Richard Lingenfelter papers, 1980-1999.

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Richard Lingenfelter papers, 1980-1999.

Documentation of the professional career of a UCSD astrophysicist. The collection includes research proposals, committee meeting minutes, conference materials, and subject files containing information about supernovas, gamma-ray bursts, meterorites, and high energy astronomy. The 2011 addition illustrates his interest outside science & astrophysics. Papers include correspondence, photocopies, newspaper clippings, research notes, and audio visual materials. Subjects include Death Valley, western mining, music of the American west, and the Pacific (specifically the Guano Islands Act).

20.53 lin. ft. (44 archives boxes, one oversize folder and 3 records cartons)

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American astrophysicist trained at the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.). Lingenfelter has held research and instructional positions at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1957-1962), TATA Institute for Fundamental Research (1968-1969), and UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1969-1979). In 1979, Lingenfelter accepted a position as research physicist, theoretician and senior lecturer in UCSD's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS). Lingenfelter has conduct...

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