Addition to records: obituary files, 1995-1998.

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Addition to records: obituary files, 1995-1998.

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The files of David H. DeVorkin when he served as vice president of the Historical Astronomy Division and chair of the obituary committee of the society, 1995-1996. Additional obituary files added in 1999 received from Virginia Trimble, Chair Elect, HAD, 1997-98. Member obituaries published in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society include: Viktor Ambartsumyan, John Baer, Madeleine Barnothy, Louis Berman, Guenter Brueckner, Jason A. Cardelli, Georgeanne Caughlan, Robert J. Chambers, S. Chandrasekhar, Ganesar Chanmugam, Robert Dicke, Leroy Doggett, Frederick Ellis, Isadore Epstein, Patrick Fleming, William A. Fowler, Thornton Carl Fry, Robert Golden, Robert Herman, Richard Herr, Emil Herzon, Sarah Hill, John Irwin, Luigi G. Jacchia, Allan S. (Bud) Jacobson, Anthony Jenzano, Igor Jurkevich, Franz Kahn (not AAS member), Karl Kamper, William J. Kaufmann, James Klavetter, R. B. King, Jerome Kristian, Gabriel Kojoian, Harold Lane, Robert Benjamin Leighton, Thomas E. Lutz, Willem J. Luyten, William Markowitz, Leonard Martin, Margaret Walton Mayall, Walter McAfee, Robert H. McCracken, Andrew Michalitsianos, Walter E. Mitchell Jr., Henry J. Moore, Edith Muller, Edward Ney, Alfred Nier, Bernard Oliver, Thornton Page, Jacobus Petterson, Jill Price, Charles F. Prosser Jr., Edward Mills Purcell, Jurgen Rahe, Barry Rappaport, Philip S. Riggs, Alexander W. Rodgers, Leonida Rosino, Carl Sagan, David Norman Schramm, Leon William Schroeder, Martin Schwarzschild, William R. Shaw, Eugene Shoemaker, W.L.H. Shuter, Jack William Slowey, Roman Smoluchowski, Vsevolod Sobolev, Paul Sollenberger, Lyman Spitzer, Ralph E. Sturm, Victor G. Szebehely, Roger John Tayler, Richard N. Thomas, Lois Keener Thome, William Reid Thompson, William Tittemore, Clyde William Tombaugh, Richard F. Tousey, Peter Van de Kamp, Vladimir Vanysek, GeĢrard Henry de Vaucouleurs, Beat Wackernagel, John Chi-Lin Wang, Gordon Wares, Fletcher Watson, Roderick Webster, William Wehlau, Samuel Crane Wheeler, A. J. Wesselink, Patrick Whitmore, Robert LeRoy Wildey, James B. Willett, Frank Bradshaw Wood, Charles Edmund Worley, Henry Lincoln Yeagley.

1.25 lin. ft. (3 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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