICS JOURNAL, 1932-1947; on the astrophysics faculty, department chair, and director, Leuschner Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1959; and director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1959. From the description of Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945. (Unk...

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Himie Voxman is among UI's most honored faculty and administrators. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the UI with high distinction in 1933, and received a master's degree in 1934 in the psychology of music, studying with pioneering researcher Carl Seashore. He taught woodwinds in nearby public schools, then in 1939 became a full-time UI faculty member. He served as director of the School of Music from 1954 until his retirement in 1980. Among many other honors, the UI Mus...

Pruett, J. Hugh.

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Millman, Peter M. (Peter MacKenzie)

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Collins, G. E. (George Edwin), 1928-

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Nininger, Harvey Harlow, 1887-....

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Harvey H. Nininger was a renowned meteorite researcher and collector who as Curator of Meteorites from 1930 to 1946 made the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, a center of scientific activity in that new field of study. Harvey Harlow Nininger was born in 1887 in a frontier shack near Conway Springs, a town on the prairie southwest of Wichita, Kansas. In 1914 he graduated from McPherson College in Kansas and married Nancy Adeline Delp. They had thre...

Jung, Moses, 1891-1960

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Frankforter, W. D.

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Wylie, C. C. (Charles Clayton), 1886-

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Wylie was professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa; d. 1976. From the description of Papers of C.C. Wylie, 1910-1960 (bulk 1950-1955). (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233121925 ...

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Astronomer (galaxies, photometry, spectroscopy) and administrator. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1914-1921; director, Harvard Observatory, 1921-1952; on the astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1952. From the description of Papers [microform], 1910-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523781 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer. Shapley served as director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a professor at Harvard University, eventually he became the Pai...

Naiden, James Richard.

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University of Iowa. Dept. of Mathematics.

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LaPaz, Lincoln

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