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Walter S. Adams papers
Retirement period, 1946-1956
Observatories - Smithsonian Institution
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Description: 44 leaves/pieces.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1946-1955
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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Bausch & Lomb Optical Company.

California Institute of Technology.

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Eastman Kodak Company.

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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.

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Yerkes Observatory.

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