Notes for an intellectual autobiography, 1962.

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Notes for an intellectual autobiography, 1962.

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The autobiography covers Babcock's ancestry; childhood; interests in electricity and photography; work at college job at the National Bureau of Standards; appointment to physics staff of Mount Wilson Observatory, description of colleagues and work there; detailed discussion of work on diffraction gratings, solar and spectral photography, solar magnetism, solar eclipses, and defense work for the Navy (including anti-submarine warfare) in 1918-1919 and 1942-1945.

38 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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