Papers, 1920-1988.

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Papers, 1920-1988.

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Correspondence, note books, notes, publications lists, draft manuscripts, vitae, memoirs, and photographs. The collection documents a broad range of Douglas's professional and personal interests. Correspondence and lecture/speech notes and texts range from the 1920s to the 1980s, the 1930s correspondence and lectures reflecting an especially busy, well documented period. The collection also includes some of Douglas's own student notes and early lectures. No research files exist.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Douglas, A. Vibert (Allie Vibert), 1894-1988

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Douglas received her B.A. and M.Sc from McGill in 1920 and 1921. An interval as statistician at the British war office during World War I earned her the M.B.E. Her studies at Cambridge under Sir Arthur Eddington (whose biographer she became) began Douglas's interest in astronomy. In 1925 she received her Ph.D. in astronomy where here research field wsa the spectropic study of the very hot A and B stars. 1925-1939, Douglas taught as McGill then moved to Queen's where she served as Dean of Women, ...