Manuscripts

AAF Muroc Army Air Base, Muroc, California

Description: 3 leaves/pieces.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1945
Call number: mssAdamsw
Creator: Adams, Walter S (1876-1956)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Deposit; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
Associated people: Abbot, C. G. (1872-1973.); Abetti, Giorgio, (1882-1982.); Baade, Walter, (1893-1960.); Babcock, Horace W. (1898-1973.); Bowen, Ira Sprague, (1890-1974.); Bush, Vannevar, (1862-1938.); Campbell, William Wallace, (1863-1941.); Cannon, Annie Jump, (1869-1960.); Davis, Dorothy N. (1878-1940.); Day, Arthur L. (1897-); Dugan, Raymond Smith, (1882-1944.); Dunham, Theodore, (1879-1955.); Eddington, Arthur Stanley, (1869-1940.); Einstein, Albert, (1877-1956.); Ellerman, Ferdinand, (1878-1944.); Fleming, J. A. (1874-1942.); Fox, Philip, (1882-1945.); Gale, Henry Gordon, (1868-1938.); Gilbert, Walter M. (1873-1967.); Goddard, Robert Hutchings, (1874-1964.); Hale, George Ellery, (1889-1953.); Hertzsprung, Ejnar, (1891-1972.); Hoover, Herbert, (1877-1946.); Hubble, Edwin, (1890-1960.); Humason, Milton L. (1882-1973.); Jeans, James, (1905-1973.); Jones, H. Spencer (1868-1953.); Joy, Alfred H. (1889-1958.); Kuiper, Gerard P. (1899-1994.); Leuschner, Armin Otto, (1882-1960.); Lundmark, Knut, (1901-1976.); Luyten, Willem Jacob, (1869-1945.); Mees, C. E. Kenneth (1852-1931.); Menzel, Donald H. (1866-1941.); Merriam, John C. (1868-1953.); Michelson, Albert A. (1874-1960.); Miller, Dayton Clarence, (1887-); Millikan, Robert Andrews, (1898-1990.); Mitchell, S. A. (1878-1949.); Moffitt, George Wilbur, (1880-1958.); Moore, Charlotte Emma, (1881-); Moore, J. H. (1889-1962.); Oort, Jan Hendrik. (1858-1938.); Pankhurst, Christabel, (1882-1945.); Pease, F. G. (1874-1960.); Pettit, Edison, (1877-1957.); Pickering, William H. (1871-1943.); Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1873-1964.); Ross, Frank E. (1885-1972.); Russell, Henry Norris, (1878-1966.); Schlesinger, Frank, (1897-1963.); Seares, Frederick Hanley, (1902-1980.); Shapley, Harlow, (1906-2004.); Stebbins, Joel, (1877-1953.); Struve, Otto,; Swope, Henrietta H.; Whipple, Fred L.; Wright, F. E.
Associated organizations: American Association for the Advancement of Science.; American Astronomical Society.; Bausch & Lomb Optical Company.; California Institute of Technology.; Carnegie Institution of Washington.; Eastman Kodak Company.; Griffith Observatory.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.; International Astronomical Union.; Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories.; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); National Research Council (U.S.); Pasadena Public Library.; Popular astronomy.; United States.; United States.; United States.; Yerkes Observatory.
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