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Horace Welcome Babcock Papers, 1948-1978.

by Babcock, Horace W.

89 boxes (28,000 pieces).

Owning Repository:

Huntington Library. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108 USA

Country of Repository:

Biography/History:

Horace Welcome Babcock, a distinguished solar and stellar astronomer, the fourth director of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. He received a BS in physics in 1934 from the California Institute of Technology, and a PhD in 1938 from University of California at Berkeley.

Scope of Material:

The papers in this collection are, for the most part, those of Babcock when he was director of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories from 1964 to 1978, and do not include his personal and scientific papers. As director, he led the Observatories through many important changes including the establishment of the observatories in Chile.

Placed on permanent deposit in the Huntington Library as part of the Carnegie Observatories Collection by the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This was done in 1988 as part of a letter of agreement (dated November 5, 1987) between the Huntington and the Carnegie Observatories.

Forms part of: Carnegie Observatories Collection.

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