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Selected papers [microform], 1900-1960.

by Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953

1 microfilm reel.

Owning Repository:

American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Country of Repository:

Location of Original/Copy:

Originals are at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Copies also available at other Sources for the History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit.

Biography/History:

Astronomer (extragalactic astronomy and cosmology). Researcher, Yerkes Observatory, 1914-1917; on the staff of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories from 1919; and chief ballistician and director, Supersonic Wind Tunnels Laboratory, Ballistic Research Laboratory, U.S. War Department, 1942-1946.

Scope of Material:

Correspondence and manuscripts. Primarily professional correspondence, also selected manuscripts and addresses, and condolence letters to his wife after his death. Topics include galactic and extragalactic structure, astronomical observation and techniques, and participation of scientists in World War II. Correspondents include Vannevar Bush, Willem de Sitter, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Caryl P. Haskins, Grace Hubble, Aldous Huxley, Nicholas U. Mayall, Jan Hendrik Oort, C. Donald Shane, Harlow Shapley, Robert Sproul, Joel Stebbins, and Otto Struve.

Microfilmed as part of the AIP Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.

Microfilm. 1 microfilm reel: 35 mm.

Finding aid, 9 pp.

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