Records, 1962-1965.

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Records, 1962-1965.

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Minutes; reports; correspondence; bylaws. Primarily minutes of the Executive Committee of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) during the presidency of Frank K. Edmondson. A major focus of the meetings was on the two observatories operated by AURA: Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Includes details of financial planning and administrative organization at both observatories, new installations at Kitt Peak, and work at Cerro Tololo from site selection to dome building. Reports are to the AURA Board of Directors on the two observatories, AURA officers' visits to Chile, and scientific training for Latin American students. Also contains a small amount of correspondence and AURA bylaws (1962).

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. Executive Committee.

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Founded in 1957, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) is a consortium of universities and participants from non-member university departments of astronomy representing the interests of all astronomers. It established and operates the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Ariz., Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, LaSerene, Chile, and the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak and Kitt Peak), and operat...

Edmondson, Frank K. (Frank Kelly), 1912-

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Astronomer (stellar motions, asteroids, faint stars) and administrator. On the astronomy faculty at Indiana University from 1937, including department chair, 1944-1978, and observatory director, 1945-1978; research associate, McDonald Observatory from 1941; and vice president and president, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, 1957-1965. From the description of History of AURA : interviews and documentation, 1978-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80524711 ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory

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