Oral history interview with Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 1989 October 25.

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Oral history interview with Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 1989 October 25.

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Early schooling and university training; association with the Oliver Machinery Company; involvement in the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University during World War II; lunar studies from the 1940s into the 1970s. Recollections of professional employment at the Flower Observatory of the University of Pennsylvania in the 1930s, and the Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern University from 1938 to 1942.

Sound recording: 6 sound cassettes (ca. 6.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 78 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Baldwin, Ralph Belknap, 1912-

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Astrophysics. Senior physicist, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1942-1946; astronomy consultant, Boeing Company, Chance-Vought Corp., Rand Corp., Grumman, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (NASA), U. S. Air Force moon-mapping project; product manager through chairman of the board, Oliver Machinery Company, 1947-1984. From the description of Correspondence relating to Baldwin's nomination for the 1997 Crafoord Prize in astronomy, awarded by The Royal Swed...

Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory

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Dearborn Observatory

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Doel, Ronald Edmund

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