William G. Fastie Papers, 1937-1997.

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William G. Fastie Papers, 1937-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49933483

The collection consists of 12 series, and offer an in-depth view of his professional work in optical physics and astrophysics. The earliest records are Fastie's optics notebooks (1937-1938), and the latest are reprints of scholarly articles. Most of the records pertain to his career at Johns Hopkins, but there are a few files, notably the series on Dead projects and Patents, that reflect his work in private industry. His work on the Fastie-Ebert Spectrometer is well documented, as well as his rocket studies on the aurora borealis. The collection also contains correspondence and reports dealing with various projects for which Fastie served as consultant. Much of the later material deals with Fastie's work on the development of the Hubble Space Telescope.

12 record center boxes.4 document cases.2 half-size document cases.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615889

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

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Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)

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The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) was established in 1981 through the combined efforts of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), NASA, and the NSF to work in the creation of the Hubble Space Telescope and to manage observation time allocation and the data the telescope returned for future research. From the description of Records, 1964-2008. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 320338529 ...

Fastie, William G., 1916-2000

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William (Bill) G. Fastie was born on December 6, 1916 in Baltimore, MD. He grew up in West Baltimore, and after graduating high school, he attended college in the evenings while working during the day in a grocery store. Although he did enter Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate, he never earned a bachelor's degree. Instead, he was offered a scholarship to study graduate physics at Hopkins. After working in the program for four years, he was offered a position as a research assistant. Fastie worked...