Oral history interview with Halton Christian Arp, 1975 July 29.

California Institute of Technology

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983

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Astronomer. Bok (1906-1983) was Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia 1956-1966 and Director of the Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona from 1966. From the description of Oral history interview, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006177 Bok taught astronomy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Bart J. Bok, 1930-1957 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972980 Died 1983. From the description of...

Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002

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William Carlos Williams was an American poet, often considered part of the Imagist and Modernist movements. From the description of Letter from Jesse L. Greenstein to William Carlos Williams. 1939, Nov. 19. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 226352006 Greenstein was a Harvard educated astronomer who came to the California Institute of Technology in 1948 to run the astronomy program, which then included the administration of the...

Lovell, Bernard, 1913-2012

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Lovell was a professor of physics and radio astronomy at the University of Manchester and served as director of the Jodrell Bank astronomical observatory until his retirement in 1981. The Jodrell Bank Mark I steerable radio telescope, constructed between 1952 and 1957, is used to study radio emissions from space and to track satellites (most notably Sputnik I). From the description of Memorandum on a 250 ft. aperture steerable radio telescope, 1951. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries...

Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953

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Edwin Powell Hubble, American observational astronomer, Chairman of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Research Committee. In 1938, Hubble was elected Trustee of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. From the description of Papers of Edwin Powell Hubble, 1900-1989. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122551882 Astronomer (extragalactic astronomy and cosmology). Researcher, Yerkes Observatory, 1914-1917; on the...

Palomar Observatory

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Palomar Observatory is located in Pasadena, California, and is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology. Built in 1928, it boasts several telescopes. However, the most famous is the 200-inch Hale Telescope built using a Pyrex blank manufactured by Corning Glass Works. The Hale Telescope was installed in 1948 and became fully operational and open to researchers in 1950....

Oort, Jan Hendrik

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Astronomer (galactic structure, interstellar gas, comets). (1900-1992). Astronomer at and, from 1945, Director of the Leiden Observatory; on the faculty of University of Leiden from 192; established observational verification of galactic rotation; one of the authors of the Oort-Lindbald theory of differential galactic rotation; initiator, with Baade, of the European Southern Observatory; general secretary of the International Astronomical Union from 1935-1948, and president from 1958-1961. ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Baade, Walter, 1893-1960

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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (1893-1960) was a German-born astronomer who joined the staff of the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1931. From the description of Papers of Walter Baade, 1915-1960. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122540492 ...

Arp, Halton C.

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Born 1927. From the description of Oral history interview with Halton Christian Arp, 1975 July 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78326516 ...

Fowler, William A.

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Fowler died in 1995. From the description of Phyphty years of phun and physics in the W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech, by Willy Phowler, 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82576561 (William A. Fowler 1911-1995). Physicist (nuclear physics, astrophysics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology (1939-1982); received the Nobel Prize in Physics with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekher in 1983 for his "theoretical and experimental studies of the nucle...

Mount Wilson Observatory

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Founded in December 1904 by George Ellery Hale and funded by the Carnegie Institution, the Mount Wilson Observatory quickly became one of the 20th century's major astronomical research centers. Located just north of Los Angeles high atop the San Gabriel Mountains, the observatory took full advantage of Southern California's clear nights and uniquely steady air. The observatory's 60" telescope completed in 1908 was the largest then in existence. In 1917, another Mount Wilson telescope, 100" in di...

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

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Astrophysicist. B.A., Presidency College, Madras University, 1930. Ph. D., Cambridge University, 1933; Sc. D., 1942. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1937. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1938; Associate Professor, 1942; Professor, 1944; Distinguished Service Professor, 1946; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, 1952. Managing editor, Astrophysical Journal, 1952-1971. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983. From t...

Wright, Paul

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Schmidt, Maarten

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Maarten Schmidt, (1929-). From the description of Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1975 March 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84461607 Maarten Schmidt (1929-). From the description of Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1975 June 9 and 1977 October 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84244079 ...

Sandage, Allan

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Allan R. Sandage (1926- ) Astronomer. Received his AB (1948) and DSc 1967) from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. (1953) from the California Institute of Technology. Astornomer, Carnegie Observatory (1956-); Senior Resident Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute (1987-). From the description of Oral history interview with Allan R. Sandage, 1978 May 22 and 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429959 ...