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Ingersoll, Robert - Lwoff, André
Manuscripts
Signatures include Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) (Item 18a/18b, 1887); Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007) (Item 19, 1972); Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) (Item 20, 1974); Fritz Lipmann (1899-1986) (Item 21, 1973); Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) (Item 22, 1973); Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012) (Item 23, 1974); and André Lwoff (1902-1994) (Item 24, undated).
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Echo I satellite, Palomar Mountain Observatory, and other space initiatives
Manuscripts
Includes first day covers for the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California (1948), signed by Ira Sprague Bowen (1898-1973) (Item 61); for Echo I, Communications for Peace (1960), signed by Thomas Keith Glennan (1905-1995), James B. Fisk (1910-1981), and Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) (Items 62-64); and for the launch of the Ranger VII spacecraft to the moon (1964) signed by Harold C. Urey (Item 65). Also includes a first day cover commemorating the Apollo 15 mission and the Kennedy Space Center (1971) signed by Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) (Item 66); the stamps are affixed on a two-page typescript by Oberth entitled Moon Car.
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Marconi, Guglielmo; items with multiple signatures
Manuscripts
Contains two copies of a menu cover and one of the menu from a dinner honoring Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) given by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in 1902, with signatures including those of Marconi and of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), and Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), as well as a first day cover and postage stamp featuring Marconi (Items 25-29). Also contains items featuring multiple signatures, including Beniamino Segre (1903-1977) and others (Item 30); Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), and Frank Wild (John Robert Francis Wild, 1873-1939) (Item 31); and D. Allan Bromley (1926-2005) and Edward E. David, Jr. (1925- ) (Item 32).
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Dibner Autographed Documents and First Day Covers collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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Series II. First Day Covers
Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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