Records of the Director, Leo Goldberg, ca.1960-1970 (inclusive).

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Records of the Director, Leo Goldberg, ca.1960-1970 (inclusive).

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Administrative records of L. Goldberg, including reports; fiscal memoranda; research proposals; reports on science programs; personnel information; funding and progress reports about research projects, such as Solar Satellite and Orbiting Solar Observatory and organizations such as the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation; drafts of papers and technical drawings; contract renewals; equipment inventories; descriptions of affiliated observatories such as Agassiz Station and Fort Davis Radio Observatories, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory annual reports and memos; correspondence with Harvard faculty, etc. Records organized in the following categories: 1) Harvard administrative files; 2) Research projects and contracting firms; 3) Affiliated observatories; and 4) Correspondence with individual staff, fauclty, etc.

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Goldberg, Leonard D.

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Died 1987. From the description of Oral history interview with Leo Goldberg, 1978 May 16 to 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79357855 Leo Goldberg (1913-1987), Astronomer. Astronomy Department at the University of Michigan (1946-1960); election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1958); chaired the Astronomy Department and Higgins Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University (1960-1971); Director of the Harvard College Observatory (1966-1971); Chair of NASA's Astrono...