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Walter S. Adams papers
Retirement period, 1946-1956
Adams - Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Manuscripts

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Description: 15 leaves/pieces.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1946-1954
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.)

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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.

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United States.

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Yerkes Observatory.

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