Papers, 1893-1932.

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Papers, 1893-1932.

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Contains personal correspondence (letters, 1894-1904, 1910, 1915, 1917, 1919-1920, 1922-1932; letterbooks, 1893-1904, 1910; letterpressbook, 1895). Includes TLS from: Pierre du Pont, Sen. Mark Hannah, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as manuscripts of Davis' article, The Parallax of N. Cassiopeiae Deduced from the Rutherford Photographic Measures, 1895; five notebooks on "The New Reduction of Piazzi's Star Observations"; commonplace book; newsclippings dealing with astronomy, 1922-1930.

4.15 cu. ft.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Davis, Herman Stearns, 1868-1933

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Herman Stearns Davis, an astronomer, was born August 6, 1868, in Milford, DE. Davis graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1892 and received his A.M degree (1894) and Ph.D.(1895) from Columbia University. From 1895-1899, Davis served as a professor of astronomy and geodessy at Columbia. In 1900 he became assistant at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and went on to serve as director of the International Latitude Observatory in Gaithersburg, MD until 1905. Davis then served as construc...