Autobiography, 1929.

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Autobiography, 1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77733022

The manuscript covers Day's academic career including his study and teaching; his work with the German Bureau of Standards and U.S. Geological Survey; work during World War I with optical glass and afterwards with Corning Glass; and his career with the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory, both before and after the war.

14 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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