Charles Lane Poor papers, 1898-1945.

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Charles Lane Poor papers, 1898-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49308252

The collection consists largely of the published and unpublished writings of astronomer, Charles Lane Poor. Included are reports, lectures, reprints, correspondence, photographs, and nine volumes of published articles. Many of Poor's articles concern his criticism of Einstein's theory of relativity. Final items are notes and materials related to Poor's interest in yacht racing.

4.6 linear ft. (11 document boxes)

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7605006

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Poor, Charles Lane, 1866-

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Charles Lane Poor was an alumnus, The Johns Hopkins University and a professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics at Columbia. He was born in Hackensack, NJ, Jan. 18, 1866 and received the Ph. D. from Hopkins in 1892. Poor was an associate professor at Hopkins until 1903. He was appointed to Columbia where he taught until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1944. Poor was the inventor of several navigation devices and was the author of books on navigation, racing y...

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...