Home movies of William Meggers [motion picture] / taken by William Meggers. 1927-1957.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

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The Niels Bohr Library is part of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. Its primary mission is to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied sciences. The photograph collection is named in honor of Emilio Segrè, best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work in nuclear and high-energy physics, but also an avid photographer and author of books on the history of modern physics. From the description of The Emilio Segrè visual archiv...

Franck, James, 1882-1964

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James Franck was born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, where his Sephardic Jewish forebears had lived for over two hundred years [Box 20, folder 58 and Box 21, folder 1]. His father, Jacob Franck, was a banker who wanted his son to follow a business career in keeping with family tradition. From childhood on, however, James could imagine no other life but science. An X-ray photograph illustrates his fascination with new discoveries in physics. He had already read of Roentgen's X...

Mees, C.E. Kenneth (Charles Edward Kenneth), 1882-1960

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C.E.K. Mees was born in Wellingborough, England. He was educated at the University of London where he received his D. Sc. degree in 1906. His dissertation was based upon research in photographic theory. In 1912 he moved to the United States and became director of research for Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y. From 1934 until his retirement in 1955 he was vice president in charge of research and development. His laboratory was one of America's pioneering industrial research facilities. The pro...

Slipher, Vesto Melvin, 1875-1948.

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De Bruin, Taco L.

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Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Astronomer (galaxies, photometry, spectroscopy) and administrator. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1914-1921; director, Harvard Observatory, 1921-1952; on the astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1952. From the description of Papers [microform], 1910-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523781 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer. Shapley served as director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a professor at Harvard University, eventually he became the Pai...

Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943

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International Astronomical Union.

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Universitetet i Oslo

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Pickering, Andrew, 1948-....

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Sociologist. Researcher in physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and the Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom, 1973-1975; and in sociology of science at the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh from 1976. From the description of Interviews conducted for book, Constructing quarks, 1978-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81866290 ...

Wright, Frances Woodworth

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Wright was born in 1897. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429776 ...

International Bureau of Weights and Measures

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Dyson, Frank Watson, 1868-1939

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Astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1906-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122420071 From the description of Papers, ca. 1894-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79840333 ...

Uppsala Universitet

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Babcock, Harold D. (Harold Delos), 1882-1968

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Tolman, Richard C. (Richard Chace), 1881-1948

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Bernard Mannes Baruch was a financier and head of several war committees, including chairman of the War Industries Board, 1918-1919, and U.S. representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 1946. From the guide to the Speech before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946, 1946, (American Philosophical Society) Tolman (1881-1948). Chemistry, physics, California Institute of Technology, 1922-1948. From the description of Papers, 17...

Waals, J.D. van der (Johannes Diderik), 1837-1923

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Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944

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Astronomer and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660356 From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82863606 From the description of Papers, 1905-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78824422 Educated at Owen's College, Manchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. Senior Wrangler, 1904. Smith's Prizeman, 1907. Chief Assistant, Royal Observatory (Greenwich), 1906-1913. Plumian Prof...

Moore, Charlotte Emma, 1898-

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Astronomer and astrophysicist. Upon completing her B.A. in mathematics at Swarthmore College in 1920 Charlotte Moore took a job as assistant to Henry Norris Russell at Princeton University. There she audited courses and became coauthor of papers on binary stars and an influential book on the masses of stars. In the late 1920s she worked at the Mt. Wilson Observatory with Charles E. St. John and Harold D. Babcock on the solar spectrum. She earned her Ph. D. at the University of California at Berk...

Van Biesbroeck, George, 1880-1974

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Abetti, Giorgio, 1882-1982

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Lemaître, Georges, 1894-1966

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Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966

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Physicist (physical optics, spectroscopy). Staff member, National Bureau of Standards, 1914-1958; chief of Spectroscoptic Section, 1920-1958. From the description of Papers, 1917-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715373 From the description of Addition to papers, 1870-1973 (bulk: 1906-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79391414 Physicist (physical optics, spectroscopy). Staff member, National Bureau of Standards, 1914-1958; chief of spectroscoptic section, 1...

Kayser, H. (Heinrich), 1853-1940

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Physicist (spectroscopy). On the physics faculty at Physikalischen Institut (1878-1885), Technische Hochschule Hannover (1885-1894), and Universität Bonn from 1894. From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79182023 Heinrich Kayser was a German physicist and spectroscopist. He taught physics at the University of Bonn from 1894 to 1920. From the description of Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben, 1936. (American Philosophical Society Library). Wor...

Paschen, F. (Friedrich), 1865-1947

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