Selected correspondence [microform], 1927-1956.

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Selected correspondence [microform], 1927-1956.

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Correspondence of Oort while astronomer, then director of the Leiden Observatory with colleagues John Stanley Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, Canada; Otto Struve, director of the Yerkes and McDonald Observatories; and Wilhelm Baade, astrophysicist at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. Topics include galactic structure and stellar populations.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Oort, Jan Hendrik

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Dominion Astrophysical Observatory

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Baade, Walter, 1893-1960

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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (1893-1960) was a German-born astronomer who joined the staff of the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1931. From the description of Papers of Walter Baade, 1915-1960. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122540492 ...

Struve, Otto, 1897-1963

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Astronomer (astrophysics of stars, spectroscopy, interstellar studies, origin of universe) and administrator. On the staff of Yerkes Observatory, 1921-1932, director, 1932-1950; editor, ASTROPHYSICS JOURNAL, 1932-1947; on the astrophysics faculty, department chair, and director, Leuschner Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1959; and director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1959. From the description of Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945. (Unk...

Sterrewacht Leiden

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Plaskett, J. S. (John Stanley), 1865-1941

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Yerkes Observatory

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Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, is a facility of the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The observatory opened in 1897 as the joint creation of three founders: William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago; Professor George E. Hale, the observatory's first director; and Charles T. Yerkes, a wealthy Chicago businessman who provided funds for the erection of the observatory building. Known as the home of the last of t...

McDonald Observatory

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