Papers, 1940-1990.

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Papers, 1940-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79015802

The papers include correspondence with some of the top scientists such as Edward U. Condon, former director of the National Bureau of Standards and a former University of Colorado physics professor; Harvard University astronomer Harlow Shapley, and University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns. Other elements of the collection contain an education file on the challenges facing scientists after the 1957 launching of Russian Sputnik.

127 boxes/oversize weather maps.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Roberts, Walter Orr

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Orr was born in 1915. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77849767 Solar astronomer and geophysicist. Director of High Altitude Observatory, University of Colorado, 1946-1961; Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1960-1968. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter Orr Roberts, 1987 August 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78228351 From the descri...