Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp. 1955-1964.

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Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp. 1955-1964.

Film includes footage of three conferences in the following order: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 22-24, 1964. Attendees include: Bart Jan Bok, Fricke, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Haro, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Willem Jacob Luyten, Oosterhoff, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Allan Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild, Kaj Strand, and Worley. Cosmic Distance Scale Conference, University of Virginia, April 5-7, 1956. Attendees include: Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Gerald Maurice Clemence, Frank Kelley Edmondson, Otto Heckmann, Helen Hogg, Howard Johnson, Philip Childs Keenan, Sarah Lee Lippincott, Willem Jacob Luyten, William Wilson Morgan, Jason John Nassau, Robert M. Petrie, Jan Schilt, Martin Schwarzschild, Kaj Strand, Vesilevskis, Alexander Vyssotsky, Nicholas Wagman, and Albert Edward Whitford. A meeting of a steering committee, Princeton, April 3, 1955. Attendees include: Alden, Walter Baade, Adriaan Blaauw, Willem Jacob Luyten, Jason John Nassau, Jan Schilt, and Alexander Vyssotsky

1 film reel (ca. 20 min.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8293448

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Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983

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Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002

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Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-....

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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 ...

Sandage, Allan.

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Keenan, Philip C. (Philip Childs), 1908-

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Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-1994

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Received his B.S. (1927) and Ph.D. (1931) from the University of Chicago. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Chicago, 1974-1994. Director of Yerkes and McDonald Observatories, 1960-63. Died in 1994. From the description of Oral history interview with William Wilson Morgan, 1987 October 07. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865422 William Wilson Morgan was born on January 3, 1906, in Bethesda, Tennessee. His father and his mother were both home m...