Alexander Boksenberg Papers.

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Alexander Boksenberg Papers.

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Includes: A. Files of loose papers, taped and boxed as they accrue. B. Documentation of important events and topics, such as: installation of the refurbished Isaac Newton Telescope (2.5 metre) at the Observatorio de los Muchachos site on the Canary Island of La Palma. completion of the William Herschel Telescope (4.2 metre); completion of the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (1.0 metre); inauguration of the Observarorio de los Muchachos; move of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from Herstmonceux to Cambridge, 1988-1990; the Science and Engineering Research Council policy of reducing the amount of astrophysical research undertaken at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and increasing its support for academic astronomers and astrophysicists through the provsion of telescopes and their instrumentation. C. Corrrespondents.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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