Henry Crew at Northwestern University: A memoir, 1975.

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Henry Crew at Northwestern University: A memoir, 1975.

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Biographical sketch of Henry Crew written by his son, William Henry Crew. Outline of Henry Crew's undergraduate and graduate eduction at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University under Henry A. Rowland; his work in Berlin under Heinrich Helmholtz; postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins, and teaching at Haverford College; a year as an astronomer at Lick Observatory; his marriage to Helen Coale; and his appointment as Fayerweather Professor of Physics and department head at Northwestern University. William Crew also describes his father's work with Edward E. Barnard, Sherburn W. Burnham, Edwin Frost, George Ellery Hale, George W. Hough, George V. McCauley, and members of other Northwestern University departments.

24 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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