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Observatories - Smithsonian Institution

Description
The collection chiefly consists of the administrative, scientific, and personal correspondence of Walter S. Adams spanning the years 1921 to 1956, including his work during World War II. Adams and the observatory staff worked, in secret, with the U.S. government and helped create prisms and optics for various types of binoculars and gun sights; the staff also assisted with aerial and naval defense and attack strategy. There is also material from Adams' retirement years. The collection also contains manuscripts and photographs (some of which are of the B-29 bomber), also dealing with Adams' astronomical work.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1901-1956.
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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