Autobiographical lectures, 1983.

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Autobiographical lectures, 1983.

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Four lectures on Harwitz's career in meteorology, covering his early childhood; education in Germany at Universität Leipzig; the Norwegian school of meteorology; travels to Norway and to the U.S.; immigration to Canada in 1935; appointment to the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941; teaching Air Force and Navy students; and New York University chairmanship. File also includes many characterizations of scientists and descriptions of early meteorological history sprinkled with anecdotes that are often very amusing.

112 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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