Selected papers [microform], 1926-1975.

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Selected papers [microform], 1926-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84429677

Correspondence, travel reports, and addresses. Primarily correspondence centering upon McVittie's work from the 1940s through the 1960s. The travel reports and addresses are from international meetings of the International Astronomical Union and other astronomical societies and symposia on relativity, cosmology, and other topics. Correspondents include Hermann Bondi, Hans Buchdahl, Charles G. Darwin, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Walter Fricke, George Gamow, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Allan Sandage, Harlow Shapley, Fred L. Whipple, and Edmund T. Whittaker.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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International Astronomical Union.

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Buchdahl, H. A. (Hans Adolph), 1919-

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Fricke, W. (Walter), 1915-1988.

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