Intellectual autobiography, 1956, 1962.

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Intellectual autobiography, 1956, 1962.

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Description: The file contains three documents: 1) Abbot's recollections of 67 years at the Smithsonian Institutution, including reminiscences about famous people in the arts, sports, and sciences; work and contacts with the Carnegie Institution and Mount Wilson Observatory; growth of Washington, DC; work of solar observations, solar radiation, meteorology, and rocketry; inventions and patents; and influences and unfulfilled plans; 2)an eight-page biographical sketch prepared in 1956 (by an unknown author) briefly describing Abbot's advanced education (M. Sc.) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1890s; his association with Samuel P. Langley at the Smithsonian and their collaboration on the Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution; solar eclipse expeditions; measurements of the solar constants of radiation; his invention of pyroheliometers; honorary doctorates received; his interest in solar power, long-range weather forecasting, solar variation periods, and heat distribution in the spectra of brighter stars; patents held; honors and awards received; publications; and society memberships; and 3) responses (by Abbot) to questionnaire sent as part of the AIP Project for the History of Recent Physics in the United States.

36 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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